Abhijit Sarkar is the Vice President and Head of Healthcare Northeast and EMEA at Infosys, a global company specializing in digital services and consulting. Sarkar is a business development executive with nearly 15 years of success working with Fortune 500 companies and establishing, growing, and managing relationships.

Sarkar has consistently been selected to lead account growth, applying scalable structures and sales strategies to achieve significant results. He excels at securing new business and increasing client retention through a collaborative, cross-functional sales approach. Sarkar holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from BIT Sindri.

Andrew is a Sr. Partner at DeciBio Consulting, with over 15 years experience in life science research and consulting. At DeciBio, Andrew serves as the head of the pharma practice, and works with stakeholders throughout the precision medicine ecosystem, including pharma, diagnostics companies, research tools manufacturers, and clinical and research services providers to optimize the development and delivery of precision medicines. Andrew supports pharma with all aspects of precision medicine strategy, including global landscape assessments, market sizing and forecasting, biomarker and diagnostic technology and commercial assessments, patient treatment and diagnostic journey mapping, and strategic partnering and M&A. Andrew regularly publishes, presents, and lectures on key topics in precision medicine, with particular expertise in oncology biomarkers and diagnostic technologies.

At DeciBio Andrew serves as the Partner lead of DeciBio's marketing team and syndicated reports business, overseeing the expansion and diversification of DeciBio's market-leading reports portfolio. Prior to DeciBio, Andrew received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Allison Dupuy is a Partner and Member of the Board at Simon-Kucher. She has been at the firm for more than 16 years and serves as Co-Managing Director of all operations in the USA and Head of Simon-Kucher's Healthcare & Life Sciences practice in the Americas. She is a trusted advisor to leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies across a wide range of therapeutic areas with a specialization in oncology and rare diseases and has extensive experience in the launch and commercialization of cell and gene therapies.

As one of the top executives in global healthcare consulting, Dr. Dupuy supports her clients in strategic pharmaceutical marketing, value-to-customer, product lifecycle strategies, and licensing and valuation. She is also regarded as a global leader in innovative pricing and market access strategies, market forecasting, and value communication.

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries. The firm’s globally recognized Healthcare & Life Sciences practice has led the way in the industry for nearly 40 years, helping pharmaceutical, medical technology, and consumer healthcare companies identify, enhance, and realize the true value of their innovations.

Throughout the tenure of Dr. Dupuy’s role as a member of Simon-Kucher’s Healthcare & Life Sciences leadership team, the practice has earned a reputation for its hands-on approach and expertise. From analyzing data to developing the right roadmap to tackle clients’ issues, Dr. Dupuy and her team are passionate about unlocking growth opportunities and helping commercialize innovations that improve patient health and wellbeing.

Dr. Dupuy received her Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University as an Anne M. Briscoe Fellow and a B.A. in Physics with honors from Wellesley College, where she was a Goldwater Scholar and a Schiff Fellow.

Brad has over twenty-five years of experience working with provider organizations, payers, private equity, and digital health companies. He specializes in developing and delivering high-value consulting engagements that focus on improving the quality of care, enhancing patient and provider experiences, and driving operational efficiencies and financial performance.

As BDO’s Healthcare Industry co-leader, Brad collaborates with practice leadership throughout the BDO Center for Healthcare Excellence & Innovation to support clients in a highly integrated manner. He provides executive sponsorship for IT strategy, digital transformation, and performance improvement engagements. Additionally, Brad sponsors the BDO Private Equity Healthcare Forum and co-leads the EHR to Azure program.

Brad joined BDO in December 2021 through an expansion. Prior to BDO, he served as President of Culbert Healthcare Solutions, where he led the business development team, growth strategy, and service line development.

Cassie Pike is the EVP of Strategic Client Partnerships at Cielo, where she is responsible for the growth and advocacy of clients worldwide. With over twenty years of experience in the talent acquisition industry and eight years at Cielo, Cassie collaborates with C-level executives on strategic workforce planning and business transformation initiatives. She is known for developing innovative solutions that effectively leverage human capital and technology to drive value creation.

Cassie has worked with a diverse range of clients, including large hospital systems and global life sciences organizations. Her success stems from her authenticity, collaborative spirit, and ability to plan for the future while delivering outcomes today.

Cassie leads Cielo’s Healthcare Advisory Board and is an active member of The Institute of Healthcare Executives & Suppliers, the Health Management Academy, and The Equity Collaborative. In her free time, she enjoys mentoring emerging leaders and supporting her local community.

Christiana is an experienced technology leader with a demonstrated background working in and supporting the healthcare industry. Over her career she's led EMR implementations, clinical analytics capture & adoption, and launched population health solutions for care management and nurse triage within large hospital systems. The work that Christiana does within Avanade is facilitated by this technical experience and her strong belief that healthcare should feel like care.

Christiana's passion for personalized patient experience is informed largely by her own experience as a person who has Rheumatoid Arthritis and as a Mom, a Wife, and a Daughter. The role care and personalization can play to improve outcomes is accelerated, scaled and made possible through technology.

Christiana speaks and advises healthcare leaders at industry conferences including HIMSS, Healthcare IT Institute and NGPX discussing the topics of patient experience, health equity and access, home health and more. She has been quoted in Healthcare IT Today, HIMSS TV and is the author of five blogs.

Costa has more than 20 years of leadership and healthcare consulting experience, with a focus on process improvement, project implementation and strategic planning for academic health centers, multifacility healthcare systems and community hospitals.

I’m very proud of the impact we have been able to make by truly focusing on the mission of the organizations we work with. I am passionate about driving change in healthcare and helping organizations thrive in a continually changing environment.”

Costa has been with Huron since it was founded in May 2002. He has taken on various leadership roles over that time, including healthcare leadership team member, client services executive, co-leader of Huron’s academic health center market segment, revenue cycle leadership team member and regional leader. Costa has led various multidisciplinary projects across the country to help healthcare organizations improve operational efficiency, enhance quality, drive tangible financial and nonfinancial benefits, and increase stakeholder engagement.

During his time at Huron, he has:
Assessed over 50 hospitals and healthcare systems to determine areas of financial, operational and technology improvement.
Led over 25 multidisciplinary performance improvement engagements for hospitals, health systems, academic health centers and physician groups.
Managed numerous revenue cycle redesign initiatives involving all aspects of revenue cycle operations (patient access, health information management and patient financial services) to implement and maintain net revenue enhancement programs, cash acceleration programs, cost reduction initiatives and technology systems implementation.
Costa is a member of several professional associations, including the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Prior to joining Huron, Costa served as a consultant at Arthur Andersen.
Costa holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from DePaul University and is a certified public accountant in Illinois.

Christopher Collins is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ECG, where he previously led the Academic Healthcare Division. With over 25 years of experience in the healthcare services sector, Collins supports the corporate operations and consulting teams at ECG to carry out the firm’s mission to achieve the full potential of its people and each client it serves.

Collins’ central focus is to ensure ECG continues to recruit, develop, and retain top talent to deliver high quality work in partnership with clients, ultimately making a positive impact in the communities they serve. Previously, Collins was a Principal of the Center for Health Innovation at Noblis. Earlier in his career he worked with PwC as a Healthcare Manager. Collins graduated from The George Washington University with an MHSA in healthcare administration.

David Dominguez is the global head of Life Sciences for Grant Thornton International Ltd. In that role, he concentrates on fostering a unified global community within the Life Sciences industry, aiming to drive growth, enhance capabilities and ensure quality throughout the Grant Thornton International network.

Dominguez brings to Grant Thornton more than 25 years of leadership experience, gained both in the private sector and as a business consultant. His acumen spans multiple industries, with a strong focus on the domestic and international healthcare and life sciences sectors. He has helped clients navigate transformational initiatives and achieve business value.

Previously, Dominguez served as a managing director of Technology Modernization Services within Grant Thornton’s Advisory Services practice. In that role, he provided service to domestic and international companies in areas such as business continuity and disaster recovery, technology strategy and optimization, performance improvement, IT integration, program management, intelligent automation, and operational and technology transformation.

Dominguez received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics from New Mexico State University. He obtained his Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in 2004 and became a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner in 2021.

Deirdre Baggot PhD is a Denver based senior partner at Oliver Wyman where she leads healthcare deal work for the firm. Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh and McLennan is a management consultancy that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their business, improve operations and accelerate performance. Baggot not only plays an important role leading healthcare mergers and acquisitions for the firm, she also enjoys advising her payer and provider clients on corporate strategy. Previously, Dr. Baggot spent ten years in academic healthcare, first at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and later at the University of Michigan.

She holds a PhD from University of Colorado, an MBA and Gregory La Vert Scholar from Loyola Graduate School of Business and a BSN, Summa Cum Laude from Southern Ilinois University. She also holds a certificate in Healthcare Executive Leadership from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Deirdre and her husband Ted live in Denver Colorado with their two children, Harry and Emily.

Debbi Belanger is a partner at ClearView Healthcare Partners. She first joined the company in 2009 as managing director. Founded in Boston in 2007, ClearView Healthcare Partners is a global strategy consulting firm serving the life science sector. The firm combines international industry knowledge and scientific expertise across a range of therapeutic areas with an extensive network of external stakeholders to deliver practical and actionable recommendations to its clients. The firm’s projects include cross-functional support at the corporate, franchise, and product levels for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostics companies worldwide.

As part of the leadership team at ClearView, Belanger has worked with a range of pharma and biotech clients. While she has extensive experience across all major therapeutic areas and project types, she is an expert in orphan diseases, oncology, workshop facilitation, and pricing and market access. She led early commercial planning for orphan diseases at Agios Pharmaceuticals. She also has prior consulting experience from IMS Health, focused on pricing and market access. Debbi received her bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from Harvard University.

Jacque Myers is the Global Healthcare Capability Lead at Slalom, a next-generation professional services company creating value at the intersection of business, technology, and humanity. Slalom’s north star is a world in which each person has the opportunity to love their life and work. In her role, Myers aims to advance that vision by creating solutions for some of healthcare’s toughest challenges. She works with some of the largest healthcare companies in the nation, with a focus on using technology to improve health equity, experience, and outcomes.

Myers brings almost 20 years of experience in healthcare transformation. Before joining Slalom, she led Connected Health Solutions at Booz Allen Hamilton. Myers has an MPA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a BA in journalism from Texas State University.

John Derse is a Senior Partner at Mercer, where he leads the firm’s Healthcare Provider Industry practice. Based in Charlotte, NC, Derse has been with Mercer for over 30 years, specializing in people strategy, including strategy alignment, change management, workforce analytics, and rewards. He provides comprehensive strategic advice on the design, implementation, and operation of human capital and HR functions.

Derse has led successful projects for several prominent academic health systems across the US. At a respected central US health system, he directed initiatives in human capital strategy, total rewards, nurse retention, and leadership development, guiding the organization through post-merger integration and strategic planning.

At another large health system, Derse oversaw the implementation of a new technology platform across HR, finance, and supply chain, managing change and developing new role architectures. He also led predictive workforce analytics at a southeastern US health system, linking nurse turnover to patient outcomes and focusing on the needs of a growing Ambulatory Division.

Derse is also recognized for leading the team that developed Mercer’s US Healthcare Labor Analysis, completed in 2021. This research focused on the serious shortage of available healthcare talent and how organizations can respond. Derse holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Lawrence University.

Manish Mehta is the Industry Head of Health and Life Sciences at Atos (Eviden), where he leads a business unit responsible for over $400 million in revenue. With a focus on North America’s diverse healthcare and life sciences ecosystem, Manish and his team drive digital transformation across Payers, Providers, Pharma, MedDevices, and Health tech sectors. His expertise in leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI, data analytics, and cloud computing has been instrumental in advancing patient engagement, claims optimization, and overall healthcare delivery. Under his leadership, Atos delivers innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency, improve patient outcomes, and create tangible value for clients in the healthcare and life sciences industries.

Starting as a technology enthusiast and recognized as a Microsoft Global MVP, Manish quickly ascended through leadership roles, bringing a wealth of health care expertise to the table. His experience spans consulting, service delivery, sales, and digital transformation, with a deep understanding of healthcare technologies and practices. He has managed large-scale modernization projects, complex turn arounds, M&A, end to end P&L responsibilities, alliances and client partnerships, making him a versatile leader in the healthcare and life sciences landscape. With a keen focus on operational excellence, client satisfaction, and driving growth, Manish consistently delivers exceptional results, contributing to the evolution of healthcare technologies and practices.

Marcelo Compte is a Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal within Healthcare consulting team. For more than twenty years, he has worked in Strategy and Management Consulting in various countries, executing projects in corporate strategy, commercial processes, productivity improvement, cost reduction, and valuation in various industries, particularly healthcare and consumer goods. He has experience in top-tier organizations such as AB-InBev, Aluar, Athena Saúde, BTG Pactual, Bunge, European Commission, Embraco, GP Investments, Grupo Cosan, Grupo Kora, Grupo Marista, Hospital Albert Einstein, Hospital Mãe de Deus, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, JSL, Opty, Parmalat, Patria Investimentos, PepsiCo, Tigre, Unilever, Unimed, Via Varejo, and Whirlpool.

Before joining A&M, Marcelo had a successful career in other consulting firms, where he was a Managing Partner with a strong track record in terms of financial results and customer satisfaction. Before his experience in consulting, he worked in the banking sector and was an Assistant Professor of Microeconomic Theory (Undergraduate level).

Over the past eight years, Marcelo has focused his career on healthcare service organizations, having executed projects in more than 50 operations in Latin America and worked with the major players in the domestic industry. At A&M, he developed the Healthcare Providers platform for Latin America, creating new methodologies and approaches for our clients, as well as consolidating partnerships with the main associations. Marcelo has supported several clients by developing their business plans, raising funds, and improving their operational performance through revenue, cost, and SG&A optimization.

Marcelo studied Economics at Universidad Católica Argentina and received an MDP from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also participated in other executive education programs. He is fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

Sander Visser is the Managing Partner for Strategy& in the Netherlands and the leader of the Strategy& and PwC Consulting healthcare practices in Europe, based in Amsterdam. Visser specializes in payor-provider collaboration and hospital transformation, leading numerous projects for a wide range of clients. Notably, he co-developed an approach focused on eliminating overuse in healthcare, which improves quality and reduces costs.

Visser joined the firm in May 2011 and has 12 years of experience in strategy consulting. Before joining Strategy&, Visser was a Managing Director at Optisense Technologies, where he was responsible for the development of a medical diagnosis device.

Previously, Visser was a Director at Booz and Company and before that a Managing Director at Optisense. Earlier in his career he worked with The Boston Consulting Group as an Associate. Visser earned an MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and a master's degree in economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Shantanu Baruah is an Executive Vice President leading the Healthcare business at HCLTech. With over 24+ years of experience across multiple disciplines, Shantanu has been a pioneer in the fields of healthcare, digital, and information technology at HCLTech. His leadership has guided delivery, practice building, and development of market-leading solutions to reach new heights. A leader with global exposure, Shantanu has successfully led teams across India, Singapore, France, and the U.S. His technological expertise and innovative leadership qualities have placed him at the forefront of important business acquisitions. Shantanu is a published author and has written the book “App Development Using iOS iCloud” published by Apress. Shantanu is an active in the app development community and has an approved app on Apple App Store. He has been recognized as one of the top 25 Healthcare IT Executives of 2020 and 2022 by The IT Services Report. Shantanu lives in New Jersey. His philanthropic outreach includes education for children in developing nations.

Timothy J. Dragelin is a member of FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance and Restructuring segment and co‐leads the firm’s Healthcare Restructuring practice, where he leads the healthcare interim management initiatives. With over 30 years of experience, he has provided advisory services to companies and various stakeholders throughout the business life cycle in several industries.

Mr. Dragelin’s experience includes in- and out-of-court restructuring, turnaround consultation, interim management, including serving as CEO, CFO, CRO and PMO, creditor advisory, due diligence, sell‐side mandates, valuation, process improvement, forensic investigations, and litigation advisory. He has provided these services in a number of industries, most notably healthcare, real estate, and financial services.

Mr. Dragelin previously served in the Financial Advisory Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and in financial and sales positions at Capital One Financial. He is a published author and frequent speaker on financial and accounting topics at both regional and national conferences. Mr. Dragelin holds a BBA in accounting from The College of William and Mary.

Zara Muradali is the national Life Sciences industry leader at Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. With nearly 30 years of experience in the public accounting industry, she specializes in finance and tax strategy and transformation, federal tax, cost and performance improvement, finance operations, change management, strategic planning, business development, corporate integration, business intelligence, mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration and enterprise resource planning financial systems.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton in 2018, Muradali was a Tax partner at KPMG LLP, where she successfully launched its Accounting Methods and Credits practice.

Muradali is a certified public accountant in Massachusetts and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She also serves on the board of MassMEDIC. In 2023, Muradali was named a Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association luminary for her dedication to the healthcare industry. Additionally, she is an active member of Chief, a private network designed for the most powerful women executives to strengthen their leadership, magnify their influence and pave the way to bring others with them.

Muradali’s leadership also extends beyond the teams she leads and the clients she serves. As an executive sponsor for Grant Thornton Equality GT business resource group, she helps cultivate an inclusive environment for the firm’s professionals who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Muradali received a master’s degree in taxation from the D’Armore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.