Yolanda R. Richardson, Chief Executive Officer

Yolanda R. Richardson serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of San Francisco Health Plan (SFHP). In this role, she works collaboratively with the SFHP Governing Board to set the strategic vision and provide executive leadership for the #1 Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan in San Francisco. Ms. Richardson cultivates SFHP’s strong partnership with Providers, hospitals, and community partners to deliver quality whole-person care to the Medi-Cal members of San Francisco county, and ensures financial stewardship and stability for SFHP’s nearly $1.0 Billion operational budget.

Ms. Richardson joined SFHP in April 2022 as Chief Executive Officer. As a cutting-edge health care leader, she brings tremendous vision, operational excellence, and passion to her work. Ms. Richardson previously served as SFHP’s Chief Operations Officer from 2008 through 2009, working to improve the Healthy San Francisco program in its first year of operation. She also oversaw the implementation of San Francisco’s employer spending requirement, which became the San Francisco City Option program. Subsequently, Healthy San Francisco was recognized by President Obama in February 2009 for its creative and effective methods of delivering health care to the underserved.

Prior to joining SFHP as CEO, Ms. Richardson served as the Secretary of the California Government Operations Agency, appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020. As Secretary, she oversaw the Department of General Services, the California Department of Technology, California Department of Human Resources (CalHR), the Franchise Tax Board, the Census Office, the California Victims Compensation Board, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Fi$Cal, CalPERS, CalSTRS, and the Office of Digital Innovation. In this role, she was deployed to assist with government operations crises across multiple agencies, including serving as the Governor’s “Vaccine Czar” to accelerate the administration of the state’s vaccine supply between January and June 2021.

Ms. Richardson is the winner of many prestigious awards including Public Administrator of the Year (American Society for Public Administration, 2020), was honored as 1 of 5 “Warrior Women Leading the Fight Against COVID-19” (California Women Lead, 2021), was named as one of the 50 Important African-Americans in Infrastructure (Journal of Black Innovation, 2021), and received the Trailblazer Hall of Fame Award (California Black Women’s Collective, 2022)

Nina Maruyama, Chief Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Officer
Nina has been with San Francisco Health Plan for over 15 years and comes with over 25 years of experience in managed care, with a focus on health plan licensing, Medi-Cal, compliance and regulatory affairs. Some of her key responsibilities include: state license filings, regulatory agency audits, HIPAA compliance, breach investigations and reporting, delegate oversight, business continuity, fraud, waste and abuse investigations, auditing and monitoring, strategic planning, and board communications.

Under Nina’s direction, she prepares SFHP staff to successfully manage operations during business interruptions or disaster situations and identifies the necessary SFHP personnel and resources that ensure the timely restoration and continuation of services to SFHP’s members, regulatory agencies and business partners. Another vital initiative Nina takes on is the organization’s business continuity plan. Under her direction she prepares SFHP staff to successfully manage operations during business interruptions or disaster situations and identifies the necessary SFHP personnel and resources that ensure the timely restoration and continuation of services to SFHP’s members, regulatory agencies and business partners.

Nina lives with her husband and two boys in San Francisco and is an avid Warriors fan.

Jenn Moore, Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Steve O’Brien, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Edwin Poon, Chief Health Equity Officer

Anne Price, Chief Finance and Strategy Officer

Anne has held various executive level positions in health care as Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Director of Plan Operations, and Board level trusted advisor on contemporary medical care contract issues. Anne’s whole career has been focused on building Finance teams to support high-growth health care systems; creating cost-efficient plans that meet government mandated exchange requirements; and partnering with providers, delivery systems, and employers to expand enrollment.

Her career highlights include transforming and directing the Plan Management Division for Covered California, the state’s ACA market exchange, the largest and most successful in the U.S.; a decade with Blue Shield of California driving successful product strategy, pricing, decision making and leadership of the rate setting process for CalPERS, the largest enrollee group in California.

Since 2015, Anne was selected to serve on multiple key California Committees. She was appointed Chair of the California State Workgroup on Reducing Overuse in 2016, partnering with health care delivery systems to reduce misuse of C-sections, imaging for non-specific lower back pain, and opioid use. In 2015-2016 she was tasked as Chair of California’s Plan Management & Delivery System Reform Workgroup advising on the Affordable Care Act. In 2016, she was appointed to Governor Brown’s Specialty Drug Workgroup Committee focused on strategies to lower the cost of specialty drugs for the Medi-Cal population.

In 2017, Anne was recruited as Chief Financial Officer of Kids Care Dental and Orthodontics, a multi-unit dental practice in northern California funded in 2013 by a national private equity firm and capitalized to launch a major growth program. She was tasked in this this role to upgrade the Finance function in the areas of financial planning and identification of growth strategies. She was charged with building a data analytics team from the ground up that focused on practice value creation. In 2019, Anne was promoted to Chief Strategy Officer to solely focus on growth and quality development strategies of the organization.

Alana Troutt, Chief of Staff