we move healthcare forward as a trusted community of senior executives
inside our circle, we see healthcare differently.about us
we understand the rigors that come with being a top healthcare executive. balancing the needs of today’s p&l with the investments required to matter tomorrow is a delicate act. we curate a private community that helps executives explore strategies while concurrently building the adjacent networking opportunities necessary to realize them. The 4mul8 community serves as a real-time market feedback environment to help explore & unlock answers to today’s problems. our community is the bedrock from which we can help you navigate the trends shaping our industry. we’ve merged the best parts of market alignment work with community trust building into a set of offerings fine tuned as we march into our eleventh year of 4mul8. Like many of the finer things, our model is getting better with age.
it is not a coincidence that we host our year-end strategy sessions each october in jackson hole, wyoming. this is a special place with deep roots in healthcare. in 1971, a group of diverse thinkers and industry executives came together to form the jackson hole group. they were a major voice in the universal healthcare versus private market solutions debate that raged into the mid-90’s. m4 honors that legacy by anchoring 4mul8 here, but it is our time spent with this executive community (in our style) that continues to write the next stories that will mold the coming years… all driven by your inspiration as an industry leader to make a real difference by embracing the commonality of problem solving to drive progress.
we build a curated community in cooperation with our partners. together, we take on the challenges for this complex industry that are ever changing. for every problem, there are answers. let’s find them together.
we connect key leaders to answers.
brian melanson | founder & president
brian is the founder & president of m4—a private healthcare community for key executives. our team is passionately aligned around our mission to work with a select number of healthcare & insurance-focused leaders to bridge the gap between boardroom strategies & the realities of the market. building trust with industry colleagues while pushing past current limitations is what the community brian & team curate is all about.
brian has close to two decades of healthcare experience, with the last 11+ years spent working with household healthcare brands and growth-stage companies. previously, he has held roles at premera blue cross, humana, onedigital and destiny health. brian has been a lifelong entrepreneur inspired by the creativity & extreme drive it takes to source ideas & turn them into meaningful answers to today’s problems. this drive flows over into the work of our team to meet our mission of connecting key leaders to answers.
brian has built successful businesses outside of his time with insurance & distribution organizations—including a technology company focused on identifying process inefficiencies for pharmaceutical & manufacturing organizations along with running a high-end women’s shoe magazine that was published in 40 countries around the world.
having worked in both startups and large organizations, brian has become a key part of the team for many top healthcare executives to creatively identify and vet what needs to be done today… so that their businesses can remain impactful tomorrow. we believe that it takes a deeply-connected community of diversely-opinionated leaders to grow our industry into a better future. this is the curated approach that is embedded into our team’s culture to be the driving force for success with each of our members.