Angela Lanning serves as Chief Operating Officer for Premier’s Informatics and Technology Services organization, where she provides executive leadership across product strategy, development, implementation, customer support, training, and data management. With a career at Premier that began in January 1993, Angela has more than three decades of experience advancing healthcare performance, technology, and data-driven improvement. Over the course of her tenure, she has held numerous leadership roles, including Vice President of Client Management, where she focused on ensuring customer value and satisfaction through Premier’s performance improvement solutions. Her experience spans broad management responsibility for operational operations, including the operationalization of complex data management and product development initiatives that support national healthcare collaborations. Angela has led high-impact teams that delivered measurable value using clinical and financial comparative data, achieving strong returns on investment, and she directed performance engineering programs that drove meaningful improvement at individual health systems. She guided the Performance Excellence Assessment and Knowledge (P.E.A.K.) team, contributing to Premier’s receipt of the North Carolina State Award for Quality and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. She also played a key role in operationalizing major CMS quality reporting programs and the first national pay-for-performance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration involving hundreds of hospitals. She is currently the executive sponsor for the HHS Maternal Morbidity Mortality Prevention Initiative. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University.