Dave Edwards is President with Rock River LLC, Previously Dave was Senior Vice President of Strategic Corporate Accounts for Siemens Healthineers North America, with headquarters in Malvern, PA. In this position he chartered with driving the company’s commercial strategy and accelerating business success with National Consolidators, IDNs, National Reference Labs, Federal accounts and GPOs. He has developed a coordinated, portfolio-wide approach to evolve customer relationships into long-term strategic partnerships.

Edwards brings more than 35 years of experience in healthcare sales, business development, management and public speaking. At Siemens, he has developed the Healthcare Corporate Account Strategy and team that consistently outperformed each of Siemens Healthcare business units by focusing on customer-focused solutions-based sales. Under his leadership, Siemens achieved #1 Market share in the VA and Department of Defense across all business segments, was awarded Supplier of the Year by HealthTrust Purchasing Group, Capital Supplier of the Year by Vizient, and Imaging and Lab Supplier of the Year for the last 3 years by Premier.

Prior to joining Siemens Healthineers in 2016, he served as Vice President of Supplier Relations/Contract Uptake (Sales) with Premier where he orchestrated win/win supplier/provider partnerships across Premier’s IDN Network. Over the course of his 17 years with Premier, Edwards was instrumental in propelling the alliance’s purchasing volume to $50 billion.

Preceding his time at Premier Healthcare Alliance, Edwards held sales and regional sales management positions of increasing responsibility at Baxter International, and American Hospital Supply, as well as start-up Imagyn Medical Technologies. In addition, he was co-founder and owner of Aspen Surgical.