John Hwang is a second-year MBA student at The Wharton School in the Health Care Management program. His interests center on value-based care enablement, healthcare payments infrastructure, and care delivery workflow automation, with a focus on technologies that support providers under risk-bearing contracts, modernize claims and payment integrity, and streamline clinical and administrative workflows.
Prior to Wharton, John spent several years across healthcare investing and advisory roles at Lazard, Apax Partners, and Thomas H. Lee Partners, focusing on healthcare technology, tech-enabled services, value-based care-oriented businesses, and biopharma. Most recently, John worked on Optum Health’s Risk Strategy team at UnitedHealth, supporting the launch of a national Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO and evaluating VBC enablement and interoperability across Optum’s provider ecosystem.
John received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard University and minored in History of Art and Architecture. Outside of school, he enjoys tennis, golf, Barry’s, art history, and traveling.
