HURON CONSULTING GROUP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Revenue Cycle
- Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Revenue Cycle Contact Ashley Anderson
Ashley has more than 14 years of consulting experience within the healthcare industry. She has worked in multiple provider settings, including multifacility health systems, academic health centers and pediatric hospitals, where she specializes in leading revenue cycle optimization engagements.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Clinical Enterprise
- Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Clinical Enterprise Contact Emily Alverson
- Member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine
At Huron, Emily is responsible for leading market sales, project strategy and design, project execution, and executive sponsor relations. As an innovative leader, she was also integral to the advancement of Huron's physician revenue cycle solutions and the development of Huron's operating model framework, which is a structured approach to system organizational design. She also serves as one of the Huron leaders serving in an implementation partnership role with Medically Home.
Emily is a former speaker at the Healthcare Financial Management Association ANI annual conference.
Emily is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and participant in the Food Is Medicine Coalition as well as a volunteer for Friends of the Wild Flower Garden.
Emily has 16 years of experience leading healthcare performance improvement and care transformations. She has specific expertise in revenue cycle, electronic health record (EHR) conversion and new care model designs, including hospital-at-home.
Hope Katz - Chief Legal Officer, EVP, Secretary
Job Titles:
- Corporate Secretary
- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Chairman of the Board
Hugh Sawyer was appointed Non-executive Chairman of the board in Jan. 2025. Hugh brings a variety of executive leadership and director experience to his leadership of the Huron Board of Directors.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Business Advisory
- Managing Director, Business Advisory Contact James Alt
- Senior Retail Executive
James is a senior retail executive with more than 20 years of hands-on experience managing growth, performance improvement and restructuring and turnaround strategies for brick-and-mortar stores, e-commerce retailers and restaurants.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal Contact Jason Ahlberg
For more than 12 years, Jason has helped healthcare providers transform their revenue cycles. He has served a range of clients across academic medical centers, multifacility and faith-based health systems, and children's hospitals.
Jason has designed and implemented revenue cycle solutions for clients ranging in size from $500 million to over $2 billion in net revenue. Across his client engagements, he has touched all aspects of revenue cycle transformation, but specializes in patient access, patient accounting, health information management, case management and workforce management. For numerous clients, he has led the evaluation and implementation of a new revenue cycle operating model, including functional and leadership alignment.
For over a decade, Jason has helped healthcare leaders bring to life performance improvement solutions and revenue cycle transformation initiatives. He specializes in implementation, technical and functional design, and re-imagining processes.
John Kelly - CFO, EVP, Treasurer
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Treasurer
John Kelly was appointed chief financial officer and executive vice president of Huron in January 2017 and treasurer since February 2016. John previously held various roles at Huron, including chief accounting officer, controller, assistant controller, and assistant treasurer.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director Contact Mark Aimone
Mark has more than 30 years of experience helping independent schools develop and implement comprehensive fundraising and advancement strategies to strengthen their financial foundations and achieve their educational missions.
For any independent school, philanthropy is more than just a tradition. It is an engine that enhances and enables the school to meet its mission to provide a transformative educational experience for its students."
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
Mark Hussey was appointed chief executive officer of Huron in January 2023 and president in February 2019. Mark previously held the roles of chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Huron.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Revenue Cycle
- Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement, Revenue Cycle Contact Sarika Amin
Sarika has more than a decade of experience leading revenue enhancement, expense reduction and transformation initiatives for large hospital and health systems across the country. She has specific expertise advising organizations on ways to elevate revenue cycle operations, improve performance and evolve their operating models.
Sarika has more than 18 years of experience working with healthcare organizations to transform their revenue cycle operations. She specializes in large scale process redesign and performance improvement; health information system design and optimization; and revenue cycle department standardization and centralization.