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Why Corvyn

Strategy and
transformation.
Inseparable.

Big-firm rigor. Startup speed. Senior-led.

Corvyn Advisors is built differently. Our seasoned professionals leverage our own AI-accelerated delivery platform, enabling you to receive better and quicker direction without having to pay for a large consulting team.

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The problem

Most strategy work stops where the hard part starts.

Strategy happens in one room, organizational design in another, and implementation becomes the next team's problem. By the time execution starts, the organization wasn't built toward the plan. We treat strategy and transformation as one question from the first conversation: where does this organization need to go, and what does it need to look like to get there?

We don't treat the operating model as what you figure out later. We treat it as the question strategy is trying to answer.

Healthcare makes this gap critical. Six forces are converging on the same planning horizon:

  • An aging population
  • Continued cost escalation, from workforce to malpractice coverage to supplies
  • Demand compression from GLP-1s and advanced therapeutics
  • Site and revenue model disruption, including policy shifts such as 340B, site neutrality, and Medicaid coverage
  • AI-driven operating model change
  • Competitive restructuring

Organizations addressing these in separate workstreams, on separate timelines, are already behind.

How we're built

Founding principles

We're in the room with you from day one. We're bold but pragmatic: every recommendation comes with a clear path to execution, so your plan gets built, not shelved.

01
No bait-and-switch
The people you meet are the people who deliver. No associate learning curves on your dime, no handoff to a team you never interviewed.
02
With your team, not over it
No command-and-control, no assuming we have all the answers. We collaborate closely, build on what your team knows, and leave you an actionable path forward.
03
AI does the junior colleague work
Trained AI agents handle first-pass analytics and document drafting in lieu of junior staff, so partners spend their time on judgment, not production.
04
Speed to value
We work in focused sprints and put a defensible answer in your hands in weeks, not months. No internal bureaucracy, no approval chains, no delayed start.
05
Where payers and providers meet
Provider and health-system advisory depth, payer-side strategy experience, and extensive value-based care work across VBP/VBC, ACOs/CINs, and payviders.
06
Incentives aligned to outcomes
We price for value delivered, not hours logged, and we structure engagements so we carry real accountability for your result.
What we do

We often start with a Rapid Diagnostic.

A senior-led discovery sprint (think weeks, not months) that starts by grounding your vision for success, assesses your current state in parallel, then prioritizes opportunities by how well each supports that vision and how much value it can realistically deliver. You come away knowing exactly where the biggest value sits and what to do first: a clear starting point, and often the beginning of deeper work together.

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What you walk away with
  • A prioritized roadmap
  • High-level financial impact & actionable next steps
  • Built on your actual data and workflows
  • A clear answer on what to do first
Services

A successful Rapid Diagnostic opens the door to deeper work across four practice areas.

Enterprise strategy & transformation
Planning, modernizing, growing
Strategic planning, repositioning, operating model modernization, and growth. We stay through execution.
AI & digital transformation
Unlocking next-generation value
Turning AI and digital investments into measurable operating and financial results, from portfolio priorities to governance.
Go-to-market & commercialization
Market entry, channels, pricing
Market entry, channel strategy, pricing, and pilots for digital health and healthcare services companies.
M&A & private equity advisory
Originate, advise, realize
Target screening, commercial diligence, and value creation after close.
Who we work with

Where the stakes are high and the clock is short.

The common thread: tighter margins, a landscape that reshuffles every few quarters, and bigger bets on a shorter clock than most teams are staffed to handle.

Health systems & IDNs
C-suites navigating growth, transformation, and repositioning.
Payers & health plans
Modernizing member engagement and care management.
PE & investors
Deal teams needing rigorous, fast commercial diligence.
Digital health companies
Startups looking to fundraise, scale, or secure their moats.

When the answer isn't obvious, that's where we do our best work.

Partners

Complementary expertise, one integrated team.

Corvyn was founded on a straightforward belief: the most valuable thing a strategic advisor can do is see clearly and tell the truth, even when it challenges the direction a client has already committed to.

The name Corvyn is drawn from the raven, a symbol of intelligence, perception, and the willingness to see what others overlook.
Ryan Bertram
Ryan Bertram
Partner & CEO
Chicago
  • 20 years advising healthcare leaders and founders on their toughest questions
  • Former Strategy & Digital Transformation Partner at Chartis
  • Strategy, growth, innovation, digital transformation
MS/BS, Northwestern MBA, Booth
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Tom Rock
Tom Rock
Partner & CMO
Philadelphia
  • Physician executive with 10+ years in consulting, clinical, and operational advisory
  • Former Chartis and Guidehouse consultant; Strategy & Innovation at AmeriHealth Caritas
  • Payer and provider, clinical transformation, clinical AI
AB, Harvard MD, Tufts MBA, Wharton
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Alex Schumm
Alex Schumm
Partner & COO
New York
  • 20 years as a strategic advisor to healthcare executives and boards
  • Former Strategy Partner and Research Practice Leader at Chartis
  • Clients include health systems, AMCs, children's hospitals, medical groups, and professional associations
AB, Harvard MBA/MPH, Yale
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Perspectives

Considered views on
what's actually happening
in healthcare.

Not a blog. Not a content calendar. When we have something worth saying, a point of view on a market shift, a hard truth about transformation, an observation the industry isn't ready to hear, we'll say it here.

The Convergence: Four simultaneous forces are hitting health systems on the same planning horizon. The organizations that come out ahead will treat them as one interconnected challenge.

Published — LinkedIn →

Surgical Demand Disruption: GLP-1 adoption isn't just a clinical story. It's a demand story, playing out in the highest-margin service lines on a timeline many capital plans haven't priced in.

Published — LinkedIn →

AI as an Operating Model: Most systems are still just bolting AI onto their legacy operation, while AI-native players are built around a different premise entirely.

Published — LinkedIn →
The first move

Fast to diagnose. Built to be used, not filed.

Bring us a hypothesis, or a blank page. Either way, a 20-minute call is enough for us to tell you honestly whether a Rapid Diagnostic is worth running.

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Or email questions@corvynadvisors.com

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