Chris Wyatt
Co-Founder & CEO, Board Member, Finexio | Payments and Fintech Operator
linkedin.com/in/wyattchrischriswyatt.devAnn Arbor, Michigan
Summary
Co-Founder and CEO of Finexio. Scaled the company from pre-revenue in 2018 to $20M ARR and $12B+ in annual payment volume on $75M raised from JPMorgan and other institutional investors. Previously General Manager of a $400M P&L and a 350-person organization at Change Healthcare, the largest US healthcare clearinghouse. Built an $8B virtual card operation on $160B of annual volume and drove $80M of net-new revenue in 18 months. Earlier, an operator through WellPoint's $300M acquisition of American Imaging Management in 2007.
Experience
Finexio
Co-Founder & CEO, Board Member
- Scaled a B2B payments network from pre-revenue to $20M ARR and $12B+ in annual payment volume. More than 90% of roughly 15 million payments a year settle with no human in the loop. Backed by $75M raised from JPMorgan and other institutional investors.
- Named Interim CEO by the board. Hold the CEO board seat and lead the company day to day.
- Recruited the founding team and executive bench, and set product, partnership, and go-to-market strategy through hyper-growth.
Parasail Health
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder
- Chief Commercial Officer for patient finance products that let patients pay medical bills over time. Acquired by PayZen in 2019. Finexio was co-founded in 2018 as Parasail wound down toward that acquisition.
Change Healthcare
General Manager, B2B & Patient Payments
- Owned a $400M P&L and led a 350-person organization across B2B and Patient Payments at the largest US healthcare clearinghouse.
- Built an $8B virtual card operation from a legacy print-and-mail remittance business, on $160B in annual payment volume.
- Drove $80M of net-new revenue in 18 months.
- Normalized unstructured claims data to drive automated adjudication at national scale under HIPAA.
UnitedHealth Group
Senior Director, Network Optimization & Pricing Strategy
- Consolidated provider networks across a 45-million-member risk pool after rapid growth through acquisition.
- Designed optimized networks using overlap analysis to maximize coverage and reduce network cost.
- Built premium pricing models to reverse-engineer competitor pricing, driving a 30% increase in deal closure rate.
American Imaging Management (AIM)
Head of Patient Safety, Utilization Management & Business Intelligence
- Operator through WellPoint's $300M acquisition in 2007, after joining the radiology benefit-management business pre-acquisition.
- Led a national patient safety initiative that reduced unnecessary diagnostic imaging and lowered population exposure to ionizing radiation.
- Ran the embedded business intelligence team and deployed a platform that replaced fax and phone-based pre-authorization intake, improving SLA compliance by 90%.
- Removed $150M+ in cumulative administrative overhead across the tenure through automation and structured data models.
Board and advisory
- FinexioBoard Member2018 to Present
- PayZenStrategic Advisor, Patient Financing2019 to Present
- Zelis PaymentsStrategic Advisor, Healthcare Payments2018 to Present
- FinalyticsStrategic Advisor, Revenue Cycle and Banking2020 to Present
- CirraGroupStrategic Advisor, Medical Debt Resolution2015 to Present
- Federal Reserve Remittance Coalition participant (2013 to 2017)
Education
- Master of Health Services Administration (MHSA), University of Michigan
- BS, Business Administration, Michigan State University
Author of three books on agentic payments (2024 to 2026).