Our Story
In development since 2014, TALON was the only platform demonstrated to the federal government’s Health Policy Team who had been tasked with developing the Transparency in Coverage Rule. TALON’s platform was then used as the model upon which the new federal mandates are based. As a result, TALON has emerged as the leading compliance solution for the Transparency in Coverage Rule and the No Surprises Act.
On the day the Transparency in Coverage Rule was finalized, most existing healthcare price transparency tools became obsolete. Legacy tools with legacy architectures become noncompliant when real prices and patient out-of-pocket responsibilities must be displayed rapidly and accurately to comply with the Rule. It is therefore necessary to partner with TALON, to provide accurate negotiated rates to the consumer in a fully individualized user experience that supports consumers’ essential information needs at the time when healthcare purchase decisions are being considered and made.
Our Mission
TALON’s mission is to educate, empower, and incentivize the American healthcare consumer to meaningfully reduce costs and create a healthier ecosystem.
We’ve built the ultimate suite of software services designed to fulfill the requirements of the Transparency in Coverage Rule and No Surprises Act. Simply put, TALON protects healthcare stakeholders from overpaying for care, while enabling seamless integration into the payer’s existing architecture, all without disruption or distraction. Our tools establish a market-driven healthcare system, starting with our ability to ensure full compliance with all mandates and extending through our machine learning MyMedicalShopper platform, which empowers consumers to make smart decisions about their own healthcare.
Our Vision
TALON’s vision is to create and supply America’s market-driven healthcare system.
TALON is the healthcare price transparency leader, providing the comprehensive cost-containment tools and strategies that organizations need now. While others may present half- baked quick fixes, our sole focus has, and will continue to be, healthcare price transparency and consumerism in healthcare. As the model upon which the mandates were written, we deeply understand the healthcare price transparency laws that were designed to create a price transparent ecosystem between the payers, providers, employers, and their employees. We know that the second largest line item on a company’s financials cannot be left to chance. TALON delivers intuitive tools to make smart healthcare decisions based on real-time data. We easily integrate into your existing system to protect you from potentially devastating penalties and stabilize and reduce the price of health care services. TALON is the only solution on the market that offers you this level of protection and empowers, informs, and incentivizes action from consumers TODAY.
What You
Need to Know
Mark Galvin
Co-founder, President & CEO
Mark Galvin
Co-founder, President, & CEO
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Mark Galvin has been a thought leader and staunch advocate for price transparency and consumerism in healthcare for more than 17 years. He co-founded TALON in 2014 to create and supply a platform supporting a more competitive, efficient healthcare marketplace. In 2018, Mark was invited to speak with and present TALON to the White House Health Policy Team tasked with developing the Transparency in Coverage Rule, including officials from the Departments of Health & Human Services, Treasury, Labor, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Office of Personnel Management. TALON was subsequently used as the model upon which the new Transparency in Coverage and No Surprises Act federal mandates are based.
A serial entrepreneur, Mark has launched a dozen companies and two technology accelerators. Four of his venture-backed tech firms achieved growth levels ranking each in the 100 fastest-growing private companies in the United States as measured by the Inc. 500. His companies’ innovations have been covered in many major media outlets including Forbes, Money Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Huffington Post.
Matt Robinson
Technical Co-founder
Matt Robinson
Co-founder, VP of Engineering
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Matt Robinson co-founded TALON with Mark Galvin in 2014 to bring price transparency and consumerism to American healthcare. Matt has deep expertise in system architecture, full-stack development, SaaS/PaaS, Responsive Web Development (RWD), data-mining automation, and data maintenance processes. Matt is also responsible for customer and partner external integrations. Matt holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire. In 2020, Matt was inducted into the university’s Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.
Sean Kates
VP of Engineering
Matt Robinson
Co-founder, VP of Engineering
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Sean Kates has grown alongside the TALON brand and has developed his experience in solving complex problems with a proven track record of success in delivering high-performing solutions. At TALON, Sean is responsible for overseeing all aspects of engineering, driving innovation, and ensuring the development of TALON’s pioneering suite of cost-containment tools. Sean believes in good design and an incredibly intuitive user experience. When combined with focused expertise in development, healthcare and business processes, the results are innovative, consumer-centric applications that empower users to dramatically improve their journey within America’s healthcare system.
Mr. Kates received his degree in Computer Science from the University of Vermont where he developed extensive expertise with JavaScript, Python, NodeJS, and MongoDB.
Evan Young
Chief Financial Officer
Evan Young
Head of Data Analytics & Finance
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Evan Young joined TALON in 2014 and leads its data analytics and modeling team that ingests, normalizes, compares, parses, tests, confirms, and instantly delivers relevant provider-level data from nearly 4 billion medical claims aggregated from hundreds of sources, giving American healthcare consumers the information, they need – quality, price, convenience – when they need it, to make the right purchasing decisions for them.
Plucked from the world of finance, Evan is one of the industry’s most experienced managers of commercial medical claims data. He graduated with a Commerce degree specializing in finance with distinction from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Jason Jeffords
Chief Technology Officer
Jason Jeffords
Chief Technology Officer
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Jason Jeffords joined TALON in 2017 as its Chief Technology Officer. A tech innovator, inventor, educator and serial entrepreneur, Jason has more than 30 years of experience in designing and launching award-winning products and technology solutions in the fields of networking, telecommunications, cloud computing, big data, data analytics, machine learning, and IoT.
Jason is an adjunct and assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and data analytics at the University of New Hampshire and Southern New Hampshire University. A standards body contributor (ATM Forum and IETF), Jason is author of numerous articles, and a holder of 17 United States patents.
Derek Spearing
Chief Innovation Officer
Evan Young
Head of Data Analytics & Finance
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Naresh Parmar
Senior Vice President, Product
Evan Young
Head of Data Analytics & Finance
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A leader and innovator who brings decades of experience to TALON, Naresh has a proven track record that includes product and portfolio management, global delivery execution, client services, and the development and implementation of robust, data-driven technology solutions across a range of industries. Naresh’s deep experience creating value for end-users and stakeholders will be integral to TALON’s continued growth and success.
Dawn Aston
SVP, Payer Sales
David Spear
EVP of Sales & Sales Strategy
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Dawn Aston brings 20 years of experience in payer healthcare technology and sales to the TALON team. In her role of SVP Payer Sales, she will apply her expertise in workflows and data as well as her unique understanding of payer markets to bridge the knowledge gap and empower stakeholders to take full advantage of all transparency has to offer. Dawn’s background brings exceptional insights which will strengthen and advance our goal of improving health outcomes and affordability for healthcare
consumers.
Joe Torina
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
Evan Young
Head of Data Analytics & Finance
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Joe Torina leads TALON’s efforts to foster and develop the key strategic industry partnerships that are essential to our continued innovation, growth, and evolution, all of which are happening at a rapid pace.
Joe’s robust range of professional experience includes account and project management, marketing, and business development. Prior to joining TALON, Joe spent 3 1/2 years serving as Marketing Director/Business Partner Relations, and, most recently, Director of Business Development for a leading claims administration software provider.
Matt McCormick
Vice President of Growth Strategy
Evan Young
Head of Data Analytics & Finance
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Matthew McCormick is a seasoned healthcare growth strategist with a passion for driving cost-containment through transparent healthcare pricing and free-market principles. As Vice President of Growth Strategy at TALON, Matt spearheads the development and execution of innovative strategies to improve the consumer healthcare journey and realize their agency within the American Healthcare System. Matt is a recognized expert in healthcare consumerism and a vocal force behind transparent healthcare pricing. Prior to joining TALON, Matt was a Lead Financial Analyst at Liberty Mutual, where he received certifications for both the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation as well as his Associate in Reinsurance.
He received his BS in Finance from the University of New Hampshire.
Brad Dumke
Director of Customer Support
Jason Jeffords
Chief Technology Officer
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Brad Dumke has spent 19 years helping two Electronic Health Record companies (as CEO and President/COO) building talented and robust sales, customer service, and software development teams; and delivering clinical, financial and business intelligence suites for the hospital and outpatient markets. In those roles, Brad made health insurance decisions for his employees and their families for over 14 years including transitioning two companies from traditional PPO to CDHP/HDHP/HSA plans.
Over the last 12 years, Brad has worked as a consultant in healthcare consumerism, telehealth, medical device, general hospital IT, post-acute care, and revenue cycle management sectors.”
Brad has been certified by the Validation Institute as a Certified Health Value Professional and Certified Outcomes Report Analyst.
Our Advisory Board
Ofer Nemirovsky
Business Advisory Board Member
Ofer Nemirovsky
Business Advisory Board Member
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Ofer Nemirovsky is semi-retired from HarbourVest where he joined in 1986 and served as a managing director through 2014. He’s currently a Senior Advisor providing input on firm strategy, investments, and other HarbourVest matters. During his 29-year tenure with HarbourVest, Ofer concentrated on direct co-investments and pioneered the direct team’s early focus on software companies.
Robert Wadsworth
Business Advisory Board Member
Robert Wadsworth
Business Advisory Board Member
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Rob Wadsworth is a 30-year veteran of the VC and PE industry as Managing Director and now, Senior Advisor at HarborVest Partners. Rob managed the Firm’s global direct investment activity and served on the Executive Management Committee. He’s responsible for over 300 of HarbourVest’s direct co-investments and served as a director at nearly 50 of those companies, including six publicly traded companies.
Rouzbeh Yassini
Business Advisory Board Member
Rouzbeh Yassini
Business Advisory Board Member
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Michael Daigle
Business Advisory Board Member
Michael Daigle
Business Advisory Board Member
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Mr. Daigle has over 40 years’ experience in the Risk Management, Insurance, Treasury and Private Equity fields. As an equity investor in early stage firms disrupting the medical, microbial disinfectant and pet markets and previously as co-founder and Director of a successful local $500M community bank, his experience includes seed to early revenue stage equity fund raising, guidance in developing and executing operational and financial plans, contract negotiation and general business expertise through firm monetization and liquidity. Mike holds Board, Board Chair, interim CEO and interim COO positions while leaning in with assistance as required.
Jeffery Carlisle
Industry Advisory Board Member
Jeffery Carlisle
Industry Advisory Board Member
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Jeff Carlisle is the CEO of Pneuma Systems Corporation with over 30 years of experience in developing innovative healthcare solutions for consumers. Jeff founded five separate companies dedicated to solving unmet clinical and operational needs in healthcare and is the owner of several US Patents for his inventions and developments in medical devices.
David Jensen
Industry Advisory Board Member
David Jensen
Industry Advisory Board Member
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Mr. Jensen served as the President and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire and was responsible for Anthem Insurance’s NH operations. David was also the Acting CEO of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, President of Healthsource Management, Director of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, and Director of New American Healthcare.
Mark Smith
Industry Advisory Board Member
Mark Smith
Industry Advisory Board Member
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Mark is an insurance broker veteran with over 20 years of experience and former Chief Executive Officer, USI New England, a Goldman Sachs Capital Partner Company. Mark founded miEdge™ with a vision to provide the insurance industry the ultimate unfair advantage. Mark came to the United States in 1999. He’s an (ACII) Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute in London, UK and a (CIC) Certified Insurance Counselor.
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Better, more affordable healthcare is the bottom line.
Here’s how we’ve delivered for our users.
In the past 2 weeks I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my brain. It’s in an area that they rarely find theses clots. Thanks to TALONs MyMedicalShopper tool we were able to save thousands of dollars shopping for the best prices. Thanks for taking some stress off of us at this very scary time!!!
I recently had to get an MRI and it was before I had TALON’s MyMedicalShopper tool. I ended up paying almost $3000 for this procedure because I just went to the location my doctor recommended and turns out I could have got it for less than $800. Seriously wish I had the MyMedicalShopper tool earlier!!
At my annual visit my clinician ordered blood work and said to come back to their office, and they would draw the blood and send it to a lab. I decided to check TALON’s MyMedicalShopper app and found a WIDE variety of prices for the tests ordered.
I did my due diligence and went to a lab that wasn't too far from my home and it cost about 50% less than if I had done it at my doctor’s office!
I researched four lab tests that I needed using TALON’s MyMedicalShopper app. In the past I would have gone to the local hospital but when I calculated the savings by driving to a lab that's an hour away - I am saving hundreds of dollars! 
