Abner Mason

Abner Mason is a leader in driving health equity. Abner is dedicated to creating a more just, equitable, and effective healthcare system. As the founder and CEO of SameSky Health, he leads a team of diverse professionals who strive every day to improve outcomes and lower costs on behalf of health plans. SameSky Health is a post-Series B venture-backed company with leading investors including 7wire ventures, Tufts Health Plan, Magnetic Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and DaVita Venture Group.

Abner has spent decades working to reduce barriers to care faced by underserved people nationally and internationally, from the federal to the local level. In 2021, Abner was a member of the Biden-Harris Campaign Policy Committee. He is the former CEO and founder of the Workplace Wellness Council of Mexico, the leading workplace wellness company in Mexico. From 2002 through 2009, Abner served as founder and executive director of AIDS Responsibility Project, where he created CONAES and JaBCHA, the first business council on HIV/AIDS in Mexico and Jamaica. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. He served as chairman of the International Committee from 2002 through 2005. Abner has served as Chief Policy Advisor, Chief Secretary, and Undersecretary of Transportation and Construction for Massachusetts Governors Paul Cellucci and Jane Swift from 1997 to 2002.

Abner worked for two years as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company and is a graduate of Harvard College.