STERN CONSULTING, INC.
NAPLES, FLORIDA

David Stern is the founder and president of Stern Consulting. He has advised some of the pre-eminent companies in the healthcare industry, both as president of Stern Consulting and as a consultant at other organizations. Prior to founding Stern Consulting, Mr. Stern spent six years advising hospitals at APM, then the country's largest healthcare management consulting firm. After APM's incorporation into CSC Healthcare, Mr. Stern helped run CSC's healthcare informatics subsidiary. He also spent two years as a managing director with the Crescent Group, a healthcare analysis and litigation support firm. Mr. Stern counts among his clients a wide range of healthcare practitioners and investors. His client list includes the nation’s largest pharmaceutical company; the nation’s largest investment bank; the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager; the nation’s second largest publicly-traded hospital chain; and numerous other hospital systems, healthcare companies and institutional investors. (See a client list Previously, Mr. Stern served as marketing coordinator in the medical products department of Canon's European headquarters, where he developed marketing strategy for a new healthcare information technology product. He also worked as an executive search consultant at Technics in Management Transfer in Japan. He has served as a guest lecturer in fields ranging from management and healthcare economics to journalism ethics, at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Middlebury College and Vanderbilt University. He also contributed to the textbook, Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Cases (Oster, 1995). He earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in economics from Yale College. Brian Williams oversees Stern Consulting's healthcare database and analysis functions. He has over 30 years of experience in healthcare decision support, serving in a variety of capacities. Prior to joining Stern Consulting, Mr. Williams was vice president of Net-Fast, Inc.—a web-based business intelligence firm using multi-dimensional databases to provide online analytic capabilities to hospitals and healthcare organizations. Mr. Williams designed and implemented client-specific solutions using combinations of proprietary and publicly available data.