Matthew Ellis
Associate General Counsel at Optum
- Role
- Associate General Counsel at Optum
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Associate General Counsel
Apr 2023 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US
Senior commercial attorney at a Fortune 5 healthcare technology company responsible for leading commercial transactions for Optum Insight’s Payer business and Optum Financial’s financial services business. Provide actionable guidance to senior leaders related to deal strategy and risk mitigation. Independently manage a team of contract managers that handle a large volume of sales deals. Lead team meetings, develop goals, and conduct performance reviews. Act as a player-coach while providing legal guidance and approvals on an escalation basis. Draft Business Associate Agreements, Data Privacy Agreements, and Information Security Agreements attendant to sales transactions while leading cross functional teams to advise business leadership during negotiation. Successfully led privacy and information security contract negotiations with blue-chip customers arising from the cyber-attack of Change Healthcare in 2024.Developed new contract templates and negotiation playbooks as part of the integration of Change Healthcare into Optum. Refined the product development lifecycle review process, which resulted in more efficient legal review of new product features and updates to contract templates.
Education
Fordham University School of Law
Doctor of Law (JD)
2012 — 2015
Florida State University
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration (Entrepreneurship)
2008 — 2012
Skills
- Legal Research
- Legal Writing
- Research
- Writing
- Analysis
- Microsoft Office
- Public Speaking
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