Employees at Ceannate Corp. rank Balaji Rajan in the Top 5% of CEOs in Buffalo Grove, IL. Similarly, employees at Performant Healthcare Solutions rank Simeon Kohl in the Top 5% of CEOs in San Francisco. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

Balaji Rajan

CEO of Ceannate Corp.

BIO: Balaji “Raj” Rajan is Chief Executive Officer of Ceannate Corp., a leading business process outsourcing firm focused entirely on the students and institutions in the post-secondary education sector. Raj is responsible for the overall strategy of the Ceannate companies which employ over 900 individuals across four wholly-owned subsidiaries including Financial Management Systems; AuthenticAID, Inc.; i3 Group, LLC; and Iontuition, Inc. Each company addresses student relationship and loan management challenges specific to distinct phases in the education loan lifecycle including: in-school and in-grace servicing, financial literacy, repayment optimization, delinquency prevention, default aversion, and debt resolution. Over the course of his time in the education sector, Raj has developed long-standing relationships with and expertise in programs at the U.S. Department of Education. As a leading innovator in the student borrower assistance arena and based on the perspectives of Ceannate having engaged in millions of student-borrower interactions, in 2011, Raj oversaw the conception, development, and implementation of IonTuition, the first web-based, user-friendly tool to help student loan borrowers manage and plan repayment of their student loans. Raj has also sought to bring the company’s expertise to bear in the development of public policy relating to financial literacy, financial aid practices, and student loan management by authoring three opinion pieces on those topics: “Student Loan System Needs an Overhaul” (The Hill, January 7, 2014), “How Congress Can Fix the Student Debt Crisis” (Roll Call, July 21, 2014), and "Proven Private-Sector Practices Can Bring Down Student Loan Defaults" (The Hill, March 6, 2015). While he maintains an active role across all subsidiary operations, Raj focuses primarily on product development and government affairs as he guides the core business towards profitable sustainability. In addition to serving as CEO, Raj sits on the Ceannate Corp. Board of Directors and has been active in several higher education organizations, including the National Council of Higher Education Resources, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, and the Coalition of Higher Education Assistance Organizations. He is also a member of YPO Chicago.

Simeon Kohl

CEO of Performant Healthcare Solutions

BIO: Simeon Kohl joined Performant in 2012, bring more than 20 years of executive management experience to our growth strategy. In 2016, he became the head of Performant’s Healthcare initiatives and facilitated the re-engineering of our organization to better facilitate Performant’s expansion into the commercial healthcare market where we offer program integrity services to drive value to our commercial clients. Healthcare is an exciting growth avenue for Performant, and our healthcare services and products are differentiated through our integrity-based analytics platform through which we design solutions unique to each of our clients. Mr. Kohl has an extensive background in healthcare cost containment, including providing strategic direction and operational oversight to numerous market disruptive initiatives. His goal is to achieve long-term growth by aligning Performant’s program integrity assets to best serve our public and private sector healthcare clients.