Philip Micali

Philip Micali, Founder and Principal of bWell International, Inc., and Advisory Board Member, OPEN MINDS possesses over 30 years of experience developing, operating, and managing innovative health and wellness companies, in the U.S. and in Europe. His innovative work in designing and implementing public sector behavioral health programs and health savings account models of reimbursement has earned him national acclaim. In addition He has worked within two of the nation’s leading managed mental health companies, including Value Options and Magellan. Mr. Micali’s vast consultation portfolio includes IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Chevron, Thomson Reuters and States of Iowa and New York. Since 2005, Mr. Micali has led a boutique consulting practice, bWell International, Inc., focused on marketing planning and execution of innovations in chronic care patient engagement, closing gaps of care, and health insurance marketplace (exchange) technologies. He also developed a software-as-a-service window shopper (consumer decision support) technology for private and public health insurance marketplaces, called bWell-informed, LLC. It enables exchanges to operate more transparently. In the early 2000s, he led sales and government program initiatives, as well as direct to consumer education programs at the nation’s leading consumer driven health plan, Lumenos, later sold to Wellpoint/Anthem. Mr. Micali held other prestigious positions such as Managing Director of Eldercare and Family Caregiver Web Portal at Angelini Pharmaceutical Company in Rome, Italy, where he lived and worked for four years. And during his experience in Europe, Mr. Micali was one of the founding adjunct professors of the Masters in International Health Management Economics and Policy at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Mr. Micali studied Health Economics and Organizational Behavior at the University of Michigan and is currently enrolled in an Executive MBA Program – Healthcare at Baldwin Wallace University in Cleveland, Ohio.