Meet Our Leadership Team

Sutter Health Plus CEO Brian Fellner oversees the strategic day-to-day management of the health plan and is responsible for its continued and long-term success. His nearly 30 years of industry experience included leadership roles with oversight for sales, marketing, legal and compliance, and health care economics.

Brian joined Sutter Health Plus in May 2017 as CFO. Prior to that, he served as CFO at Blue Cross of Idaho, where he developed pricing, product and market strategy. He formerly held the offices of executive vice president and CFO at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota; senior vice president and chief of staff at American Enterprise Group in Des Moines, Iowa; and vice president at Great-West Financial (Great-West Healthcare) in Denver, Colorado.

Brian is a certified public accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colorado and a Master of Science degree in accounting.

Swati Awsare, M.D., serves as chief medical executive of Sutter’s Health Plan Products (HPP) division. She has overall responsibility for providing clinical leadership, strategy and direction for utilization, case management, disease management, quality improvement, pharmacy and behavioral health management for HPP’s portfolio of products, including Sutter Health Plus.

Dr. Awsare’s experience spans over twenty years including outpatient and inpatient medical practice as a Board certified internal medicine physician combined with a broad-range of senior leadership roles in hospitals, medical groups, health care systems, and regional and national health plans. She also has independent consulting experience with health plans and medical groups as well as pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostic health care companies.

A graduate of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Awsare completed her internal medicine internship and residency at California Pacific Medical Center.

Peter Bergamo serves as executive director of strategy, business development and execution for Sutter Health Plus, responsible for leading strategic growth and operational excellence initiatives. Peter joined the health plan in 2018 after a successful two-year tenure at Sutter Health as director of system strategy and business development.

His background includes over a decade of implementing strategy and overseeing operations in the health care and finance industries. Prior to joining Sutter Health, Peter was a project manager for strategy, affiliations and partnerships with UCLA Health, and manager of healthcare services management consulting practice at PwC in Los Angeles. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and political science from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Rob Carnaroli serves as vice president of Sales for Sutter Health Plus. Prior to joining the health plan in November 2014, Rob served as Health Net’s Northern California director of sales and Health Net’s Western Region director of major accounts for Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington. As the primary lead for Health Net of California, he managed and coordinated the CalPERS bid, and also built and expanded the company’s participation in private insurance exchanges.

Since his start at Health Net in 1993, Rob served in a number of positions including business manager, team leader, account executive, project manager and market analyst. His work with a wide-range of employers includes Fortune 500 companies, school districts, municipalities, retirees and union groups. He also has extensive experience with building, negotiation and integrating private health care exchanges.

An attorney with over 20 years of legal and legislative experience, Gretchen Lachance has built her career on providing advice and counsel to health care organizations. As assistant general counsel for Sutter Health, she is responsible for the legal and regulatory affairs of Sutter Health Plus.

Prior to joining Sutter Health, Gretchen served as associate general counsel for a large California health plan, vice president of legal and regulatory affairs for the California Association of Health Plans, and as counsel to multiple health care organizations while working in several area law firms. Before becoming an attorney, she served as a lobbyist, representing medical groups and other various clients. A graduate of the University of California, Davis, Gretchen earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.

With more than 25 years of experience in the health care industry, Monica Majors has built a career in managed care, operations management, sales, marketing, business development and communications. Her areas of expertise include developing brand personality, tone and voice into compelling multimedia, digital, social and mobile strategies. She’s also versed in the development, integration and implementation of internal and external public communications, strategic communications planning and media relations.

Monica’s broad experience includes working for large insurance organizations and start-up ventures in local, regional and national markets. In 2013, Monica joined the health plan and was instrumental in laying much of the foundation to create Sutter Health’s provider-sponsored health plan — including choosing a name and introducing the brand in Northern California. Prior to joining Sutter Health Plus, she served for five years as Sutter Health’s director of Employer Products and Sales, partnering with brokers and employers across Northern California.

For more than 17 years, Michael Poole has served in a number of health plan leadership roles and gained a considerable amount of experience in operations, customer relations and compliance. Over the years, he’s focused his skills on regulatory affairs, policy analysis, plan products, process improvement and change management.

In prior roles, Michael was responsible for ensuring health plan compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements, and overseeing statewide compliance programs. He was also responsible for the complex task of ensuring compliance with the many requirements ushered in after the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.