Team

The people building it.

Doctors, operators and builders from D.C., Maryland and Virginia, on a ten-year clock. We live here, we get our care here, and we plan to be here a long time.

Founder

Arif Sorathia

Founder and CEO

Arif grew up in his family’s primary care practice. The waiting room, the phones and the bills were dinner-table talk, and so was what it took to keep a neighborhood well.

He went on to build and sell a digital health company. Then he spent six years investing in and incubating companies working on how people get better care, how that care gets delivered more efficiently, and how it gets paid for in new ways.

Mainstay is where those threads meet: the doctor and the health plan, finally on the same side.

“You have to be a telescope and a microscope at the same time.”
Arif, on building Mainstay

Clinical leadership

Doctors lead the care.

Medical Director

Name to come

Our Medical Director leads the Whole Care model: a doctor, nurse and care concierge who know you by name, same-day answers, and visits long enough to get to the real question.

The standard of care is set by our doctors. The rest of the company is built to hold it.

Core team

A small team, each with a clear job.

  • Chief of Staff

    Name to come

    Keeps the whole company pointed at the same few things, and makes sure they get done.

  • Product

    Name to come

    Shapes what members and employers use, from the first visit to the first bill.

  • Care operations

    Name to come

    Runs the clinics and care teams so every visit goes the way it should.

  • Engineering

    Name to come

    Builds the systems behind the care, so our team can spend its time on you.

  • Growth

    Name to come

    Works with employers and brokers to bring Mainstay to their people.

  • Member experience

    Name to come

    Answers every call and message like it came from a neighbor.

Advisors

People who have done this before, keeping us honest.

  • Name to come

    Advisor

  • Name to come

    Advisor

  • Name to come

    Advisor

  • Name to come

    Advisor

How we work

Four things we hold to.

  1. 01

    People in the room, software in the walls.

    You talk to a person who knows you. We keep the machinery out of sight so our team can spend its time on you.

  2. 02

    Earn the next thing.

    Whole Care first, then the plan. We grow by doing what we said we would, then asking for more.

  3. 03

    Say the true thing first.

    When the answer is no, or the news is hard, you hear it first and plainly. The better thing comes after.

  4. 04

    Built on a ten-year clock.

    We make the choices we’d be glad of in ten years, for our members, our doctors and each other.

Join us

We’re hiring.

Doctors, nurses, operators and builders who want to do the best work of their careers, close to home.