In 2007, Bob co-founded I3 Healthcare Consulting, LLC with intent to deliver focused, high quality business consulting solutions to healthcare organizations located in the Mid-Atlantic region. With over 25 years of healthcare consulting experience, Bob is regarded as a consulting partner of choice for strategic and operational advisory services and is often sought after to provide interim management leadership.

Prior to forming I3HCC, Bob was a founding partner of MedHorizons Consulting Group, and prior to that a partner with Arthur Andersen LLP. While at Andersen, he was responsible for forming the Mid-Atlantic healthcare consulting practice. With a team of over 100 professionals (including nurses and physicians), Bob established and led the Operations Improvement, Supply Chain, and Comprehensive Health Management Practices. Bob has led a multitude of complex strategic and operational engagements including:

• Led clinical and IT staff, and vendor personnel in process and interface mapping of current-state and future-state clinical services in a multi-hospital health system. The maps were used in conjunction with the implementation of new clinical software and associated process improvement.
• Led the design and planning process for developing a business intelligence application to gather and report key performance indicators for a major academic health system. The process involved more than 15 clinical departments, finance, IT and vendor personnel.
• Led several comprehensive operations improvement efforts focused on enhancing the clinical and non-clinical services of healthcare providers. Two of his clients were subsequently named in the Top 100 hospitals in the U.S.
• Development of a clinical configuration plan to support a newly merged two-hospital health system;
• Numerous interim leadership roles to improve operational performance, close targeted business units while preserving corporate assets and vendor relationships, and provide strategic guidance to fledgling departments.

Bob received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in the State of Maryland. Bob is a member of the Maryland Chapter of Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Maryland Association of CPAs. He is the Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Burn Center Community Fund.