Huron Consulting Group Inc. announced that Ray Anderson, Kevin Clem, Dan Coppola, Ryan Gibson, Nate Haines, Nathalie Hofman, Michael Landen, John Laursen, Andrew Laws, Ryan McDaniel and Michael Pou have been promoted to the role of managing director. Anderson was promoted to managing director in Huron Financial Consulting. He has vast experience providing strategic leadership to clients facing challenges due to growth or financial distress in the areas of corporate turnaround, refinancing, loan workout, restructuring and M&A. Clem was promoted to managing director in Huron Legal.

He provides business management consulting to corporate legal departments focused on reducing legal spending and improving operational efficiency through the alignment of processes, people and technology. Coppola was promoted to managing director in Huron Legal. He specializes in engineering and implementing discovery process and technology solutions for corporate legal and IT departments to improve quality, operational efficiency and cost management.

Gibson was promoted to managing director in Huron Healthcare. He leads operational performance improvement engagements in a variety of healthcare settings, including academic medical centers, multi-facility health systems and community hospitals. Haines was promoted to managing director in Huron Education.

He specializes in helping research universities, academic medical centers and hospitals with operational, process and strategic issues, and has served as a business advisor for more than 30 research institutions. Hofman was promoted to managing director in Huron Legal. She provides data analytics solutions for e-discovery projects utilizing Huron Legal's Integrated Analytics offering and has led large, complex document review projects, project management and review facility management.

Landen was promoted to managing director in Huron Healthcare. He helps hospital and health system clients on oversight of large-scale project execution, technical and functional design and implementation of new processes. Laursen was promoted to managing director in Huron Healthcare.

He specializes in operational process improvement including optimizing clinical technology, staffing realignment and patient length of stay improvement. Laws was promoted to managing director in Huron Education. He helps academic institutions maximize, allocate and leverage financial resources, and specializes in designing budget models that use incentives to drive desired behaviors and focus resources on institutional strategies.

McDaniel was promoted to managing director in Huron Education. He assists research universities, academic medical centers and hospitals with strategic planning, process improvement and IT, to help clients improve operational efficiency and enhance compliance. Pou was promoted to managing director in Huron Healthcare.

He specializes in building sustainable change management, process realignment and system integration through a focus on net revenue enhancement and recovery across a variety of healthcare settings in both hospital billing and physician practice environments.