Meet our Team

A host of subject matter experts along with an existing suppliers base, who work diligently to reduce your facility and non-clinical operation costs and improve performance.

Andy Ferguson

President & Chief Financial Officer

  • Interim EVP & CFO , Prisma Health
  • VP Financial Planning, Analysis & Business Intelligence, Prisma Health
  • Senior Director Performance Excellence, Ascension Health​
  • Senior Director Financial Planning & Analysis, Ascension Health​
  • Financial Services Officer, Columbia St. Mary’s​
  • Director IT Finance, Ascension Health​
  • Director Financial Planning, BJC Healthcare

Mr. Ferguson is an innovative healthcare executive adept at leading the programmatic integration of finance, operations, physicians, clinicians and technology to drive value. Leadership role implementing operational and structural changes in both clinical and non-clinical areas generating over $500M in aggregate value. Passion for developing and leading high performing teams utilizing data and analytic tools to drive financial, quality and operational improvements. Critical thinker with a proven track record of seamlessly integrating into new environments through team engagement, collaboration and partnership at all levels.

  • Finance
  • Forecasting
  • Budgets
  • Healthcare Management
  • Project Planning

Dale Claytore, FACHE, FHFMA

Chief Operations Officer

  • SVP/Chief Supply Chain Officer – Ballad Health
  • MS, System Mgt, University of Southern California
  • MSM, Physician Assistant (PA), Trevecca University
  • MBA, East Tennessee State University
  • Fellow, America College of Healthcare Executives
  • Fellow, Healthcare Financial Management Association
  • Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret)

Mr. Claytore is a visionary executive and strategist who leads exceptional healthcare organizations to new heights of achievement, collaborates with senior leadership teams to advance business priorities, and steers large teams through change.

He is a performance excellence champion skilled at driving revenue growth, expanding service lines, and optimizing supply chain operations to maximize top- and bottom-line profitability for complex, multibillion-dollar businesses. 

Energetic leader adept at controlling costs and identifying and harnessing economies of scale with new systems, models, and structures for maximum agility while retaining a patient-centric focus on elevating clinical outcomes and care quality. 

  • Strategic Planning & Execution
  • Revenue Generation & Growth
  • Dramatic Cost Savings
  • Clinical Expertise

Sharon Hickman

Senior Vice President – Partner Programs

  • VP Performance Excellence & Optimization – Prisma Health
  • Corporate Assistant Vice President, Safety – HCA Healthcare
  • Division VP Performance Improvement – HCA Healthcare
  • Director Process Improvement – Bon Secours Health
  • MBA Healthcare Management (WGU); Bachelor Industrial Engineering (Auburn)
  • LSSMBB, CPHQ, CPPS, CPXP, MCPC

Ms. Hickman is a transformative, innovative and results driven healthcare executive with a demonstrated track record of achievement in strategic development, performance/operational improvement, customer experience, quality, safety, change management, improvement science, training and development, clinical transformation, and implementation.

Working with both for profit and non-profit systems, her experience spreads across all aspects of care including clinical and nonclinical areas, as well as various healthcare settings. She is passionate about helping organizations provide highly reliable, cost effective, safe care through continuously improving systems and processes, developing leaders, and creating a safe and just culture.

  • Strategic Program Development & Execution
  • Clinical & Operational Performance Improvement
  • Healthcare Operations
  • High Reliability & Safety
  • System Transformation
  • Change Management
  • Lean & Six Sigma
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Brad Balon

VP – Northeast

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Corbin Beall

Development Director

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Chris Beall

Analytics Director

Mike Staples

Marketing Director

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Carl Stevens

Finance Director

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Steven King

Engineering Director

Mark Wess

Health Informatics

Our Board

John Fitzgerald, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Advisory Board Chair

  • President and CEO IU Health Physicians
  • President and CEO, IU Medical Group
  • Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, IUSM
  • SVP Population Health, IU Health
  • CEO, IU Health ACO
  • Medical School – Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine

Dr. Fitzgerald is results focused, data –driven, emotionally intelligent physician executive with verifiable consistent success in achieving revenue, profit, growth, clinical quality and patient satisfaction goals in developing and leading physician group practices and value-based care programs.

He is an accomplished leader with a solid executive presence, recognized for his collaborative leadership style, practical proactive approach, and keen ability to blend big picture viewpoints with tactical considerations and translate complex operational concepts into tangible actions. Mr. Duane also has executive level experience in guiding information systems, health information management and actively participated in corporate strategic planning.

  • Healthcare Consulting
  • Healthcare Management
  • Managed Care
  • Population Health

Jim Beall

Chief Executive Officer

Glidenet Healthcare, LLC

  • National Industrial Energy Award – U.S. Department of Energy
  • President’s Award – Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Chairman’s Merit Award – Johnson Controls 
  • Green Business Works Expo., Presenter
  • How to Design & Implement a Strategic Energy Program
  • IU MBA Academic Academy
  • Strategic Account Mgmt. Assoc., Presenter
  • US Department of Energy, National Industrial Energy Award
  • Bristol Myers Squibb, Presidents Award
  • Johnson Controls Chairman’s Merit Award

Mr. Beall has over 30 years of experience in the consulting and facilities services industry and brings strong client relationship practices to ensure all initiatives deliver value added services to our demanding marketplace. Mr. Beall held a variety of senior management and business development positions with Premier, FTI Consulting, CB Richard Ellis, EMCOR Group, and Johnson Controls.

Mr. Beall has been involved in the development of strategies for Baylor Health, Baystate Health, IU Health, Texas Health Resources, Adventist Health West, Novant Health and several other leading Integrated Delivery Networks (IDN’s).

He is responsible for the development and execution of the consulting and program implementation offerings and the integration of operations as it relates to healthcare and corporate clients. He personally facilitates development of the client relationships and internal consulting resources as well as overall P&L responsibility for the global operation.

He is frequently asked to speak on the topics of sales, marketing, facilities management and overall performance management. Some highlights include presenting at the Strategic Account Management Association on “Developing Strategic Alliances”, at Trade Line’s Technology Strategies for Facility Management event and their Wireless Technology in Facilities Management event.


  • Business Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Project Management

Randall Dobbins

Business Partner Blueprint


  • Randall Dobbins is a buyer, a seller, a teacher, and small business owner based in Austin, Texas.
  • He has over 30 years of experience in which he successfully designs, creates, negotiates, implements, and manages strategic partnerships for top companies and his own company.

Prior to the foundation of his own companies, Dobbins International, Inc. and Business Partner Blueprint, he was the National Accounts Manager for one of the world’s largest distributors and a Supply Chain Manager for the world’s largest integrated petrochemical company.

Through his work, Randall explores the secrets to get through the corporate door. He started his own business in the hope of helping Disadvantaged Business Owners transform their businesses and achieve the goals they have been planning for years. It’s his experience, his professionalism, and his genuine personality that makes this program more meaningful than anything you will ever come across

  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Business Development

Our Driving Force

Significantly reducing facility and non-clinical operations cost structure by leveraging and integrating information, infrastructure and analytics to support enhanced decision making around the non-patient care functions.   Learn More…