Zachary (Zach) advises healthcare provider organizations navigating complex market and financial objectives. He works closely with executive teams and their boards to develop and execute actionable strategies, including transactions, integrations, and large-scale financial transformations.
About Zach
Zach helps clients translate complex strategies into coordinated execution. His expertise spans operational and financial due diligence, buy-side and sell-side transactions, separation and integration, restructuring and turnaround, treasury operations, working capital optimization, and broader operating model transformations. Select experience throughout Zach’s career includes the following:
- Led the integration management office for systems acquiring hospitals and clinics out of Chapter 11 §363 sale processes, including being on the buy-side in two of the largest health system bankruptcies in the nation’s history.
- Led numerous day-one readiness and post-close integration efforts for large academic systems acquiring community hospitals, including complex multihospital carve-outs.
- Led complex multicampus assessments for health systems contemplating legal and regulatory consolidation of facilities within their system, and planned and executed corresponding implementations yielding significant positive financial and operational outcomes.
- Served as debtor-side financial advisor to health systems in Chapter 11, forbearance, and other near-filing, high-distress scenarios.
- Led multiyear operating model transformations spanning treasury, procure-to-pay, financial planning and analysis, decision support, and internal audit.
- Developed custom leading-practice digitized cash flow forecasting solutions and established organizational governance around cash flow management.
Before joining Huron, Zach served as an Assistant Vice President in the healthcare division of one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, where he focused on treasury operations.
In 2025, Consulting Magazine recognized Zach as a Rising Star of the Profession for Excellence in Strategy Consulting in the Financial Advisory category.
Zach earned a Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.