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Financial Services
Healthcare
Life Sciences & Pharma
Technology
Big 4 Accounting
Top Consulting Firms
Experience
DF Strategic Consulting
Management Consulting
Consultant
1/2017 - Present
A Strategy, Finance, Business Development, and Marketing Communications executive with 20+ years of analytics, communication, relationship development, and leadership experience. Ability to distill and communicate insights from quantitative and qualitative information to accelerate growth, performance improvement, and innovation. Experience collaborating across matrixed organizations on strategy and implementation.
Advocate Health Care
Corporate Strategy & Development
Vice President, Business Development
9/2015 - 9/2016
Led strategic planning, business development, and physician relations reporting to hospital President with dotted-line to System Senior Vice President of Strategy. Created growth and performance improvement plans with C-suite, Marketing, Medical Group, Managed Care, Nursing, Community, and Government Relations leaders.
Sinai Health System
Corporate Strategy & Development
Vice President, Planning, Marketing & Communications
6/2010 - 2/2014
Leadership for strategic planning, marketing, and communications with six direct reports. Member of Executive Team reporting to CEO. Collaborated with C-suite, Vice Presidents, and Directors to refine and implement strategic initiatives, including medical group, managed care, clinical service lines, fundraising, facility development, information systems, government relations, and community health programs.
Swedish Covenant Health
Corporate Strategy & Development
Senior Director, Business Development
2/1995 - 6/2010
Led, analyzed, and executed strategy, medical staff, and service line business development initiatives. Formulated strategic, operating, technology, financial, and marketing plans with executive team, board members, physicians, and staff, to increase revenues, market share, and customer preference.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Management Consulting
Associate Consultant
10/1992 - 10/1994
Completed strategic planning, clinical service line, managed care, revenue enhancement, cost reduction, and physician development projects with hospital, association, and government clients.
DF Strategic Consulting
Management Consulting
Consultant
3/1991 - 9/1992
Delivered consulting projects for several healthcare organizations, including development of an integration strategy for a major clinical program at Northwestern Healthcare Network, market analyses for strategic and medical staff development plans at Ingalls and Highland Park Hospitals, and primary market research for a senior care organization.
Wells Fargo Bank
Finance
Credit Analyst, Corporate Banking
9/1986 - 9/1989
Analyzed new and existing credit transactions up to $600 million within the Chicago corporate banking portfolio. Generated projected financial statements and cash flow sensitivity analyses of merger and leveraged buyout transactions.
GD Searle & Company
Finance
Lab Research and Finance Intern
6/1982 - 8/1986
Paid summer internships during college -- 2 summers conducting laboratory pharmaceutical research and 3 summers in the Finance Dept. supporting the Vice President of Finance with monthly data analysis and reporting.