Don Black

Services for Industry

  • Strategy
  • Facilitation
  • Speaking
  • Leadership
  • Private Equity Strategy Development

    Don excels in strategy development for private equity firms and emerging medical companies. He has a realistic view of healthcare and brings clarity to working with complex academic medical centers and group purchasing organizations. His unique perspective on the healthcare industry, coupled with his facilitation and strategic thinking skills allow Don to serve as a key advisor to manufacturers and consulting firms to develop market-transforming solutions children’s hospitals and the provider community for many years.

    Don is widely known for maximizing the value of investments. Having been a key advisor to hospitals and actively engaged in numerous for-profit ventures, Don offers clients access to an unparalleled network of professionals with deep expertise and perspective.

    Read more about Don’s experience in advising start-ups and venture capital partnerships.

    Areas of Expertise: Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical Companies, Distribution Firms, Medical Product and Supply Manufacturers, GPOs, Supply Chain Management

    Private Equity Strategy Development services:

    • Facilitate relationship building with key decision-makers in group purchasing organizations, IDNs and key national accounts
    • Provide advisory services designed to bring innovative medical devices and technologies to market
    • Guide or assist strategic task forces with planning, implementing and evaluating merger and acquisition opportunities
    • Conduct scenario-based planning focused on profiting from uncertainty in the healthcare marketplace
    • Accelerate innovation in a crowded healthcare/technology space
    • Facilitate business simulation to accelerate short-term growth in the marketplace
    • Guide senior leaders in managing emerging technologies
    • Establish effective national accounts programs