Brian Fisher and Jeff Goldsmith

BRG managing director Brian Fisher is an experienced healthcare advisor who provides data-driven market intelligence and unique insights to inform competitive strategies and major enterprise decisions. He leads initiatives with provider and payer organizations to design and implement enterprise strategies, focusing on strategic planning, strategic growth, revenue strategies, and managed care initiatives. In the payer and provider space, his expertise includes strategic pricing, negotiation planning and execution, contract modeling, value-based model development, and payer/provider partnership formation. Across numerous states and regions, he has identified, planned, and executed growth strategies, revenue and payer planning, expansions, and partnerships and transactions, including facilitating the partnership process. Mr. Fisher received his BA in economics and communications from DePauw University and his MS in health systems management from Rush University.

Jeff Goldsmith is the President of Health Futures, Inc. and one of the top healthcare keynote speakers on the topic of the future of healthcare. For eleven years ending in 1990, Jeff Goldsmith was a lecturer in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, on health services management and policy. He has also lectured on these topics at the Wharton School of Finance, Johns Hopkins, Washington University and the University of California at Berkeley. Jeff Goldsmith’s interests include: biotechnology, health policy, international health systems, and the future of health services.

Jeff Goldsmith earned his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1973, studying complex organizations, sociology of the professions, and politics of developing nations. He graduated from Reed College in 1970, majoring in psychology and classics, earning a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study in 1971.