Andrew Schwab is the Founder & CEO of Platform Government Strategies, a strategic government health policy, advocacy and messaging firm built to “platform” healthcare organizations inside our national health policy debate. His deep experience includes having spent the past two decades in and around national health policy and politics, first as a staffer in the United States Senate and New Jersey Legislature, and then as a Washington, DC government affairs leader at trade and member associations, nonprofits and public companies.
(mmediately prior to establishing his own firm, Andrew built the first government affairs function at Oak Street Health where he led efforts to preserve the ACO REACH program from termination, build national awareness among local, state and federal elected officials about the high quality care offered, and led the department’s transition after the $10.6 billion acquisition by CVS Health.
Andrew holds dual undergraduate degrees in Policy Studies and History from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Masters of Public Administration from Rutgers University.