Our Team

Derek joined Tufts Health Plan in 2004. He is responsible for the development of enterprise-wide and business line strategies. He leads Tufts Health Plan’s new business and corporate development initiatives and works with the senior leadership team to evaluate options and set the company’s strategic priorities. He also oversees the company’s market and competitive intelligence efforts and is responsible for primary market research.

Derek is also the managing director for Tufts Health Ventures.  In this role, he leads the company's business expansion and diversification efforts, identifying and evaluating partnership, investment and acquisition opportunities.  In addition, Derek leads negotiations with senior leaders of potential partners and investment or acquisition prospects.

Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan in 2004 as director of product strategy, Derek was a principal with Mercer Management Consulting, now Oliver Wyman, in Washington, D.C. and Boston, where he consulted to Fortune 500 companies in the energy, telecommunications and nonprofit industries on strategic and operational issues.

Derek serves on several boards, including Tufts Health Freedom Plan (health plan in New Hampshire), ConsejoSano (provider of health navigation services to Spanish speakers), and The SEED Foundation (operator of public college-preparatory boarding schools for underserved children in Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Miami).

Derek earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Yale University. 

Roland joined Tufts Health Plan in 1995. He is responsible for corporate investments and all treasury management functions, in addition to other corporate finance matters.. Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan, Roland held corporate finance and accounting positions with organizations in the hospitality and building material industries. He received an M.B.A. in finance from Suffolk University and a B.S. in management from Southern New Hampshire University.

Tine joined Tufts Health Plan in 2014. She oversees the Corporate Strategy and Tufts Health Ventures teams. In her Corporate Strategy capacity, Tine leads efforts to identify and evaluate strategic business opportunities and helps set the strategic direction for Tufts Health Plan. As director for Tufts Health Ventures, she manages the company's diversification efforts, identifying and evaluating partnership, investment and acquisition opportunities.  Tine has a background in corporate strategy and health and technology consulting with experiences at Cisco Systems, Oliver Wyman and Mercer Management Consulting. Tine earned a M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in international relations from Mount Holyoke College.

Ellen joined Tufts Health Plan in 2017. She manages a team that identifies and evaluates investment opportunities within our focus areas. Ellen has a background in healthcare IT, investment management and consulting, with experiences at athenahealth, Goldman Sachs and Bain & Company. She received an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in economics from Cornell University.

Joe joined Tufts Health Plan in 2017. In his role, he identifies and evaluates investment opportunities within Tufts Health Ventures’ focus areas. Joes came to Tufts Health Plan from Forrester Research, spending time in both research and consulting. He graduated from Bentley University with a B.S. in managerial economics with a concentration in health and industry.

Wirda joined Tufts Health Plan in 2017. In her role, she identifies and evaluates investment opportunities within Tufts Health Ventures’ focus areas. Wirda has an M.S. in management with a focus in consulting from Boston University and a B.S. in economics and psychology from the University of Massachusetts.