Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of financial and operational consulting services, announced today the acquisition of Aegis Advisers Ltd., a firm that provides services exclusively to healthcare organizations. The nine-member Aegis Advisers team will be joining Wellspring Partners, Huron’s healthcare practice.
“We are very pleased to welcome the Aegis team to Huron,” said Gary E. Holdren, chairman and chief executive officer, Huron Consulting Group. “Aegis is well-known in the healthcare field for its strategic planning skills, facility planning expertise and ability to define community demographics to develop and implement strategies that capture market share. This powerful addition to the Huron team will enrich our healthcare service offering and help us better serve our clients.”
“Huron is recognized for its focused approach in the legal, educational and the healthcare industries,” said Scott Hoffman, Aegis Adviser’s founding partner. “We have been fortunate to work with Huron’s healthcare team on a number of client engagements. It became apparent that the synergy between Huron and Aegis would give our clients greater resources and exposure to industry experts.”
Founded in 1997, Aegis Advisers has been working closely with healthcare organizations throughout the United States. The firm’s services include strategic management, business planning, organizational development, communications and marketing, and facility/master planning. Two of Aegis’s senior managers, Scott Hoffman and Curt Whelan will become managing directors at Huron.
Scott Hoffman’s expertise lies in strategic planning. He leads strategic management, business planning, operations planning, organizational planning and financial management engagements for hospitals, healthcare systems, academic health science centers and teaching hospitals, ambulatory diagnostic and treatment centers, specialty hospitals and physician groups.
Curt Whelan is an expert in the area of facility planning. His core competency is integrating and translating market-based demand analysis, operations benchmarking, financial planning, and technological trends into state-of-the-art facility plans. Curt’s extensive knowledge of emerging health care delivery models, coupled with his functional approach to project management and planning provides the expertise to produce cost-effective solutions.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients effectively address complex challenges that arise in litigation, disputes, investigations, regulatory compliance, procurement, financial distress, and other sources of significant conflict or change. The Company also helps clients deliver superior customer and capital market performance through integrated strategic, operational, and organizational change. Huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, medium-sized businesses, leading academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
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