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Korey Ashton

Director, SunFire Services

SunFire

Korey followed her mother into the Medicare space 14 years ago as an Independent Agent, eventually becoming a Broker Manager, Regional Sales Manager, and is currently the Director of SunFire Services. She is passionate about giving back to the industry and serves as the NABIP National Vice Chair of Professional Development, focused on facilitating the creation of educational content that can be utilized across the country. Korey is a Founding Board Member for the Ellevate Foundation, a not-for-profit whose purpose is to foster leadership by providing tools, resources, and events for both existing and aspiring female leaders. She is a former Southern CA native who now lives in Idaho with her husband, three teenagers and her four dogs. Her hobbies include finding excuses to host a party, paddle boarding when the weather cooperates, and travelling every chance she gets.

John Gorman

Chairman & Founder

Nightingale Partners LLC

John is the Founder and former Executive Chairman of Gorman Health Group, at the time the industry’s leading consulting practice which spawned almost a dozen entrepreneurial ventures in government health programs. John’s work focuses on Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act strategy, governance, and turnaround of distressed health plans. Prior to founding the firm, John served as Assistant to the Director of Health Care Financing Administration’s (HCFA, now CMS) Office of Managed Care, where he provided day-to-day management and served as the external liaison for the Medicare and Medicaid managed care programs. During the 1993 debate on national health care reform, John was chief lobbyist on health care financing issues for the National Association of Community Health Centers, an organization of federally-funded primary care clinics for the medically underserved. John’s career in Washington began as Press Secretary and Staff Director for U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), then Chairman of the Government Operations Committee. John serves on the Board of Directors of Henry Ford Health System’s Health Alliance Plan in his birthplace of Detroit, MI, and serves as a Senior Advisor to Premier, Inc., the hospital purchasing cooperative, on Medicare Advantage and Medicaid matters.