Kent Marquardt

A healthcare management executive with broad and deep experience, Kent Marquardt is today the CEO of Maverick Advisors, LLC which specializes in innovation and strategy with healthcare companies using analytics and customer engagement to attack inefficiencies in healthcare costs.

Kent has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Premera Blue Cross where he was responsible for the Premera family of companies finance, actuarial, corporate informatics, underwriting, and healthcare economics departments. He also had responsibility for the Innovation Program and Strategic Investments and was part of the Executive Leadership Team that drove overall strategy and long-term direction.

Prior to Premera, Kent was CEO of American Dental Specialist Inc., and COO as well as CFO of western operations of MedPartners, Inc., the nation’s largest publicly held physician practice management company. He is also the former CFO for PriMed Management Consulting, Inc. (Hill Physicians management company).

Kent Marquardt was formerly with KPMG Peat Marwick and a partner in the Los Angeles and Phoenix offices.

Kent holds a MA in business administration from the University of Wisconsin where he also earned his BA.