Mr. Jeffrey A. Ashkenase has worked at GNYHA Services since 2004. Mr. Ashkenase's areas provide the information and analytics necessary to support the GNYHA Services regional contracting effort; they also provide the information and analytics the field force uses to assist our members to maximize the value of the GNYHA Services Group Purchasing Program. He is also responsible for deploying the GNYHA Services/Premier/GHX contract management technology to the member hospitals. Mr Ashkenase has worked in the health care industry for more than 10 years in non-profit, managed care, group purchasing, and government settings. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for managing costs, system implementations, optimizing the supply chain, and improving the decision support and budgeting process through the use of technology. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, he was an Associate Vice President of Finance at Maimonides Medical Center where his responsibilities included overseeing the budget, decision support department and materials management. and business information systems. Mr. Ashkenase earned his B.A. from SUNY Albany and his Masters from the NYU Wagner School.
Mr. Martin Glick joined GNYHA Services in 2006. Mr. Glick’s areas are responsible for providing the information and analytics necessary to support the GNYHA Services regional contracting effort and the information and analytics the field force uses to assist our members to maximize the value of the GNYHA Services Group Purchasing Program. Mr. Glick previously worked with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System for more than twelve years in various areas of health care administration, including finance, internal audit, and supply chain. Most recently he served as Assistant Vice President of Procurement Analytics, where he oversaw supply chain business intelligence for the Health System. Mr. Glick earned his B.B.A. in Accounting from Hofstra University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mr. Jay Fligstein joined GNYHA Services in 2005 as a Strategic Client Service Executive. In this role, Mr. Fligstein works with our member hospitals to review our contract portfolio (Regional and Premier Contracts) and to outline and develop supply chain projects and savings plans. He has also assisted with projects that join GNYHA Services/Premier technologies with materials management information systems, to bring full automation and integration to the contracting and ordering processes to help our members manage and reduce supply costs. Other responsibilities include coordination and support of our Supply Focus benchmarking tool. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, Mr. Fligstein worked as a materials executive where he had operations responsibility for Supply Chain management. He led an enterprise-wide MMIS deployment, point-of-use technology implementation, and supply chain automation as well as multi-million dollar cost savings plans. Mr. Fligstein earned his B.S. in Health Care Administration from SUNY at Old Westbury.
Mr. Daniel M. Dunphy has worked with GNYHA Services since 2004. Working with HANYS and upstate regional hospital associations, Mr. Dunphy is responsible for recruiting acute care facilities to the new statewide GNYHA Services/Premier GPO. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, Mr. Dunphy was the Director of Facility Planning and Operations at the Wartburg Adult Care Community in Mt. Vernon, NY. Prior to that, Mr. Dunphy spent 14 years at the Hospital for Special Surgery starting out as its Director of Material Management and advancing to Assistant Vice President for Administration (Facilities). Mr. Dunphy earned his B.A. from Northwestern University and M.P.A. from New York University.
Ms. Lisa Fishelberg has worked at GNYHA Services since 2005. Ms. Fishelberg is primarily responsible for deploying the GNYHA Services/Premier/GHX contract management technology to the member hospitals. She also provides information and analytics necessary to support the GNYHA Services regional contracting and field force efforts to maximize the value of the GNYHA Services Group Purchasing Program. As an experienced health care manager, she has been responsible for the operations management, financial growth, strategic planning, and business development of health care organizations. Ms. Fishelberg earned her B.S. in Social Sciences at SUNY Binghamton, NY and her M.H.A. in Healthcare Administration from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.
Mr. Babu Paturi is a Project Manager in Business Intelligence, where he has empowered GNYHA Services members with market-leading contract management solutions and processes that resulted in measurable supply chain savings. Mr. Paturi has worked for a Big Five Consulting Firm and ORACLE where he implemented supply chain solutions at Fortune 500 clients under aggressive timelines. He has a unique ability to connect with different organizational levels and inspire the human change needed to make technology effective. Mr. Paturi earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University in Michigan.
In her role as Premier Member Designation Form (PMDF) Coordinator, Ms. Janet Silva-Soto manages the PMDF process for Physician Preference contracts. She works closely with Client Service Executives, Premier vendors, and Premier to ensure account reconciliation and member access to special pricing and rebate programs. In addition to this, she also assists in various value analysis projects, which identify potential savings for the GNYHA Services membership. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, Ms. Silva-Soto worked for Innovatix, LLC where she started out as Senior Account Manager and advanced to Manager, Member Audits where she managed the member audit process and assisted members to maximize savings. Ms. Silva-Soto holds a M.S.A. in Health Services Administration from Central Michigan University and a B.A. in Health Science from Brooklyn College.
Client Service Executives
Ms. Renata Frystock began her career with GNYHA Services in 2004. Ms. Frystock is responsible for servicing GNYHA Services’ member accounts in New Jersey, Staten Island, and Brooklyn. She works collaboratively with materials executives to reduce supply and equipment expenditures, as well as improve supply chain efficiencies. She previously worked for the Joint Purchasing Corporation, as the Director for Regional Healthcare Network Services of Coastal Cooperative, a joint venture with Meridian Health System and Joint Purchasing Corporation and various managerial positions within Materials Management at Meridian Health System. Ms. Frystock earned her B.S. from Montclair State College.
Mr. C.J. LaCosta has been with GNYHA Services since 2005. Mr. LaCosta is responsible for working with member hospital supply chain executives to identify and implement supply chain goals. These collaborative activities are further supported by additional GNYHA Services resources that address -Laboratory, Clinical (Physician Preference), and Med/Surg areas. Mr. LaCosta comes to GNYHA Services after more than six years of consultative sales experience across multiple industries. Mr. LaCosta earned his B.A. from Coastal Carolina University.
Mr. Lawrence Mandel has worked with GNYHA Services since 1997. Mr. Mandel is responsible for servicing GNYHA Services’ member accounts in Long Island, Queens, and Brooklyn, working collaboratively with Materials Executives to reduce supply and equipment expenditures and improve supply chain efficiencies. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, Mr. Mandel worked for Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center as the Senior Buyer for Materials Management. Prior to that, Mr. Mandel worked at Elmhurst Hospital Center as the Assistant Director of Materials Management.
Mr. Raul Tosado has worked at GNYHA Services since 2001. Mr. Tosado is responsible for providing Client Services to those GNYHA Services/Premier member hospitals that utilize the GPO portfolio. His primary role is to assist the members to demonstrate value by using contracts that can save the hospitals with their goals to reduce cost in supply chain. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, Mr. Tosado was the Director of Material Manager at Barnert Hospital and was responsible for all the supply chain initiatives. Mr. Tosado has 23 years of experience working at various health care facilities throughout New Jersey. Mr. Tosado has earned his B.S. from Jersey City State College.
Ms. Ann Vayos is the Strategic Client Services Executive for HHC Central Office. In her current position, she focuses on identifying savings opportunities available to HHC through GNYHA Services Enhanced Local Agreements and Premier Contracts, while also assisting them in meeting some of their goals, e.g., moving towards a centralized process.
Ms. Vayos has been in the health insurance and pharmaceutical/medical-surgical distribution industries for more than 20 years. Previously, she held the position of Assistant Director of Projects, Purchasing and Supplier Diversity at HIP Health Insurance Plan of New York. At HIP, she implemented several cost savings opportunities, negotiated national contracts resulting in multi-million dollar savings, assisted in standardizing products and contracts across company business units, managed projects which involved leading a team to successfully build and furnish new Medical Center facilities.
Ms. Vayos is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook University and is a Certified Lean Facilitator. She was able to utilize her Lean skills during her last position, facilitating a cross-functional team to re-evaluate their current business process, eliminating rework, reducing lead time, and ultimately meeting the customer’s timelines and requirements.
Mr. Eric Wiener joined GNYHA Services in June of 2004. Mr. Wiener works collaboratively with GNYHA Service member accounts in various cost reduction projects while promoting technology and supply chain improvements. After spearheading several successful Benchmarking projects, Mr. Wiener has begun the integration between Premier’s Supply Focus Benchmark data and the Benchmark tools available in Spend Advisor, a fee-based tool that helps members identify savings opportunities. This has enabled members to begin identifying areas of opportunity that were previously unexplored. Along with bringing the most up-to-date technology to members, he also acts as the liaison between the members and all of the resources GNYHA Services has to offer. Prior to this role, he worked on site in one of GNYHA's member accounts managing and implementing contracts as well as reducing supply costs for Nexera Consulting.
Mr. Wiener currently holds a B.B.A. in Information Decision Technology Management and an M.B.A. in Management. He is an active member of AHRMM, the American College of Healthcare Executives and Beta Gamma Sigma, the highest recognition a business student can achieve.
Mr. David Wolf joined GNYHA Services in June 2007. Mr. Wolf is responsible for servicing GNYHA Services’ member accounts in Long Island, Queens, and Brooklyn, working collaboratively with Materials Executives to reduce supply and equipment expenditures and improve supply chain efficiencies. Most recently, Mr. Wolf worked as a Senior Financial Analyst providing the analytics necessary to enhance the GNYHA Services regional contracting effort and also assisting our members to maximize the value of the GNYHA Services Group Purchasing Program. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, Mr. Wolf spent more than five years as both an equity analyst and trader on Wall Street. Mr. Wolf earned his B.S. in Economics from New York University.
Business Analyists
Ms. Cathy Cudmore joined GNYHA Services in 2008. Ms. Cudmore is a supply chain analyst, responsible for the analytics required in assisting member hospitals to identify cost savings. Prior to joining the Business Solutions Group, Ms. Cudmore worked as an assistant to the President of GNYHA Ventures, Inc., Lee H. Perlman, from 2008-2009. Ms. Cudmore earned her B.S. from Binghamton University.
Ms. Erin Cummings has worked with GNYHA Services since 2002. Ms. Cummings is responsible for overseeing the volume and fee reporting and planning for the Group Purchasing program. She also manages the GNYHA Services affiliation agreements. Before joining GNYHA Services, Ms. Cummings worked as a buyer/planner for Melles Griot Optical System. Ms. Cummings earned her B.S. from Binghamton University School of Management.
Ms. Deanna Lowe has been a part of the GNYHA Services team since 2007. Her responsibilities include conducting daily analytics to demonstrate to member hospitals their full potential in savings. Prior to joining GNYHA Services, she was a Supply Chain Analyst at Harley Davidson and Project Manager at Ed Venture Partners. She earned her B.A. with honors in Business Administration, with a concentration in Supply Chain Management, from Clark Atlanta University.
Mr. Daniel Munoz-Tobon started working for GNYHA Services as a Senior Financial Analyst in 2007. Previously, Mr. Munoz-Tobon worked at the Purchasing and Materials Department in South Florida at one of the largest IDNs in the country. He brings more than seven years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, purchasing, and planning.
Ms. Sarah Neubert joined GNYHA Services in 2007. Ms. Neubert is responsible for assisting member hospitals in identifying cost savings in partnership with one of the nation’s leading group purchasing organizations. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and an M.H.A. in Healthcare Administration from Nebraska's Bellevue University.
Mr. Ross D. Roberts has worked as a Financial Analyst at GNYHA Services since 2006. Mr. Roberts' area provides the information and analytics necessary to support the GNYHA Services regional contracting effort and the Client Service field force who assist our members in maximizing the value of the GNYHA Services Group Purchasing Program. He also contributes to the regional contracting effort at GNYHA Services, with responsibilities related to all dietary contracts. He earned his B.A. from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Ms. Danielle Stanzione began working as a Supply Chain Analyst for GNYHA Services in 2009. Ms. Stanzione provides analytical support to member hospitals in order to identify cost savings. She earned her B.A. in economics from Rutgers University.
Mr. Sam Varughese has been working at GNYHA Services since 2000. After starting as a Financial Analyst, he has taken on the role as Field Service Contract Analyst. He supports Client Service Executives in fulfilling GNYHA Services business initiatives. He assists multiple GNYHA Services Member facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, and New Jersey to identify cost reduction opportunities. He aids facilities in doing price activations, answers contract inquiries, and various purchasing related issues. Prior to GNYHA Services, he worked for The New York Metropolitan Opera in managing their membership and prior to that, he was a pharmacy technician for Thriftway Pharmacy.