Vince Ventimiglia is a Senior Advisor and a member of FuturePanel at Leavitt Partners and specializes in health care legislation. He brings with him more than two decades of congressional and health policy experience.

Mr. Ventimiglia is currently a Senior Vice President at B & D Consulting where he focuses on health policy issues from legislative, regulatory, reimbursement and budgetary perspectives. Recently, he left the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he was Assistant Secretary for Legislation for more than three years. In this capacity he served as the Department’s liaison to Congress and as the Secretary’s chief advisor on all legislative matters affecting the Department.

Prior to his time at HHS, Mr. Ventimiglia served on the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee as Health Policy Director of the Chairman´s Health Policy Team. In 2005, he moved with Chairman Gregg to serve as Policy Director for the Senate Budget Committee, where he also worked on entitlement programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and welfare.

From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Ventimiglia served as Director of the Government Affairs Office for Medtronic, Inc., the world´s leading medical technology company. Before joining Medtronic, Mr. Ventimiglia held a variety of health policy positions on Capitol Hill, serving as Counsel to the United States Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee for Senator Dan Coats of Indiana. He previously worked with the committee on health issues from 1985 to 1988.

Mr. Ventimiglia graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and holds a juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center.