Harold (Hal) Wolf is the president and CEO of HIMSS, a global advisor and thought leader supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem through information and technology.

Wolf is respected internationally as a healthcare and informatics leader, with areas of expertise in mHealth, product development, integrated care models, marketing, distribution, information and technology, and large-scale innovation implementation.

Before joining HIMSS, Wolf served at The Chartis Group as director, practice leader, information and digital health strategy. Prior to The Chartis Group, he served as senior vice president and COO of Kaiser Permanente’s The Permanente Federation, representing more than 16,000 physicians. Wolf also held executive positions at MTV Networks and Time Warner, and served as senior advisor to McKinsey & Co.

Elena Sini is the group CIO at GVM Care and Research, one of Italy’s leading private healthcare groups, where she has served since 2019. She has more than 20 years of experience across leading public and private healthcare providers, including IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori and Humanitas.


Sini is chair of the HIMSS Europe Governing Council and founder of the HIMSS Italian Community. She has served on committees established by national and regional healthcare bodies and was appointed by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity to advise on European Union cybersecurity guidelines for the healthcare sector.


Sini has been an adjunct professor since 2003 and a guest lecturer at leading Italian universities. She is also a co-author of peer-reviewed publications and has received recognition for digital innovation projects in healthcare. Sini holds a master’s degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Pisa and completed postgraduate studies at MIP – Politecnico di Milano. Sini has been on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2019 and served as chair since 2023.

Mark Sugrue is a senior director in Alvarez & Marsal’s Health Systems practice in Boston. An internationally recognized healthcare information technology leader, he has more than 30 years of experience in nursing, healthcare operations and management consulting.

Sugrue has led major healthcare technology and transformation initiatives, including Epic EHR optimization, enterprise performance improvement, contact center redesign, M&A integration, emergency department throughput and care model innovation. He previously served as a managing director at FTI Consulting and held clinical leadership roles as chief nursing information officer and associate chief nursing officer.

Earlier in his career, Sugrue held consulting roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG/BearingPoint and Arthur Andersen. In 2020, he received a Citation for Outstanding Performance from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for his leadership in the emergency COVID-19 response at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home. Sugrue has been a proud member of the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2017.

Hal Baker, MD, most recently served as senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at WellSpan Health, where he led information technology, medical informatics, cybersecurity, digital services and biomedical functions. He also oversaw the development of WellSpan’s Analytics Center of Excellence and Innovation Center.

Baker has championed the use of technology to advance patient safety, clinical excellence and patient experience. A vocal advocate for OpenNotes and patient access to health records, he helped develop patient portals designed to give individuals greater control over their health data. Under his leadership, WellSpan achieved HIMSS Stage 7 recognition across both Cerner and Epic EHR platforms.

Previously, Baker served as WellSpan’s senior vice president of clinical improvement and held clinical leadership roles at WellSpan York Hospital. Baker holds a bachelor’s degree and medical degree from Cornell University. He was named HIMSS Physician Executive of the Year in 2022 and has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2016.

Ran D. Balicer, MD, PhD, MPH, is deputy director-general and chief innovation officer at Clalit Health Services, Israel’s largest healthcare organization, where he leads strategic planning and the implementation of AI-driven and data-informed healthcare solutions. He is also the founding director of the Clalit Research Institute, a WHO Collaborating Center.

Balicer is a public health professor and track director of the MPH Program at Ben-Gurion University’s School of Public Health. He also directs Israel’s first physician residency program combining public health and data science and serves as co-chair of the Ivan and Francesca Berkowitz Family Living Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and the Clalit Research Institute. He has authored more than 250 scientific publications and books.

From 2020 to 2023, Balicer chaired Israel’s National COVID-19 Experts Team, advising the government and prime minister on pandemic response strategy. He holds leadership and advisory roles with organizations including the WHO and the United Nations and has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2023.

Iain Buchan is the inaugural W.H. Duncan Professor of Public Health Systems, associate pro vice chancellor for innovation and founding director of the Civic Health Innovation Labs at the University of Liverpool. He also co-leads the university’s AI for Life Frontier.

Buchan is a public health physician and data scientist with more than 25 years of experience in data-intensive health research, public health and AI. He previously established on of the UK’s largest digital health research groups in Manchester before returning to Liverpool in 2018, where he founded the UK’s first Civic Data Cooperative and led data-driven responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Buchan is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) senior investigator and has received the Faculty of Public Health Alwyn-Smith Medal, Royal Statistical Society Florence Nightingale Award and Prix Galien prize for public service innovation. Buchan has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2026.

Sandeep Dadlani is chief executive officer of Optum Insight at Optum, where he leads technology solutions designed to make healthcare simpler, more transparent and more affordable. He previously served as executive vice president and chief digital and technology officer of UnitedHealth Group where he has helped drive a transformation in healthcare powered by AI.

Dadlani has extensive experience leading enterprise digital transformation and technology strategy across global organizations with almost three decades of operations, consulting and product management experience. Before joining UnitedHealth Group, he served as global chief digital officer at Mars, Inc., where he led an enterprise-wide digital transformation effort.

Dadlani held leadership and growth roles at Infosys and worked in investment banking at Citibank. He has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2026 and serves on the board of Digimarc.

Rowland Illing, MD, is the chief medical officer and director of global healthcare and life sciences at Amazon Web Services, where he leads strategy and engagement with healthcare and life sciences organizations worldwide.

An academic interventional radiologist by training, Illing previously served as director of the Interventional Oncology Service at University College Hospitals London. He is an honorary associate professor at University College London and visiting professor of informatics and imaging at Oxford University.

Illing is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and the UK Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He is also a member of the Leadership Consortium of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. Illing has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2025.

Ernst Kuipers is former minister of health, welfare and sport of the Netherlands. He currently serves as vice president of research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

As health minister from 2022 to 2024, Kuipers led efforts to strengthen pandemic and disaster preparedness, advance integrated care and reform the Dutch healthcare system. He also supported nationwide electric health data exchange and worked with the healthcare sector to improve sustainability and reduce its environmental footprint.

Before entering government, Kuipers served as CEO of Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam and previously as professor of medicine and department chair. He has held leadership roles with organizations including the WHO, the National University Health System in Singapore and the European University Hospital Alliance. Kuipers has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2023.

Thomas Kiesau is a managing partner at Chartis, the firm’s chief AI and digital officer, and leads the Chartis Center for AI and Digital Transformation. With more than 25 years of experience, Kiesau has served as an advisor to many of the U.S.’s leading healthcare organizations on digital transformation.

Kiesau directs consulting engagements focused on digitally enabled care model transformation, hospital at home, digital consumer and AI-enabled operating model design. He has also led corporate strategy and product development initiatives for healthcare technology and business process organizations. He speaks and publishes frequently on a wide array of topics related to healthcare innovation, digital transformation and AI, and is regular media contributor on healthcare disruption.

Before joining Chartis, he held leadership roles at Apollo Health Street and Alta Resources, where he developed customer-centric engagement hubs and consumer experiences for leading global brands. He has also worked in healthcare revenue cycle management consulting. Kiesau has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2026.

Sumit Kumar Nagpal is chair and CEO of Cherish, which he founded in 2020. A serial entrepreneur, Nagpal has co-founded and grown five companies over three decades. He is recognized for his expertise in digital health innovation and transforming healthcare through technology.

Nagpal’s work centers on technology innovation, user-centered design and business models that enable large-scale change. At Cherish, he leads the development of patented spatial computing technology designed to monitor health and safety risks while preserving privacy and allowing people to maintain their independence.

Nagpal has served as technology strategist, entrepreneur and change agent throughout his career, including working with Steve Jobs and NeXT in the early 1990s. He has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2017 and chairs the HIMSS Nominating Committee.

Donna M. Roach is the system chief digital and information officer for University of Utah Health, where she leads digital and information technology strategy across the health system. Under her leadership, University of Utah Health earned the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Level 10 designation for three consecutive years and the HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 Award in 2025.

Roach has more than 35 years of healthcare experience, including more than 30 years in healthcare information technology. She previously served as vice president for information services at BJC HealthCare and Washington University Medical School and held CIO roles with Ascension Information Services, Bronson Health and Advocate Condell Medical Center.

Roach holds a bachelor’s degree in health administration from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in health systems management from Rush Medical College. Roach has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2026.

Meong Hi Son is a board member and chief medical information officer at Samsung Medical Center in South Korea, where she also serves as an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. With 20 years of clinical experience, Son is a pediatrician trained in hemato-oncology and pediatric emergency medicine.

Son is also education director of the Korean Medical Metaverse Society, where she leads efforts to broaden participation in digital transformation across disciplines. She is actively involved in nationally funded research programs focused on digital health, extended reality and social robotics.

At Samsung Medical Center, Son has contributed to five HIMSS Maturity Model validations, bringing frontline clinical expertise to the organization’s digital transformation efforts. She is recognized for bridging clinicians and technologists and helping translate emerging technologies into safe, accessible and human-centered digital care. Son also played a key role in establishing Korea’s first national specialty examination in pediatric emergency medicine. Son has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors since 2025.