To kickoff Season 2 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠ Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews healthcare M&A expert, Ian Wijaya, on M&A trends, digital health and value creation in 2025.

Ian Wijaya is Co-Head of North America Healthcare at Lazard, and also leads Lazard’s North America Healthcare Services practice, which he cofounded. Ian’s practice focus on M&A, strategic advisory and recapitalization advisory for managed care insurance payers, providers across the continuum of care (e.g., acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, post-acute care, etc.), PBMs, distributors, payor and provider services companies, Healthcare IT, digital health companies and PE firms invested in these areas.

Ian has advised on more than $250 billion of corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, financial restructurings and reorganizations, joint ventures, and defense against shareholder activists. Ian has advised on several of the largest and most transformative M&A transactions in healthcare, including three of the largest in recent history.

Architect Health's The Front Door Newsletter interviews healthcare executives, founders, and experts on healthcare innovation, digital health, and preventative care. The goal is to identify pain points in these spaces and paint visions on how to address them, inspiring decision makers at traditional healthcare orgs.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health’s telehealth vendor management operating system simplifies vendor evaluation, accelerates payer procurement, and ensures measurable ROI for payers. Architect Health is supercharging payer purchasing and eliminating the telehealth bottleneck, relieving point-solution fatigue. Architect's Digital Health Quality Index has vetted and scored thousands of telehealth solutions on efficacy, company reliability, and health equity. Co-founders Sohum Shah and Sidd Hariharan have deep expertise working with health plans and have built care management programs and aligned technology for Humana and BlueCross BlueShield. Architect Health is backed by Drive Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Cherrystone Angel Group, Plug and Play Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and strategic advisors.