Overview

  • Mark Finucane, is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group headquartered in New York City. A major element of his work is performed at the most senior levels of his client organizations.
  • In multiple markets he has assisted Academic Health Systems and other large integrated service delivery systems with policy development, tracking industry trends, to manage internal pressures and market changes, and helped multiple governing boards adjust to these dynamics.
  • Finucane鈥檚 client relationships and advisory experiences are extensive. Amongst these are the University of California Health system, Keck Medicine of USC, Kaiser Permanente, Tufts Medicine, Brown University, Lifespan Health System, Oklahoma State University, the George Kaiser Foundation of Tulsa, University of Arizona Health, the University of Washington, The Morehouse School of Medicine, Unity Point (Iowa), and multiple California County and district hospital systems.
  • Before joining A&M in 2009, Mr. Finucane spent seven years with Ernst & Young as Co-Director of their Academic Medical Center practice. His clients there also included Academic Medical Centers, Major Teaching Hospitals, Integrated Health Systems, University Health Systems, Managed Care Organizations, and Physician Practices.
  • Prior to his consulting career Finucane served in various executive roles in California. He was the COO for the San Francisco Health Department, the Director of Health for Contra Costa County, and the Los Angeles County Director of Health.
  • He also has extensive governance experience. He was a founding board member of the Integrated Health Association of California, member and chair of the board of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (renamed America鈥檚 Essential Hospitals), LACare, The California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, the Public Health Law and Policy Institute, and the University of Southern California Health System
  • Mark has been appointed to a number of policy study groups convened by various foundations and other deliberative policy organizations, such as the Commonwealth Fund, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Millbank Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institutes of Medicine. Mark has also served as a commencement speaker at the UCLA School of Public Health.
  • Mr. Finucane, a veteran, earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree from 麻豆传媒映画出品 in 1976. He was active in student government and was elected SGA President in 1974. Throughout his career he has remained close to the University. Currently he serves as a WSU Foundation board member, and as a member of the Dean鈥檚 advisory council for the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Health Related Professions.
  • He also studied at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Finucane has attended a variety of senior executive development programs at Harvard University, IBM, the Transamerica Corporation and others throughout his career.
  • Mark and his wife Laurie, a WSU journalism graduate, have two children and two grandchildren.