John Nackel
CEO
THREE-SIXTY ADVISORY GROUP

John G. Nackel is the Founder, and CEO of Three-Sixty Advisory Group, LLC and Founder and General Partner of Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health. He is a recognized national authority in the health care industry with over 45 years of health care industry experience across payers, providers, physicians and life science companies.

John has held several healthcare leadership positions, including global managing director of Ernst & Young’s (now EY) health care business and managing partner of EY’s venture capital fund. He was CEO of Sogeti North America (the professional services arm of CapGemini), CEO of Ingenix Consulting (now Optum), a United Health Group (NYSE:UNH) company.

John has served and currently serves as a board director for several private and public companies, including 12 years on the Ensign Group, Inc. board (NASDAQ:ENSG), which provides skilled nursing, assisted living, home health and rehabilitative services; 2 years on the Mercury General Co. board (NYSE:MCY), a specialty writer of all risk classifications of automotive insurance; and the Pennant Group, Inc. board (NASDAQ:PNTG), which provides home health, hospice and assisted living services. He currently serves on the Savonix (brain health), Visual Health Solutions (best in class medical animations and illustrations), and Vitalacy (patient safety), all early stage health care companies.

John holds a bachelors degree in mathematics and economics from Tufts University, masters’ degrees in public health and industrial engineering and a PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS), and a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He has written over 50 books, chapters and articles on topics ranging from performance improvement, entrepreneurship, and leadership. John also teaches Health Care Performance Improvement at the University of California - San Diego