Huron Consulting Group Inc. announced 33 managing director and principal promotions to further support its strategic objectives and growth goals. Simar Grewal is a managing director and an experienced change agent who has spent more than 20 years helping organizations adapt and transform in response to changes in the energy market. Simar helps global organizations in the oil and gas, utilities and renewables industry use digital solutions to transform their operations and improve performance.

Abhi Gupta is a principal with more than 10 years of experience providing financial and management consulting services to enhance profitability and liquidity at public and private companies across varying situations and growth stages. Peter Haas is a managing director with more than a decade of experience managing and leading patient throughput, status management and workforce optimization projects at numerous hospitals, health systems and academic health centers. Kristine Hartley is a principal with more than 20 years of healthcare IT technical experience.

She has vast expertise with reporting, report conversion, technical projects, and data mapping. Bridget Hayes is a principal with more than 25 years of healthcare experience, serving in leadership positions in both consulting and hospital environments. Amanda Kirkland is a principal with more than 16 years of experience in ambulatory leadership and medical group consulting.

She has specific expertise in improving performance of providers and staff, enhancing ambulatory operations, and ensuring sustainable changes for all types of healthcare organizations, physician organizations, and ambulatory practices. Leah McCanna is a principal with more than 14 years of experience leading large-scale healthcare consumer experience and performance improvement engagements. She has led engagements, including consumer experience design facilitation and strategy development, journey mapping, and experience-related operational improvement engagements.

Leah leads the development and delivery of Huron's consumer transformation solutions. Christopher McElroy is a managing director with more than 22 years of experience helping clients across industries plan, build, and sustain organizational and operational transformation by optimizing their supply chain. He provides clients innovative supply chain solutions that empower them to elevate and optimize their systems and operations, unlock efficiency and productivity, achieve their business goals, and drive revenue.

Brendan McHughis a managing director with more than 15 years of experience leading large ERP implementation teams in higher education and healthcare, managing programs to achieve delivery on time and within scope and budget. Ellen McLaughlin is a principal with more than 20 years of experience helping cancer centers, academic medical centers and other research institutions prepare for the future. She specializes in guiding and advising leaders through research enterprise transformation and strategic planning.

Wendy Meisteris a principal with more than 20 years of experience advising 30 research institutions, academic health centers and hospitals on ways to enhance institutional cost recovery and transform their approach to research administration. Eisar Mortazavi is a managing director with more than 13 years of expertise in advising clients on technology solutions including ERP/EPM, business intelligence, robotic process automation, and process mining tools to help streamline planning processes, reporting, and analytics improvements. Whitney O'Brien is a principal with more than 19 years of managing complex projects, implementing change management strategies, deploying technology enhancements, ensuring ongoing process improvement, and supporting change with appropriate communication strategies.

Tom Olsen is a principal and an experienced leader with a track record of leading innovation, strategy, and cross-functional teams to drive results through both tactical improvement and transformational change. He is skilled at analyzing requirements and translating business needs into comprehensive technical strategies, road maps, build and implementation plans and architecture. Anthony Rackiis a managing director with more than 15 years of experience guiding organizations through digital transformation.

He is a healthcare technology and electronic health record (EHR) expert who works with healthcare providers to leverage current and planned technology investments to increase efficiency, improve clinical care, accelerate revenue cycle performance, and enhance the patient experience. Sounder Rajan is a managing director and technology and analytics expert with more than 17 years of experience helping organizations modernize their financial systems. Sounder has extensive experience leading large delivery teams responsible for implementing Oracle's cloud-based solutions for budgeting, planning, profitability and cost management. Jennifer Rameyis a principal with more than 20 years of experience in higher education administration with a focus on strategy and operations improvements to enhance performance and maximize effective utilization of funds and campus resources.

She is recognized for her strong communication and crisis management skills and ability to engage and increase employee and student satisfaction and success. David Richardsonis a managing director with more than a decade of experience advising universities, children's hospitals and cancer centers on ways to strengthen their approach to research administration. Nicole Riseyis a managing director with more than 15 years of experience helping complex multifacility healthcare providers transform their revenue cycle, and design and implement leading-practice enhancements in large academic medical centers, public sector hospital systems and physician practices.

Cathy Salesis a principal with a successful history overseeing project execution, implementing new processes, driving cultural change and collaborating with her clients to solve complex business challenges. Bobby Singhis a managing director with more than 10 years of healthcare experience focusing on financial and operational improvements. Lee Smith is a managing director with more than 16 years of experience working with institutions to champion transformation and successfully implement strategic, innovative initiatives.

Samba Subramanianis a principal with more than 20 years of experience helping global healthcare institutions improve performance and employee and patient engagement. Marisa Zuskaris a managing director with more than 16 years of experience working with research institutions to transform their sponsored research and achieve operational improvements, as well as addressing a variety of research compliance challenges.