Todd Sega is the Chief Executive Officer with primary responsibility for strategy, growth, operations and financial health of the organization. Todd and the PQS team are focused on connecting medication use stakeholders to quality information in a consistent and reliable fashion, allowing them to move more quickly from measurement to improvement. The team at PQS deliver the quality insights and guidance necessary to support our customers’ efforts to optimize the quality of medication use for the populations they serve. Todd has a passion for quality improvement and more specifically, helping patients receive the best care from network pharmacies.  Todd believes the first step to quality improvement starts with solid measurement.  He enjoys working and leading organizations through a process of understanding, engaging and eventually managing performance information and deploying a portfolio of improvement strategies and programs.

Todd has followed the profession’s first pay-for-performance programs and has helped payers covering over 44 million lives partner with community pharmacies for quality improvement. Prior to his role, he served as the Senior Manager of Pharmacy Affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) where he helped to advance innovations and collaborations related to quality and Medicare Stars, transitions of care, and comparative effectiveness research.  Furthermore, he also managed the AMCP Foundation Pharmacy and Therapeutics Competition and established a new approach for pharmacy students to gain experience with comparative effectiveness research as it relates to evidence evaluation and formulary decision making.

Todd holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Raabe College of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University where he currently serves on the Pharmacy Advisory Board. As a native of the Northeast, Todd appreciates the North Carolina weather and all the area has to offer with mountains and beaches.  He lives in Raleigh and enjoys cycling, hiking, scuba diving and good coffee.

Emily Endres is the Vice President of Client Services, leading a team of seasoned and highly regarded account managers working to support health plans, PBM’s and Community Retail Pharmacies with quality improvement strategy and initiatives.  Emily has served the pharmacy industry for over 17 years in various roles and facets of Community Retail pharmacy from Pharmacy Technician, to operations manager for a large national chain.

In 2013, Emily accepted a Managed Care professional role working with independent pharmacists and small regional chains through a national PSAO to help navigate the new value-based shift in the healthcare industry. Emily has a genuine passion for improving quality of care from a global perspective down to the individual pharmacy professional who can impact patients directly. Helping clients to create equitable opportunities where pharmacies and payers can collaborate to improve the health and well being of people is her top mission and priority.

Emily is a graduate from THE Ohio State University’s College of Pharmacy with a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She finds the most joy in spending time with her family, especially her two children. She also enjoys traveling, trying new things and going on adventures in her free time. During the fall season, Emily embraces her true inner-Buckeye and enjoys spending Saturdays watching the Buckeyes dominate college football.

John Kellar is Vice President of Information Services at PQS and is responsible for the reporting and analytics services, network infrastructure, and cybersecurity efforts. He has been a member of the PQS team since 2017 and enjoys using data to solve problems within the health care space while modernizing and improving the PQS data warehouse and reporting services.

Prior to his time with PQS, John held roles within Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and Gateway Health Plan in Pittsburgh.  Learning about the commercial healthcare system was a great experience which has helped John transition into the pharmacy sector of healthcare.  He enjoys the challenges that healthcare data provides as well as the ability to improve the quality of life for patients by utilizing this data.

John holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from Slippery Rock University. A lifetime Pittsburgh, PA resident, John enjoys Penguins hockey, golf, concerts, and camping.