Dan Buell
Summary
High-integrity, visionary, performance-driven and innovative senior executive with a track record of developing industry leading software products, services, systems, methodologies and data analytic solutions that have revolutionized several industries. Widely recognized for earning employee trust and loyalty, building and retaining outstanding customer relationships and driving product innovation that out-performs competitors and the market. Adept and accomplished at scaling businesses of all sizes. Consistently achieves financial targets, driving top and bottom-line growth in businesses that have ranged from $5,000,000 to $350,000,000 in annual revenues. Experience includes investor-backed, private and publicly traded companies. Considered an expert in clinical healthcare, revenue cycle management and full-cycle financial services business segments. Responsible for managing over $5,000,000,000 in revenues, $1,800,000,000 in margins, $1,200,000,000 in acquisitions and integrations and $1,000,000,000 in new product revenues throughout career. A driven and accomplished leader, who drives culture, and promotes growth and profitability in the short and long term.
Core Competencies
Leading Change
Results-Driven Focus
Business Acumen
- Transitional Leadership Expertise:Directed and served as the Chief Executive in post-founder/post-transactional
environments on seven occasions ranging from $5,000,000 to $350,000,000 in annual revenues. - Creativity and Innovation: Developed innovative new products, services and methodologies across several business segments that have generated revenues in excess of $1,000,000,000. Inventor of US20170372389A1 United States Patent for Adaptive and tunable risk processing system and method.
- Vision and Strategic Thinking: Identified startup healthcare market opportunity, built consensus on the vision, secured buy- in and funding, developed strategic plan that included both organic and inorganic elements, executed on $1,200,000,000 in acquisitions over a five-year period, ran integration on the acquisitions and served as post-integration operational leader.
- Flexibility: Flexible and resilient strategic operator. Generated growth in cyclical and countercyclical climates through a number of economic cycles including the recession of 2007-2009; guided under-performing businesses to growth.
- External Awareness : Established external and internal relationships with various Boards, committees, investors, analysts and media affiliates. Presented performance results at investor relations events across the globe. Recognized public speaker and writer in the healthcare and financial services industries. Media-trained spokesperson with experience providing interviews to a number of media organizations including Yahoo! Finance, National Public Radio, etc.
- Team Building: Constructed, groomed and retained high-performing teams. Recognized for earning employee trust and loyalty, achieved world-class employee engagement and satisfaction scores.
- Developing Others: Formally and informally mentored and provided feedback, opportunities to learn, and a climate for others to perform and contribute to organizational objectives while growing their skills and business acumen. Have developed dozens of executives and specialists throughout the financial services and healthcare industries.
- Conflict Management: Managed conflict situations amongst staff to optimal, “win/win” outcomes and built programs to address matters of ambiguity such as aspects of sales compensation plans, etc. Encouraged creative tension and difference of opinions, proactively disintermediated counter-productive behaviors and secured constructive outcomes in conflict scenarios.
- Leveraging Diversity: Championed for diversity and valued individual differences that were leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the organization.
Results-Driven Focus
- Results Orientation: Consistently out-performed the industry and competitor growth rates. Produced high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, calculating risks and executing on strategies to achieve superior financial results.
- Accountability: Held self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determined objectives, set priorities, and delegated work. Accepted responsibility for mistakes and complied with established control systems and rules of governance.
- Customer Service: Anticipated and met the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivered high-quality products and services that demonstrated a commitment to continuous improvement. Known for high customer retention and strong customer relationships.
- Decisiveness: Made well-informed, effective and timely decisions, even when data was limited or solutions produced unpleasant consequences. Perceived the impact and implication of decisions.
- Entrepreneurship: Positioned the organizations for future success by identifying new opportunities. Developed new products and services while improving existing product and service results. Took calculated risks to accomplish organizational objectives.
- Problem Solving: Identified and analyzed problems, weighed relevance and accuracy of information; generated and evaluated alternative solutions.
- Technical Credibility: Understood and appropriately applied principles, procedures, requirements, regulations and policies related to specialized expertise.
Business Acumen
- Strategic Business Acumen: Exercised the ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically.
- Financial Management: Understood the organizational financial processes. Prepared justified, and administered budgets, forecasts and financial updates at the highest level. Oversaw procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Monitored expenditures and used cost-benefit thinking to establish priorities.
- Human Capital Management: Built and managed the workforce based on organizational goals, budget consideration, and staffing needs. Ensured that employees were appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; took action to address performance problems. Managed a multi-sector workforce within a variety of climates and localities.
- Technology Management: Kept up to date on technological developments. Made effective use of technology to achieve results. Ensured access to and security of technology systems.
Experience
DECISION RESEARCH CORPORATION, Honolulu, Hawaii
Chief Operating Officer
Feb. 2022 - Today
Experian Health, a $350,000,000 division of Experian (Dublin, Ireland), who is a €5,000,000,000 global information services group with 17,000 employees and operations in more than 40 countries. Experian is one of the largest data and analytics companies in the world. Founded health division for Experian in 2007, architected and developed Experian Health growth strategy, led $1,200,000,000 in acquisitions from 2008 - 2013, ran integration on all acquisitions and served as the operational leader/General Manager for the consolidated organization with $350M in revenues and 750 employees. Oversaw the development of healthcare revenue cycle management software and services offerings for over 3,000 hospitals and 150,000 physician practices across the U.S. Highly complex software offerings provided a robust series of capabilities including orders, scheduling, eligibility, patient access, claims & contract management, patient engagement, population health and patient collections.
• Led the acquisition for Passport Health for $850,000,000 in 2013, the largest North American acquisition in Experian’s history.
• Recognized for leading the
Chief Operating Officer
Feb. 2022 - Today
Experian Health, a $350,000,000 division of Experian (Dublin, Ireland), who is a €5,000,000,000 global information services group with 17,000 employees and operations in more than 40 countries. Experian is one of the largest data and analytics companies in the world. Founded health division for Experian in 2007, architected and developed Experian Health growth strategy, led $1,200,000,000 in acquisitions from 2008 - 2013, ran integration on all acquisitions and served as the operational leader/General Manager for the consolidated organization with $350M in revenues and 750 employees. Oversaw the development of healthcare revenue cycle management software and services offerings for over 3,000 hospitals and 150,000 physician practices across the U.S. Highly complex software offerings provided a robust series of capabilities including orders, scheduling, eligibility, patient access, claims & contract management, patient engagement, population health and patient collections.
• Led the acquisition for Passport Health for $850,000,000 in 2013, the largest North American acquisition in Experian’s history.
• Recognized for leading the