A highly-engaged and committed network of healthcare professionals from the pharma, bio-tech, and medical device industries partnering with experienced community-based partners to change the lives of thousands.
Our Experience
CPI Partners has over a decade of experience managing partnerships between healthcare companies and community organizations. Project experience includes:
- Building awareness and access to services to treat inflammatory bowel disease in rural Georgia
- Increasing the presence of community health workers in communities with inequitable health outcomes in Massachusetts
- Improving access to mental health services for Black and Latino communities in Chicago
- Advancing cancer care access and treatment in Tanzania and Kenya
- Increasing laboratory diagnostic capabilities in Sierra Leone
- Addressing nutritional deficits for highly vulnerable populations in Haiti
- Advising a global CSR unit on their strategy
Our values are at the core of what we do.
We strive to ensure that all collaborations meet three key criteria:
Projects stem from the expressed needs of the communities and the local partners.
Shared values, goals, and objectives exist between healthcare companies and partnering community-based organizations.
Projects measurably improve health equity and health outcomes in the target communities.
Who We Are
Cinaiya Stubbs
President and CEO
Cinaiya has over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Throughout her career, she has partnered with industry to advance health, education, and economic equity. She began her career designing and implementing out-of-school programs at a Chicago Public School in the city’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, and then became Executive Director of Chicago Youth Programs. In her current role as President and CEO of Children’s Place Association, CPI Partners’ parent organization, she leads all domestic and international efforts to advance equity for communities. Cinaiya holds a B.A. in education and social policy from Northwestern University.
Cinaiya has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit sector leadership.
John Sweeney
Executive Director
John has over 30 years of experience working and partnering with community-based organizations and the healthcare industry. John has in-depth experience facilitating partnerships between healthcare companies and community-based organizations in rural and urban settings in the U.S., Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He has worked in leadership roles with Baxter Healthcare, Chemonics International, Children’s Place Association, and AID Village Clinics. In 2014, John co-founded CPI Partners. John holds an MBA from Northwestern University and speaks French fluently.
John has over 30 years of experience working with community-based organizations and the healthcare industry.
Micol Werner
Director
Micol has over 15 years of management experience in the healthcare industry and nonprofit sector. She joined CPI Partners in 2017, and has directly managed all day-to-day partnership activities. Prior to joining, she worked for six years with Abbott and subsequently AbbVie in sales & marketing and as a consultant for McKinsey. Micol also worked for TechnoServe, a nonprofit providing business solutions to poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Micol holds a Masters in Biochemical Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University. In addition to English, she speaks French, Portuguese, and Spanish fluently.
Micol has over 15 years of management experience in the healthcare industry and nonprofit sector.
Maurice Fears, Sr.
Chief Operating Officer
Maurice has over 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience and has dedicated his life to inclusion, equity, and leadership development. He started his career with the YMCA and served as the Executive Director of Teen & Young Adult Advancement, as well as other leadership positions. As Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for CPI Partners’ operational support. In his prior role as Director of Child Thrive, an initiative to eliminate inequitable barriers for children and youth health and educational advancement, he led the design and development of project partnerships between healthcare companies and community-based partners.
Maurice has over 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience, including in DEI and leadership development.
Binita Kwankin
Advisory Member
Binita has over 20 years of experience in consulting and in the pharmaceutical industry. She most recently served as the Head of R&D Marketed Products for Takeda. She also has extensive experience serving on nonprofit boards and advising on community-based projects.
Binita has over 20 years of experience in the consulting, pharmaceutical, and nonprofit industries.
“CPI Partners allows healthcare companies and members a chance to make a difference in the lives of others, which is largely the reason we work in healthcare.”
Pere Berkowitz, Vice President, Fresenius Kabi USA
Partners
Dr. Chris Reddick
Head of U.S. Health Equity, Takeda
Cinaiya Stubbs
President and CEO, Children’s Place Association
Dr. Gary Harper
Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Dr. Fredrick Chite Asirwa
Executive Director and CEO, International Cancer Institute, Kenya
Kgomotso Nana Sejoe
Executive Director, Marang Childcare Network Trust, Botswana
Tim Koenig
Vice President, Annexus Health
Dr. Wesler Lambert
Executive Director, Partners in Health Haiti
Dr. James McAuley
Clinical Director, Whiteriver Indian Hospital
Rick Moser
Divisional Vice President, Abbott Laboratories
Tina Eddy
Vice President, Liberty Dialysis
Pere Berkowitz
Vice President, Fresenius Kabi USA
Brad Dunlap
Vice President, CIVCO Medical Solutions
Contact Us
Interested in working with us or learning more? We’d love to hear from you.
Contact CPI Partners’ Director, Micol Werner, by email at mwerner@cpipartners.org
