Katherine Grichnik

Dr. Katherine Grichnik has extensive executive experience across the spectrum of healthcare management, including strategic, operational, fiscal, and administrative responsibilities in a variety of settings. She is the Chief of Anesthesiology Services at SCA Health, where she supports strategic partnerships and business models to create stakeholder value, ensures aligned and skilled anesthesiology professional services, and collaborates to enhance the quality of care, enhance facility operational success, ensure safety, create risk visibility, and support risk resolution.

Fritz Buerger

Fritz Buerger is a partner and managing director for William Blair based in the firm’s Chicago office. He has been an advisor to healthcare companies for nearly two decades, having completed 100+ transactions for over $50 billion in enterprise value.

Sunny Eappen

Dr. Sunny Eappen currently serves as the President and CEO of The University of Vermont Health Network, where he oversees 6 hospitals including The University of Vermont Medical Center, 5 community hospitals, the Home Health and Hospice resource, a pediatric hospital and a Cancer Center with over 1600 beds covering a million patients in Vermont

Mark Penkhus

Mark Penkhus is a senior healthcare executive and has held leadership positions in both not-for-profit and for-profit healthcare organizations, including HCA, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Vanderbilt University Hospitals, EY, LLC., the Detroit Medical Center, and the Sisters of Charity Health System, now (Common Spirit.) Mark has experience in governance, strategy, operations, financial, and transformational management.

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