Embedded executive capability for growth-stage businesses in complex and regulated sectors.
Embedded executive capability for growth-stage businesses in complex and regulated sectors.
Senior operator embeds alongside the founder/CEO, covering the executive functions a growth business needs but can't yet hire for individually — strategy, commercial, finance, data. Not a permanent CFO or COO, but the senior generalist who can hold these functions, set up the right foundations, and hand them over to the right permanent hire when the business is ready.
The work covers:
- Commercial architecture — pricing, margins, contracts, renewal mechanics, payer mix
- Financial clarity & capital allocation — business modelling, product-level profitability, unit economics, forecasting
- Capital & investor readiness — raise preparation, valuation, investor narrative, data room, board governance
- Strategic discipline — sequenced priorities, operating plans, board narrative
- Market access — systematic go-to-market for regulated, government or enterprise channels
- Structural readiness — team shape, key hires, accountability design, data and analytics capability
Retainer-based, embedded, available through the week. Engagements are designed to taper as the business builds its own capability.
Deep technical expertise built across twenty years as an actuary, health insurance policy consultant, health-tech operator, and government advisor. Domain knowledge from direct operating and advisory roles, not surface-level familiarity.
Health & Insurance Data Integration
Clinical data captured in hospitals is fundamentally different from administrative and claims data held by insurers. Even within clinical environments, structured hospital records differ from unstructured notes and EMR systems. Most organisations optimise within one dataset. Few understand how these systems intersect — or how to translate them into measurable improvements in cost, risk and human outcomes.
I’ve worked with high-security linked datasets (including primary and secondary care linkages) and understand both the regulatory constraints and the real-world implications of how these data assets are structured and governed. My work focuses on connecting clinical, underwriting, claims and operational datasets — using analytics and AI thoughtfully to generate actionable insight rather than noise.
Medical Compliance & Billing Ecosystems
Deep experience across reimbursement models, regulatory frameworks and health funding structures. Understanding how clinical activity, billing rules and compliance obligations interact — and where value is lost through misalignment.
Cross-sector Insurance & Government Insight
Rare breadth across life, general, health and workers’ compensation markets — spanning private insurers, government schemes and hybrid funding environments. Actuarially trained, commercially oriented — able to operate fluently between technical actuarial teams, executives and regulators to align risk, pricing, funding and strategy.
Daniel Cooper — actuary and operator. Twenty years of direct experience across health-tech, insurance and government. Sydney, Australia.
PwC (actuarial and management consulting, Sydney and Hong Kong) → MetLife Asia (Chief of Staff, Asia Regional EVP) → Lorica Health (GM, Commercial & Operations — ~$6m to $15m+ ARR, acquired by Cotiviti) → Tall Cypress.
Fellow, Institute of Actuaries of Australia (FIAA). BCom (Actuarial Studies) + BAppFin, Grad Dip Psychology — Macquarie University.
Contact me on:
t: +61 421 987 975
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