Healthcare Chose Me
After completing Lowell with an interest in physics and graduating from UC Berkeley focused on communication, I began my healthcare career as an intern in the Washington DC office of Congressman Pete McCloskey. Later I joined the Department of Health Education and Welfare, where I learned about Medicare and commercial health insurance. With this background, it seemed only natural to attend the University of Michigan's School of Public Health where I graduated in Health Management and Policy. Four decades later, I'm still here.
Who Is Chuck Everett?
My healthcare career began with an internship in Congressman Pete McCloskey’s Washington office. That experience introduced me to challenges in healthcare delivery and financing, health insurance and Medicare, which led me to study health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
More than four decades later, I’ve worked across health plans, insurers, hospitals, physician organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, TPAs and healthcare technology companies.
Today, I apply that experience to helping innovative companies bring promising healthcare products to market.
My PhilosophyA great healthcare innovation is only the starting point. The real challenge is turning its potential into commercial success. Throughout my career, I've focused on making that happen, identifying market opportunities, demonstrating value to prospective customers, connecting with key decision-makers, and building the relationships that drive adoption and growth.
Our Commercialization Team
Healthcare experience opens doors. Commercialization expertise turns those opportunities into growth.
Chuck Everett
Healthcare Commercialization | Market Access & Business Development
Chuck Everett brings more than 40 years of healthcare leadership to helping innovative companies bring promising products and technologies to market. His expertise spans healthcare commercialization, payer-provider relationships, market access, and strategic business development.
Chuck has held leadership and advisory roles involving health plans, hospitals, physician organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, academic medical centers, and healthcare technology companies. His experience includes expanding membership at Express Scripts, developing medical group relationships and integration initiatives at UCSF, and advising emerging healthcare AI companies, including CAREMINDr and Allyzent.
He specializes in identifying commercial opportunities, opening doors to healthcare decision-makers, developing strategic partnerships, and navigating the complex relationships between payers, providers, and technology innovators.
Working with his commercialization partners, Chuck helps companies assess market readiness, establish effective market-entry strategies, and translate innovative healthcare solutions into measurable clinical, operational, and financial results.
Nick Uchyn
Commercialization Strategy & Business Development
Nicholas Uchyn is an accomplished commercialization strategist and business development executive specializing in bringing innovative healthcare, MedTech, AI, and emerging technology solutions to market.
As Founder and Managing Partner of Centauri International, Nick has extensive experience developing commercialization strategies, launching products and services, building strategic partnerships, and accelerating market adoption.
Throughout his career, he has led global sales initiatives, launched multimillion-dollar products and services, and worked with organizations ranging from emerging startups to multinational enterprises. His business experience spans more than 54 countries, providing a broad perspective on international markets and commercialization opportunities.
Working in partnership with Chuck Everett, Nick helps healthcare innovators evaluate market opportunities, refine product positioning, identify prospective customers, and develop effective business development strategies.
His expertise in product launches, strategic partnerships, and distribution channels helps companies move from promising innovations to sustainable commercial growth.
Terry Cater
Pharmacy Strategy | Distribution & Market Access
Terry Cater brings decades of pharmacy industry leadership and extensive expertise in pharmacy sales, distribution, managed care, and market access.
A licensed pharmacist by training, Terry earned his pharmacy degree from the University of the Pacific and an MBA from Saint Mary's College of California.
His career includes serving as Vice President of Managed Care at McKesson Corporation and holding senior pharmacy leadership positions with Safeway and Save Mart. He also founded and served as President of Super Net, the Supermarket Pharmacy Network, and held leadership and advisory positions with pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations.
Terry's experience encompasses retail and supermarket pharmacy, pharmaceutical distribution, pharmacy e-commerce, and emerging healthcare technologies.
As a member of Chuck Everett's commercialization team, Terry provides expertise in pharmacy market strategy, distribution channels, managed care relationships, and identifying practical pathways for introducing innovative healthcare products into pharmacy markets.
Together, Chuck, Nick and Terry combine decades of healthcare industry relationships, commercialization experience, business development leadership, and hands-on market knowledge to help innovative companies bridge the gap between a strong idea and a successful market presence.
Selected Career Accomplishments
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Rural Healthcare Innovation
Helped develop a national model for a scalable rural healthcare delivery and financing system to attract new providers, improve care and reduce cost. Required new relationships among physicians, hospitals, university medical centers, industry, public and private insurers, regulatory agencies, and the public.
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Physician-Led Medical Necessity Review
Developed and implemented a locally administered, statewide medical peer review process to improve quality and reduce costs, requiring cooperation from practicing physicians, local medical societies, and BC/BS, Medicare and Medicaid.
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Health Plan Startups
Directed development of 3 managed care plans, requiring stakeholder engagement, competitive analyses, benefit design, pricing, provider participation, regulatory approvals, and claims administration.
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Pharmacy Benefit Management
Directed regional sales and marketing at a new PBM, growing membership from 60,000 to 1.8 million.
Let's Start a Conversation
If you've developed something the healthcare market should know about, I'd like to hear about it.