Chris Lester, PhD
Chief Analytics Officer, Arcadia Solutions
Chris Lester serves as the Chief Analytics Officer for Arcadia, a leading data platform for healthcare, where he leads the advanced analytics strategy across the enterprise. Prior to this role, Chris led Product Strategy & Analytics at CareJourney, the data and insights company that was acquired by Arcadia in June 2024, where he oversaw the development of the novel algorithms powering CareJourney products.
Before bringing his data analytics skills to healthcare, Chris served as a Graduate Fellow at the Department of Energy, where he sifted through petabytes of data for new particle signatures at the Large Hadron Collider. Chris’s efforts contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle central to the Standard Model of particle physics. Chris received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Experimental Particle Physics and BS from Duke University in Physics and German Literature.
