Panelists:
Anna Brewer
Partner, Consulting Services & Director of Professional Development
JTaylor
Patrick Crocker
Senior Associate at Strategy& and Founder/Principal
Crocker Solutions
Mike Daniel
Founder and CEO
Main Street Anesthesia
Ryan Frank
Vice President of Marketing
Smith & Nephew
Speaker Bios:
After graduating from Texas Christian University with a BBA in Accounting, Anna Brewer joined Arthur Anderson as a Consultant in the Strategic Finance and Economics group. Prior to joining JTaylor, she spent three years in the Health Sciences Advisory Services group at Ernst & Young. She is now partner in the consulting division of JTaylor where she uses her strong analytical and financial analysis skills to assist her clients in the areas of physician compensation, transaction support, valuations, due diligence, joint venture development and strategic business plans. She is also serving as Director of Professional Development where she focuses on recruiting and training. She is also contributing author in the field of healthcare for Fort Worth Business Press.
Prior to PwC, Patrick Crocker spent over a decade in the U.S. Army as a Judge Advocate, where he rose to the rank of Major and served two combat tours in Afghanistan. While serving as an appellate defense council in the U.S. Army Reserve he pursued his MBA from the University of California, Berkley where he graduated with honors with a concentration in Health Management. He is now a Senior Associate in the Health Industries Advisory practice group at PwC’s Strategy& where he focuses on marketing, sales, and strategy transformation within the provider, payer, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical verticals. He is also Founder and Principal Crocker Solutions where he provides pro bono management and strategy consulting services to entrepreneurs and early stage companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and throughout the United States.
After completing his degree in accounting at TCU, Mike Daniel served as Director and Senior Vice President of Business Development at NorthStar Anesthesia where he helped it become the fastest growing anesthesia company in the US, growing from 22 sites to 182 sites in 20 states over 9 years. After his success in helping hospitals and surgery centers improve anesthesia services and lower their costs, Mike went on to start his own anesthesia management company, Mainstreet Anesthesia, where he currently serves as CEO.
Ryan Frank started his marketing career at Kimberly Clark where he spent 12 years helping expand the business in focused on products that helped improve infection control in the hospital, office, and extended care environments. After his success at Kimberly Clark, he moved to Abbott Nutrition where he spent the next 11 years of his career leading both US and Global teams that were tasked with advancing how nutrition supports health outcomes, spanning early life, childhood development and acute recovery, and specific disease management. He currently serves as the VP of Marketing at Smith and Nephew where he leads the marketing and product strategy for Smith & Nephew’s Advanced Wound Management portfolio in the US.