Chris Wyatt
Chris Wyatt

Governance Profile

Governance experience

Current board service, advisory work, and an operator's perspective on regulated payments, data infrastructure, and AI strategy.

What I bring to a board

  • Operator at scale. General Manager of a $400M P&L and a 350-person organization at Change Healthcare, the largest US healthcare clearinghouse, running $160B in annual payment volume. Built an $8B virtual card operation from a legacy print-and-mail remittance business and drove $80M of net-new revenue in 18 months. At Finexio, scaled from zero to $20M ARR and $12B+ in annual payment volume on a multi-bank orchestration platform, backed by $75M raised from JPMorgan and other institutional investors.
  • Institutional exit. $300M WellPoint acquisition of American Imaging Management (2007), where I was an operator pre-acquisition.
  • Regulated environments. HIPAA, healthcare payments, patient liability, and the rules that govern them. Participated in the Federal Reserve Remittance Coalition from 2013 to 2017.
  • AI-native product perspective. Three books on agentic payments published 2024 to 2026. Useful for boards separating signal from theater on AI strategy.

Governance perspective

Technology / AI

Where the AI roadmap depends on a defensible data layer, not a foundation-model wrapper. Useful where the question is “build vs. buy.”

Audit

Operating exposure to regulated payment processing and HIPAA-grade data controls at multi-billion-dollar scale.

Strategy and value creation

An institutional exit and infrastructure-driven value creation, with direct experience translating data assets into durable operating value.

Compensation (with limits)

Operator perspective on technical executive comp. Defer to comp specialists on broader pay philosophy.

Current board and advisory work

  • Finexio
    Board Member · Co-Founder & Interim CEO
    2018 to Present
  • PayZen
    Strategic Advisor · Patient Financing
    2019 to Present
  • Zelis Payments
    Strategic Advisor · Healthcare Payments
    2018 to Present
  • Finalytics
    Strategic Advisor · Revenue Cycle & Banking
    2020 to Present
  • CirraGroup
    Strategic Advisor · Medical Debt Resolution
    2015 to Present

Current operating priority

I lead Finexio day to day as Co-Founder and Interim CEO. It is my full-time operating focus. The board and advisory work above reflects existing commitments structured around that role.