Category: Leadership

A transformational marketing & communications executive with foresight and imagination, Tricia Egry is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at ProspHire, a national healthcare consulting firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has a history of surpassing ambitious business goals and delivering revolutionary digital marketing innovations that ensure memorable client experiences. Tricia has a consistent record of positioning organizations for success, spurring multi-million-dollar sales growth and developing ground-breaking marketing solutions that demonstrate a profound dedication to client engagement.

As part of the executive leadership team at ProspHire, she is responsible for building and driving a marketing & communications strategy that will unify client experience, brand purpose, creative communications and marketing technology, while inspiring a team of nearly 100 employees and consultants across the U.S.

Known for being a trusted advisor and consultant, Tricia has more than 25 years of experience in delivering high-impact, integrated marketing, brand and communications strategies across diverse industries, locations and geographies. Prior to joining ProspHire, she served as National Marketing & Communications Leader of Field Teams at BDO, USA, where she spearheaded marketing & communications strategies for more than 60 U.S. offices by leading the development and execution of go-to-market plans that included digital and social media campaigns, public relations and advertising initiatives, sales enablement and bid management and event and sponsorship strategies.  She came to BDO through the expansion of Alpern Rosenthal, where she led strategic marketing initiatives for numerous industries as Director of Marketing.

Prior, she was the head of the marketing department for a national scientific laboratory and consulting firm, where she managed marketing & communications programs for the headquarters and five spin-off companies. Tricia’s career experience also includes global event management, education program development, television news producing and reporting and radio broadcasting.

Fun Fact: Tricia has been a Latin Dancer for more than 20 years. She was a member of Los Salseros Caliente Dance Team and performed at night clubs and salsa congresses around the country.

Francis is the VP of Operations at ProspHire and a member of the Firm’s Executive Leadership Team. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing many of the Firm’s operational business units, including Finance, IT and Administrative Operations.  

Francis brings 15 years of experience leading large-scale, complex business transformation projects in both client and consulting environments for healthcare and insurance companies. He previously served in a Managing Director role at ProspHire, where he led the Business Growth and Expansion service offering. He also served as the account leader for a managed service organization and third-party administrator and oversaw multiple programs to advance data management, data governance and business implementation and transformation initiatives. He supported the Firm’s technology infrastructure and command center, as well. He began his career as a Consultant at Deloitte.  

Fun Fact: Francis harnessed his adaptability and love for meeting new people at a young age. Growing up, he attended 12 different grade schools including 3 separate high schools from kindergarten through his senior year. 

Kathleen is an accomplished Human Resources (HR) executive with more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing, government contracting, local government and non-profit sectors. As the Director of Human Resources for ProspHire, she is responsible for developing and executing human resources strategies in support of the overall human capital business plan and strategic direction of the Firm. Kathleen is committed to helping practitioners stand out by using a collaborative leadership approach, forming solid relationships and helping them achieve quality outcomes. Developing and executing people-centric organizational strategies is her area of expertise. 

Kathleen started her career at Lockheed Martin. She was selected to be part of the Leadership Development Program and served multiple roles including Compensation Analyst, HR Business Partner and Labor Relations Representative and later joined the company’s Intelligence Division.  

After Lockheed, Kathleen served in several HR roles across the U.S. She was an HR Generalist for Hope Community Resources in Anchorage, AK and an HR Supervisor for Graphic Packaging International in Monroe, LA.   

Kathleen put down roots in southwestern Pennsylvania and served as Director of HR for Washington County, where she oversaw the County’s Human Resources, Labor Relations and Occupational Safety and Health activities. She then moved to Pathways of Southwest PA as EVP of Human Resources. Prior to ProspHire, she took a role as Chief Talent Strategist for Cline Human Capital Consulting, where she obtained certifications as a Predictive Index and Talent Optimization Consultant.  

Fun Fact: She is ambidextrous which means she is part of the 1% population that can use both their right and left hands!

Tim is a Managing Director for ProspHire, serving commercial and non-profit health plans and state health agencies to improve administrative, operational and clinical process and technology effectiveness.

Tim has a diverse engagement experience ranging from core operational and clinical process and technology implementation, intelligent automation (process robotics), operational analytics, Medicaid and Medicare processes and systems implementation and operational, platform and costs assessments, remediation and strategy roadmap development.

With more than twenty years of consulting and advisory services, including with EY and Accenture, Tim has led and delivered large and complex business and system transformational initiatives across all three books of business: commercial, Medicare and Medicaid. Tim has authored articles related to the impact of the public health emergency on payers; value-based insurance design drives cost savings and improved care; health organizations move toward value-based care; and, effective infrastructure can power care coordination. Prior to consulting, Tim held financial and information systems auditing and accounting positions.

Fun Fact: Tim is a struggling “hacker” but still loves the game that can never be mastered – golf.  And if he can’t get out to the course, he’s always up for fly fishing on a picturesque stream.

Luke is a Managing Director for Prosphire. He specializes in Information Technology (IT) advisory for provider-based healthcare systems with expertise in strategic information system planning, system implementation roadmaps and management of complex system implementations. Throughout his 15+ years of experience, he has managed several large-scale healthcare technology projects, contributed significantly to business development and established himself as a healthcare technology leader in the industry.

Luke has extensive expertise in strategic information system planning, system implementation roadmap development and complex system implementation management. He brings deep knowledge of program/portfolio management, revenue cycle and ambulatory, dental and post-acute workflows to each of his client engagements.

Prior to joining ProspHire, Luke served as a Partner with Cumberland Consulting Group in Chicago and in a consultant role with Ernst & Young.

Luke is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute and is a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Fun Fact: Luke plays the drums in a classic rock cover band called “The Bucks” in Chicago. They cover the Beatles, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd and a couple of originals.