Roy T. Bivens

Mr. Roy T. Bivens has over 25 years of experience working with many of the largest industrial, healthcare and financial services companies in the United States. Roy started his career at GE in 1990 where he spent 8 years serving in various leadership roles, including National Accounts Manager covering 3 of the GE’s largest customers, and a senior member of the GE Corporate Audit staff. After leaving GE, he started Orion Advisory where he has been a Managing Partner and owner since 1998. Roy has extensive experience with healthcare and financial services companies, including Cleveland Clinic, Carolinas Health Care System, Novant Health, MedStar Health, Cadence Health, JP Morgan Chase, NY Federal Reserve, Wells Fargo and Nationwide Investments. He has also advised several Boards of Directors, a number of startup companies, and currently serves on several management boards

Under Roy’s leadership, Orion Advisory has successfully helped hundreds of medical teams design and implement cultural change, build leaders and develop programs to prepare for and navigate the future of healthcare. As a co-author of Experiencing Improvement, Roy shares the successes achieved in working with the caregivers of Cleveland Clinic, including the groundbreaking customization and adaptation of non-industry tools into healthcare to better control costs and increase quality of care. Roy’s diverse healthcare experience includes over 20 medical service lines such as heart, cancer, digestive disease, imaging, medicine, neurology, orthopedics, pathology, and pharmacy.

Mr. Bivens earned an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2001 and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at State in 1990.