Rod Wade, Vice President Contract Management & Procurement is an executive team member at MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc. in San Diego, California reporting to MedImpact’s CFO and is responsible for all corporate contracting, procurement and negotiation activities. Rod leads teams that support sales and buy-side contracting, as well as MedImpact’s procurement and vendor relations operations. Rod’s teams provide support to MedImpact’s Sales, Account, Finance, Legal, Regulatory, Network, International, IT, Health Services, Government Services, M&A and affiliate/subsidiary companies.

Prior to joining MedImpact, Rod was Senior Manager, Contracts at American Specialty Health, Inc. in San Diego and prior to that was Senior Contract Consultant/Assistant Secretary for Prudential Insurance Company of America, Prudential Health Care Plan, Inc., and Prudential HealthCare Plan of California, Inc. in Los Angeles, California.

Rod attended the University of California Berkeley, received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from California State University Northridge and a Master of Business Administration degree from California Lutheran University.

Lita Bollimpalli is an Associate General Counsel for Verizon Business Network Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon Communications. Lita’s responsibilities include negotiation and management of all legal aspects of high dollar global integration deals. Lita also participates in Verizon’s current efforts for contract simplification. Lita’s prior experience includes a role as Senior Counsel at Best Western International, Inc., where she led a team responsible for all contracting, data security and international legal matters for the world’s largest hotel chain. Prior to that, Lita was in private practice at law firms in Denver, Co, Boston, MA and Phoenix, AZ. In addition to her law degree, Lita also has an MBA and an LLM in Tax.