Leadership | Healthlink Advisors

Led by industry veterans, Healthlink Advisors drives health IT innovation through the relentless pursuit of our clients’ best interests. Our senior leadership is personally engaged in solving client challenges. Likewise, the commitment, care, and confidence that our clients feel is a direct result of how well we treat our own people.

Zahid Rathore

Zahid Rathore

Senior Vice President

Diehard New Englander
Single engine land and sea private pilot
Avid traveler and camper
Technology and gadget enthusiast
Lifelong seeker of alternative healthcare approaches

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Zahid has over 18 years of healthcare experience and serves highly visible, national clients with a focus on broad-scale health IT strategy. His professional experiences have been driven by healthcare transformation through health IT adoption and financial and business process performance improvement. Zahid has overall consulting responsibility at Healthlink Advisors and ensures quality delivery across all client engagements.

Before joining Healthlink Advisors, Zahid worked at Booz Allen Hamilton in the global health practice, providing consulting expertise to private and public-sector clients. Following that, Zahid was a member of the health IT practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) where he worked with leading health providers across the United States.

Zahid is a proud alum of Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, and the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Zahid is a licensed private pilot (single engine land and sea) and is currently conducting Instrument training.

Dan Stoke

Dan Stoke

Senior Vice President

Avid skier and golfer
Travel enthusiast
Passionate World Cup & UEFA soccer fan
Documentary and history buff

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Dan began his career with Shared Medical Systems as a consultant and has served in various capacities that have exposed him to many of the complexities and challenges facing healthcare and health IT.

Dan later joined Healthlink, Inc., as a member of the leadership team. Over the next seven years, Dan collaborated with some of the most talented people in healthcare consulting at the industry-leading firm boasting 100 percent client satisfaction.

Following the acquisition of Healthlink, Inc., by IBM, Dan served as an executive leader for several software and service organizations until the opportunity to reunite with Lindsey Jarrell at Healthlink Advisors presented itself. Dan has described this “reunion” as a unique opportunity to build upon a legacy that he and Lindsey were part of together years before.

Chris Jenkins

Chris Jenkins

Senior Vice President

USAF Military Veteran
Certified SCUBA instructor
Occasional kilt wearer
Avid cyclist, mariner, spear fisherman, and golfer

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Chris is an innovative and results-driven professional with demonstrated expertise in executive leadership, technology management, strategic planning, negotiations, governance, project and contract management, and process improvement. He is adept at implementing and managing technology solutions while serving as a customer-focused leader with demonstrated success developing staff.

His experience spans 28 years in healthcare serving in various roles including CIO and CTO in large, complex health systems. Chris has led organizations through the development of multi-year information technology strategy and provided oversight of key initiatives, including deployment of the enterprise EHR, enhancement of IT security program, integration management of new and purchased hospitals, and management of all technology infrastructure.

Charles Anastos

Charles Anastos

Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

Music & concert enthusiast
Ice hockey defenseman
Boston sports fanatic
Avid golfer

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With more than 30 years of healthcare experience, Charles is recognized as a creative and adept leader who has successfully helped clients identify business goals and translated needs into action. Charles maintains a broad-based core of management competencies and has a deep understanding of technologies that enable specific business capabilities. His background includes IT strategy and operational alignment, governance, IT financial performance, complex financial and clinical information system selections, and implementations.

Prior to joining Healthlink Advisors, Charles was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC), where he co-led the firm’s Health IT Provider Enterprise and Care Delivery Transformation advisory practices. He was also a Partner and Senior Vice President for Beacon Partners (now part of KPMG) where he played a key role in growing a start-up organization into a nationally recognized healthcare professional services firm.

Charles is visible in the market and is involved with industry associations and workgroups. He is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation, where he has served on the Board of Directors. He currently maintains a position on the CHIME Foundation Education Board.

Lindsey Jarrell

Lindsey Jarrell

CEO

TedMed conference enthusiast
Audible podcast addict
Single engine land private pilot

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Lindsey is passionate about leadership and improving business through technology. He is known as a visionary by his team and clients and has built a career working as a consultant and chief information officer in some of the nation’s largest healthcare delivery systems. At Healthlink Advisors, Lindsey drives strategy, culture, and revenue growth and can be seen on the road doing client work.

He enjoys continuously mentoring top talent to be accountable for large-scale operations and the execution of complex plans. He is respected for his natural leadership style and sometimes witty communications, and he finds great satisfaction in cultivating a friendly, high-performing work environment.

Lindsey has a genuine belief that healthcare can be improved and has been recognized by several organizations for his work with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the American Hospital Association (AHA). Additionally, Lindsey co-authored the book Consumer-Centric Healthcare published by Health Administration Press, which has led to various speaking engagements at conferences throughout the United States.