Mr. Christopher O’Connor has over 20 years of health care experience working in hospitals and long term care facilities. After spending the beginning of his career working the operations side of a hospital, Mr. O’Connor spent more than 10 years at KPMG (Bearing Point) and Deloitte doing cost-reduction projects, M&A, reorganizations, strategy, system implementations (ERP), and technology optimization engagements. He also spent several years working internationally in Brazil, Holland, and South Africa working on supply chain projects outside of health care in financial services, manufacturing, and transportation. Once back in the United States, Mr. O’Connor spent a year working with the United Nations and the budding Dept. of Homeland Security.

In 2003, Mr. O’Connor joined GNYHA Ventures to build a consulting company (Nexera, Inc.) Nexera initially focused on supply chain management but has since expanded its reach to include process assessment and redesign, technology assessment and initiative implementation, contract evaluation, pharmacy and 340B tracking implementation, laboratory process and cost assessment and implementation, dietary assessment and management and nursing education. In 2006, Mr. O’Connor was named President of Nexera.

Mr. O’Connor also holds the title of Executive Vice President of Ventures. In this role, he is responsible for the management and growth of GNYHA Group Purchasing, including the GNYHA Services/Premier portfolio, GNYHA Services Client Services, Business Intelligence, Clinical Resource Management and Clinical Diagnostic Services.

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Mr. Elliot Allen has more than 30 years of experience as a senior administrator, in areas ranging from materials management, purchasing, and supply chain management to support services. For the past 10 years, he has been the practice leader for two consulting firms, leading outsource teams on projects with an average return on interest (ROI) of five times the investment amount. For the past 23 years, he has overseen the following areas in acute care hospitals and medical center in the greater New York metropolitan area: materials management, pharmacy, radiology morgue, clinical engineering, and dietary.

He is the recipient of the Johnson & Johnson Material Manager of the Year Award (2000) for demonstrated operational innovation, cutting-edge methodologies, and best-in-class materials management services, as well as the Johnson & Johnson Making It Happen Award (1998) for consistency in generating client sales and in recognition of signing the largest client contract in the history of Johnson & Johnson Consulting Services. He holds a M.B.A. in Health Care from Adelphi University and a Post Master’s Certificate from New York University Wagner School of Public Administration.

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Ms. Eileen O’Donnell is responsible for managing supply chain consulting engagements, from system-wide assessments to implementation of specific cost-reduction and clinical process improvement strategies within the health care industry. Prior to joining Nexera, Inc., Ms. O’Donnell spent many years working in various clinical and administrative positions within large academic medical centers, as well as mid-size community hospitals.

Ms. O’Donnell has organized and traveled internationally to bring health care to those in need, including providing direct patient care and assisting in the delivery of medical supplies. Ms. O’Donnell earned her BSN from Fairfield University, a MA from Columbia University, and a MBA from Cornell University. She is also a Certified Materials and Resource Professional and a volunteer with the Medical Reserve Corps.

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Ms. Diane Mongiello is a registered nurse with more than 20 years of broad-based clinical experience. She has more than 10 years management experience as Nurse Manager and Assistant Director of Nursing. Her interest in supply chain improvement began with an assessment and re-engineering project and she led the redesign team in developing a new, improved process. As Process Owner, she led the implementation, saving her organization more than $7 million in two years. She has experience in MMIS upgrades, process re-engineering, product standardization and contract consolidation and optimization. Most recently, Diane was Senior Director of Nursing for the New York office of a national staffing agency. She was responsible for increasing revenues by 300% and developed a supply chain process for immunization clinics citywide.

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