Ms. Drummond is one of the leaders of Northwell Ventures, established to generate and manage partnerships and investments, develop strategies for new business entities and identify novel nonclinical revenue streams for the health system. Previously, she served as the health system’s chief administrative officer and chief procurement officer.
A certified public accountant, Ms. Drummond joined Northwell Health in 2002 as vice president, material support services. In that role, she established a financial reporting and analysis team to execute a proactive procurement strategy of continuous improvement and increased support. In addition, in managing accounts payable, she implemented processes to enhance the monitoring and reduction of expenses.
Ms. Drummond was associate executive director of non-clinical services at Northwell’s tertiary campuses. She then served as the health system’s vice president of value analysis during which time she led a supply expense management project which saved the health system over $100 million in supply-related expenses.
Before coming to Northwell, Ms. Drummond held a number of positions with J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. where she worked for 15 years. Prior to that, she was employed by Deloitte, Haskins & Sells.
Ms. Drummond holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Saint John’s University, Queens, NY.
Jane Pleasants is the Executive Director for SMI responsible for the overall operations of the organization, moderation of bi-annual Forums, and oversight of industry initiatives.
Previously, Jane was the Vice President, Supply Chain for Duke University and Duke University Health System. She joined Duke to establish a procurement infrastructure for the newly formed Health System which included developing a robust portfolio of self-contracts for medical supplies, drugs, equipment and services, implementing an enterprise-wide materials management system, providing leadership in aggressive cost reduction, and integrating procurement activities. She had responsibilities for end to end supply chain management which includes all materials and logistic functions in the Health System. In addition to Health System supply chain responsibilities, Jane also provided procurement and sourcing leadership for the academic and medical center campuses at Duke University, one of the few shared service organizations supporting academic medical centers, universities, and health systems. Her global procurement and sourcing activities included the sourcing and procurement of the furniture and equipment for the Duke Kunshan University Campus located in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region, bordering Shanghai.
Her early supply chain career began in a small rural hospital in North Georgia. Since that early beginning, Jane has led supply chains at three academic medical centers, Vanderbilt University, University of Rochester, and Duke University, all shared services between the medical center and academic enterprises.
Nancy Anderson is the Associate Executive Director of SMI focused on delivering high value SMI Forums and Programs that drive transformation in the industry. She is an active member of the healthcare supply chain community as a representative of SMI and works across the supply chain to support collaboration among stakeholders. Nancy is committed to the SMI philosophy of shaping the future of the healthcare supply chain, viewing cross functional leadership and collaboration as instrumental to the success of that work.
Nancy has an extensive supply chain leadership background working for suppliers, providers, and GPO’s. Prior to joining SMI, she served as Vice President Contracting for Greenhealth Exchange, a sustainability focused group purchasing organization. Over her career, Nancy has had various healthcare positions including Vice President of Client Management and Operations at OpenMarkets, Inc., Chicago, and Director of Supply Chain Management for the Northwestern Healthcare Network, Chicago. Nancy also brings 12 years’ experience as an Operations Manager and Senior Management Consultant at American Hospital Supply/Baxter and has a B.S. from Northwestern University
Nancy is a member of the Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management and is an active community volunteer.
Nick Webb is a number one best-selling author and is one of the most popular Innovation, Healthcare, Future-trends, and Customer Experience Speakers in the world. Nick is the CEO of LeaderLogic, LLC a Management Consulting Firm that provides consulting services and training to the top brands in the world. Nick works shoulder-to-shoulder with boards of directors of multibillion-dollar companies to assist them in building future-ready organizations.
Nick began his career as a successful technologist creating award-winning innovations in healthcare, consumer, and industrial technologies. He has been awarded over 40 Patents by the U.S. Patent Office for various landmark technologies. Nick is also a prolific bestselling author that has been published by many prestigious publishers. Nick is the author of What Customers Crave, The Innovation Mandate, What Customers Hate, Happy Work, Lucid Leadership and his number one bestselling book, The Healthcare Mandate.
Nick has served as a Chief Innovation Officer and an Adjunct Professor at a top medical school. Nicholas was awarded his Doctorate of Humane Letters (hon.) for his contributions in healthcare.
Additionally, Nick is also the Producer and Host of the Award-winning Documentary Film, “The Healthcare Cure”, the film was released in 2021 and won the Sedona International Film Festival’s “Audience Choice Award”, Most Impactful Film.
As a Keynote Speaker with a humanistic, smart, and fun presentation style, Nick has also been listed as one of the top Keynote Speakers in the World
Kathy Pham Kathy is a computer scientist and product leader with experience across industry, academia, non-profits, venture capital, and government. Previously, Kathy was appointed the inaugural Executive Director of the National AI Advisory Committee, led as the Deputy Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, and was a founding Engineering and Product member of the U.S. Digital Service at the White House where she helped build digital services in government across three presidential administrations.
She is a Senior Advisor at Mozilla where she co-founded the Mozilla Builders Incubator and Mozilla Responsible Computing. She is on Faculty at Harvard where she created and teaches Product Management and Society and co-founded the Ethical Tech Working Group. She was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative. She serves on various tech and non-profit boards, and has a love for coaching grade school soccer. Kathy has spent over a decade building large scale systems in industry and healthcare at Google (Search, Health, People Operations), IBM (lots of ETL, data warehouses, and analytics), and Harris Healthcare.
Kathy completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and Supelec in (Metz, France).
Burton Fuller joined The Johns Hopkins Health System as the Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer in 2019. He leads the supply chain activities for a $6.2B enterprise that spans six hospitals; six surgery centers across Maryland, D.C., and Florida; and a 165,000 sq. ft consolidated service center.
Burton came to The Johns Hopkins Health System from Deloitte Consulting, where he benefited from significant experience transforming the supply chain departments of large, well-regarded academic medical centers, regional and multi-state health systems, and community hospitals. These transformations provided deep expertise in large scale expense reduction measures, post-merger integrations, and process and operational improvements. He also led engagements supporting the business and market strategies of life science and medical device manufacturers, enabling a unique perspective when navigating Manufacturer and Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) relationships. Through this work Burton championed Supply Chain’s role in achieving the strategic vision of the executive teams he served.
Burton earned his degree at The College of William and Mary where he studied Finance and Biology before starting his career at Navigant Consulting. In his role at The Johns Hopkins Health System he is leading a series of changes that restructure, rebuild, and realign the Supply Chain. Clinical integration is at the core of this change, promoting a vision for supply chain that supports and advances the institution’s mission to deliver outstanding care.
Jim Goodman is the Vice President for Healthcare Systems and Federal Health with Smith+Nephew. A proven and highly engaged Medical Device Executive known for building and growing teams into world-class and highly performing organizations. Proud and honored to be part of the SMI family since 2015 and enjoy learning from each other with a common goal of improving patient care and health care. When he is not working, he enjoys giving back volunteering in the community, providing coaching, and helping others to live a rewarding life. He lives in Massachusetts and resides outside of Boston.
Since January 2021, Bill has served as the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Henry Ford Health. In his role Bill has responsibilities over all supply chain functions, including but not limited to: Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Diversity, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Linen, Systems & Analytics, Supply Chain Operations, Distribution & Logistics.
Prior to joining Henry Ford, Bill has had the pleasure to hold healthcare Supply Chain leadership roles in some of the industry’s leading organizations including Advocate Aurora Health, Ascension Health, and Trinity Health respectively. Bill has become known for his innovative approach to supply chain and challenging the status quo related to Supplier Diversity, analytics, and supply resiliency to name a few. He is a champion for integrating supply chain management into clinical and financial outcomes and putting the stakeholders and communities he serves first in all that he and his team does.
Robert Rajalingam has broad management experience across commercial, operational, and technical functions in medical devices, supplies, and healthcare supply chain. He most recently served as President of Cardinal Health’s US Medical Products and Distribution business where he managed over $11.5B in revenue and 10k employees.
Robert led the resurgence of Cardinal Health’s US Medical business while guiding the business through a number of challenges including national COVID response efforts, the largest FDA medical supply recall in industry history, global supply chain challenges, and hyperinflation. From the onset of the pandemic, Robert served as a member of the White House Supply Chain advisory council. In this role he advised HHS, FEMA, DLA, and White House senior leadership on response efforts.
In addition to his P&L and crisis management experience, Robert has extensive experience in strategic plan development and commercial execution. Robert has consistently led these efforts for large business units at Cardinal Health, Medtronic, Covidien, and Smiths Medical.
Robert earned bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and economics from Duke University and a master of business administration from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on the boards of Nonin Medical and Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI).
Amanda has over 20 years as an influential leader across Supply Chain and hospital operations in prominent healthcare organizations managing non-profit and for-profit organizations across Academic Medical Center, Community, and Private Practice. Amanda has served as the Vice President of Ancillary & Support Services with responsibility across clinical and operational departments, including Perioperative Services, Imaging, Radiation Oncology, Lab, Supply Chain, etc. Presently, she serves as the Chief Supply Chain Officer across Stanford Medicine. Responsible for over a $1B+ of Non-Labor Spend, she has successfully saved $300M in expense reduction through effective sourcing, value engineering, streamlining processes, ultimately bringing value through clinical and operational alignment.
As a trusted thought leader, she is featured in publications across the industry. She also serves as a Board Member with AHRMM (AHA organization). Her wide ranges of experience in Operational, Executive, and Supply Chain positions allow her to bring together the best of all worlds.
Alan Mavis joined Baxter in 1991 and has over 30 years experience in the medical industry focused on Sales Leadership and Strategic Account Management.
In his current role Alan manages the executive level relationships with some of the nation’s leading health systems across Baxter’s Hospital Products, Advanced Surgery, and Renal businesses. He serves as the single point of contact for IDN Account Leadership and works collaboratively across Baxter to drive value and synergy for his health systems to ensure the customer experience is positive, ease of contracting and continued partnership, and alignment of mutual goals. Alan has participated on several IDN Supplier Councils focused on provider/supplier collaboration. Prior to joining the IDN team, Alan held several commercial roles within Baxter’s Hospital Products business including Sales Representative, National Sales Trainer, Region Manager, and Area Vice President. Alan has been part of the SMI family since 2013.
Alan holds Bachelors of Science degree in Marketing from Miami University in Oxford, OH.
Jim Francis has more than twenty-five (25) years of experience in leading high performing supply chain organizations. He joined Mayo Clinic in 1999 and is responsible for enterprise-wide supply chain strategy and operations. In 2017, Mayo expended more than $4.2 billion on supplies, purchased services, and capital investments. Consisting of the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, Mayo inspires hope and contributes to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research. Mayo consists of 22 acute care hospitals and more than 130 practice sites. In addition to these responsibilities, Mayo provides sourcing and contracting services to Captis, LLC., a regional supply network that consists of 72 hospital and health system networks with more than 300 hospitals and $8 billion in purchases.
Prior to his current position, Jim was Vice President of Material Services at BJC Healthcare in St. Louis. In this capacity, he was responsible for the integration and management of all material service functions. While at BJC, he managed a system-wide supply expense of $340 million. Prior to this position, he was Vice President of Corporate Services at Christian Health Services (CHS) in St. Louis. He had been with the CHS system since 1984.
Mr. Francis earned his Bachelor of Arts and his Master of Science degrees from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. He received his Master of Health Administration degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the Association of Healthcare Resource Materials Management. He is a past recipient of an “Up and Comer” award from Modern Healthcare and “Material Manager of the Year” by Healthcare Purchasing News. In addition to these recognitions, the Mayo Clinic supply chain organization has been recognized by Gartner as one of the Top 25 Supply Chains in Healthcare every year since 2009. In 2017, Mayo Clinic was ranked #2 overall. In 2015, Mayo Clinic received the distinction of being the first healthcare provider to be recognized #1. Mr. Francis is the current Chair of the Supply Chain Strategic Council of Vizient, Inc. He is also immediate past Chair and member of the Board of Directors of Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI). He participates in various other professional and community activities.
Susan Louis, VP of Healthcare & Strategic Accounts is responsible for leading Staples Business Advantage vertical sales division which markets to the healthcare industry, healthcare related group purchasing organizations (GPO’s) and large commercial GPO’s and consortiums. Her division is focused on sales, account retention, profitable growth and category expansion while delivering a better customer experience.
Under Susan’s leadership, Staples has long standing contracts with all the leading healthcare GPO’s in the U.S. The integration of commercial GPO’s and consortiums into the mature and successful model has allowed Staples to provide additional product categories and a higher level of service that has produced a truly transformative experience for customers. Susan leads a team that is responsible for selling and managing these large complex contracts with dedicated and experienced account management at all levels of the account relationship.
Susan is a 34-year veteran of the office products industry. She began in her own office products business working and learning all aspects of the industry. Her company was purchased by BT Office Products, who then acquired Corporate Express in 1999, which in-turn was acquired by Staples in 2008. She created the industry leading healthcare vertical sales model and organization 25 years ago. It continues to be the market leader.
Susan is a passionate and well-respected leader. She has been successful throughout her career driving sales, growing existing business and most importantly creating valuable customer relationships. She is well known and respected in the industry.
Susan is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in advertising/marketing. She has been married to her husband Rick for 35 years. She is a devoted dog lover with an 85-pound labradoodle named Ollie.
Bryan Loughry is an accomplished leader and innovator in the field of data science, with over 30 years of experience in AI and automation. As Director of Data Science at Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), he is responsible for leading all AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science activities.
Bryan’s career in AI began with pioneering work in automated semiconductor packaging, while consulting for companies like Apple, Motorola, and Advanced Micro Devices. He then went on to apply his research in Cognitive Science to automation in the financial markets, where he made significant contributions.
After starting his education as a pre-med major and 25 years working in technology and finance, in 2018 Bryan joined GHX to focus his attention on more meaningful problems. At GHX he led the development of Large Language Models capable of understanding medical terminology that are now used in automated data curation.
Bryan holds degrees in Finance, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. His thesis work, a computational model of Working Memory, which is the brain’s problem solving engine, continues to be the paradigm followed today.
With a unique blend of skills, experience, and expertise Bryan has become a sought-after thought leader and subject matter expert in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. He is passionate about using AI and automation to solve some of the most pressing challenges in the healthcare supply chain.
Ms. McNealis leads the Systems and Analytics team within the Supply Chain organization at Stanford Medicine, overseeing the Master Data Management, BI& Analytics, Process Improvement, PMO and Demand Planning teams. Together, these teams are responsible for establishing and administering Supply Chain systems, data governance, forecasting, analytics, process improvement, cross-functional project management, and demand planning systemwide. In collaboration with the Interventional Platform, IT, Finance and Supply Chain operations, Ms. McNealis is tasked with building the technology infrastructure and data transparency required to enable a next-gen clinically integrated, AI-enabled digital Supply Chain consolidated across Stanford Medicine.
Before joining Supply Chain, Ms. McNealis served as the Director of Technology and Digital Solutions Analytics for Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine, where she was responsible for executive organizational performance dashboards, data governance and SHC-wide strategic analytics initiatives.
Ms. McNealis came to Stanford in 2016 with extensive technology, analytics, management and consulting experience in Europe, Silicon Valley and in India. She has helped companies to solve strategic, marketing, business development and project management challenges, and her experience spans the biopharmaceutical, technology infrastructure, online services and nonprofit industries. She started her management career at Arthur D. Little’s Global Technology Ventures, as a Manager providing consulting services to global technology clients from its Silicon Valley office. Prior to her graduate degree, Ms. McNealis worked as a software engineer in the medical diagnostics and IT networking industries.
Ms. McNealis is a Phi Beta Kappa member with a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Hannah is the Vice President for Procurement Services for Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. Hannah has responsibility for Northwestern Medicine’s procurement services division including strategic sourcing, contracting, purchasing and pharmaceutical procurement and inventory management. In addition, Hannah is leading the development of Northwestern Medicine’s procurement operations center, a distribution facility that will provide self-distribution of pharmaceutical and technology assets to Northwestern Medicine’s 500 locations.
Hannah is also focused on Northwestern Medicine’s partnerships and commercialization programs, identifying industry partners who can together with Northwestern Medicine transform discovery of new treatments and delivery of healthcare.
Hannah has been at Northwestern Medicine for 12 years and previously spent time leading sales and procurement teams in the CPG sector where responsible for growing health and beauty care categories at national retailers.
Marisa Farabaugh is senior vice president and chief supply chain officer for AdventHealth. In this role, she provides strategic direction toward new and sustainable supply chain and business services efficiencies including aligning people, processes and technology, optimizing sourcing, driving cost and control initiatives, and maintaining a culture of efficiency and effectiveness. Farabaugh is also responsible for system-level environmental sustainability work, along with governance and strategy for AdventHealth design and construction services, ancillary, and support services areas, including pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, respiratory care, facilities, food and nutrition services, biomedical engineering, security, and environmental services.
Farabaugh has an extensive background in the management of multi-functional teams, resource utilization, financial analytics, processes engineering, and mergers and acquisitions. She previously served as vice president of general services and chief supply chain officer for Wake Forest Baptist Health in North Carolina. Her experience also includes positions with University of Florida Health and The Hershey Company.
Farabaugh earned a master’s degree in business administration from Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida.
Katrina is a Senior Manager in Deloitte Consulting’s Sustainability Strategy and Transformation practice. In this role, she leads teams across industries to deliver meaningful, measurable, and sustainable value to her clients by enabling them to set, advance, and achieve their sustainability ambitions.
Throughout her career at Deloitte, Katrina has developed extensive expertise breaking down complex challenges – such as how to reach net zero emissions – into digestible and actionable steps. Katrina is deeply versed in Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions from calculating footprints through to cross-functional approaches to reduce or avoid emissions. In her prior roles, she crafted multi-year enterprise strategies, developed effective and efficient operating models, led change management planning and execution, and created innovative analytics methodologies.
Katrina holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BS in Business Administration, Finance and Leadership Studies from the University of Richmond. In her free time, you can find Katrina outdoors – hiking, skiing, kayaking, and more.
Bryan Heartsfield is the Director, Partnership Engagement Division, of the Strategic National Stockpiles (SNS) Supply Chain and Alliance Office under the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). He is responsible for developing strategic partnerships between public health, emergency management, supply chain, and industry parnters responding to man-made and emerging infectious disease threats.
Prior to joining the SNS, Bryan served as the Deputy Director of Emergency Management, King County, WA and as the Health Medical and Operations planner for Seattle and King County Public Health. He has a distinguished military career as an officer in the United States Army Medical Service Corps serving in a variety of assignments throughout the United States, Southeast and Southwest Asia. Bryan is a 1992 graduate of Truman State University with a degree in Public and Community Health and is a 2000 graduate of Embry Riddle with a degree in Operations
John Fredenberg is a manager with nearly 20 years of experience in a variety of roles within the Strategic National Stockpile, a geographically dispersed network of medical material used to backstop industry during times of national public health emergencies. He has authored many of the SNS response plans and managed the operation center during numerous response activations.
Prior to the pandemic, John initiated a program to better understand Supply Chains that SNS was part of to identify and mitigate risk and improve system efficiency. In his current role, he is responsible for managing the Supply Chain Control Tower (SCCT), a sophisticated data ingestion and analysis tool that provides detailed reporting and analysis on COVID related products.
He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy, a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Animation from FullSail University, and a Master’s Degree in Computer Information Systems from Tarleton State University.
Joining the SNS in 2016, Jim began work as a core team member on a program that sought to understand the synergy between commercial Supply Chains and the SNS. Since 2020, he is responsible for managing commercial partner relations and system development for the Supply Chain Control Tower (SCCT), a sophisticated data ingestion and analysis platform that provides detailed reporting, analysis, and supply chain surveillance on COVID related medical products for the USG.
Jim Brown is a veteran operational, exercise, emergency management, and aeromedical evacuation planner with over 38 years of experience creating contingency and disaster response solutions for both government and civilian customers. Through the years he has participated in multiple contingencies, disaster responses, and exercises while working with Department of Defense (DoD), Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Division of Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), as well as a wide variety of other state and federal agencies.
Dr. David Dobrzykowski is a tenured full professor in the JB Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He is the Director of Healthcare Business Initiatives and Senior Director of the PhD Program in SCM. He was previously a tenured associate professor at Rutgers University where he was the Founding Director of the Masters in Healthcare Services Management program. His research investigating healthcare coordination has been presented about 200 times on three continents and in seven countries and often appears in elite operations and supply chain journals. He has been quoted in national media outlets such as NBC News, NPR Marketplace and Bloomberg Businessweek, and healthcare industry outlets including Modern Healthcare, Becker’s Hospital Review and Hospital & Health Networks. He is an Academic Scholar at Cornell’s Institute for Healthy Futures and previously enjoyed a 13-year career as a healthcare executive, serving in Chief Executive Officer and Vice President roles with organizations like BIDON Companies, Bon Secours Mercy Health and UnitedHealthcare.
As the Chief Executive Officer for the HCA South Atlantic Supply Chain, Hodges is responsible for the overall strategic direction, as well as the tactical execution, of all aspects of Supply Chain Operations for 12 acute care facilities in South Carolina, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida.
In late 2021, he was appointed the Executive Lead to develop an Equipment Shared Service for HCA Healthcare; through this work Hodges lead multiple workstreams from proof of concept pilots to currently implementing the program in 190+ locations. This initiative incorporates RTLS technology and standardized process to increased equipment availability for nursing through consistent tracking and optimizing equipment and reduced operating and capital costs. Hodges completed his pharmacy degree at Purdue University and his Master of Business Administration from Strayer University.
Graduated from SDSU in 1988
BS in Dairy Science
29+ years at Kraft Foods
VP of Integrated Supply Chain
3+ years at Kellogg
Senior Vice President North America Supply Chain
3+ years at Walmart
Executive Vice President, Supply Chain Operations
Over the past two and half years, Ramy Hanna has been leading supply chain and multiple operational system functions for HealthTrust. In the past, he provided advisement for future growth and optimization for Valify Solutions Group. Ramy also serves as the executive champion for transformational turn-around engagement for HealthTrust members and is a senior executive over the Mercy ROi partnership. He utilizes operator experience to enhance and improve provider based shared services. Ramy Hanna has been able to effectively align matrixed healthcare systems to create a complex diverse team with strong leaders. Over the past nine years, with the efforts of several teams has reduced expenses by $150M. Ramy was named in the Becker’s top 35 Supply chain Executives to Watch for in 2023-2024. Ramy received his MBA from Regis University and has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Entrepreneurship with a minor in Finance and Economics.
As Executive Vice President, Strategy for Concordance Healthcare Solutions, Cody is responsible for the organization’s strategic vision and Surgence, their cloud-based platform that brings visibility to organizations across the healthcare supply chain. In his current role, Cody is passionate about helping organizations execute visionary change within their organizations and across their industry partners.
Prior to his current role, Cody served in several Finance leadership roles with a focus on integrating critical analytics and business insights into the partnerships between Finance and the Business Units. Stemming from his finance background, Cody’s passion is to ensure visionary change is creating value for organizations throughout the entire healthcare supply chain.
Before joining Concordance, Cody worked at Cardinal Health in Finance where he partnered with the international commercial teams to grow in new regions and product categories. Cody started his professional career in Finance at PNC and supported the Institutional Banking segments.
Cody graduated from Ohio Northern University with a B.S. in Finance and Accounting.
Jeremy has had an extensive career working in Hospital Operations specifically in the high intensity Surgical and Interventional domains. Previous to his current role as Vice President of Supply Chain he was responsible for Rush University Medical Centers Perioperative and Interventional Services Departments included the Pre/Post and Intra-Operative Surgical domains, Endoscopy, Interventional Radiology, Electro-Physiology, Cardiac Cath Labs and Neuroendovascular areas. In addition he has also held leadership roles in post-acute care with operational oversight of all inpatient and outpatient therapy and rehabilitation services and clinics including a 42 bed Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility and a 32 apartment Independent Living Facility. During the pandemic he also served as interim Vice President for Laboratory and Pharmacy Services. In his current role as Vice President of Supply Chain he has oversight for the Supply Chain continuum and has extended his team’s capabilities and best practices beyond traditional areas to drive improvements for Labs, Ambulatory Clinics, Pharmacy, IT, Environmental and Linen Services, Food & Nutrition Services and beyond. Jeremy and his team continue to build upon the expertise and strength of their award winning services to expand and bring them to the broader organization creating value for the organization and the community Rush serves. In addition to his role in Supply Chain he has also served as the interim Vice President of Facilities and serves as faculty member in Rush University’s Health Systems Management program.
For more than two decades, Vatanka Murphy has guided GHX’s vision, mission, and strategic direction, supporting the company’s growth to become the industry’s largest cloud-based supply chain network. As president and chief executive officer (CEO), she is leading the charge in helping the healthcare ecosystem move faster, operate more intelligently, and achieve greater outcomes.
Vatanka Murphy joined GHX shortly after its inception in 2000, rising to increasingly prominent leadership roles based on her significant contributions to expanding the company’s business and defining the roadmap for a more efficient and equitable future for healthcare.
Prior to being named CEO in 2022, Vatanka Murphy held the position of GHX division president, Value Based Care, and was instrumental in leading the company’s award winning response to the global pandemic in 2020. She prioritized listening to customers to better understand changing market dynamics, which resulted in deeper customer partnerships and double-digit growth in 2021.
Vatanka Murphy previously served as senior vice president, GHX Global Product and Corporate Development, where she was responsible for architecting a global product function that led to strong customer retention and double-digit improvement in customer satisfaction scores. In her prior role as president of GHX Europe, her decisive leadership helped the company’s European arm significantly improve customer satisfaction while achieving double-digit growth.
Driven by the belief that innovation requires diversity and understanding biases helps build stronger teams, Vatanka Murphy implemented the GHX Diversity & Inclusivity Advisory Council. She has instituted multiple initiatives across GHX, including training more than 700 employees in allyship and nearly 200 managers in unconscious bias.
Throughout her career, Vatanka Murphy has garnered industry recognition, most recently named an “Influential Woman in STEM and Technology” by Authority Magazine, honored as one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s “2020 Women in Supply Chain,” and earning a Silver Stevie award for “Most Valuable Corporate Response: COVID-19.” Notably, GHX was ranked 18 in the Healthcare Software
category of the 2023 “Power 500 Technology Companies” award and 19 on the 2022 “Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies” list by The Healthcare Technology Report.
Vatanka Murphy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Indiana University.