Matthew E. Cox, MBA, CPA

As chief financial officer, Matt leads the system finance team with a focus on making care and coverage more affordable, while ensuring the financial integrity of the system and its divisions. He is passionate about achieving affordable, equitable care and coverage while focusing on quality and making health accessible for each person, regardless of their income or socioeconomic status.

Matt champions internal efforts to reduce the total cost of care, improve the patient and health plan member experience, enhance sustainability and optimize processes. To date, these efforts have included streamlining complex processes, leveraging technology to provide more cost-efficient and effective services, increasing transparency and reducing waste. While chief financial officer of Spectrum Health, Matt was instrumental in establishing industry-leading best practices such as shoppable services and simplified billing.

Before joining Spectrum Health in 2017, Matt served in a variety of leadership roles at Banner Health, Dignity Health, Central Maine Health Care and Catholic Health Initiatives Health System. Matt began his professional career with Deloitte.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in accounting and Master of Business Administration from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Matt is a national board member and active participant in the Healthcare Financial Management Association, where he holds several certifications. He also currently serves as chair for the HFMA Large System CFO Council and is a member of the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Finance Committee. Matt has previously served on various boards, including the President Gerald R. Ford Field Service Council of the Boy Scouts of America and Covenant House Michigan.

Staci Dickerson

Staci Dickerson was appointed Banner’s Health’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in July 2023. With more than 25 years of experience in health care, Staci joins Banner from Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, CA, a fully integrated, AA-rated regional health care delivery system. In her time there, she served in a variety of system roles including director of managed care finance and vice president of finance–and most recently as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer.

Staci is actively involved in the health care industry including participating in the California Hospital Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association and Health Management Academy. She not only served as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Healthcare Expert Panel but is also a former member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s National Principles and Practices Board and the San Diego/Imperial Chapter Board.

D. Scott Nordlund

Scott Nordlund serves as Banner’s Executive Vice President Chief Strategy and Growth Officer and a member of the Banner Health senior executive leadership team. In this role Nordlund has responsibility for setting the strategic direction for the $13B organization across its six states. This includes directing all system wide strategic planning and growth activity as well as leading merger, acquisition and partnership development, innovation and digital business strategy, joint venture development, marketing, external communications and consumer engagement. He is also directly responsible for system-wide service line growth activities for key lines of business (orthopedics, neurosciences, oncology, women, infants, pediatrics, cardiovascular and general surgery). Nordlund was named one of Modern Healthcare’s top 25 Innovators in 2020 and again in 2021. Nordlund was recently selected as one of the “Top 50 Great Health System Chief Strategy Officers in 2022” by Becker’s Hospital Review.  He currently serves on the Banner – University of Arizona Academic Medical Council board, Banner/Aetna JV board, Banner MA board, Atlas Health Partner board and the Banner/Select system joint venture board.

Prior to joining Banner, Mr. Nordlund served as EVP Partnership Growth and Innovation at Select Medical (NYSE: SEM) and was responsible for leading strategic growth initiatives across the organization’s national network of specialty hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation clinics and occupational health centers. He was instrumental in the acquisition of US Healthworks (now under the Select Concentra division) which created the largest occupational health offering in the United States. Nordlund joined Select after serving as Chief Growth, Strategy and Innovation Officer for Trinity Health where he was responsible for systemwide growth, strategy, innovation, marketing, communications and consumer engagement across Trinity Health’s 20 state national market. Nordlund was also responsible for building and leading Trinity’s merger and acquisition function, growing the company from $8B to $18B and helping to build Trinity into one of the largest health care systems in the country. He served on the investment committee for the Heritage Fund and Abundant Health Ventures, in addition to serving on the boards at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, St. Francis Health System in Delaware and St. Mary’s Health System in Langhorne.

Prior to joining Trinity Health, Nordlund spent 11 years at Dignity Health in a variety of executive roles including Senior Vice President for Strategic Growth, Network and New Venture development where he led merger and acquisition activity, and all joint venture development including building and managing the organization’s partnership based ambulatory service portfolio. He served on the board of Mercy Care, one of the nation’s largest Medicaid plans with 400,000+ members and $3B in revenue and chaired the Dignity/USPI and Dignity/SimonMed system ventures. He also held senior leadership positions at BJC Health System in corporate strategic planning and at Baxter Healthcare in Chicago (NYSE: BAX), where he was responsible for selling and managing all engagements in the Western third of the United States for Baxter Corporate Consulting. Nordlund holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Illinois and two master degrees (MBA and MHSA) from the University of Michigan.

Amy Perry

Inspired by Banner’s mission to “make health care easier so life can be better,” Amy Perry joined Banner Health on Nov. 1, 2021. A champion for quality-based care, Perry is driving premium reimbursement and health plan expansion, physician practice alignment, chronic disease management, expanded points of access and technology advancements to improve health outcomes. Throughout her more than 30-year health care career, Perry has elevated academic priorities in both education and research. Dedicated to helping the State of Arizona care for its growing population, Perry worked to expand Banner’s outstanding graduate medical education programs to more than 1,300 residents and fellows. Perry is working with Banner’s partners at the University of Arizona and other colleges to grow vital clinical talent and treatment pipelines.

Perry deeply values the importance of serving Banner Health communities as the Trusted Health Partner and is focused on developing Banner’s people-centered culture to care for our team, physicians, caregivers, patients, members, and the communities we serve. Supporting a transformational technology plan, Perry is supporting clinical leaders in prioritizing automation for caregivers to facilitate more time to care.

Prior to this, she served as Atlantic Health System’s executive vice president and CEO of the Hospital Division. During her tenure, Atlantic Health experienced record setting quality and financial results achieving the highest US News rankings in the state. She championed the development and implementation of a five-year strategic plan, prioritizing integrated, value-based care. Perry drove the development of an enterprise data platform supporting clinical excellence and operational performance, as well as consumer-facing digital solutions.

Perry has been named to Modern Healthcare’s lists of the Top 25 Women Leaders and Top 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. She was recognized as NJBiz Innovator of the Year in 2019 and the Daily Record Maryland Innovator of the Year in 2016.

Prior to joining Atlantic Health System, Perry was the executive vice president at LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to LifeBridge, she had a twenty-year career at Mount Sinai Health System in Miami, Florida.

Perry earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, and her Master of Science in Health Services Administration from Barry University. She served on the Regional Policy Board of the American Hospital Association and the boards of the New Jersey and Maryland Hospital Associations.

Aric Burke

Aric founded Atlas in 2019 to partner with non-profit health systems and physicians to develop and operate ASCs that provide high quality, convenient and affordable care to their communities.  Atlas is the exclusive JV ASC partner of Banner Health, MultiCare, Corewell Health, ChristianaCare and Prisma Health.  Through its JV health system partnerships, Atlas has grown quickly in seven years, from zero to 46 ASCs in seven states performing over 100,000 annual cases and $350M in annual revenue with 1,200 employees.  Atlas is co-owned by its health system partners and plans to continue forming joint venture partnership with leading health systems across the US to develop and operate a network of ASCs that support their missions of delivering high quality, convenient and affordable care to their communities.  

Prior to founding Atlas and serving as CEO for the past seven years, Aric served as the West Market President for United Surgical Partners International (“USPI”), the largest ASC company in the industry.  As Market President, Aric was responsible for the development and operations of USPI markets throughout the Western US.  During his five years at USPI, Aric grew the West Market to over 30 ASCs and three surgical hospitals performing over 150,000 cases annually generating over $450M in revenue with more than 2,500 employees.  As Market President, Aric worked closely with large non-profit health system partners to develop and operate their ASC networks including Dignity Health in Phoenix and Las Vegas, Centura Health in Denver, and Carondelet Health in Tucson.  

Prior to joining USPI, Aric was the Vice President of Consulting and Development at Health Inventures, a physician and health system consulting firm that specialized in developing and managing ASCs and was acquired by SCA Health.  While at Health Inventures for nine years, Aric worked with some of the largest and most successful health systems throughout the US to acquire and form ASC partnerships in their markets.  Aric also worked on numerous international engagements to develop ASC and ambulatory facilities in the UK and Middle East.  

Aric began his career as a CPA with Deloitte after earning a MS in Accounting and a BS in Finance, both from the University of Colorado.  Aric holds an active CPA license in Colorado. 

Robert (Bob) Cohen, JD

Bob joined Atlas in May of 2021 after serving as national chair of the health care practice of a large law firm for close to 40 years.  He was heavily involved in the founding of Atlas and served as Atlas’ lead outside counsel prior to assuming the role as its General Counsel.  As General Counsel, he oversees all legal aspects for both Atlas and the ASCs which Atlas manages.  He also handles all ASC acquisitions and syndications.

In private practice, Bob was outside counsel for decades to some of the largest nonprofit health systems in the US.  His work on behalf of these systems included handling major acquisitions and affiliations as well as overseeing clinical joint venture arrangements and other physician strategies in multiple areas.  For several of his clients, Bob was integrally involved in the planning and execution of physician joint ventures strategies to develop market-wide networks of ASC and other ambulatory services similar to what Atlas now does. Under Bob’s leadership, Atlas approaches its health system partnerships and work on behalf of its nonprofit partners from the perspective of what is best for the health system and what he would negotiate for as health system counsel.   This approach begins with partnership documents that assure the controls and protections (e.g., tax exempt status) critical to health systems are a given (and not something to be negotiated for as is typically the case with other ASC companies).  Bob works closely on a continuous basis with the General Counsel and in-house counsel staff of our health system partners to assure that the underlying ASC joint ventures are structured in compliance with terms and conditions agreed to with the health system and that the ASCs are managed in a legally compliant manner.

Bob’s decades of transaction experience also allows Atlas to handle  ASC acquisitions and syndications on behalf of its health system partnerships in a highly efficient and cost effective manner particularly as to outside counsel expense.   Bob is a graduate of The University of Chicago law school.