David L. "Wally" Ward

Wally Ward is an accomplished healthcare advisor and disruptor who has helped clients discover new strategies and navigate complex and transformative business initiatives for more than 30 years. An active listener and solutions architect, his experience as a consultant has focused on driving profitability, performance, and growth initiatives for large payer organizations and provider systems throughout the country, including a number of the largest payers in health care. His work involves many areas including strategy development, new business ventures, operational improvement, financial turn-around, business transformation, provider network development, and medical cost management.

EXPERIENCE

Wally has worked closely with providers and payers to develop strategies related to new ventures and business performance improvement involving collaborative approaches to meet current market and business challenges. Wally has worked in various environments to bridge the gap between payers and providers to develop innovative approaches to financial performance, network development, customer engagement, and product development.

Prior to joining Optimity Advisors, Wally was a Managing Director of the Southeast Region and the Health Care Advisory Market Leader at Ernst & Young. There he led the development and delivery of EY services and solution to large payer and provider organizations in the region. His clients included large healthcare systems, academic medical centers, and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans.

In addition to his background as an executive consultant, Wally's industry experience includes roles as a CEO, COO, CFO, and Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for large payer and provider organizations including Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Georgia and Washington, DC.

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