W.B. "Mitch" Mitchell

Founder, EchelonHealth

W.B. “Mitch” Mitchell is Principal and Founder of Echelon Health, a boutique advisory firm that helps health technology and services companies build and grow their federal and public sector businesses. A senior healthcare technology executive with more than 25 years of experience, Mitch has repeatedly built government business units from the ground up inside commercially oriented companies, connecting innovative patient centered health IT with the agencies, system integrators, and government health payers serving the VA, DHA, HHS, and CMS.

Most recently, Mitch served as Chief Growth Officer, Government Sector at Hippocratic AI, where he established the company’s government vertical and led its federal strategy for agentic clinical AI, including teaming with major system integrators and FedRAMP readiness planning. As Group Vice President, Government Solutions at Amwell, he led company’s largest engagement, powering the Defense Health Agency’s digital health platform, and helped grow telehealth utilization at Military Treatment Facilities by more than 930%, earning a FedHealthIT Innovation Award.  

Earlier, he led Government Solutions at Ciox Health (now Datavant) and spent 16 years across RelayHealth, McKesson, and Change Healthcare delivering secure patient centered messaging and engagement tools to improve access and outcomes across the Military Health System.

Mitch holds a BS in Marketing and Business Administration with a minor in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and completed executive programs at the Wharton Business School and the U.S. Army War College. Mitch is a nationally registered EMT and member of the National Ski Patrol and Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol in Stowe Vermont where he lives with his wife Renee of over 30 years.