Ralph T. Wakerly

Ralph is a senior consultant with expertise in healthcare, business strategy, new business start-ups, marketing and information management. He has conducted high impact consulting engagements for more than 75 healthcare related organizations, including firms such as 3M Health Information Systems, GE Healthcare, IBM Healthlink, HIMSS, the Scottsdale Institute and many leading healthcare delivery organizations and health plans. Prior to starting his own firm, he was the vice president of marketing for First Consulting Group, a $275M healthcare information technology services firm. Ralph is also a co-founder of C-Suite Resources, a strategic healthcare advisory and educational organization.

As part of his mission to help individuals attain career success, Ralph serves as an Adjunct Consultant for Right Management, the world’s largest career transition consulting firm. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the Elmhurst College School for Advanced Learning where he teaches Management, Marketing and Leadership. Ralph is an advisor to the Scottsdale Institute, and a board member of the University of Illinois’ Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering and the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. He holds a B.S. in General Engineering and MBA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 

Michael J. Mytych

Mike has over 26 years experience in healthcare information systems, including extensive hospital and physician based clinical information systems consulting. Mr. Mytych has performed numerous consulting projects ranging from vendor evaluation and strategic systems planning for health systems, to sales, marketing, product strategy and competitive analysis for healthcare information systems vendors. He has in-depth knowledge of more than 25 leading health information systems vendors serving health delivery systems, physician groups and RHIOs.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Mike was Vice President of Sales, West for the Physician Systems division at Baxter. He has also worked extensively with the Investment Banking Community to assist in performing due diligence, sales and product evaluations, strategy validation and other activities for merger and acquisition transactions. Mike is also a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in the Health Care Informatics Masters Program. He holds a B.S. in Economics and an MBA from Marquette University, Milwaukee.