Tim Bugg is the founder, owner, and CEO of Capstone Health Alliance, a leading regional group purchasing organization (GPO) that collaborates with hundreds of hospitals and thousands of healthcare providers nationwide. Under Tim’s leadership Capstone’s primary goal is to deliver measurable impact to its Members, to help reduce overall costs, to increase value, to enhance quality of patient care, and to foster the exchange of best practices. Tim possesses three and half decades of experience in the supply chain field with 30 years in healthcare. Tim graduated Magna Cum Laude from Montreat College, is a Certified Materials and Resource Professional, and a Fellow of the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management. He is a member of the Council of Supply Chain Executives, a member of the Federation of American Hospitals Expo Advisory Committee, a member and the current Chair of the HSCA Board of Directors, a member of the IDN Summit Advisory Board, and previously served eight years on the Board of Directors of the NC Chapter of AHRMM (President in 2005 & 2006). Locally, Tim serves as the 2nd Board Chair for the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, as well as a member of their Resource Development Council, is a member of the Board of Directors of Eblen Charities, serves on the Development Council of MAHEC Foundation, is a member of the Montreat College President’s Advisory Council, and a former Board member of the United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County. Tim is also the Owner & CEO of the four other businesses within the Collaboration of Capstone Companies, including two custom apparel shops, Mountain Graphics and Showtime Sports, Cap Assets Holdings, and Capstone Strategic Stockpile.

Frank Cirillo is the President and CEO of Cirillo Consulting Group. He previously served as vice president, business strategy, at Acurity, Inc. His main duties at Acurity are to bring value to health systems’ supply chain operations through group purchasing program participation and process improvement. Additionally, Frank provides consulting services to health systems with Acurity’s consulting arm Nexera. For the previous 25 years, Mr. Cirillo held several senior management positions at HHC. During the latter two years of his tenure, Mr. Cirillo, HHC’s first chief restructuring officer, led HHC’s priority project—the restructuring of HHC’s clinical and operational programs—yielding HHC an implementation change roadmap resulting in savings and additional revenues of over $300 million annually. For the prior 13 years, Frank was HHC’s chief operating officer responsible for a far-reaching span of control, including, but not limited to, supply chain operations and all contracting. Frank received his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, graduate training from St. John’s University, and holds certification from the “Top 40” executive management program administered by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is also president/CEO of the Cirillo Consulting Group.