about us

about us

Built to close the gap between coverage and outcomes.

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Healthcare has a lot to offer today:

Insurance plans, provider networks, pharmacy management, fitness programs, chronic care management. The missing piece has always been someone whose whole job is helping a person use them.

Community Health Workers have been filling that role for years, often without the tools or recognition they deserve. Aperion was built to change that.

Aperion Health launched in 2025 with a simple premise:

Bring the CHW model to commercial employer populations at the scale it has never reached before. Every covered member is matched with a dedicated CHW advisor, a frontline healthcare professional recruited from the communities they serve and supported by an AI-enabled platform.

The model is designed to close the utilization gap that drives cost volatility for employers and the outcomes gap that leaves members without the guidance they need to follow through on care. Aperion works with health plans, self-funded employers, and the brokers who serve them, backed by national insurer partnerships.

Aperion is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a Southeast regional hub in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Meet the team

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Founder & CEO

Glen D. Lloyd, MPA

Glen Lloyd spent more than 6 years leading at the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, where he drove national policy change, built philanthropic partnerships, and saw firsthand what dedicated guidance could do for people navigating a complex system.

He also saw what happened without it: people with coverage, with diagnoses, left to manage their health alone. That experience is what drove him to build Aperion. Glen founded Aperion Health in 2025 to bring Community Health Workers to commercial employer populations at the scale they have never reached before.

Woman holding a smartphone looking through the glass

Glen D. Lloyd, MPA

Founder & CEO

Glen Lloyd spent more than 6 years leading at the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, where he drove national policy change, built philanthropic partnerships, and saw firsthand what dedicated guidance could do for people navigating a complex system.

He also saw what happened without it: people with coverage, with diagnoses, left to manage their health alone. That experience is what drove him to build Aperion. Glen founded Aperion Health in 2025 to bring Community Health Workers to commercial employer populations at the scale they have never reached before.

Woman holding a smartphone looking through the glass

Founder & CEO

Glen D. Lloyd, MPA

Glen Lloyd spent more than 6 years leading at the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, where he drove national policy change, built philanthropic partnerships, and saw firsthand what dedicated guidance could do for people navigating a complex system.

He also saw what happened without it: people with coverage, with diagnoses, left to manage their health alone. That experience is what drove him to build Aperion. Glen founded Aperion Health in 2025 to bring Community Health Workers to commercial employer populations at the scale they have never reached before.

Woman holding a smartphone looking through the glass

Chief Medical Officer

Jon Thomas, MD, MBA, CPE

Jon Thomas spent 24 years as an otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, training at Mayo Medical School and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine before leading one of the Twin Cities’ largest ENT practices.

He served sixteen years on the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, appointed by governors across the political spectrum, and chaired the Federation of State Medical Boards, where he helped develop the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. What drew him to Aperion was straightforward: the system has infrastructure, but not everyone has someone to help them reach it. As Chief Health Officer, Jon brings the clinical and regulatory depth to make the model credible and durable.

Woman holding a smartphone looking through the glass

Jon Thomas, MD, MBA, CPE

Chief Medical Officer

Jon Thomas spent 24 years as an otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, training at Mayo Medical School and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine before leading one of the Twin Cities’ largest ENT practices.

He served sixteen years on the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, appointed by governors across the political spectrum, and chaired the Federation of State Medical Boards, where he helped develop the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. What drew him to Aperion was straightforward: the system has infrastructure, but not everyone has someone to help them reach it. As Chief Health Officer, Jon brings the clinical and regulatory depth to make the model credible and durable.

Woman holding a smartphone looking through the glass

Chief Medical Officer

Jon Thomas, MD, MBA, CPE

Jon Thomas spent 24 years as an otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, training at Mayo Medical School and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine before leading one of the Twin Cities’ largest ENT practices.

He served sixteen years on the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, appointed by governors across the political spectrum, and chaired the Federation of State Medical Boards, where he helped develop the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. What drew him to Aperion was straightforward: the system has infrastructure, but not everyone has someone to help them reach it. As Chief Health Officer, Jon brings the clinical and regulatory depth to make the model credible and durable.

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