Chris Baxley

Chris is a healthcare business executive and the founder of A Priori Advisors, a boutique healthcare advisory and consulting firm focused on serving those in the healthcare services and ancillary services spaces. His primary focus is enabling healthcare providers to better understand, connect with and retain consumers.

Chris started his healthcare career as an Investment Banker in New York working with both JPMorgan and Cain Brothers focused on serving healthcare services companies. Following his time in investment banking he worked with Healthways, a leading Disease Management and Wellness company, establishing ground-up value propositions for their core products and translating those value propositions to clients. During his time with Healthways he also lead client engagements with the company’s largest international account, a national health system in Europe. Chris then worked with Healthgrades, the leading provider of B2C marketing and CRM services to American health systems, both managing large client relationships and guiding the company’s own market strategies.

Chris is a former US Army Officer with over seven years of service and multiple deployments, to include a combat tour in Iraq. He holds a BBA from The University of Mississippi and an MBA with concentrations in Healthcare and Finance from Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Chris lives in Nashville with his wife and three children.