We’re not just behavioral health people—we’re crisis people.

Colin LeClair joined Connections Health Solutions in 2019. Colin brings 20 years of experience implementing value-based healthcare delivery systems and improving healthcare access for our nation’s most vulnerable patients.

Prior to joining Connections Health Solution, Colin led business development, product development, and implementation for ConcertoHealth, growing revenue more than 8x over 4 years. Prior to ConcertoHealth, Colin was the P&L leader for OPTUMCare’s ACO business in California. Under his leadership, OPTUM’s ACOs led the nation in healthcare quality, medical cost savings, and patient outcomes.

Prior to Optum, Colin held a range of progressively expanding leadership roles at several of the nation’s most successful private equity-backed managed healthcare organizations, including WellCare Health Plans, Bravo Health, and HealthSpring.

Colin holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at The University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Chris Carson is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Connections Health Solutions. He has extensive leadership experience in a wide variety of managed behavioral health systems nationwide and a strong background in crisis services.

Dr. Carson has developed acute psychiatric services in a variety of settings, beginning in 1993 with his role as medical director of the psychiatric emergency department at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, where he led the creation of the first crisis unit to serve the needs of the public behavioral health system in Tarrant County. He then went on to develop a crisis center at Green Oaks Hospital in Dallas and served as its medical director until 2005. In 2009 he co-founded Connections Health Solutions.

In addition, Dr. Carson is a national leader in managed behavioral health systems. He held various leadership roles at Beacon Health options including Regional Chief Medical Officer and the National Medical Director for Utilization Management, where he was responsible for the oversight of the medical management of all at-risk accounts nationwide.

Jesse Bland joined Heritage Group in 2011 and is a Partner for the firm. Prior to joining Heritage Group, Jesse was an associate at Nashville Capital Network, where he focused on early-stage investments in healthcare and technology-driven businesses. Prior to that, he worked for Governor Sonny Perdue at the Commission for a New Georgia (CNG), a non-profit, non-partisan council created to engage Georgia’s top-level business and professional executives in helping bring innovation to state government. Among other CNG initiatives, Jesse worked alongside leaders from the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship in developing a model for commercializing intellectual property within the university system into the marketplace.

Jesse graduated summa cum laude with a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia and holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. He resides in Nashville with his wife and three children.

Rock Morphis co-founded Heritage Group in 1986 and has served as a Partner of the firm since its inception. Over the past 30 years, Rock has served in numerous executive positions within Heritage Group’s portfolio of companies.

From 1995-2004, he served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Heritage Health Systems, Inc. HHS, through its subsidiaries, operated as a managed care organization and focused primarily on the Medicare Advantage market throughout the US. The Company was acquired by a public company in 2004. From 1992-1995, Rock served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Surgical Health Corporation, a company engaged in the development and management of outpatient surgery centers. After acquiring and developing 37 ambulatory surgery centers in the US, the Company was acquired by a public company in 1995.

Additionally, Rock has served on the boards of numerous business and civic organizations and as an advisor to many portfolio companies of Heritage Group. Rock is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and resides in Nashville. He and his wife have three children.

Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky is the former Chief Medical Officer of the US Medicaid program. He is currently the Managing Partner at Social Innovation Ventures where he invests in and advises companies and non-profits dedicated to eliminating disparities. He also advises federal and state regulators on how to incorporate human-centered design into policymaking, and previously operated a series of methadone clinics in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to working on the front line of the opioid use disorder crisis, he served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, the nation's largest health insurer, where he advocated to protect the program against several legislative efforts to significantly dismantle the program and led efforts to streamline Medicaid and make it more customer-centric. Before leading the Medicaid program, he co-founded the software company, Care at Hand, an evidence-based predictive analytics platform that used insights of non-medical staff to prevent aging people from being hospitalized. Care at Hand was acquired in 2016 by Mandela Health. Before Care at Hand, Dr. Ostrovsky led teams at the World Health Organization, United States Senate, and San Francisco Health Department toward health system strengthening. Dr. Ostrovsky has served on several boards and committees dedicated to behavioral health, interoperability standards, quality measurement, and home and community-based services including the National Academies of Medicine, National Quality Forum, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the Commonwealth Fund.

Andrey holds a Medical Doctorate and undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Psychology Magna cum Laude from Boston University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Andrey completed his pediatrics residency training in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital where he was a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is currently teaching faculty and attending physician at Children's National Medical Center.

Dr. Patel has 25 years of healthcare leadership experience and a proven track record of driving strategy and operations to deliver growth across a broad spectrum of healthcare areas. In particular, he has been an innovator at the intersection of the payor, provider, and technology landscapes and has driven solutions around integrated care models to meet the needs of those with chronic and complex conditions.

Currently, Dr. Patel serves as Senior Operating Advisor – Healthcare at GrowthCurve Capital, supporting the value creation strategies and execution capabilities related to investments in leading healthcare businesses. Previously Dr. Patel served as Executive Vice President and President for Anthem, Inc.’s Diversified Business Group, where he launched and led the business’s strategic direction and its multi-fold growth. Dr. Patel was responsible for delivering new sources of growth by advancing integrated behavioral and medical care models and developing innovative solutions to improve quality and health outcomes for consumers and customers.

Prior to his role at Anthem, Dr. Patel served as Chief Operating Officer of the GuideWell Enterprise and Florida Blue and President of GuideWell Health; and held executive roles with Magellan Health Services, Internet Healthcare Group, and Scheer & Company.

Bob Sheehy is a co-founder and serves as the chairman of Bright Health Group. He is a seasoned healthcare executive with more than three decades of experience in healthcare innovation. At Bright Health Group, he is focused on driving business development and strategy to guide the company on its mission to provide a smarter, more connected health care experience that strengthens the relationship between patients and their care providers.

Prior to co-founding Bright Health Group, Bob advised private equity firms and venture capital firms on HealthCare. From 1986 to 2009, he led a wide range of innovative healthcare initiatives as an executive at UnitedHealth Group. He has also served on several for-profit and not-for-profit boards and was recently named one of the Twin Cities’ most admired CEOs by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Bob currently serves on the boards of Radiology Partners, the University of Michigan School of Public Health Dean’s Advisory Board, and the University of Michigan Health System Board of Directors. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Health Services Administration, both from the University of Michigan.