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Robert B. Stratton

JD · MBA · CHC · CHRC · CCEP

Attorney and executive with experience advising boards and building and leading legal, enterprise risk, and compliance programs.

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Experience inside
the organization.

Robert’s work brings together legal advice, governance, and the practical responsibilities of managing risk and compliance. He has advised physician leaders and boards, developed oversight processes, and worked with management to put programs into operation.

His legal and business education informs an approach centered on informed decisions: understanding the objective, the available options, the legal framework, and the risks the business is prepared to accept.

Robert’s healthcare experience includes physician-owned medical groups, integrated delivery, and value-based care. His governance work includes employee-owned companies, benefit companies, and B Corps, where ownership and purpose affect the decisions leaders make. His private practice has also served construction businesses. He is licensed to practice law in Oregon and Washington.

Selected leadership experience

Northwest Permanente

Legal, compliance, enterprise risk, and security leadership in one of the largest medical groups in the Northwest, fully integrated with Kaiser Permanente’s value-based care model. Kaiser Permanente is the nation’s largest private nonprofit healthcare organization.

Built the enterprise risk management program and board reporting framework
Administrative co-chair of the Enterprise Risk Management and Audit Board Committee
Responsibilities spanning corporate insurance, internal controls, external audit coordination, and shareholder services
Research conflict of interest, privacy, and security governance

Permanente Health Care Ventures

Founding executive, general counsel, and chief compliance officer for a healthcare venture subsidiary.

Corporate structure, governance, and operating foundations
Partnerships, contracting, and new service development
Pricing and product analysis
Innovation and intellectual property commercialization

Private practice and venture development

Business law practice at RBS Law and executive leadership of the Business Design Lab accelerator.

Contracts, corporate transactions, financing, and regulatory advocacy
Risk analysis for a $10 million venture capital fund
Advice to founders on formation, operations, and growth
Healthcare, construction, and other business clients

Technology and operations

Earlier roles at Vulcan, Nunya, and Casey Family Programs inform Robert’s work with technical and operational teams.

Technology operations and large organizational deployments
IT support processes for the Allen Institute for Brain Science
Startup operations and product development
Project leadership across multiple offices

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Selected work and teaching

Ideas developed through practice.

Published on healthcare ERM

Author of “ERM in Healthcare” in the HCCA Governance Manual (2025), with an updated chapter in the HCCA Complete Healthcare Compliance Manual (2026).

Speaking and education

Presentations on enterprise risk, governance, and research risk, including the 2026 HCCA Compliance Institute and Research Compliance Conference.

Business teaching

Adjunct teaching at local universities from 2012 to 2017, followed by teaching at the University of Portland through 2022.

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