Gary and Mary West are entrepreneurs and philanthropic pioneers with a commitment to creating an entirely new ecosystem to lower health care costs through technology and innovation. The couple’s passion is rooted in their experience building a world-class company with more than 35,000 employees, which made them acutely aware of the pressing need to do something about the rising and unsustainable cost of health care in the United States.
The Wests have founded numerous companies over the last four decades, including West Corporation, which became one of the largest customer relationship management providers in the world with more $3.5 billion in annual sales and was taken private in 2006. Since then, the couple established the Gary and Mary West Foundation in 2006; the West Wireless Health Institute, a non-profit medical research organization, in 2009; and, the West Health Investment Fund in 2011.
In 2012, Gary and Mary launched the West Health Policy Center, which is the only health policy center in the U.S. solely focused on lowering the cost of health care by identifying common sense changes in reimbursement and regulation that can be acted on immediately.
