Tony focuses on developing strategic branding while building powerful partnerships to deliver revenues and profits. He is a motivational and passionate team leader who energizes others to accomplish exceptional performance in planning, business development, sales and marketing.
Tony applies his more than 30 years of business and consulting experience, transforming teams toward
generative corporate lifestyle habits that create more agile/adaptive cultures for the sake of better business
outcomes.
- managing complexity, polarities and introducing change
- inspiring others towards a challenging future vision
- building consensus and commitment
- leading across generations
- winning the transition
Tony is a results-driven executive and top corporate officer with a demonstrated track record of
achievement in transformational management, business strategy, marketing, entrepreneurship and cross-
functional team leadership. Established capabilities in profit/loss management, innovation best practices
and customer experience.
He is adept at piloting organizations through strategic inflection points to a position of strength and
advantage (while simultaneously nurturing the financial health of the core business). Tony specializes in
empowering enterprise-wide focus on essential customer-centric business capabilities, brand positioning
initiatives, marketing strategies and execution in multiple industries.
Tony is the CEO of Pivot Health Advisors, a management consulting firm committed to advancing
commercial products/services that help advance and evolve the U.S. health system. The team serves as
Advisors, consultants and partners with companies that are seeking to understand and navigate the
complexities of the health care market. As former C-suite executives from major health systems, rural
hospitals and national industry organizations, Pivot is uniquely positioned to guide companies toward the
quadruple aim in health care.
Most recently, Tony served on the executive committee of American Hospital Association (AHA) as senior
vice president and also served as president and CEO of both AHA Solutions, Inc., and AHA SmartMarket,
Inc., AHA for-profit subsidiaries.
During his nearly 20-year tenure with the AHA, Tony formed and advised more than 250
strategic/collaborative partnerships under the AHA brand, providing significant value to health care
providers and turning the endorsement into a valuable differentiator for products and services serving
health care.
A serial entrepreneur, Tony also created the National Healthcare Career Network launched in 2009 and
has since aligned more than 320 professional associations and specialty societies to address the nation’s
health care workforce shortages. He also spearheaded the development of AHA SmartMarket, an online
platform designed to connect health care professionals with their peers and experts in the field.
Prior to AHA, Tony counseled clients at one of the world’s leading marketing/communications firms and
managing financial communications for Sara Lee Corporation, a Fortune 50 consumer product company in
Chicago. Tony was principal of his own marketing consulting firm in Chicago, where he counseled AHA
Solutions, as well as other local and national organizations.
Tony earned his degree in marketing from California State University at Fullerton. He is Senior Fellow of
the Healthcare Research and Educational Trust (HRET) and is a member of the Healthcare Financial
Management Association, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Society for
Healthcare Strategy and Market Development, Health Care Compliance Association and the American
Society of Association Executives. He is also a certified Executive Coach and Innovation Black Belt.
In 2009, Tony launched the ProActive Kids Foundation, a private 501(c)3 foundation to address the social,
health, and personal issues related to childhood obesity in local communities. In this capacity, he also
serves on several advisory boards for organizations focused on child health and obesity.
Tony lives in Geneva, IL and has three daughters, Alexandra, Claire and Gabrielle. In July 2012, he
married Nicole (Nicki) Klinkhamer, a marketing consultant. Nicki is now also serving as executive director
of the ProActive Kids Foundation. In his spare time, he enjoys motorcycles, golf and tennis.
. Tony focuses on developing strategic branding while building
powerful partnerships to deliver revenues and profits. He is a motivational and passionate team leader
who energizes others to accomplish exceptional performance in planning, business development, sales
and marketing.
Tony applies his more than 30 years of business and consulting experience, transforming teams toward
generative corporate lifestyle habits that create more agile/adaptive cultures for the sake of better business
outcomes.
- managing complexity, polarities and introducing change
- inspiring others towards a challenging future vision
- building consensus and commitment
- leading across generations
- winning the transition
Tony is a results-driven executive and top corporate officer with a demonstrated track record of
achievement in transformational management, business strategy, marketing, entrepreneurship and cross-
functional team leadership. Established capabilities in profit/loss management, innovation best practices
and customer experience.
He is adept at piloting organizations through strategic inflection points to a position of strength and
advantage (while simultaneously nurturing the financial health of the core business). Tony specializes in
empowering enterprise-wide focus on essential customer-centric business capabilities, brand positioning
initiatives, marketing strategies and execution in multiple industries.
Tony is the CEO of Pivot Health Advisors, a management consulting firm committed to advancing
commercial products/services that help advance and evolve the U.S. health system. The team serves as
Advisors, consultants and partners with companies that are seeking to understand and navigate the
complexities of the health care market. As former C-suite executives from major health systems, rural
hospitals and national industry organizations, Pivot is uniquely positioned to guide companies toward the
quadruple aim in health care.
Most recently, Tony served on the executive committee of American Hospital Association (AHA) as senior
vice president and also served as president and CEO of both AHA Solutions, Inc., and AHA SmartMarket,
Inc., AHA for-profit subsidiaries.
During his nearly 20-year tenure with the AHA, Tony formed and advised more than 250
strategic/collaborative partnerships under the AHA brand, providing significant value to health care
providers and turning the endorsement into a valuable differentiator for products and services serving
health care.
A serial entrepreneur, Tony also created the National Healthcare Career Network launched in 2009 and
has since aligned more than 320 professional associations and specialty societies to address the nation’s
health care workforce shortages. He also spearheaded the development of AHA SmartMarket, an online
platform designed to connect health care professionals with their peers and experts in the field.
Prior to AHA, Tony counseled clients at one of the world’s leading marketing/communications firms and
managing financial communications for Sara Lee Corporation, a Fortune 50 consumer product company in
Chicago. Tony was principal of his own marketing consulting firm in Chicago, where he counseled AHA
Solutions, as well as other local and national organizations.
Tony earned his degree in marketing from California State University at Fullerton. He is Senior Fellow of
the Healthcare Research and Educational Trust (HRET) and is a member of the Healthcare Financial
Management Association, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Society for
Healthcare Strategy and Market Development, Health Care Compliance Association and the American
Society of Association Executives. He is also a certified Executive Coach and Innovation Black Belt.
In 2009, Tony launched the ProActive Kids Foundation, a private 501(c)3 foundation to address the social,
health, and personal issues related to childhood obesity in local communities. In this capacity, he also
serves on several advisory boards for organizations focused on child health and obesity.
Tony lives in Geneva, IL and has three daughters, Alexandra, Claire and Gabrielle. In July 2012, he
married Nicole (Nicki) Klinkhamer, a marketing consultant. Nicki is now also serving as executive director
of the ProActive Kids Foundation. In his spare time, he enjoys motorcycles, golf and tennis.
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