Leadership
Deep rooted experience leveraged from healthcare operations to world-class technology solutions, our team is the heart and soul of what we do each and every day.
Prad Sekar
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Mr. Sekar has spent over 15 years in clinical practice management owning, operating and consulting with outpatient multi-disciplinary healthcare practices in Canada and the US. Mr. Sekar holds a BSc Hon from the University of the Ottawa and a MBA from Hult International Business School. Following a career in establishing and operating successful medical practices, Mr. Sekar began consulting with Canadian medical regulatory bodies and agencies to support their network of practitioners in the establishment and operation of medical clinics. Mr. Sekar is also a recognized professor with a registered program for Medical Office Assistants under the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Kash Qureshi
President
As co-founder of Skylight Health Group, Mr. Qureshi brings more than 20 years of extensive operational and entrepreneurial experience in the sales, commercial financing, technology, and the last 10 years directly involved in healthcare, wellness and health technology. An ardent cost-efficiency executive, Mr. Qureshi has focused on technology infrastructure, operational proficiencies, overall profitability, as well as acquisitions in a series of organizations throughout the healthcare sector.
Farooq Akhter
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Akhter brings over 16 years of experience as a senior financial leader for publicly traded companies and large conglomerates internationally. Since joining Skylight Health Group in 2019, he has been instrumental in the company’s transformational growth. With a focus on streamlining operations and driving new revenue opportunities, Mr. Akhter combines deep knowledge of the business, operations and financial drivers with strong leadership.
Dr. Kit Brekhus, MD.
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Brekhus brings over 25 years of primary care and family medicine experience as both a clinician and an owner-operator of a free-standing family practice and full-service urgent care center. He also served as Medical Director of Outreach services for a large healthcare system and helped lead the growth and development of the Colorado Community Health Alliance. Prior to joining Skylight, Dr. Brekhus served several years as the founding board member, physician director and chief medical executive for one of the largest clinically integrated networks in the Rocky Mountain region dedicated to advancing value-based care where he was responsible for overseeing a network of more than 5,000 providers and managing more than 250,000 lives in various value-based agreements.
Laura Corona
SVP, Operation
Laura’s 20 years of experience in nonprofit and for-profit hospital settings have equipped her to be an invaluable part of Skylight’s operational team. She’s driven cutting-edge care for minors as an Administrative Director of Pediatrics, led 20+ primary and specialty care acquisitions and developed a state-of-the-art medical office building to improve the scope and quality of services provided by a large healthcare system. Additionally, Laura has played an integral role in developing the curriculum of a medical assistant training program, offering students opportunities to gain hands-on experience at the outset of their careers.
Board of Directors
Patrick McNamee
Chairman of the Board
Patrick brings substantial healthcare leadership having been EVP and COO of Express Scripts (NASDAQ:ESRX), where he led all major activities of the technology-driven pharmacy benefit management company. With a focus on organic and acquisitive growth, McNamee was instrumental in bringing the company from $3B in revenue to over $120B. He also is the former President and CEO of Health Insurance Innovations where he led a significant and fast turnaround increasing the share price from $4 to $58 in less than 2 years.
Norton Singhavon
Norton is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of GTEC Holdings and has extensive experience in capital investments, acquisitions, consolidations, and start-ups in Canada’s private and public cannabis sector. He has deployed over $100 million into the North American cannabis industry and has been involved in numerous public M& A cannabis transactions and was an early stage advisor to major Licensed Producers, including Cronos Group.
Grace Mellis
Grace brings nearly three decades of strategy, finance, and capital markets experience with executive roles at JP Morgan Chase including as Head of International Strategy and as Investor Services CFO for EMEA. Ms. Mellis is also the former Chief Financial Officer at Greendot Corporation, a US$3.1B market cap NYSE-listed company. She is also a mentor and investor with Techstars, a global start-up incubation platform.
Peter Cummins
Peter has spent over two decades with Johnson & Johnson, including executive leadership roles overseeing research and development, product development, external innovation, regulatory affairs and hospital pharmacy across Canada, US, Europe and other regions. He has also served in Regulatory and Scientific Affairs at Procter & Gamble and was the Director of Pharmacy at Cambridge Memorial Hospital.
Tom Brogan
Tom Brogan brings 40 years experience in aggregating anonymized healthcare data to create insights to support traditional pharmaceutical companies and for use in health economic studies. His innovations include a long list of applications that merge Real World Evidence with traditional healthcare protocols. Mr. Brogan is currently the CEO and Chairman at Vestrum Health, an electronic healthcare record data company which delivers information systems to pharmaceutical manufacturers, physician practices and other healthcare stakeholders. Prior to Vestrum Health, he was the founder of Brogan Consulting, which was acquired by IMS in 2010, now IQVIA, one of the world’s largest Contract Research Organizations (CROs), following which Mr. Brogan continued on with the company as Vice President of Global Oncology at IMS Health.
Prad Sekar
Mr. Sekar has spent over 15 years in clinical practice management owning, operating and consulting with outpatient multi-disciplinary healthcare practices in Canada and the US. Mr. Sekar holds a BSc Hon from the University of the Ottawa and a MBA from Hult International Business School. Following a career in establishing and operating successful medical practices, Mr. Sekar began consulting with Canadian medical regulatory bodies and agencies to support their network of practitioners in the establishment and operation of medical clinics. Mr. Sekar is also a recognized professor with a registered program for Medical Office Assistants under the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Kash Qureshi
As co-founder of Skylight Health Group, Mr. Qureshi brings more than 20 years of extensive operational and entrepreneurial experience in the sales, commercial financing, technology, and the last 10 years directly involved in healthcare, wellness and health technology. An ardent cost-efficiency executive, Mr. Qureshi has focused on technology infrastructure, operational proficiencies, overall profitability, as well as acquisitions in a series of organizations throughout the healthcare sector.
