Patrick Gauthier, Director

Patrick is the Director of the AHP Healthcare Solutions and Senior Consultant.  Over the course of twenty years in the behavioral health field, he has held management positions in a variety of mental health and substance abuse treatment settings, served as Chief Operations Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for a national managed behavioral healthcare organization and EAP, and  has consulted the country’s largest health and behavioral health systems. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences and trade shows and provides training to professional organizations of all kinds as it relates to managed care, insuring behavioral health and providing treatment in new business environments.

Mr. Gauthier’s experience in public behavioral healthcare includes the development of public/private performance-based partnershipsrelative to Medicaid provider networks, the Access to Recovery (ATR) Grant and the Substance Abuse Treatment Block Grant (SATBG). His deep operations background, expertise and effective presentation skills make him a dynamic speaker on topics that include: behavioral health business planning and management; information technology and data management; quality management; as well as social marketing.  As an executive in the field over the course of the past fifteen years, he has honed his strategic planning, enterprise alignment, and performance management approach such that today his sights are set on the design and effective deployment of programs that properly align the resources and incentives of behavioral health payers, providers and consumers.

Kathryn Alexandrei, Associate Director

Ms. Alexandrei offers over 15 years of experience in leadership positions in the nonprofit, retail and services sectors. Her core competencies include organizational development and transformation, professionalproject management, customer service, operations management and performance management. Her professional experience has encompassed all aspects of enterprise development, information technology implementation, establishing business systems, developing and articulating strategic goals and ensuring enterprise-wide tactical alignment. Her particular area of expertise is business process improvement where she is skilled in the identification, analysis, and resolution of the diverse operational issues that compromise efficiency, quality and growth goals. She offers particular expertise to start-up organizations and the unique challenges they face establishing operations and business practices.

During 12 years of executive-level experience, Ms. Alexandrei has focused on elevating organizational performance through skillful restructuring, business process improvement initiatives, and building highly motivated  and properly trained and supervised teams. The change initiatives she has managed have been characterized both by rigorous adherence to organizational vision and mission as well as revenue enhancement and cost-savings through operational performance improvement. She increased revenues by 300% and increased the number of programs fourfold during her tenure as CEO of an international development organization dedicated to eradicating the commercial and sexual exploitation of children in Asia. In this role she worked closely with local grass-roots organizations in the design and implementation of culturally relevant education, healthcare and advocacy programs. Programs under her oversight targeted at-risk and child survivors of commercial and sexual exploitation. Specific interventions included non-formal education, primary education for former child laborers, mobile healthcare clinics, HIV/STD prevention, and crisis intervention and counseling for victims of rape and domestic violence. She was responsible for management of the program manager and field staff, establishing and managing contracts with local social service, health and behavioral healthcare providers and advocacy groups, and coordinating capacity-enhancing technical assistance and training for local partner organizations.

Her project experience in senior consultant roles includes project management, infrastructure development, business process documentation and redesign, health plan contract negotiations and relationship management, development of performance management systems, and behavioral health marketing and sales including market research and planning, website development and social media marketing.