Enterprise operator for healthcare, technology-enabled services, risk, data, and operational transformation.
Dr. Edward Marchewka helps complex organizations align strategy, people, operations, technology, data, risk, compliance, and execution to improve performance and make better enterprise decisions.
Built for complex, high-stakes, multi-stakeholder environments.
Dr. Marchewka operates where strategy, operations, people, technology, data, risk, compliance, finance, vendors, and execution intersect.
He currently provides strategic direction across a $540MM+ orthopedic healthcare organization with 2,500+ FTEs, 100+ locations, and 110+ physician providers, reporting to the CEO.
His leadership approach is grounded in practical execution: improving performance, building capable teams, aligning stakeholders, reducing friction, strengthening decision systems, and converting complexity into disciplined action.
Leadership across the systems that determine organizational performance.
The value is not one functional lane. It is the ability to connect strategy, operations, people, systems, governance, risk, data, and execution.
Multi-Site Operations
Leading in complex environments where service delivery, facilities, patient experience, workforce needs, and execution discipline must align across locations.
Performance Improvement
Applying Lean Six Sigma, automation, AI, data, vendor management, and process redesign to reduce friction and improve measurable outcomes.
Healthcare Leadership
Operating where patient care, compliance, financial stewardship, risk, technology, business continuity, and service quality all matter at once.
Data & Decision Systems
Building reporting, analytics, governance, and operational intelligence capabilities that help leaders see clearly and act faster.
Risk, Compliance & Resilience
Connecting enterprise risk, cybersecurity, compliance, vendor exposure, business continuity, and operational resilience to executive decisions.
Executive Communication
Turning complexity into clear choices for CEOs, boards, clinical leaders, finance leaders, operational teams, and technical groups.
Operating experience behind the positioning.
Illinois Bone & Joint Institute
Provides strategic direction for Information & Technology Services across a $540MM+ orthopedic healthcare organization with 2,500+ FTEs, 100+ locations, and 110+ physician providers. Reports to the CEO.
Vy Aesthetic Partners
Led IT, Risk Management, Quality, and Facilities Operations across 9 locations in 5 states for a private equity-backed MSO. Managed a $2.48MM budget and served as HIPAA Security and Privacy Officer.
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network
CIO/CISO-equivalent role leading IT, data, security, and risk for a $104MM nonprofit healthcare organization. Led 16 FTEs, managed a $3.9MM budget, improved IT NPS from 30.1 to 84, and improved availability to 99.95%.
Chicago Public Schools
CISO-equivalent leadership for a $7B district serving 440,000 end users, 200,000+ endpoints, and 650+ schools. Managed 12 professionals and a $7.4MM budget.
Research, teaching, and doctoral leadership behind the executive perspective.
Dr. Marchewka’s executive work is reinforced by doctoral research, graduate-level teaching, dissertation leadership, and applied scholarship in cybersecurity, technology, risk, analytics, and leadership.
Doctoral Research
Research focused on cybersecurity risk information asymmetry, risk perception, executive decision-making, and improving how cybersecurity risk is communicated to non-technical leaders.
Dissertation Leadership
Serves as a dissertation chair for doctoral work across cybersecurity leadership, cyberpsychology, healthcare cybersecurity, business analytics and data science, healthcare technology, and project management.
Graduate Faculty
Teaches cybersecurity, cybercrime, information risk management, security governance, enterprise security design, policy management, and information assurance courses.
Academic Foundation
Brings an academic foundation in business administration, cybersecurity leadership, mathematics, analytics, risk, governance, and applied technology leadership.
Research-to-Practice Translation
The same themes that shape the book and speaking work come from the research: information asymmetry, the affect heuristic, trust, risk framing, stakeholder communication, and board-level decision-making.
Leadership Development
Academic work supports the development of cybersecurity, technology, analytics, and healthcare leaders who need to operate beyond technical execution.
Executive Credibility
Combines operating experience with teaching, research, and doctoral mentoring to support board, advisory, executive, and speaking conversations.
Defensible outcomes across operations, technology, cybersecurity, data, and transformation.
Executive leadership experience across healthcare, private equity-backed operations, nonprofit healthcare, enterprise education, cybersecurity, data, and technology transformation.
Enterprise Healthcare Leadership
Provides strategic direction for Information & Technology Services across a $540MM+ orthopedic healthcare organization with 100+ locations across 2 states.
Private Equity-Backed Operations
Led strategy and operations for Information and Technology Services, Risk Management, Quality, and Facilities Operations across 9 locations in 5 states.
Executive Accountability
Served in CEO, President, CAO, and CFO reporting environments while managing technology, operations, cybersecurity, compliance, data, vendors, and facilities functions.
Measurable results from operational discipline, AI, automation, vendor management, and data systems.
AI-Enabled Operations
Deployed AI CaaS capabilities that saved $360K annually, improved lead conversion by 7%, reduced missed calls by 60%, and improved lead-to-consult time by 52%.
Data & Decision Systems
Architected and launched the PHIDOS data management platform, integrated reporting with Power BI, and developed a 90% accurate logistic regression model to predict lead closure rates.
Vendor & Cost Discipline
Negotiated improved vendor contracts producing 27% cost savings, while also achieving savings across Office 365 licensing, telephony services, and service contracts.
Experience operating at scale, improving service, reducing risk, and creating measurable value.
Service Culture
Improved IT department NPS from 30.1 to 84 by driving a service-oriented culture and acting on client feedback.
Revenue & Program Leadership
Delivered $1.39MM in revenue through successful management of a COVID-19 test lab program and school testing execution.
Availability & Resilience
Improved systems availability to 99.95% by rebuilding network infrastructure and creating a hot-site disaster recovery location.
Automation & Efficiency
Saved 6 FTEs through automation, reduced chart errors by 70%, decreased audit times by 50%, and cut report queues from 16 days to 2.
Cybersecurity Maturity
Reduced phishing susceptibility to 3%, integrated Okta SSO for 130+ applications, and reduced cyber insurance premiums by 27% year over year.
Endpoint Response
Reduced endpoint response time to under 1 hour using Rapid7 InsightIDR and SentinelOne EDR.
Enterprise Cost Savings
Generated $1.5MM in cost savings through data center relocation leadership and negotiation of a $6.6MM RFP.
Public-Sector Scale
Served in a CISO-equivalent capacity for a $7B district supporting 440,000 end users, 200,000+ endpoints, and 650+ schools.
Best suited for conversations where enterprise performance and disciplined execution matter.
The strongest fit is in environments where growth, operations, people, risk, compliance, data, technology, and organizational maturity must be managed together.
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Enterprise Roles
Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Information Officer, or senior enterprise leadership roles.
Board & Advisory Roles
Board director, advisory board member, operating advisor, cyber-risk advisor, healthcare operations advisor, technology advisor, or governance contributor.
Operating Environments
Healthcare, specialty care, complex services, regulated organizations, private equity-backed environments, growth-stage operations, and cyber-risk exposed organizations.
Transformation Mandates
Operational improvement, AI enablement, digital transformation, IT modernization, data enablement, vendor optimization, cybersecurity maturity, resilience, and scalable execution.
Boardrooms need leaders who can connect risk, technology, operations, finance, and execution.
Dr. Marchewka brings practical operating judgment to conversations where boards and executive teams need clarity, not jargon.
Cybersecurity Oversight
Helping boards understand cyber risk through exposure, resilience, investment, accountability, and business impact.
Digital Transformation
Connecting technology decisions to operational performance, growth, service delivery, and organizational readiness.
Enterprise Risk
Framing risk across cybersecurity, vendors, operations, compliance, data, business continuity, and execution capacity.
AI Governance
Helping leaders think clearly about AI adoption, data responsibility, security, accountability, and operational control.
Technology Investment
Evaluating platforms, systems, vendors, modernization efforts, and technology spend through business outcomes.
Data Strategy
Improving how organizations use reporting, analytics, governance, and operational intelligence to make decisions.
Compliance & Regulation
Bringing practical leadership to environments shaped by audit expectations, regulatory pressure, and control maturity.
Operational Resilience
Connecting business continuity, incident response, vendor risk, cybersecurity, and operational recovery.
Executive leadership is translation, prioritization, and execution.
Complex organizations rarely fail because leaders lack information. They struggle because information is fragmented, priorities compete, risk is poorly translated, and execution does not always match strategy.
Dr. Marchewka’s leadership approach focuses on building clarity across stakeholders, making better decisions, aligning work to outcomes, and helping teams execute with discipline.
Translate
Turn complex technical, operational, and risk issues into language executives and boards can use.
Prioritize
Separate noise from exposure, align resources to impact, and make tradeoffs visible.
Execute
Move from strategy to operational discipline, measurable progress, and organizational adoption.
Executive brand themes
“Technology leadership only matters when it improves decisions, reduces risk, and strengthens the organization.”
Technology as Business Leverage“Cybersecurity belongs in the boardroom, but it has to be translated into business language first.”
Risk Translation“Execution is where strategy becomes real.”
Operational DisciplineWhere this leadership profile creates the most value.
Healthcare Growth & Operations
Organizations needing to scale operations, modernize systems, improve performance, strengthen resilience, and align execution across locations and stakeholders.
Private Equity & Operating Advisory
Environments where operational maturity, technology, data, cybersecurity, process improvement, vendor discipline, and leadership execution can materially affect value creation.
Enterprise Transformation
Organizations trying to improve service delivery, systems, data, reporting, governance, AI adoption, compliance, risk, and execution discipline.
Risk-Exposed Organizations
Boards and leadership teams that need clearer oversight, stronger metrics, better operating resilience, and alignment between risk and business priorities.
AI, Data & Decision Systems
Leadership teams working through responsible AI adoption, data governance, operational controls, analytics, and executive decision support.
Board & Executive Advisory
Boards and executives seeking practical operating perspective across healthcare, technology, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, data, and transformation.
Need an operator who can connect strategy, risk, technology, data, and execution?
Confidential inquiries related to executive leadership, advisory roles, board service, operating advisory, or transformation opportunities are welcome.