Gary Zegiestowsky

About Gary Zegiestowsky

Trusted Executive Leader with a strong track record of success in building effective teams and driving organization success from vision and strategy to execution to build scalable, profitable organizations. Diversified experience in healthcare, technology, consumer services and manufacturing industries with 30+ years of progressive leadership roles. Core competencies in 3 primary areas:STRATEGY & INNOVATION• Led the formation of the RHRC as a “learning lab” for the transformation of health care delivery in rural PA serving 1.3 million residents with recent expansions as a national Technical Assistance Center for the Rural Emergency Hospital and the Norther Border Regional Commission• Co-founded a company with Vanderbilt in 2006, secured private investor funding, assembled a management team, led licensing and commercialization of intellectual property, delivered a commercially viable software product to market and drove rapid revenue growth to establish market-leading company• Formed an industry-wide software testing lab, ICAetc with key vendors representing more than 80% of U.S. electronic health record (EHR) market share.• Led the development of a Population Health Service Line for BRG, a professional international consulting firm OPERATIONS LEADERSHIP• Led a team of 550 employees at Progeny to drive turnaround to regain $30+ million for a $500 million division by defining and implementing performance metrics for all operational areas, including 400+ controls across 7 mission-critical areas, improving client satisfaction from 30% to 90% with a base of 6,500 clients.• Progressively built ICA company operations from startup to a base of more than 40 US clients, serving over 1,100 provider organizations and 1+ million health plan members • Managed the RHRC with 18 hospitals and 6 payer participants to serve 1.3 million residents across the state of PAFINANCIAL PERFORMANCE• Managed full profit and loss (P&L) for a start-up company for 10+ years and drove revenue growth through client expansion and key channel partners building on a leading-edge market position • Increased profitability more than 10% by optimizing operations for a $500 million business, streamlining the production and delivery of services to 40 million customers a year.• Managed all financial services including forecasting, budgets, controls and management reporting for a non-profit with funding from grants, philanthropies and consulting for the RHRC• Generated $30 million of new business for General Electric Plastics Division with Ford, General Motors and Nissan

Experience

1. Independent Managing Director

   BRG

   Jun 2020 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

Education

• West Virginia University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering

  1982 — 1986

• The Wharton School

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance with Concentration in Strategic Planning

  1990 — 1992

Skills

• Strategy
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Clinical Research
• Hospitals
• Management Consulting
• Healthcare
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Start-Ups
• Leadership
• Informatics
• Process Improvement
• Hipaa
• Strategic Planning
• Emr
• Ehr
• Hl7
• Business Intelligence
• Healthcare Management
• Healthcare Industry
• Physicians
• Practice Management
• Revenue Cycle Management
• Managed Care
• Healthcare Information Technology (Hit)
• Business Process Improvement