Preventive Care Is Not A Luxury: Expanding Access At Scale
Preventive care is often treated like a premium service. People with time, transportation, flexible schedules, strong insurance coverage, and an
Preventive care is often treated like a premium service. People with time, transportation, flexible schedules, strong insurance coverage, and an
Health changes over time. Blood pressure can rise gradually. Cholesterol levels can shift. Blood sugar may move into a higher
Preventive care should not depend solely on whether a person can find time, transportation, and access to a traditional healthcare
Preventive care is easy to postpone. Work gets busy, family responsibilities take priority, appointments are hard to schedule, or people
For many people, healthcare begins only after something feels wrong. A symptom appears, a concern becomes harder to ignore, or
Prior to joining HCOP as a Board Member/Advisor, Nikki was a vice president at Buxton, where she provided healthcare subject matter expertise and guided the company’s healthcare strategy. Previously, she was vice president of marketing analytics and operations at Mercy, a leading health system based in St. Louis. In that role, she supported Mercy’s four-state service area, serving 32 hospitals, 300 outpatient facilities and more than 2,000 integrated physicians. She also oversaw consumer analytics and research efforts to support targeted, measurable marketing priorities.
Nikki previously served as Mercy’s Vice President of Market Development, where she led strategic planning for the placement of new facilities and services. Additionally, she worked for FedEx Office in new store development, leading strategy, site selection and construction efforts for the western U.S. Nikki has an undergraduate degree in Accounting/Business Administration from Friends University in Wichita, KS.
Clint Whitworth is a Founding Member and General Counsel for Healthcare Outreach Platform, LLC. Born and raised on a cattle ranch in southwest Oklahoma, Clint still operates the family ranch today, raising approximately 200 cow-calf pairs alongside wheat, cotton, corn, and alfalfa hay.
Clint played collegiate baseball at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma City University before being drafted by the New York Yankees in 1993, where he played until 1997. Following his professional baseball career, Clint pursued a legal education at the University of Tulsa College of Law, earning his Juris Doctorate in 2000. He began his legal career with the Edmonds Cole Law Firm, and in 2016 founded Whitworth Wilson & Evans, PLLC, where he serves as Managing Partner. Clint maintains a general civil practice, advising individual, corporate, and agricultural clients on a broad range of legal matters.
Ryan built his career on the trading floor before spending the last decade-plus building companies of his own — and both halves of that story show up in how he runs HCOP today.
He started at Barclays in institutional sales before moving into asset-backed securities trading, where he helped co-helm a desk that generated $30M+ in cumulative profit. He went on to run the asset-backed securities trading desk at Gleacher & Company, adding another $10M+ in profit over three years — all of it built on the kind of client relationships that don’t show up on a spreadsheet.
In 2013, Ryan left Wall Street to co-found Western Grace Brandy, a craft spirit he built and ran end to end — production, sales, operations, and fundraising — for the better part of a decade, landing it on bar and restaurant menus from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Austin, Nashville, and New York.
At HCOP, Ryan serves as COO, leading day-to-day operations and driving the company’s current capital raise. He also serves as a Founding Board Member and Treasurer of YAA SAMAR! Dance Theatre, supporting the nonprofit’s fundraising and financial management since 2009.
Ryan holds a BA in Quantitative Finance and an MS in Finance from the University of Alabama.
Throughout his career, Bill has been driven by a simple belief: better systems create better outcomes. That conviction has shaped more than two decades of executive leadership spanning healthcare, consumer analytics, retail strategy, and organizational growth.
Prior to co-founding HCOP, Bill spent more than twenty years at Buxton, where he helped build one of the nation’s leading consumer analytics companies. As Executive Vice President of Healthcare, he led the growth of the healthcare division into the company’s largest business vertical, partnering with health systems across the United States to better understand consumer behavior, improve patient acquisition, and strengthen long-term strategic growth.
Bill has spoken at numerous national conferences across the healthcare and retail industries, including SHSMD, ICSC RECon, and the International Franchise Association. He was recognized by the Fort Worth Business Press as a 40 Under 40 honoree and serves on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Texas A&M Center for Retailing Innovation.
Bill earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas A&M University.
Across a 50-year career, Gary Adornato has built a habit of being first: he helped create the first CFTC-approved computerized commodity trading program on Wall Street, founded the nation’s first wellness-based health insurance company, and financed the country’s first laser tag company. That instinct for spotting an overlooked opportunity and building the category that fills it is what led him to conceive and architect HCOP’s circuit model.
Gary began his career on Wall Street with Pru-Bache Securities and Shearson Lehman/Amex, where he was named Vice President at 23 and Senior Vice President at 25 — both the youngest appointments in either firm’s history by more than 15 years — while pioneering strategies in derivatives and intermarket trading as one of the top 20 brokers worldwide.
He went on to found and lead eight national companies spanning insurance, real estate development, and entertainment, including HealthAmerica, which partnered with Northwestern Insurance to cover more than 40,000 policyholders in its first year, and Q-Zar, the world’s largest laser tag company, where he led U.S. operations alongside joint ventures with SEGA, Namco, Atari, and Viacom.