Senior leaders who love to wrestle with complex issues
Anissa Davenport
Anissa Davenport has worked in healthcare for over 25 years in various roles to strategically develop businesses through innovation, customer experience and go-to-market strategies. She has a passion for helping organizations and individuals unleash their potential and discover solutions that once seemed unreachable.
Anissa’s experiences include serving as the Chief Strategic Development and Marketing Officer for Vidant Health (now ECU Health) where she led and facilitated strategic transformations in health care during her 14-year tenure. She started Vidant’s care innovation division, launched its first virtual care strategy and led the redesign of the system’s digital front door experience. As an early adopter of technology in business, Anissa served as President and Partner of an award-winning web development and marketing firm where she helped national and regional organizations re-imagine their businesses through building internal cultures and driving external growth. She began her professional career working for national and regional marketing firms, where she managed national tourism and consumer accounts.
Anissa has a unique ability to develop strategic plans for growth and innovation while also focusing on pragmatic delivery of results and execution. She has a passion for and enjoys coaching and developing others and maximizing the potential of organizations and is known for her contagious curiosity. Anissa holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and is a certified SquadifyPro in team assessments.
Dave Eilers
David Eilers is an enterprise leader focused on the convergence of technology development, innovation platforms, and user engagement. Dave has held a variety of management positions in large multi-national biotech companies, including one which launched the first video endoscopy platform.
Over the course of his 25-year healthcare career he’s pioneered new products, opened new international markets, and developed new business models. His focus on the healthcare industry has resulted in strategic growth through his work with the Marmon Group/ Roundtable Healthcare Partners, resulting in a $785 Million acquisition by AngioTech Pharmaceuticals. Dave continued his innovation work by co-founding a technology accelerator for Welch Allyn Medical, launching the Life Reimagined Institute for AARP, and co-developing the Innovation90 program for the American Hospital Association (AHA) Center for Innovation.
Dave is the Founder of INext90 Advisors, specializing in transformational innovation and strategic growth across the continuum of healthcare. Skilled in a number of human-centered design methods, Innovation90 has helped dozens of health and wellness institutions develop new models of digital patient engagement, care coordination, efficient discharge procedures, population health, integrated care for children—all within a ninety-day cycle.
In addition, Dave serves as Adjunct Faculty member at Syracuse University’s Innovation Law Center and MBA programs teaching Corporate Entrepreneurship, is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with an early-stage venture fund and serves on the Board of Advisors for Lexington Wellness Holdings. Dave often speaks to innovation communities interested in the design thinking practices and commercialization of emergent technologies.
Brooke Hynes
Brooke Tyson Hynes has 30 years of experience helping organizations tell their stories. She has served as an advisor to executives, led internal communications campaigns, rebranded companies and managed crises. She is passionate about the connection between communications, organizational development and learning, having recently completed her master’s in Organizational Learning and Leaders at George Washington University. Her career includes work for hospitals, health plans, creative agencies, non-profits, assisted living communities, and numerous other organizations.
Prior to beginning her consulting business, she served as Tufts Medical Center's Vice President of Marketing and Communications and Senior Vice President for Tufts MC’s parent organization, Tufts Medicine. She transformed the academic medical center’s marketing initiatives, including rebranding the organization. She led Tufts MC through a strategic review to define its unique market opportunity and developed a program to educate and align its leaders and employees around the organization’s brand promise.
Brooke continues to work with Tufts Medicine today as a consultant, helping the CEO communicate his strategic vision, gain buy in and implement significant change. She spearheaded the organization’s rebranding.
Previously, Brooke worked for O’Neill and Associates, one of Boston’s top public relations firms. She led the accounts for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Mass 2020 extended school day initiative and Benchmark Assisted Living.
A Milton, Mass. resident, North Carolina native and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, she was named to the Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40 list. In addition to her master’s, she earned a Strategic Change Management Certificate from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.