Huron Consulting Group Inc. announced 33 managing director and principal promotions to further support its strategic objectives and growth goals. Huron is excited to acknowledge the following leaders and their newly conferred titles: Ashley Anderson is a managing director with more than a decade of experience in the healthcare industry and expertise in designing and implementing performance improvement processes across the revenue cycle. Ashley has led integrated engagements spanning many capabilities driving significantly improved financial results for her clients.

Her clients include pediatric centers, large multifacility health systems and academic medical centers. Don Bieger is a principal with more than 20 years of experience developing technology solutions and strategic road maps to reengineer business processes and transform finance operations and cash flow reporting structures. His clients span numerous industries, including banking, financial services, manufacturing, utilities and healthcare.

He has specific expertise in financial consolidation and planning and forecasting solutions. Mike Champa is a managing director with more than 16 years of experience in planning, designing and executing cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) and technology transformation projects across the higher education and healthcare industries. He has specific expertise leading project teams through cloud ERP and research technology initiatives, driving business process transformation, and aligning systems and data to industry best practices in order to provide meaningful financial and analytical data for executive management.

Vivek Cherian is a managing director with more than 16 years of experience in planning, implementing, and optimizing enterprise solutions for both public and private research universities. Vivek has extensive expertise helping top institutions with optimizing business processes, service delivery design, and change management. Vikki Choate is a principal and international speaker with more than 35 years of healthcare leadership experience helping clients consistently deliver results.

She specializes in guiding healthcare organizations and executives to improve patient safety and elevate cultures of safety, transparency, accountability, and high reliability. Vikki leads Huron's quality, safety and high reliability strategy and services. Neal Cotton is a managing director and healthcare technology expert with more than a decade of experience of implementing, optimizing, and supporting Oracle Cerner and other supporting technologies.

Neal provides technical and operational assistance to healthcare organizations ensuring technology alignment with his clients' strategic initiatives and goals. His Oracle Cerner experience includes oversight of large-scale complete life cycle implementations, management of application support teams, and development of near-to-long term EHR and supporting technology strategic roadmaps. Cathy Dove is a principal with decades of experience working with various stakeholder groups to create change-ready institutions.

Cathy helps colleges and universities with initiatives ranging from transformational technology and athletic programs to organizational efficiency and partnership opportunities. She has led operations in all areas of higher education, including finance and budget, information technology, advancement/alumni relations, communications, community/government affairs, marketing, human resources, and facilities. Alex Faklis is a managing director with more than 10 years of experience helping institutions, from public flagships to small liberal arts colleges, innovate and transform operations, organizational structures, and technology systems to enhance the experiences of students and alumni.

Working with institutional presidents, provosts, academic deans and department chairs, Alex takes a constituent-centric approach and collaborates with leaders to strategically assess and improve student, alumni, and donor initiatives.