Our leadership team
Executive Leadership. Hands-On Partnership.
At HealthStack Partners, you'll work directly with experienced healthcare and technology leaders—not layers of account managers or junior consultants. We stay engaged from strategy through execution, bringing decades of executive leadership, technical expertise, and hands-on delivery to every engagement.
Our leadership team partners closely with your organization to navigate complex digital initiatives, solve challenging technology problems, and deliver measurable outcomes. Whether we're leading a website modernization, guiding a digital transformation, or providing ongoing strategic support, you'll have trusted advisors who remain accountable from the first conversation through successful delivery.
Meet the Team
Tom Brand
Partner / Healthcare Digital Strategist
Tom has been helping hospitals and health systems untangle digital complexity for more than two decades. He’s led hundreds of initiatives that bridge marketing, technology, and strategy...always with one goal in mind: improving the digital healthcare experience and reducing friction in the MarTech stack.
Before co-founding HealthStack Partners, Tom founded and led AVID Design, which later evolved into Merge, where he oversaw digital initiatives for more than 150 health systems nationwide. His experience spans nearly every major platform across the CMS, DXP, CRM, and EHR landscape...helping organizations align technology with strategy to drive measurable results.
A respected voice in healthcare MarTech, Tom is known for his pragmatic, client-first approach and his belief that growth is the byproduct of doing great work, building trusted teams, and leading with humility.
Ahava Leibtag
Partner / Healthcare Content Expert
Ahava Leibtag is a passionate advocate for clear healthcare information. She’s also the person you want to sit next to at a dinner party. Ahava is the founder and CEO of Aha Media Group, an award-winning healthcare content marketing agency. She continuously pushes the field of healthcare content to use plain language and the latest in digital strategies to educate and inform audiences. She co-founded HealthStack Partners in 2025 to address the marketing technology needs of hospitals and health systems nationwide.
Ahava is the author of The Digital Crown and was inducted into the Healthcare Internet Hall of Fame in 2020. Her master’s thesis from Georgetown University was a critical comparison of Dirty Dancing and Save the Last Dance. Ask her about it the next time you meet—she’s the woman with the hot pink hair and glasses listening to Taylor Swift.
Tim Voyles
Partner / Technology Expert
Tim Voyles is a technology strategic partner specializing in healthcare platforms where he brings deep expertise in architecting, integrating, and optimizing enterprise systems that power modern health organizations. His focus spans CMS/DXP, CRM, EHR, and interoperability frameworks — enabling data to move securely and intelligently across the patient journey. He combines technical precision with healthcare fluency, applying standards like HL7/FHIR, HIPAA, and WCAG to ensure every solution is compliant, scalable, and built for long-term reliability.
At HealthStack Partners, he leads platform initiatives that unify marketing, clinical, and operational systems into cohesive, high-performing ecosystems. His experience extends from platform modernization and performance tuning to complex middleware and data integration layers that drive actionable insights across teams. He is passionate about building technology that not only meets enterprise-grade requirements but truly enhances care delivery, engagement, and digital transformation in healthcare.
Rachelle Montano
Advisor / Healthcare Digital Strategist
With nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare digital strategy, Rachelle has been at the forefront of how technology, marketing, and patient experience intersect. She has led strategy and growth for leading organizations, including Loyal, Perficient, StayWell, and Greystone.net — helping hospitals, health systems, and physician practices embrace innovation while staying grounded in human connection.
Before joining HealthStack Partners as an advisor, Rachelle served in executive leadership roles, guiding digital transformation initiatives across healthcare and professional services. Her work focuses on helping organizations create meaningful, measurable digital experiences that connect patients with the care they need and help physicians attract the right patients to support professional fulfillment and business success.
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Her perspective is shaped not only by decades in the industry but by real-life experiences navigating the healthcare system for herself and her family. Those moments inspire her belief that effective digital strategy starts with empathy — and that when healthcare works better for people, everyone wins
