Leadership Team

Dr. Christopher McCabe

Co-Founder

Prof. Christopher McCabe is the Executive Lead for ASSESS business operations, and pursuant to this is Chief Executive Officer of Birota Economics Group. Concurrent with this role, he is a Professor of Health Economics at Queen’s University Belfast, in Northern Ireland. Previously, he was the CEO of the Institute of Health Economics in Alberta, Canada, and Professor of Health Economics at the University of Alberta.

He has 30 years experience as a health economist working in the area of economic evaluation and health technology assessment, contributing to national and international standard setting documents related to the evaluation of innovative health technologies.

Dan Palfrey

Co-Founder

Dan Palfrey provides governance and strategic support to ASSESS. Concurrent with this role, he is the CEO of Bright Health Solutions Society, a not-for-profit medical software company in Canada. Previously, he was Director of Industry Partnerships at the Institute of Health Economics, a research institute located in Alberta, Canada.

Following completion of a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Alberta, Dan began his career in the pharmaceutical industry, holding progressive leadership positions in Commercial and Government Relations roles. He then served as Vice President, Commercialization, for what became one of Canada’s leading electronic medical record companies. He is past Board member of The Health Data Coalition, and the Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics, and currently serves as an Advisor to a number of organizations in the health innovation ecosystem.

Bryan Grunow

Co-Founder

Bryan Grunow leads design, development, and delivery of the ASSESS platform. He is 24-year software industry veteran who has worked across the software landscape from low-level software design and development to leading engineering units (development, test, performance engineering, and operations) to design, deploy, and manage next generation cloud platforms.