David’s 15+ year healthcare consulting career has focused on restructuring, turnaround, transformation and strategy. He draws on a diverse range of experience across the private-for-profit, not-for-profit and public sectors in the US, UK and Australia. His restructuring experience includes both lender and borrower-side engagements and facilitating in and out of court restructuring paths.
David is a highly competent analyst with experience in financial and operational modelling. He brings clarity to complex issues with carefully formulated analyses and clear analytical insights.
He is experienced in engaging hospital executives, lenders and front line staff, and brings a range of strategy and continuous improvement approaches to build consensus and execute plans effectively.
Key Skills & Expertise
Turnaround & transformation
Healthcare strategy
Restructuring and bankruptcy
Business planning
Demand & capacity planning
Implementation & delivery
Continuous improvement
Stakeholder management
Developing leadership & consensus
Financial analysis & modelling
Reporting & analytics
Specialist Industries
Healthcare, including:
assisted living / senior living;
skilled nursing; specialty practice; hospitals.
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Advised a bondholder group to a challenged community hospital in California toward a Chapter 11 sale process to safeguard bond repayment.
Supported a New York-based healthcare start-up with contingency planning during a period of investment uncertainty resulting from Board member disputes.
Supported a health system in South Australia with a strategic review of its multi-site tertiary orthopedics service. This included drivers of financial performance, theatre demand and capacity and standardizing high-volume treatment pathways.
Delivered a range of strategic analyses to identify synergies between 2 community hospitals in New York, identifying opportunities to improve financial resilience through merger.
Supported a teaching hospital in the south of England to develop a medium-term financial plan, including a detailed financial analysis, including service-level profitability, and the development of a 5-year financial model charting the course to recovery.
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Upper Second Class Honors Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath.
Featured Work & Insights by David
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Merger and synergy planning for distressed safety net hospitals
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Contingency planning for home-based health provider
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Crisis management and opportunity sizing for 43-hospital system
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