Implantable Medical Devices and Healthcare Affordability: Exposing the Spiderweb (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032430539)

Mark C. West is an executive with more than 30 years of experience in developing and implementing high-performing supply chain organizations and companies. His proven leadership capabilities came through experience in key roles with multi-billion-dollar companies, specializing in the re-engineering and commercialization of supply chains due to mergers, acquisitions, or historical underperformance.

Mark was the President of SharedClarity LLC from 2011-2020 after serving as vice president of supply chain management for UnitedHealthcare since late 2009. He is responsible for the launch of SharedClarity, focused on improving the quality and cost of medical supplies industrywide. SharedClarity became operational in early 2013.

From 2005 to 2009, Mark was executive director of supply chain management for the Cleveland Clinic Healthcare System. His re-engineering efforts challenged industrywide healthcare purchasing practices, yielding bottom-line cost savings that were nine times that of historical levels. Mark also implemented state-of-the-art technologies to improve materials management processes, highlighted by the deployment of a new 230,000-square-foot service center.

Mark was also the founder and president of Purchasing Partners Incorporated, a purchasing services company, helping clients reduce their cost of acquiring goods and services. His experience also includes serving as the vice president of corporate purchasing for America West Airlines and corporate director of operations support for Honeywell International.

Currently Mark devotes his time to entrepreneurial, consulting, and advisory activities through Tymax Holdings LLC, his private investment company. He currently serves as the lead investor for "The Hatch," Bowling Green State University's entrepreneurial program within the College of Business.

Mark received an MBA in Marketing from Cleveland State University, and a BS in Human Resource Management from Bowling Green State University. He is also Green Belt certified in Six-Sigma and sits on the boards of managers for three privately held companies.

Michael Georgulis Jr. is a healthcare supply chain executive with more than 37 years of experience within the healthcare industry. Mr. Georgulis currently serves as board member and industry adviser to Southwest Healthcare Holdings. He has a strong background in negotiating supply, service, and capital agreements for healthcare institutions, budget management, team leadership, and establishing healthcare partnerships. He has also been cited in the Wall Street Journal.

Michael has held supply chain executive, and leadership positions in multiple health systems, Premier Health Alliance and Health Trust Purchasing Group (two group purchasing organizations), and United Healthcare Global, owned by the commercial payer organization. In addition, he spent 12 years as a Medical Service Corps officer in the United States Air Force attaining the rank of Captain. His experience includes both national, and international accomplishments working within privately owned, publicly held, government-owned, and faith-based health systems outside of his military experience.

Michael has managed category contract portfolios as large as $20 billion, with most category contracts ranging from $100 million to $500 million. His accomplishments include multiple implementations of enterprise systems, specifically the Materials Management Information System modules to include item masters and charge masters. Experience includes leading aggregated strategic sourcing processes, developing negotiation strategies, and writing agreements for health systems and GPO use for as many as 2,800 hospitals in many categories over multi-year periods, creating aggregated savings in the categories in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Additionally, Michael has successfully managed, engineered, and designed a strategic sourcing function, staffed the team, and created processes and tools for a for-profit start-up healthcare company (SharedClarity) that functioned extremely well for seven years before it was acquired. At UnitedHealthcare, Michael built the strategic sourcing process, designed the tools, and staffed a team for United Healthcare Global which owned more than 50 hospitals in Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Portugal, and Peru.

Michael is a graduate of Indiana University, from where he holds a BS in Public and Environmental Affairs with a concentration in hospital administration. He also holds an MPA from the University of Kentucky with a major in hospitals. Additionally, he is an honorably discharged U.S. Air Force Viet Nam era veteran having served one
tour in Southeast Asia.