BENJAMIN TENNER
Founder of Vlada Health, a healthcare data, analytics, and AI company. Former Senior Equity Research Associate on Wolfe Research's #1 Institutional Investor-ranked Healthcare Facilities & Managed Care team.
Hey, I'm Ben.
I'm the founder of Vlada Health, a healthcare data, analytics, and AI company. I combine expertise in healthcare data with hands-on AI systems development to turn fragmented information into reliable analytical products and decision tools.
Through Vlada, I work across healthcare price transparency, Medicare Advantage, public payer and provider data, and the infrastructure required to make difficult source material usable, auditable, and ready for analysis.
I also work directly with companies on AI strategy and implementation, operating inside their existing environments to design and deploy customized AI solutions around their data, workflows, and business needs.
Before Vlada, I spent three years as a Senior Equity Research Associate on Wolfe Research's #1 Institutional Investor-ranked Healthcare Facilities & Managed Care team, combining financial analysis, healthcare domain expertise, and proprietary data work.
Work
- Build and operate a healthcare data, analytics, and AI company
- Recover, normalize, and connect difficult public healthcare sources while preserving provenance and time semantics
- Develop maintained analytical products across healthcare price data and Medicare Advantage
- Design evidence systems in which important outputs resolve to source material, methods, and durable receipts
- Use agentic workflows across research, software development, data operations, testing, and monitoring
- Map recurring research, document, and analytical workflows into deployable AI systems
- Build evidence-first agents, data pipelines, review loops, and operating interfaces for high-stakes knowledge work
- Deploy into the client's existing environment with explicit success criteria, controls, and handoff documentation
- Supported coverage across managed care and healthcare services through financial modeling, company research, policy analysis, and client engagement
- Built proprietary analytics across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, ACA exchanges, Star Ratings, risk adjustment, plan benefits, enrollment, and statutory filings
- Turned fragmented CMS and public healthcare datasets into structured analysis used in models, published research, and investor conversations
- Developed statistical tools, recreated public algorithms, and built dashboards that expanded the team's analytical capacity
- Led 35+ primary-research projects across medical technology, diagnostics, and life sciences
- Developed relationships with physicians and healthcare professionals and translated interviews into decision-useful findings
- Synthesized earnings transcripts, analyst reports, SEC filings, and proprietary tracking data for clients and internal teams
Projects
A healthcare data and analytics company built around governed data, reproducible methods, and evidence-bearing outputs.
- Healthcare price data across hospitals, insurers, and public payment systems
- Medicare Advantage analytics spanning enrollment, benefits, formularies, Star Ratings, and risk adjustment
- Source lineage, entity resolution, non-destructive history, testing, and monitoring as core product infrastructure
- Programmatic and human-facing delivery through APIs, reports, workspaces, and AI tools
A full-stack iOS application for tracking, rating, ranking, and discovering movies, actors, and directors.
- Designed a graph across movies, actors, and directors for relationship-based discovery and gameplay
- Built automated ingestion and refresh pipelines using external media data
- Developed flexible ranking, list management, authentication, activity feeds, and leaderboards
- Implemented voice-driven AI features for natural-language discovery, logging, and rating
Education
Johns Hopkins University, 2022
Syracuse University, 2020
Credentials
Series 86 · Series 87
Stack
Data: DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Parquet, ETL pipelines
Cloud: AWS S3, EC2, RDS, Athena, Bedrock
AI: Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor
Research: Bloomberg, FactSet, CapIQ, AlphaSense