Huron announced 26 managing director and principal promotions to further guide clients through transformation and achieve its strategic objectives. Managing Directors: Emily Alversonis a managing director with 16 years of experience leading healthcare performance improvement and care transformation engagements. Emily has played an integral role in the advancement of Huron's physician revenue cycle solutions. Grant Bakeris a managing director with 10 years of healthcare leadership experience in revenue cycle operations and organizational redesign. Grant has led more than 20 performance improvement engagements at large health systems, community hospitals and academic medical centers. Beth Callahan is a managing director with 10 years of experience helping hospitals and health systems navigate complex, large-scale process improvement initiatives to achieve financial and operational excellence and improve patient satisfaction. Raghu Chagarlamudiis a managing director with 22 years of experience advising higher education institutions on the transformation of their enterprise business systems, technology platforms and operations to improve the student experience. Alene Cuellaris a managing director with 10 years of experience optimizing revenue cycle management, charge capture, patient access and reporting in the healthcare industry. Alene specializes in leading teams on large-scale initiatives to bridge the gaps between technology and operations.
Elissa Firstis a managing director with 12 years of healthcare consulting experience providing leadership and operational improvements to academic medical centers, large multi-facility health systems and physician medical groups. Elissa has helped multiple clients implement innovative acute care strategies by delivering training for key clinical and operational employees.
Kritiya Gee is a managing director with 17 years of experience guiding healthcare organizations through strategic and operational transformation. Kritiya has deep expertise in physician enterprises, alignment strategies, ambulatory operations, provider compensation and clinically integrated networks. Buffy Kellyis a managing director with 20 years of healthcare consulting experience. Buffy leads healthcare organizations through workforce management, process and patient flow redesign and supply chain management initiatives to deliver better patient care.
Kenneth “KC” Loder is a managing director in Huron's strategy business, Innosight. KC has 10 years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare, consumer packaged goods and manufacturing industries identify consumer insights, build disruptive business models and achieve large-scale transformation. Ben Matzis a managing director and investment banking expert with more than 13 years of experience executing and advising organizations on mergers and acquisitions, growth equity recapitalization, restructuring and reorganization.
Nicole Oeseris a managing director with 25 years of experience in business applications and process consulting for higher education institutions. Nicole specializes in advising institutions on enterprise resource planning implementations, portfolio management, process optimization, service delivery and strategic planning. Jaime Ontiverosis a managing director with 10 years of experience helping higher education leaders assess and enhance their institutions' financial operations. Jaime specializes in budget redesigns, financial analyses, governance models, resource allocation, management and planning. Anne Piferis a managing director with 20 years of experience helping research universities and academic medical centers minimize and manage risk to achieve and sustain institutional research compliance. Anne specializes in reviewing and optimizing research operations, assessing and complying with federal regulations, and navigating internal and external audits and investigations. Matthew Thompsonis a managing director with 20 years of experience managing performance improvement engagements for healthcare provider clients, including integrated health systems, academic medical centers and community hospitals. Matthew has guided hospitals through large-scale clinical transformations to reduce costs, increase revenue and optimize care. Anna Veatchis a managing director in Huron's strategy business, Innosight. Anna has more than six years of experience assisting senior leaders and management teams in the development of future-oriented strategies that enable companies to innovate to focus on the consumer and outpace the competition. Susan Vickis a managing director with 20 years of experience leading strategic planning, program management, and forecasting and budgeting initiatives. Susan is a strategic leader that develops methodologies and best practices to create client satisfaction programs that ensure success and delivery excellence. Todd Wolkis a managing director with 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry assessing and driving performance improvement initiatives. Todd has developed and refined revenue cycle, clinical operations, and integrated assessment methodologies for clients ranging from small community hospitals to large academic medical centers. Kate Wrightis a managing director with 10 years of experience developing collaborative solutions to improve access and patient experience outcomes within multisystem hospitals and complex academic medical centers. Kate has established best-practice technology and functional workflows in conjunction with the implementation of performance metrics, providing clients with optimized access performance.