Alignment Healthcare, Inc. announced that Sebastian Burzacchi will join as the new chief operating officer of its management services organization (MSO), and Andreas Wagner will serve as chief people officer, effective immediately. Sebastian Burzacchi, Chief Operating Officer of MSO Reporting to Alignment founder and CEO John Kao, Sebastian Burzacchi will direct initiatives that strengthen a core value of the company ? supporting doctors.

This includes a focus on enhancing provider partnerships and ensuring a seamless experience for doctors with Alignment. With over 18 years of experience in operations and management, Burzacchi most recently served as executive vice president of operations for Veho Tech, where he led a team of 1,000 people, its largest team. His team oversaw the operations of Veho's marketplace, regional operations, supply chain, warehouses and other business divisions.

His accomplishments include steering Veho toward profitability, ensuring operational capacity to sustain annual growth and substantially reducing operating costs. Prior to Veho, Burzacchi held various roles at Oscar Health, helping to transform and scale Oscar?s operations from 70,000 members to over 1.1 million members. These roles included serving as head of claims operations, head of concierge and senior vice president of operations.

Before joining Oscar, he led operations for Vineyard Vines from 2005 to 2016 and helped scale the company into a global retail apparel brand. Burzacchi holds a Master of Business Administration from MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in industrial and systems engineering from Virginia Tech. Andreas Wagner, Chief People Officer In his role as chief people officer, Andreas Wagner will manage all facets of the Alignment employee experience, encompassing talent acquisition, culture, diversity, equity and inclusion, and total rewards.

Reporting to Kao, Wagner will oversee the strategic development of internal talent, with a focus on continuous career growth opportunities for employees. Wagner is a human resources executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience, including responsibility for various key human resources positions and transformative initiatives. Prior to joining Alignment, Wagner served as the chief human resources officer at Aerojet Rocketdyne, a technology-based engineering and manufacturing company.

In this role, he created a human capital strategy that focused on employee experience, a customer-first mindset and value creation that contributed to the company's record revenue growth before it was acquired. Prior to Aerojet Rocketdyne, Wagner served as a human resources leader for various businesses at TE Connectivity and Bombardier Transportation. Throughout his career, Wagner has demonstrated a distinguished track record of shaping talent strategies to enhance client and employee experiences, drive business outcomes and fuel organizational growth.

Wagner holds a master?s degree in sport science from the University of Munich, Germany.