Micky Tripathi, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

Micky Tripathi is the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit collaboration of 34 leading Massachusetts organizations. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the eHealth Initiative, a national organization promoting health information technology, the Chair of the Information Exchange Working Group of the national Health Information Technology Policy Committee, which is providing recommendations to the federal government on health information exchange requirements related to the HITECH Act, and a member of the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), a regional health information exchange based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Prior to joining MAeHC, Mr. Tripathi was a manager in the Boston office of the Boston Consulting Group, a leading strategy and management consulting firm. While at BCG, he served as the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, an Indianapolis-based non-profit company partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to create a state-wide health information infrastructure in the state of Indiana. As a manager in BCG’s health care practice, Mr. Tripathi also served a variety of US and international clients in the non-profit sector as well as in the bioinformatics, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.

He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award.