Mark Salierno is a principal with the Chartis Group and a leader within its enterprise strategy subpractice. He has 15 years of experience in management consulting, including over 10 years of experience in healthcare delivery. His work with hospitals, health systems and large physician groups includes enterprise strategy development, ambulatory network development, physician group strategy, patient access and throughput, service line strategy and operations, mergers and acquisition evaluation, and academic-community partnership development. Prior to joining The Chartis Group, Mr. Salierno was a consultant and project manager for two consulting firms. Working at a global management consulting firm, he specialized in hospital revenue cycle management. As a firm-designated expert in front-end patient flow, he led teams to design and implement processes and software related to patient scheduling, preregistration, registration, collections, and ED workflows to improve hospital financial and operational performance. At a Chicago-based management consultancy, Mr. Salierno managed projects focused on organization redesign and workforce planning. Mr. Salierno earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance and health enterprise management from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University with majors in communication and history.