Melissa Frieswick is a healthcare executive with deep experience building and scaling organizations across health plans and digital health innovators. As Chief Commercial Officer at CAQH, Melissa leads CAQH’s commercial strategy, focused on driving growth and solutions for providers, health plans, and partners. Her work will align commercial priorities with how healthcare organizations operate, so they can get more impact from CAQH’s data and services as the organization continues to grow.
Frieswick brings more than two decades of experience across payer operations and digital health. She spent 13 years at Cigna, working across underwriting, account management, sales, health advocacy, and enterprise strategy, and later led Health and Productivity Consulting for global employers. She went on to hold senior leadership roles at several high-growth healthcare organizations, including as a member of the Virgin Pulse senior leadership team during a period of accelerated growth and as Chief Revenue Officer at Maven during its high-growth phase.
Melissa holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from Providence College. She is an active member of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), the Fast Company Impact Council, and Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation (WBL).
