Sg2 Experts

Sg2’s team of experts leads the development of analytics, intelligence and consulting. Their thoughtful analysis and provocative opinions guide health care leaders as they navigate the evolving health care landscape.


Rhae Ana Gamber Senior Director

As part of Sg2’s Intelligence team, Rhae leads the delivery of content and thought leadership for women’s health and pediatrics, including children’s hospital enterprise strategy. She works closely with members to provide comprehensive research and analytics-driven strategic insights, leveraging her special interest and clinical experience in maternal-fetal medicine and pediatrics...

Chad Giese Principal

Building on his longtime cardiovascular service line leadership at Sg2, Chad now leads the Service Line Practice within Sg2’s Intelligence group. He helps advance the thought leadership across Sg2’s service line teams to ensure members have the strategic insights to navigate the current landscape and the future projections to set...

Manuel Hernandez

Manuel Hernandez Principal

Organizations seeking unparalleled expertise in health care strategy, operations and design need look no further than Dr Hernandez. A clinically active physician and Principal in Sg2’s Consulting practice, Dr Hernandez has supported over 100 hospitals and health systems around the globe to reimagine their models of care, operations, patient experience...

Ron Herzig, PhD Principal

As a consulting principal on Sg2’s Life Sciences and Industry team, Ron leads strategic engagements with the pharmaceutical industry (pharma), medical device companies and distributors to provide market insights and direction on their strategically important growth areas. He brings over 2 decades of international experience working in strategic leadership roles...

Mark Holmquist

Mark Holmquist Principal

As part of the Life Sciences and Industry team, Mark leads the sales and delivery of MarketPulse, one of Sg2’s newest product offerings. MarketPulse provides medical device and pharmaceutical drug purchase data from over 3,500 health care facilities in the US, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and physician offices. Mark...

Cory Jones

Cory Jones Associate Principal

As a leader on Sg2’s Intelligence team, Cory develops oncology intelligence and strategic insights to help members navigate the current landscape and future projections for oncology services. He provides expert insight on cancer service trends, national forecasts, service line optimization and strategic planning for health care organizations across the country....

Karl Karlsson, PhD

Karl Karlsson, PhD VP, Sg2 Life Science & Industry

As the lead on the Sg2 Life Sciences and Industry team, Karl leverages nearly 20 years of life sciences experience to develop strategies and solutions for biopharma, medical device, distributors, health IT and finance services. On a day-to-day basis, he helps position Sg2 as a strategic advisor in partnerships between...

Karyl Kopaskie, PhD

Karyl Kopaskie, PhD Principal

Karyl applies her research and strategy expertise to leading the women’s health and pediatrics team, while working closely with her clinical and enterprise counterparts. She is a thought leader specializing in service line strategy and program development, as well as key trends impacting women’s and children’s services. Collaborating with Sg2’s...

Janelle Kwan

Janelle Kwan, MBA Senior Director

As a member of Sg2’s Intelligence team, Janelle works with leadership teams to identify the impact of industry trends on strategic planning and workforce strategy. She plays a key role in the development of thought leadership in this space, leading research for executive briefings and presenting findings at various Sg2...

Eric Lam Associate Principal

Eric supports Sg2’s Intelligence team by driving innovative market analytics frameworks and models and providing unique market analyses and strategic recommendations to Sg2 members. His work focuses on service line evaluation and strategic planning, strategic prioritization, enterprise growth planning, facility forecasting, customized research, post-acute care development, partnership evaluation, and strategic...

Rebecca Limestall

Rebecca Limestall Principal

Rebecca directs the delivery of Sg2 intelligence via educational offerings such as conferences, courses and webinars. She oversees Sg2’s flagship annual conference series, the Sg2 Executive Summit, which presents thought leadership and strategic advice to more than 1,000 health care executives across the US. As leader of Sg2 member education,...

Jamie Logsdon

Jamie Logsdon Associate Principal

As an associate principal on Sg2’s Consulting team, Jamie manages strategic engagements and customized market analysis for national health systems, integrated delivery networks, regional health systems and provider organizations. She offers Sg2’s members innovative approaches to growth and sustainability, specializing in ambulatory growth projects and financial impact analysis. Prior to...