Ryan Freel is a Managing Director and National Business Development & Growth Leader with Kaufman Hall. He brings more than two decades of healthcare finance experience to bear in advising senior healthcare leaders nationwide. His areas of expertise span all facets of the firm, including mergers and acquisitions, strategy and business transformation, financial planning and data analytics, treasury and capital markets, and performance improvement. 

Prior to Kaufman Hall, Ryan was a Vice President in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs, where he led strategic advisory assignments capital markets security offerings for some of the nation’s largest healthcare organizations. He previously served as a Director in the Healthcare Finance Group at Citigroup.

Ryan holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.