Dan Michelson

Founder, InCommon

Dan Michelson is serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University in Chicago. He is the Founder of InCommon and formerly served as the CEO of Strata Decision Technology where his focused to ensure the company delivered on its mission to help heal healthcare.

With close to 30 years of healthcare experience, Dan has been one of the key thought leaders in U.S. healthcare, helping to develop the Decision Support, Financial Planning, Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Health Record markets. He has served on the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology and co-authored the books Margin + Mission: A Prescription for Curing Healthcare’s Cost Crisis and The Electronic Physician.

Dan spent 12 years as part of the leadership team that grew a healthcare software company from 100 to over 6,000 employees. He has provided strategy and process redesign consulting for many of the top hospitals and health systems in the U.S. and served in leadership roles for Baxter Healthcare and AstraZeneca. Dan is the co-founder of projectMUSIC™, a benefit concert that sends underprivileged children to overnight camp and of HackHunger™, a collaborative of tech companies working to crack the code on hunger. Dan earned his BS in Finance from Indiana University and an MBA from DePaul University. He is an avid runner, having completed 17 marathons. Dan and his wife Kim have two children, Emma and Ian.