Brian Beutner’s professional career has been focused on helping clients adapt to a changing environment. Even in the earliest stages, his career centered on providing counsel on risk and change to senior executives.

Brian began working with Harbor Health in its earliest days. Harbor Health is an integrated care delivery and financing company that is redesigning the entire health system to work better

Previously, Brian was part of the founding executive team at Bright Health as it brought its innovative health insurance model through forming exclusive relationships with care systems to fundamentally change the way that healthcare is paid for and delivered. He served as Chief Legal Officer, responsible for all legal, regulatory, governmental policy and human resource functions.
As Chair of the Board of MNsure, Minnesota’s public healthcare exchange, he was the public face of a transition from a non-operating start up organization through public launch of the exchange. Appointed to the Board by Gov. Mark Dayton, Brian led the Board from its inception, developing effective governance and well as leading the organization through two leadership changes.

Since 2005 he has maintained a consulting practice working with start-ups and their founders as they try to expand their innovative concepts into viable businesses. Engagements include: development of strategic plan for dual currency financial services innovator with healthcare applications, and development of business and operational model for an on-site healthcare delivery.

Brian was CEO of mPay Gateway, a venture-backed healthcare software company that has developed financial products and services to support healthcare’s complex and unique payment environment. He led mPay Gateway from a development stage company, through several fundraising rounds, to a profitable operating business that was sold to a private equity-backed healthcare payments company.

Prior to that, he spent nearly seven years as an executive in various capacities at UnitedHealth Group. For the last four years there he focused directly on the financial aspects of the healthcare system. He chartered Exante Bank (now OptumHealth Bank, $17 billion in assets), the first successful bank built by a healthcare company and served as the Chair of its Board from its inception.

Early in his career Brian spent eight years at Jostens, Inc. (a NYSE-listed company) working his way up through the Legal Department, eventually serving as General Counsel. At Jostens, he had a leadership role in all M&A activity as well as its strategic and annual planning processes.

Brian’s role both as a member of a senior management team and as a counselor to senior executives and boards of directors in the public, private and non-profit worlds, has enabled him to develop a broad base of skills and experiences.