Huron Announces 22 Senior-Level Promotions

Global consultancy Huron (NASDAQ: HURN) today announced the promotion of 22 senior-level managing directors, partners and vice presidents.

“These talented and diverse individuals earned the well-deserved recognitions by demonstrating Huron’s values and collaborative working style,” said James H. Roth, chief executive officer and president of Huron. “They have enabled clients to transform their organizations to meet today’s challenges and position them to own their future. I am proud of the work they have done and congratulate each of them on this significant career milestone.”

Sarika Amin is a managing director in the healthcare business. She has more than 11 years of experience in revenue cycle improvements and has served in leadership roles for several complex engagements with large multi-facility organizations. Her expertise centers on large scale process re-design and performance improvement, health information system design and optimization and revenue cycle department standardization and centralization.

Chris Clark is a vice president of sales in the healthcare practice’s technology business. He has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare and healthcare information technology. His areas of focus are on business development and sales management for information technology consulting services and software vendor solutions.

Lisa Cole is the vice president of corporate marketing. She brings more than 20 years of marketing experience working with industry leaders to transform their organizations and develop marketing and sales programs to accelerate revenue growth.

Chris Faris is a vice president of corporate operations supporting the education business. He brings more than 30 years of professional services experience in large, complex program delivery focusing on research and development, software product delivery, systems integration, and outsourcing.

Adam Fennel is a managing director in the education business. He has extensive experience developing strategies and innovative solutions for colleges and universities. His areas of expertise include operating budget assessment and development, technology implementation, resource optimization and strategy development.

Beverly Ginsburg is a managing director in the education business. She has more than 20 years of experience in executive management and consulting, including managing NCI-designated Comprehensive Centers, hospitals, networks and practices. She specializes in helping cancer centers and academic medical centers with strategic planning, operations improvement and compliance management.

Leslie Grimmer is a managing director in the healthcare business. She has more than 30 years of experience developing solutions to drive growth and profitability in challenging and competitive healthcare environments. She specializes in project management of performance improvement.

Brian Hindo is a partner at Innosight, strategy and innovation at Huron. He helps companies develop and execute growth strategies to ensure the success of their business. His areas of expertise include disruptive innovation, scenario analysis, strategy amid uncertainty and jobs to be done.

Philip Infurna is a managing director in the education business. He has assisted universities and academic medical centers with information technology planning, implementation and support for more than 16 years. His focus areas include systems implementation for research administration, compliance, clinical trial management and enterprise reporting.

Olivier Jarricot is a managing director in the enterprise solutions and analytics business. He brings a blend of technical and functional expertise in financial systems transformation from his more than 20 years of experience working in large multinational organizations in North America, Canada and Europe. He specializes in financial planning, corporate financial reporting systems, process reengineering and change management.

Santhosh Madangarli is a managing director in the enterprise solutions and analytics business. He brings more than 20 years of information technology consulting experience, specializing in analysis, architecture, design and development across multiple platforms and industries.

Ryan McPherson is a managing director in the healthcare business. He has more than 14 years of experience leading transformational change in healthcare for national and regional health systems, academic medical centers, pediatric hospitals and physician groups. His expertise centers on health system integration and consolidation, health information system optimization and patient access centralization and redesign.

Craig Nurnberg is a managing director in the healthcare business. He has more than 14 years of experience helping providers optimize their operations and revenue cycle. He has valuable experience with complex, multi-facility engagements focused on solving medical group and hospital challenges.

Julie O’Shaughnessy is a managing director in the healthcare business. She has more than 25 years of hands-on healthcare experience, including improving clinical, operational and financial performance. Her areas of focus include driving physician engagement, alignment and skill-building to improve the patient experience.

Andy Parker is a partner at Innosight, strategy and innovation at Huron. He brings valuable transformation and strategic expertise including assisting clients with developing innovation capabilities and launching new growth businesses.

Kathy Pennock is a managing director in the healthcare business. She brings more than 30 years of experience working with senior hospital and health system executives throughout the country to improve healthcare delivery, operations and patient care resulting in high customer retention and revenue growth.

Alex Seran is a managing director in the enterprise solutions and analytics business. He has more than 20 years of experience with large multinational organizations in Europe and North America. His areas of expertise include corporate financial reporting systems, process engineering and change management.

Isaac Sieling is a managing director in the healthcare business. He has 12 years of experience improving operational efficiency for academic medical centers, multi-facility health systems and community hospitals. He has helped numerous organizations with system-wide revenue cycle strategy, technology optimization, denials management and integration of physician and hospital revenue cycle.

Ted Simpson is a managing director in the education business. He has more than 20 years of experience in the higher education industry helping universities plan for and implement financial, human resource and student information systems to improve operations. His areas of focus include strategic planning, business process optimization and systems implementation.

Judy Stroot is a managing director in the healthcare business. She is a nurse executive with extensive experience in clinical practice and business operations, including leadership development, nursing practice and clinical operations, and workforce management. She is experienced in achieving significant revenue and expense performance improvement outcomes specializing in workload analysis and benchmarking with process improvement opportunity identification and implementation within labor, non-labor, revenue cycle and clinical operations.

Dennis Ulak is a managing director in the business advisory business. He has more than 35 years of operations experience, organizing and leading teams to invest and manage upstream and midstream, oil field services and related infrastructure investments.

Annie Zilius is a managing director in the healthcare business. She has more than 10 years of experience working with multi-facility and faith-based health systems, children’s hospitals and academic medical centers to improve revenue cycle, with a focus in patient access and scheduling solutions.

ABOUT HURON

Huron is a global professional services firm committed to achieving sustainable results in partnership with its clients. The company brings depth of expertise in strategy, technology, operations, advisory services and analytics to drive lasting and measurable results in the healthcare, higher education, life sciences and commercial sectors. Through focus, passion and collaboration, Huron provides guidance to support organizations as they contend with the change transforming their industries and businesses. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.

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