Prior to founding Health Design Plus in 1988, Ruth Coleman had nearly 20 years of experience in HMO and medical center management, patient care, and nursing education, including executive leadership in hospital and health plan operations and marketing. Coleman used this breadth of managed care and care delivery experience to create a Third Party Administrator that provides highly effective management for employer sponsored health benefit plans. 

Recently retiring as CEO, Coleman established Health Design Plus to deliver value to clients through quality patient-centered care with appropriate pricing.  She created and managed direct employer – provider relationships, including full directly contracted networks for employers as early as 1989. Documented quality and shared risk pricing have always been the foundation for those relationships. She contracted bundled rates with specialty providers as early as 1990, and has extensive experience bringing employers and providers together in partnerships that meet the “triple aim.” Under her leadership Health Design Plus became the national leader for domestic medical travel, serving organizations such as Walmart, Lowe’s, McKesson and Boeing Corporation. Programs include traveling patients to carefully selected Centers of Excellence for heart surgery, spine evaluation and surgery, bariatric surgery, joint replacements and most recently cancer evaluation and treatment.

As Principal of ValTrans Health she currently consultants with healthcare organizations on creating value, executing on value-based care, direct employer relationships, and development of value-based products. She is co-author of Harvard Busienss Review articles on Employer purchasing healthcare directly for employees, published in June 2017 (“Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s and Walmart are Directly Buying Healthcare for Employees”), and March 2019 (“The Big Idea: Transforming Healthcare”). She holds a BSN from Widener University, and an MA from The Ohio State University.   ** pending board approval 7/22/19

Ritambhara ( Ritu)  Mahna is currently the president of the Federation of India Community Association and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Shiva Vishnu Temple. She also serves as the Secretary of the Association of Indian Physicians of Ohio. Ritu has been an active member of the indian community in Ohio for the past 20 years. Over her tenure, she has planned several black tie fundraisers and organized concerts bringing in between 1800 and 2700 people. In the last 7 years she has raised a total of over $700,000 for a variety of causes.
Ritu is married to Dr. Satish Mahna and they have two children, Shali and Saar, who has two beautiful daughters with his wife A

Michael Manasseri is the director of the Detroit based family comedy, The Pickle Recipe, and founder of Flux Capacitor Studios.

Michael began his entertainment career in front of the camera, appearing in over 120 episodes of television in the 1990’s, culminating in his starring role on the USA Network comedy, Weird Science, which aired around the world for over a decade.

In the early 2000s, Michael transitioned behind the scenes, to writing and producing. In 2004, Michael produced his first feature film, the romantic comedy, Dirty Love, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance International Film Festival. Since then, Michael has produced eight independent features.

In 2009, Michael relocated to Metro-Detroit, to be closer to his immediate family. While based in Southeast Michigan, Michael has brought Hollywood feature productions to the Midwest, produced national commercial campaigns, worked with world-renowned musical artists and forged relationships with international filmmakers.

Michael has also forged an academic/entrepreneurial partnership with Oakland University’s Cinema Studies program providing real world filmmaking opportunities to over 300 OU students in the past five years.

Michael and Flux currently have 6 feature projects in development, including the upcoming international co-production, Accelerant, with principal photography commencing in fall of 2017 in Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Spain. 

Dr. Michael P. Shaughnessy was born and raised on Cleveland’s West Side and attended St. Ignatius High School. He attended Miami University and then the Medical College of Ohio, now part of University of Toledo. His internship was served at Riverside Hospital in Columbus and residency at Case Western Reserve University. His Cornea fellowship took place at the University of Texas Medical Center in Dallas. He began private practice with University Ophthalmology Associates, Inc. in 2002 where he remains today. Dr. Shaughnessy is a Comprehensive ophthalmologist with subspecialty training in Cornea and External Disease. He is the Medical Director of Brainard Surgery Center, an Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University, a Cleveland Magazine “Top Doc”, and serves on several local medical boards. His clinical practice focuses on Cataract Surgery, Dry eye, Corneal Diseases, and Comprehensive Ophthalmology; including Diabetes, Glaucoma, and Macular Degeneration. He enjoys teaching, making family time with his wife, Kathy, and their three children; as well as running, cycling, triathlons, golf, woodworking, and drawing.