Title: Director, Health Care Group
Firm: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Age: 34
Figuring out new ways to fund healthcare initiatives in the U.S. is propelling Brad Henkel's rising star status.
Brad has worked at Citi's Health Care Group's Dallas office for over 10 years. In 2021 he came up with a plan to secure financing for a joint healthcare system formed between Ochsner Health and Louisiana State University, a deal Brad called a "transformative transaction for the system."
In 2018, the Ochsner LSU Health System-North Louisiana created a public-private partnership to promote, enhance and support providing high-quality, safety net services to Louisiana's most vulnerable populations.
Brad's ingenuity was also put to work on providing financing for Houston's Memorial Hermann Health Plan, helping the issuer realize savings with a shorter-term financing structure it hadn't used historically.
Brad was inspired to work in the healthcare realm following a 10-week internship with Citi back in 2010. Since then, his work has focused on this vital issue.
"Evolution of consumer-centric value-based care programs spanning the healthcare delivery, retail, insurance and technology sectors," he said. "Continued refinement of state Medicaid managed care programs will remain the cornerstone of driving accessibility for underserved communities."
Brad works closely with Citi's junior team and is known to go out of his way scouting career development opportunities for younger colleagues.
The University of Oklahoma graduate puts a high value on the internship that launched his career.
"I was fortunate to have the opportunity to intern in Citi's not-for-profit health care group in 2010, and during the ten-week program was exposed to the intricacies of the U.S. healthcare ecosystem. The ability to routinely interact with some of the brightest minds across the healthcare continuum — who are largely focused on achieving the difficult goal of delivering the right care in the right setting at the right price — makes our role incredibly fluid, challenging, interesting and humbling."
