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Anna Youngerman

Chief Transformation Officer

Anna is a healthcare executive with a diverse professional background spanning public affairs,
strategic communications, public policy, and health system leadership. She has extensive
experience leading value-based care initiatives and clinically integrated networks, with a
consistent focus on driving progress and purpose throughout her 25-year career.

As Chief Transformation Officer, Anna oversees the company's strategic direction, growth
initiatives, corporate positioning, and cultural enhancements that facilitate performance. She also
serves as Market President for the Minnesota region. During her tenure with Navvis, Anna led
the development of the company's five-year strategic plan that provides a design for performance
commitment and growth trajectory. She successfully oversaw the market-based launch of Navvis'
patient capacity and throughput program in Minnesota, which delivered exponential length of
stay improvement for a $5 billion health system, as well as a comprehensive rollout of Surround
Care Academy.

Prior to joining Navvis, Anna served in several leadership roles over 10 years with Children's
Minnesota, a free-standing, independent children's health system. She led the organization's
public policy advocacy and community engagement department, developing a comprehensive
social determinants of health screening and resource delivery program. Anna then took on the
dual role of VP, Value and Clinical Excellence and President of the Children's Health Network, a
pediatric clinically integrated network. Before that, Anna was a senior leader with Minneapolis-
based Himle Horner, a public affairs and strategic communications agency, where she led several
healthcare client initiatives.

Anna has a passion for community work and has served on various non-profit boards of directors
over the past 15 years, including YWCA Minneapolis, Washburn Center for Children, and the
Native American Community Clinic. In 2019, she was recognized as a Minneapolis-St. Paul
Business Journal "Women in Leadership" award recipient. Anna earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree in English from Lake Forest College.