Jude Dieterman is head of TriZetto payer markets, with overall accountability for business and client development as well as P&L results for the emerging payer market, regional payer market, Blues, and national payer accounts. Dieterman joined TriZetto in early 2011, after holding a variety of executive positions over an eight-year period at Cerner Corp., a global healthcare IT company focused on integrating information flow across the patient care continuum. Most recently, he was senior vice president and president of Cerner’s Client Development and Agile Business units, responsible for top-line growth for new business in the for-profit, federal, academic and children, and hospital markets, and for overseeing investment in solution designs and new segments. He also served as president of Cerner Mid America, and vice president of Cerner Technology. Before joining Cerner, Dieterman was president and chief operating officer of eScout, an ASP in the banking business, and was president and COO of VTech Industries, where he founded and implemented VTech’s corporate Internet division in the late 1990s. He also has worked at U.S. Robotics/3Com, and ATT/Lucent. Dieterman graduated from Drury University in Springfield, Mo., receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree, with majors in accounting and business administration and a minor in economics.