Who We Are

We didn't study the problem from the outside. We ran it.

Built in Greater Nashville — one of the nation's leading healthcare ecosystems.

Headquartered in Franklin, TN, PraxisOne is rooted in one of the nation's leading healthcare ecosystems — surrounded by the systems, operators, and clinical expertise that define modern care, and wired into the networks behavioral health leaders trust.

PraxisOne, Inc. · Franklin, TN · Greater Nashville Area

Downtown Nashville skyline featuring the AT&T Building

The name is the mission. Praxis is Greek for the moment insight becomes action; One is the single, unified team we form with our partners. That's who we are — one team, turning insight into action alongside the people we serve.

Founders

The team behind the operating intelligence platform.

Dwight Lacy

Dwight Lacy

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO

Dwight Lacy is a behavioral health executive with more than two decades leading multi-site organizations across national healthcare systems, including Universal Health Services and Acadia Healthcare. He has led organizations from single-facility operations to national, multi-site systems of care, holding enterprise operating responsibility across complex behavioral health businesses. A former Chair-Elect and Trustee of the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH), Dwight completed executive education in healthcare AI strategy and governance at Harvard Medical School. At PraxisOne, he leads enterprise strategy, commercialization, partnerships, and corporate governance.

Sejal Mehta, MD

Sejal Mehta, MD

Co-Founder, President & Chief Medical Strategy Officer

Dr. Sejal Mehta is a triple board-certified psychiatrist — in Adult, Addiction, and Child & Adolescent psychiatry — with more than 25 years of clinical practice and leadership caring for behavioral health's most vulnerable populations. She has founded and led organizations across the continuum of care, with deep expertise in clinical strategy, patient safety, and translating clinical standards into product logic. At PraxisOne, Dr. Mehta owns clinical strategy and medical governance — ensuring the platform's recommendations are clinically sound, explainable, and accountable to human judgment.

Brittany Sperry, LCSW

Brittany Sperry, LCSW

Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer

Brittany Sperry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and approved clinical supervisor with more than 20 years in behavioral health across all levels of care, including leadership roles at Universal Health Services and Acadia Healthcare. Her expertise spans clinical operations, program design, quality and accreditation, and frontline implementation. At PraxisOne, Brittany owns the translation of clinical operations into deployable, adoptable workflows — ensuring what the platform asks of care teams fits how care is actually delivered.

Executive Leadership

Operators steering the business.

Dmitry Kagansky

Dmitry Kagansky

Chief Technology Officer

Dmitry Kagansky is a technology leader with decades of experience across the private and public sectors, including a leadership role at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and service as Chief Technology Officer for the State of Georgia. His expertise spans scalable cloud architecture, security, data governance, integration, and reliability. At PraxisOne, Dmitry owns the platform's architecture, security, and engineering — building for enterprise-grade scale, integration, and trust.

Andrew Sartoris

Andrew Sartoris

Chief Strategy Officer

Andrew Sartoris is a healthcare executive with decades of experience across leading organizations including HCA Healthcare, Regent Surgical Health, and Deloitte, and a Vanderbilt University alumnus. A Nashville native, he brings deep fluency in healthcare operations, strategy, and commercialization. At PraxisOne, Andrew owns enterprise strategy, strategic partnerships, the commercial model, and health-system buyer relationships.

Built by operators — not observers.

PraxisOne is a behavioral-health-first technology company in the Greater Nashville area, built by operators — not observers — who have lived inside the workflows we now make smarter, turning the data you already have into proactive, in-the-moment care.

Our founders and leaders have operated behavioral health at national scale, practiced at the bedside, and built secure technology inside a Fortune 500 company and state government. Collective experience includes Universal Health Services, Acadia Healthcare, HCA Healthcare, Amazon Web Services, the State of Georgia, and Deloitte.

Reflects the collective prior experience of the PraxisOne team.

What we believe.

Patients behind every signal.

Every data point represents a person. We build to protect them.

Trust is earned, then proven.

Security and governance aren't a checkbox — they're a discipline we practice every day.

Precision over noise.

We surface what matters, when it matters, so teams act with confidence instead of alert fatigue.

Scale at your pace.

We meet customers where they are and grow their capability as they're ready.

Governance, Security & Compliance

Built to protect our customers' business as fiercely as our own.

PraxisOne operates in the most trust-sensitive corner of technology. We've engineered our policies, procedures, testing, redundancy, and audit trails to meet the standards healthcare and enterprise partners expect.

Enterprise-reviewed

Our first anchor partner completed a multi-month IT governance and security review and approved the planned PraxisOne integration to proceed.

Compliance on a disciplined roadmap

A SOC 2 readiness program is underway, and a HITRUST readiness assessment is underway. Our platform is designed to support HIPAA-regulated deployments, with appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards.

Enterprise-grade security

Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), with secure data-ingestion monitoring, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, audit trails, and tested redundancy — backed by documented policies and procedures.

Seasoned technology governance

Board-level oversight and leadership spanning more than 30 years in data handling, security, and healthcare. Our technology leadership team has led inside Federal and State entities and within a Fortune 500 company — instilling rich data-governance and security protocols accordingly.

Privacy and AI-governance requirements addressed in deployment planning

  • 42 CFR Part 2
  • HIPAA
  • Texas HB 300
  • TRAIGA (Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act)
  • SOC 2 readiness underway
  • HITRUST readiness assessment underway
  • Built on AWS
  • Encrypted in transit & at rest
  • Role-based access