Company leader
Matt Hawkins
Chief Executive Officer
Waystar
Matt Hawkins is chief executive of Waystar, and a member of its board. Waystar's software moves claims, remittances, and patient payments for hospitals and medical groups.
From BYU to McKinsey
He earned a bachelor of science, with university honors, from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He started his career as a consultant at McKinsey. His Harvard entrepreneurship professor, Ed Zschau, urged students to ride a horse that can win a race worth winning. "Health care is a race worth winning," he said.
Leading Waystar
He was president of Sunquest Information Systems and held chief executive and board roles at Greenway Health, Vitera Healthcare Solutions, and SirsiDynix with Vista Equity Partners. When Navicure and ZirMed merged in 2017, he became chief executive of the combined company, which took the name Waystar in 2018. He guided the company through its 2019 sale to EQT and CPP Investments and its 2024 initial public offering on Nasdaq, and Waystar now serves more than one million providers from its base in Lehi, Utah.