Cheryl Matochik

Managing Director

Cheryl is a strategic growth leader and consultant pushing boundaries to fuel innovation in health care payment and incentive design. Cheryl has over 15 years’ experience working across the employee benefits market and federal policy level to improve employer-based health care.

As a Managing Director at Third Horizon Strategies (THS), Cheryl leads the firm’s health care price transparency analytics and consulting practice areas and strategy, including securing new client engagements, organizing staff and resources, ensuring high-quality deliverables, and serving as a subject matter expert and thought leader.

Prior to joining THS, Cheryl served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers where she led the association’s strategic development work to build and implement novel products, services, and programs for the senior leadership teams at brokers and consultants across the U.S. and abroad.

Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media.

A few fun facts about Cheryl…

Cheryl’s favorite food is anything fresh from the sea with pasta! The last book she read was Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon by Barry Hatton. If she could have dinner with three people, they would be Julia Child, Winston Churchill, and Teddy Roosevelt.