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Jerry Buchanan

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Head of Growth and Partnerships at Optura.AI
📍 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Jerry Buchanan is the SVP of Growth and Partnerships at Optura.AI, where he focuses on implementing AI orchestration platforms for healthcare organizations. An alumnus of West Point and Vanderbilt, he has over two decades of experience helping clients achieve measurable ROI from AI and escape "pilot purgatory." His approach is to listen first and strategize second.

Jerry draws on his background as a former infantryman to inform his approach to team building and leadership. He is passionate about being part of a motivated group and excels at uniting people to achieve challenging goals, a skill honed from the military to the conference room.

He made a unique career transition from serving as an infantryman to becoming a technology executive focused on fixing healthcare with AI.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Head of Growth and Partnerships
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Priorities

Topics Jerry cares about

AI in Healthcare
He focuses on building the AI infrastructure for health plans, aiming to lower costs, improve care, and provide visibility into what works.
Measuring AI ROI
He champions a "Return on AI" (ROAI) mindset, emphasizing the need for governance and measurement to ensure AI initiatives deliver real enterprise value.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Head of Growth and Partnerships
Optura.AI
7-2022 - 4-2025
EVP, Healthcare & Life Sciences
SoftServe
1-2022 - 7-2022
Managing Director, Healthcare
Concentrix
1-2021 - 10-2021
SVP, Business Development
Ursa Health
1-2020 - 1-2021
Senior Director, Client Services
Virtusa
In the press

Media appearances

Episode #210 – Why Most Healthcare AI Projects Never Make It Past the Pilot, with Jerry Buchanan, Head of Growth at Optura.AI. Featured in Risk Never Sleeps Podcast (Spotify)
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Member Spotlight: Q&A with Jerry Buchanan, Head of Growth at Optura.AI. Featured in CHAI (Collaborative for Health AI) Blog
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Education
2015 - 2017
Master’s Degree
Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
1994 - 1998
BS
United States Military Academy at West Point
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