Keith Neal is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Advocates Inc., headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. Mr. Neal holds an undergraduate degree in economics, a master of business administration, and a master of healthcare leadership. He is a certified healthcare financial professional through the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He has over 25 years of finance and accounting experience, including more than a decade in the non-profit healthcare sector.
Prior to joining Advocates, he was the chief financial officer for Brown Emergency Medicine. While there, he oversaw the integration of an independent physician group that cared for over 31,000 patients annually. He also led the development of value-based and quality reimbursement contracts with managed care and commercial payers. Before Brown Emergency Medicine, Mr. Neal held several financial and operational leadership roles at EMC Corporation, a Fortune 200 company. In this role, he was the financial lead on a cost transformation program that reduced information technology (IT) expenses by $100M and moved the organization towards an IT as a service business model.
From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Neal was a faculty member in the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Chair Development Program, a leadership training initiative. He is currently a part-time teaching associate at Brown University and Duquesne University, teaching health care accounting and financial management courses in the Master of Healthcare Leadership and Master of Healthcare Administration programs. His professional interests include developing and implementing innovative value-based care and payment models focused on improving patient outcomes and integrated care management.