About Us

Kidneylink is led by a diverse community of nephrologists and operators passionate about transforming care delivery across the kidney disease spectrum. With decades of value-based care experience, the Kidneylink leadership team brings proven expertise and insights to help our partners navigate and drive the future of kidney care.

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Kidneylink Announces Program Growth in Value-Based Kidney Care

Expands care to 16,000+ patients with 600+ nephrologists nationwide
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Leadership Team

Mark Caputo

Chief Executive Officer

  • Founded Liberty Dialysis in 2002 and served as its Chief Executive Officer
  • Served as Chairman of the Board of Sound Physicians
  • Served as Managing Partner of Joint Ventures for Fresenius Medical Care
Mary Dittrich

Mary Dittrich, MD, FASN

Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer

  • 11+ years of experience in IT and operations management at Caremore and Anthem.
Alex Portet

Alex Portet

Chief Operating Officer, Value-Based Care

  • Practicing Nephrologist
  • Co-founder and Partner of Boise Kidney & Hypertension Institute
  • Served as Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board, Liberty Dialysis

Thao Pascual, MD, FASN

Associate Chief Medical Officer

  • Founded Liberty Dialysis in 2002 and served as its Chief Executive Officer
  • Served as Chairman of the Board of Sound Physicians
  • Served as Managing Partner of Joint Ventures for Fresenius Medical Care

Mike Rocklin, MD

Associate Chief Medical Officer

  • 11+ years of experience in IT and operations management at Caremore and Anthem.

Greg Schlessinger, MD

Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Office of the Chief Medical Officer

  • 11+ years of managed care experience, with a focus on partnerships between payers and providers at Landmark Health and Oliver Wyman.

Kelly Barker

Senior Vice President, Finance

  • 20+ years of experience operating health plans and building provider partnerships with capitated arrangements at Centene and US Oncology.

Mike Flood

Senior Vice President, Market Operations

Mikenzie Matteson

Chief Actuary

  • 11 years of analytics / actuarial experience in the value based care in the post-acute / home health spaces at CareCentrix and Aetna.

Todd Newby

Vice President, Product

Sean O'Sullivan

Vice President, Risk Adjustment

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Alan St. Pierre

Vice President, Market Operations

  • 11 years of analytics / actuarial experience in the value based care in the post-acute / home health spaces at CareCentrix and Aetna.

Phil Sarnowski

Senior Vice President, Business Transformation

Katherine Tripple

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation

Jenny Wang

Vice President, Value-Based Care Analytics

  • 11 years of analytics / actuarial experience in the value based care in the post-acute / home health spaces at CareCentrix and Aetna.
  • Colorado Kidney Care — CMO
  • Renal Physicians Assoc. — Chairman CKD Workgroup.
  • 20+ years of experience of value based care in Medicare/Medicaid and practice management with specialist providers at US Oncology and Optum/UnitedHealth Group