Kenneth Barrette
Managing Director at Alvarez and Marsal
- Role
- Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal
- Location
- Providence County, RI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kenneth Barrette
Ken Barrette is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group in New York. He brings more than 30 years of experience in entrepreneurship, including as a founding member of a global consultancy that tucked into A&M, and in management of profit and loss, business operations, technology, and product and innovation.Mr. Barrette assists clients in developing and implementing actionable strategy, driving turnarounds, increasing profitability and revenue for new business ventures and products, and improving velocity and value realization of strategic business investments. He advises boards and senior leaders of large global and national companies and private equity-owned portfolio companies on all aspects of commercial excellence, M&A, value creation, selling, general, and administrative (SG & A) performance improvement, new product and market performance stabilization, healthcare clinical service delivery, and enterprise shared services optimization.Mr. Barrette’s representative engagements include: leading a payer within the Fortune 25 on divestitures and performance turnarounds of diversified businesses in pharmacy, dental, and Medicare performance; conducting a divestiture analysis of multi-site primary, specialty, and urgent care assets for a pharmacy retailer within the Fortune 25, including transaction advisory services and business financial performance improvement; advising a publicly traded specialty diversified health company on acquisition, integration, divestiture of non-core businesses and on a clinical transformation that led to a successful exit to a national payer; leading a publicly traded multi-specialty benefits management firm in its divestiture of a health plan subsidiary, clinical and operational transformation of several operating units, and growth implementation of a major state Medicaid pharmacy carve-out; developing a strategy and growth playbook for a large global insurer’s U.S-based accident and health business stop-loss portfolio and launching its business and technology transformation; and providing transaction advisory pre-/post-exit of middle market private equity-backed portfolio companies ($500 million–$5 billion) in the healthcare sector.Mr. Barrette earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland. He is Chair Emeritus of Social Enterprise Greenhouse and a Founding Partner in a venture fund focusing on innovative social enterprises in health and education.
Experience
Managing Director
May 2018 — Present · New York, NY, US
A&M\'s Healthcare Industry Group is made up of a dedicated team of senior executives with an established track record of personal accountability and of delivering measurable improvement for healthcare organizations. Our professionals are dedicated to implementing ideas through an action-oriented approach designed to move clients forward. The A&M network provides access to resources, funding, and people that allow us to function across sectors and maximize impact in the healthcare industry.
Education
Bishop Hendricken
High School
1986 — 1990
University of Maryland
Bachelor’s Degree, Marketing
1997
Skills
- Business Process Improvement
- Healthcare Industry
- Operational Efficiency
- Program Management
- Commercial Insurance
- Strategy
- Product Development
- Medicaid
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Healthcare Consulting
- Medicare
- Global Market Development Strategies
- Health Insurance
- Managed Care
- Startup Development
- Project Portfolio Management
- Performance Improvement
- Healthcare
- Business Process
- Strategic Planning
- Benefits Administration
- Social Enterprise
- Requirements Analysis
- Innovation Management
- Informatics
- Enterprise Architecture
- Healthcare Marketing
- Business Transformation
- Pharmacy Benefit Management
- Outsourcing
- Business Analysis
- Medicare/Medicaid Reimbursement
- Global Business Operations
- IT Strategy
- Business Intelligence
- Healthcare Information Technology
- Healthcare Management
- Process Improvement
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Consulting
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