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Ron is the CEO of Capital Signal Analytics (CSA). Prior to assuming the executive leadership of CSA, Ron held senior leadership positions in organizations focused on healthcare litigation analytics. Additionally, he was the National Health Care Practice Leader for both Aon Risk Solutions and Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. In his tenure at Aon, Ron was a Managing Director with Aon Global Strategy responsible for facilitating collaboration between Aon Risk Solutions, Aon Hewitt, and Aon Benfield to support Aon’s healthcare industry clients during transition to novel value-based payment models.

Having over 30 years of executive leadership experience in the health care risk consulting and brokerage industry, Ron has served on the Board of the Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Health Care, the Advisory Boards of Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management Healthcare MBA Program, and the National Safety Net Advancement Center. As an invited member to the National Health Care Transformation Task Force’s Bundled Payment Workgroup and the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative, Ron helped to map financial standards for ACOs.

Ron earned his BSBA at The Citadel (Major in Accounting), and his MHRD from Clemson University. Before he entered the healthcare industry, Ron served in the U.S. Navy as a Submarine Service (SS) qualified member of the U.S. Naval Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Warfare Group, having served on the USS Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655), USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), and the USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641). An avid outdoorsman, Ron and his wife Martha live in the mountains of North Carolina.

Carol Burkhart is the Chief Innovation Officer for Capital Signal Analytics. She began her career as a critical care nurse at Michael Reese Hospital, a large Level 1 trauma and academic medical where she also served as the Nurse Data Coordinator liaison with the National Cancer Institute, helping to ensure timely and accurate reporting of clinical trials data. Upon completing her Master’s degree and Nurse Practitioner training at Rush University in Chicago, Carol worked for an affiliated private General Surgery group practice as a Nurse Practitioner before transitioning to non-clinical roles as a Hospital Risk Manager, Compliance Officer, and Privacy Official. Building upon her ability to work with various governmental entities, she served as Associate Director of Government Relations for The Joint Commission, the primary domestic and international accreditor of healthcare organizations and later at PwC as the Director of Performance, Risk, Governance, and Compliance for PwC’s healthcare advisory clients.

With over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Carol has served as the Chief Operating Officer for a privately held data analytics group, SVP of Aon Global Strategy, and SVP of Healthcare Risk Consulting for Aon Healthcare. She has provided expert advisory on risk, compliance, data, and regulatory issues for domestic and international clients including integrated healthcare delivery systems, Ministries of Health, ACOs, commercial and public payers, hospitals, ASCs, and medical groups. As an invited member and contributing author of the national Accountable Care Learning Collaborative’s Quality Subcommittee, she helped map ACO quality standards. Currently residing in the northwest suburbs of Illinois, Carol has a special interest in child welfare and currently volunteers her time as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Illinois foster children.