Today, The Chartis Group, a leading healthcare advisory and analytics firm, announced that Austin Gresham recently joined the firm as a Principal in the Informatics and Technology practice.
“Austin is a great addition to the Chartis team, bringing deep experience in technology-enabled transformation in both healthcare and life sciences,” said Jody Cervenak, Informatics and Technology practice leader at The Chartis Group. “In today’s digital era, achieving strategic advancement requires bold, innovative informatics and technology solutions. Austin’s ability to deliver measurable value will help our clients improve their care delivery, and ultimately, drive healthcare forward.”
Gresham brings over 30 years of experience in Information Technology spanning from operations to strategy. He is an experienced advisor delivering complex, transformational programs for clients with a focus on healthcare and life sciences. His passion is working with executive leadership, clinicians, and administrators to enable long-term business objectives by developing concrete, executable roadmaps for success that create measurable value.
Prior to Chartis, Gresham was a Partner and Client Principal in Dell Technologies' Global Transformation Office focused on digital transformation in healthcare and life sciences. There, he advised Dell's most strategic pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, healthcare payers, and both clinical and research hospital systems. Most notably, he led the creation and development of a multi-year transformation for a "top three" global pharmaceutical encompassing IT, manufacturing, and R&D business units.
Before Dell, Gresham was a Principal and Field CTO at AHEAD, a national provider of IT services and solutions, where he led transformational engagements for their largest clients, mainly in the provider and payer spaces.
Gresham is an experienced speaker, having presented at numerous technology and healthcare conferences, and he is also cited in multiple publications as a subject matter expert on digital transformation, machine learning, internet-of-things, and robotic process automation. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from DeVry University as well as multiple industry certifications.
About Chartis
Chartis is a comprehensive healthcare advisory firm dedicated to helping clients build a healthier world. We work across the healthcare continuum with more than 900 clients annually, including providers, payers, health services organizations, technology and retail companies, and investors. Through times of change, challenge, and opportunity, we advise the industry on how to navigate disruption, pursue growth, achieve financial sustainability, unleash technology, improve care models and operations, enhance clinical quality and safety, and advance health equity. The teams we convene bring deep industry expertise and industry-leading innovation, enabling clients to achieve transformational results and create positive societal impact. Learn more.
