Helen Neese

Ms. Neese has over 20 years of consulting and industry experience. She is currently the Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at McKesson Corporation, where she specializes in relationship and business development.

Prior to joining McKesson, Ms. Neese was a senior consultant in the eConsulting Group at Digineer, a technology and management consulting firm. In addition to providing consultation about cost/quality programs and web-based virtual staff offerings, Ms. Neese represented Digineer at educational forums, eHealth symposia and medical society meetings. In her previous position as vice president of Corporate Services at Phycor, Inc., she had fiscal and operational responsibility for enterprise-wide initiatives including Internet and e-commerce strategies for both the clinical delivery and the physician practice management sectors. Ms. Neese helped lead the rapid growth of the company from an organization with six clinics and 300-hundred physicians to a $1.4 billion organization with 55 clinics, 26 IPAs, and 26,000 physicians in seven years.

Helen Neese studied at the University of Missouri where she earned both her bachelor's and master's degree. She sits on advisory boards for AstraZeneca, Glaxo Wellcome, MGMA, Merck & Co., Ofstead & Associates, Organon, Roche Laboratories, Schering Plough, Searle Pharmaceuticals, TAP Pharmaceuticals, and Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Helen has also served as chairman of the Vanderbilt University Center for Health Services.