For more than two decades, Vatanka Murphy has guided GHX’s vision, mission and strategic direction, supporting the company’s growth to become the industry’s largest cloud-based supply chain network. As president and chief executive officer (CEO), she is leading the charge in helping the healthcare ecosystem move faster, operate more intelligently and achieve greater outcomes.
Vatanka Murphy joined GHX shortly after its inception in 2000, rising to increasingly prominent leadership roles based on her significant contributions to expanding the company’s business and defining the roadmap for a more efficient and equitable future for healthcare.
Prior to being named CEO in 2022, Vatanka Murphy held the position of GHX division president, Value Based Care, and was instrumental in leading the company’s award-winning response to the global pandemic in 2020. She prioritized listening to customers to better understand changing market dynamics, which resulted in deeper customer partnerships and double-digit growth in 2021.
Vatanka Murphy previously served as senior vice president, GHX Global Product and Corporate Development, where she was responsible for architecting a global product function that led to strong customer retention and double-digit improvement in customer satisfaction scores. In her prior role as president of GHX Europe, her decisive leadership helped the company’s European arm significantly improve customer satisfaction while achieving double-digit growth.
Driven by the belief that innovation requires diversity and understanding biases helps build stronger teams, Vatanka Murphy implemented the GHX Diversity & Inclusivity Advisory Council. She has instituted multiple initiatives across GHX, including training more than 700 employees in allyship and nearly 200 managers in unconscious bias.
Throughout her career, Vatanka Murphy has garnered industry recognition, most recently named an “Influential Woman in STEM and Technology” by Authority Magazine, honored as one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s “2020 Women in Supply Chain,” and earning a Silver Stevie award for “Most Valuable Corporate Response: COVID-19.” Notably, GHX was ranked 18 in the Healthcare Software category of the 2023 “Power 500 Technology Companies” award and 19 on the 2022 “Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies” list by The Healthcare Technology Report.
Vatanka Murphy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Indiana University.
