Duncan E. McGillivray, MBA
Senior Consultant
Mr. McGillvray brings 25 years of expert experience as an executive and advisor on business valuations, mergers & acquisitions, financial analysis, and project management. His business valuation expertise includes experience assessing companies in a wide range of industries and capital structures.
Mr. McGillivray's has worked on challenging projects with top commercial banks in the U.S. and Asia, Past clients have also included large corporate enterprises including Weyerhaeuser, Nike, PepsiCo, Qwest Communications, IBM and Western Union. He has advised or worked directly with healthcare companies, including the former publicly-traded CIS Technologies (a healthcare information services enterprise) and Biodimensions, a cardiovascular device engineering firm.
Mr. McGillivray was formerly the Executive Vice President of Veritas Valuation Specialists, a business valuation firm in Los Angeles where he performed and communicated business valuations for acquisitions, divestitures, ESOPs and Fairness Opinions to a client base representing all industries and differing capital structures. He has also worked as a Vice President for The Bank of California and a Corporate Finance Officer for the Bank of America.
Mr. McGillivray received his B.A. from Pomona College and his MBA from Columbia University.
Jacque J. Sokolov, MD
Chairman and Senior Partner
Dr. Sokolov is the Chairman and Senior Partner of SSB Solutions. Over the past 15 years, he has led consulting engagements with top-tier physician organizations, hospital systems, and managed care organizations in virtually every major market in the country.
For physicians and hospitals, Dr. Sokolov and his partners have developed "next generation" specialty programs for cardiovascular services, oncology, orthopedic surgery, neuro/stroke and integrated women’s health.
In conjunction with this work, Dr. Sokolov and SSB have coordinated planning and development for a wide range of medical facilities, including specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and large medical office complexes.
Dr. Sokolov serves or has served on the boards of the Washington Business Group on Health, the National Fund for Medical Education (NFME), the National Health Foundation, the National Health Policy Council, the White House Health Project and Coastal Physician Group, Inc. (NYSE: DR); Hospira (NYSE: HSP) and MedCath (NASDAQ:MDTH).
Michael Treacy, JD
Managing Partner
Mr. Treacy is a seasoned healthcare expert specializing in physician alignment, strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, project management, and interim executive management. An attorney by training (J.D., Cornell University), he has over 30 years of experience as lawyer, executive and consultant in healthcare and related fields.
Mr. Treacy’s work has encompassed a wide variety of problems, including the management of rising health care expenditures (for employers); the development of integrated healthcare delivery systems (for hospitals and physicians); physician alignment challenges (for hospitals and physicians); mergers and affiliations (for hospitals, physicians, and health plans); business strategy (for hospitals, health plans and venture companies) and cardiovascular service line expansion (for hospitals and physicians).
Christopher A. Schaefer
Managing Partner
Mr. Schaefer, a Partner and Senior Consultant with SSB, brings to clients close to 30 years of professional experience across the health services spectrum. Over this period, he has provided strategic counsel and support to dozens of hospitals, integrated delivery systems, physician organizations, and managed care plans, working in a wide range of diverse and challenging geographic markets.
His specific business and strategic planning expertise centers on business analysis, situational and market assessments, physician alignment and networking strategies, hospital partnering facilitation and support, new business development, integration of master facility and strategic planning initiatives and operations assessment.
Recent and current engagements include strategic facilitation and support for hospital partnerships; development of specialty heart hospitals; physician alignment strategies; and a variety of strategic and business plan development projects with large integrated delivery systems and community hospitals.
Mitzi Krockover, MD
Senior Partner
Dr. Krockover is nationally recognized for her work in women's health. She previously worked as Vice President of e-Health and Women's Health for Humana, one of the country’s largest health plans. In her role, Dr. Krockover served as the company's chief healthcare strategist and spokesperson for women's health and health education. Programs under her direction included Humana Beginnings, a comprehensive prenatal program that measurably improved the health of at-risk neonates. Humana Beginnings became one of Humana's first on-line member programs.
Previously, Dr. Krockover was the founding medical director of the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center, a primary-care based women's health center. Dr. Krockover played a key role in developing the vision and implementation of an integrated women's health center "without walls", and under her direction, UCLA was named a Center of Excellence in Women's Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
David Liff
Principal
Mr. Liff has worked as project leader or advisor to a number of SSB clients, leveraging 25 years experience as both business executive and strategy consultant to leading healthcare and healthcare technology organizations. His expertise is focused primarily in new venture planning and development, where he has helped a number of companies assess new market opportunities, structure operations, and develop successful roll-out strategies.
Across his career, he has worked with dozens of hospitals, health systems, physicians groups and medical research organizations on a variety of clinical and technology development initiatives. Organizations Mr. Liff has assisted include Scripps Health, University of California at San Francisco, Catholic Health Initiative, Humana, Alegent Health, and McKesson Health Solutions. Most recently he served as interim CEO for a medical imaging technology venture funded by Canon USA.
John Nimsky
Senior Consultant
Mr. Nimsky is an SSB-affiliated healthcare executive with over twenty years senior leadership experience in both provider and health plan operations, partnership formation, business development, strategic visioning, and managed care. His areas of expertise include:
- Strategic planning and market analysis related to medical campus development, program service line development, and health plan formation;
- Strategic partnership/venture development including provider-owned health plan formation, hospital acquisition, and physician practice acquisition and management; and
- Health plan/provider contracting with an emphasis on unit cost analysis, reimbursement methodology configuration and fee setting.
Mr. Nimsky has held numerous senior executive positions with large provider and health plan organizations in the role of Administrator, Regional Vice President and Corporate Director for organizations including Columbia/HCA, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Coventry Health Plans, Scottsdale Healthcare, and PMH Health Resources.
Charles Slaton
Senior Consultant
Mr. Slaton brings extensive executive experience to SSB clients, leveraging a long and successful career in hospital management and development. Most recently, he served as both chief operating officer and chief executive officer at NASDAQ-listed MedCath (MDTH), the country’s largest specialty hospital organization focused on cardiovascular services with over a dozen facilities nationwide. Prior to MedCath, Mr. Slaton held senior executive roles at Tenet Healthcare, with regional responsibility for 20+ hospitals spread across several states. He has also played senior leadership roles at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis and St. Joseph Health System in California.
Ron Anderson
Principal
Mr. Anderson offers 35 years of professional experience with large world-class healthcare organizations in a variety of roles. He has served these organizations in mainstream planning/operations related to multi-specialty integrated group practice and managed care, developing/maintaining successful working relationships with business partners, and providing external/internal consulting services.
His business expertise lies in developing visionary strategies and execution plans for physician alignment, integrated healthcare delivery systems, and quality improvement initiatives. He can facilitate team-building across a variety of participants, including group practices, hospitals, businesses, and health plans. He understands and emphasizes the importance of patient centricity, clinical/operational efficiency, sound project management principles, and strong physician leadership in building the healthcare organizations of the future.
Fred Hosler, MD, MPA
Principal
Since the mid 1990s, Dr. Hosler has focused on working with complex health care systems throughout the United States to galvanize physician alliances and improve operational performance by integrating processes and developing synergistic programs that bring value to patients, physicians and institutions. He has published descriptions of innovative medical staff models designed to enhance physician alignment.
Dr. Hosler’s career includes leadership in university and integrated delivery systems with extensive expertise in community based healthcare. Recent experience includes leadership development, organizational redesign, systems thinking, clinical outcome management, strategic planning, performance improvement and knowledge management.
He received his BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado his MD from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, and his Master of Public Administration with certificates in Finance and Health Care Administration, University of New Mexico.
