SullivanCotter’s Board of Directors
Theodore Chien
CEO
With more than 25 years of health care management and consulting experience, Ted leverages a deep, 360-degree understanding of the industry and its stakeholders – providers, payers, employers and the government – to help him advise health care leaders in the board room and at the C-Suite level.
Meg Garrison
Director Emeritus
Meg is a Managing Director at SullivanCotter. With over 20 years of consulting experience, Meg specializes in executive compensation and works with a variety of organizations, including large multi-hospital, multi-state health systems, academic medical centers and more, to design reward programs to support the achievement of organizational goals.
Kathy Hastings
Shareholder Director
Kathy is a Managing Director and the Executive Workforce Practice Leader at SullivanCotter. She has over 25 years of compensation consulting experience advising large and complex not-for-profit health care organizations to develop comprehensive executive compensation and benefits strategies to recruit, retain and engage top leadership talent.
Sally A. LaFond, JD
Managing Director
Sally LaFond is a Managing Director in the Executive Workforce Practice of SullivanCotter. With over 20 years of providing consulting and advisory services, Sally advises complex academic and integrated health systems, community hospitals, and other tax-exempt organizations on all aspects of executive compensation.
Mark Ryberg
President
Mark Ryberg is a Provider/Physician Workforce Practice Leader at SullivanCotter. With nearly 15 years of experience in health care consulting, he specializes in developing strategic management and total compensation solutions for hospitals and health systems nationwide.
Garrett Sheridan
Shareholder Director
Garrett is founder of Lotis Blue Consulting and brings more than 25 years of experience advising global organizations on growth, transformation, and leadership strategy.
Brian Dunn
Chairman
Brian Dunn is the firm’s Chairman of the Board and an experienced consultant who recently retired as the Chairman of McLagan and the CEO of Performance, Reward and Talent at Aon Consulting. He currently serves on the Cornell University faculty where he teaches Executive Compensation and Managing Compensation.
Robert Oberrender
Treasurer and Independent Director
Robert Oberrender is a decorated financial executive who recently retired as the Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer of UnitedHealth Group in October 2018. He has built and managed successful teams as an executive in a variety of organizational settings for early-stage organizations and large multinational blue-chip companies.
Traci S. Granston
Independent Director
Traci is an award-winning surgeon and advisory board member currently serving as Medical Director for Cohere Health, a high-growth healthtech startup. She has more than 20 years of experience delivering compassionate care while simultaneously overseeing a growing private practice. She brings a combination of business, governance, and clinical expertise to board rooms and executive teams looking to make an impact in the healthcare industry.
Piyush Chaudhari
Independent Director
Piyush is a seasoned C-Suite executive with a strong background in delivering tech-driven transformation across multiple industries. He is a civic-minded leader with strong board experience and is committed to improving communities and public service institutions. He is the current CEO of Salsify, a leading product experience management company.
Herbert J. Vallier
Independent Director
Herbert “Herb” J. Vallier is an accomplished executive with over three decades of leadership experience in human resources and organizational strategy in several industries. He recently retired as an Executive Vice President and CHRO of Ascension and is the founder of Caritas Seed Capital Funding.
Tina Brown-Stevenson
Independent Director
Tina Brown-Stevenson is an independent board member at Kyruus, the industry leader in provider search and scheduling solutions; a member, and Secretary, of the board of trustees of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center; and a member of the Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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