Sushrut Naik Appointed as Judge for 2026 Global Recognition Awards

Sushrut Naik, Senior Director of Implementations at Machinify, Inc., has been appointed as a judge for the 2026 Global Recognition Awards, recognized for over a decade of quantifiable achievements in healthcare technology, payment integrity, population health management, product development, and enterprise delivery leadership.

New York, NY, United States, February 24, 2026 — Sushrut Naik, Senior Director of Implementations at Machinify, Inc., has been appointed as a judge for the 2026 Global Recognition Award, joining an internationally respected panel of industry experts tasked with evaluating nominees across disciplines defined by innovation, leadership, and measurable impact. The appointment recognizes Naik as a professional whose breadth of experience, technical understanding, and record of achievement across healthcare technology make him exceptionally well-placed to assess excellence in this field. His more than a decade of experience in product development, enterprise implementation, data strategy, and client success equips him with precisely the calibrated perspective the program demands.

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The Global Recognition Awards evaluate nominees using the Rasch measurement model. This rigorous psychometric framework produces a linear scale that allows meaningful comparisons across entries, even when candidates excel in different areas. Judges are selected for their domain expertise and their capacity to assess creativity, strategic thinking, execution quality, and verifiable results with impartiality and precision. Naik’s professional history, which includes large-scale healthcare platforms, cross-functional team leadership, and multi-million-dollar delivery portfolios, reflects the very qualities the Global Recognition Awards seeks to identify and honor in nominees.

A Career Built on Verifiable Results

At Machinify, where he currently serves as Senior Director of Implementations, Naik has led large-scale deployments of pre-payment, post-payment, fraud, waste, and abuse, and analytics-driven payment integrity solutions, delivering more than $5 million in annual savings per client while maintaining an on-time go-live rate of 95 percent or higher. He has governed end-to-end delivery across a revenue portfolio exceeding $15 million, with client satisfaction and net promoter scores consistently at or above 8.5 out of 10. His cross-functional teams, drawn from engineering, data science, product, and clinical disciplines, have consistently demonstrated that disciplined coordination across diverse functions produces outcomes that neither siloed nor fragmented efforts could achieve.

Before Machinify, Naik served as solution lead at Nuna, where he designed an episode bundling engine that delivered more than $1.9 million in gain-sharing payments across approximately 205,000 episodes covering 48 episodic conditions. He also drove a 20 percent improvement in customer adoption through a redefined identity and access management module, while contributing to a 25 percent improvement in data accuracy through scalable governance frameworks that strengthened the reliability of clinical and operational reporting. At Innovaccer, he managed an annual recurring revenue of approximately $20 million across five large health systems, building strategic partnerships that generated an additional $1 million in revenue within the employer group market, a result that reflected his commercial instinct and his ability to align product direction with business opportunities.

Technical Depth and the Range to Evaluate Innovation

What distinguishes a credible judge in a competitive awards program is not merely seniority but the ability to recognize genuine innovation and to distinguish it from incremental progress. Naik’s career at EY demonstrated this capacity clearly, as he delivered features for home health, palliative care, and hospice referral process automation that generated approximately $1.56 million in annual savings, led a cost diagnostic identifying efficiencies worth $3.6 million, and managed a contact tracing application that handled over 100,000 weekly follow-ups with an 85 percent case contact rate within 24 hours. At Capgemini, he led the delivery of a health information exchange and population health management platform serving more than 800 providers and 3.6 million active lives, with contributions generating over $15 million in annual business value across a multi-year engagement.

His certifications, including AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, and Certification of Competency in Business Analysis, confirm that he has maintained technical currency in an industry in constant change. His academic foundation, comprising a Master of Science in engineering management and industrial engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical engineering from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, provides a rigorous analytical foundation for his practical achievements. Graduate research that earned a nomination for a national best thesis award from the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools reflects a career that began with the same commitment to intellectual precision that now defines his professional contributions.

Final Words

“When we identify a judge for the Global Recognition Awards, we are looking for someone whose professional history is itself a standard of excellence, someone who has witnessed innovation and consistently delivered it,” said Alex Sterling of the Global Recognition Awards. “Sushrut Naik’s appointment reflects exactly that, as his ability to operate with equal fluency across product strategy, delivery governance, data management, and client success gives him a well-rounded view of what genuine achievement looks like in the healthcare technology space. We are confident that his perspective will sharpen the rigour and credibility of our 2026 judging panel.”

The healthcare payment integrity market, in which much of Naik’s career has been anchored, reached $17.06 billion in 2026 and is forecast to reach $31.25 billion by 2031, highlighting the significance of the sector his expertise serves. Naik himself has noted that he is most engaged when working through the collaborative process of understanding the challenges outlined in a product roadmap and formulating creative solutions to them, a quality that directly translates into the evaluative depth a judging role requires.

About Global Recognition Awards

Global Recognition Awards is an international organisation that recognises exceptional companies and individuals who have made significant contributions to their industries.

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