Intelligence Group Advisors

Our team of advisors brings fresh insights, best practices, and original research from years working with the country’s most influential and leading providers across home care, long term care and senior living. We’re a team of smart and passionate people who are driven to help our clients elevate their performance across five core areas: workforce, efficiency, margin, value/risk, and technology.

Tim Bateman

Managing Advisor
Areas of Focus: Value & Risk, Workforce

 

As VP/Managing Director of the Intelligence Group, Tim leads all Group activities and guides the educational agenda for Home Care 100.

Tim oversees the overall Group research agenda while pursuing specific content expertise in the Value & Risk discipline, including risk-bearing program and capabilities development. 

Tim has spent the past 20 years cultivating trusted advisor status with business leaders across a variety of sectors, with a focus on healthcare. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. 

Peter Bresler

Principal Advisor
Areas of Focus: Value, Growth, Disruption

 

Peter has over three decades of experience driving innovation to simplify the complex healthcare ecosystem and advance transformation. He blends strong analytics, a practical understanding organizational change management, and a clear focus on value.

His career spans health systems, digital solution companies, and employers. He’s worked with health systems and tech companies to establish compelling value propositions and ROI analysis; and supported innovative health systems in setting their value based care offerings.

His career started at Bain and Company, and includes leadership roles at AVIA Health Innovation and Willis Towers Watson. He has an MBA with Distinction from Kellogg.

Ariana Klitzner

Lead Consultant
Areas of Focus: Workforce, Value, Technology
Ariana is a seasoned healthcare consultant with over 15 years of experience transforming strategic visions into tangible results. She leads new research initiatives, leverages data-driven insights to guide critical business decisions, and fosters provider connections. 
 
Throughout her career, Ariana has collaborated with health systems, digital health companies, non-profits, and foundations. Her work consistently drives innovation, enhances social impact, and improves both quality and business outcomes.
 
Ariana holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Pomona College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Betsy Hansen

Senior Advisor
Area of Focus: Technology


Betsy is a healthcare consultant with over 10 years of experience providing support and expertise in consumer-based digital solutions, market research, and building an executable digital health strategy. She has experience advising hospitals and health systems, healthcare tech companies, and other healthcare providers as they seek to leverage innovative technologies to enhance the way patient care is experienced and delivered.

Betsy received her BA from Emory University and Master of Health Services Administration (MHSA) from University of Michigan.

Jeanette Lynn

Managing Advisor
Areas of Focus: Workforce, Margin, Technology

Jeanette brings a cross-sector vantage point of where healthcare is headed and the capabilities needed to get there. Her focus is on growth strategies, including enabling workforce, running a more efficient business, delivering better outcomes, and leveraging new technology or business models.

In prior roles, Jeanette lead healthcare, corporate, and philanthropy, advocacy, and education efforts at the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. Her honors BS degree was earned at the G.R. Herberger College of Business at St Cloud State University.

Tim Craig

Managing Advisor
Areas of Focus: Value, Risk, Technology


Tim helps inform the strategy, operations
, and performance of Intelligence Group members, especially in the
realms of payers, policy, value-based arrangements, and emerging technologies.   

Prior to Lincoln, Tim was the corporate Content Director for a leading New York-based B2B media outlet. He received a BA from New York University and an MS from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. 

Jim Kovac

Managing Advisor
Areas of Focus: Venture Capital & Private Equity

Jim oversees the development of solution company and private equity partnerships across the post-acute continuum. He identifies companies with relevant and innovative solutions facilitating care delivery, and collaborates with VC/PE on capital flows.  

Jim has over 20+ years of experience advising on strategic growth and market opportunity to financial services and healthcare companies. He holds a BA from Gettysburg College and an MBA from the University of Connecticut School of Business. 

Jennifer Cross

Content Advisor
Areas of Focus: Senior Living, Margin, Efficiency

Jen has her pulse on the senior care space, analyzing and interpreting market dynamics, particularly on new models and disruptors that offer innovative opportunities for growing revenue and operating more efficiently. 

Prior to joining Lincoln, Jen was an investment banker for a boutique firm focused on healthcare. She received a BA from Bowdoin College and an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health.   

Michelle Dodd

Content Advisor
Areas of Focus: Efficiency, Technology



Michelle contributes research and develops original content in support of Home Care 100's education program, with particular emphasis on innovation and operational efficiency.

Michelle served as primary caregiver to aging relatives prior to joining Lincoln. This firsthand experience was just as educational as her BA from Colgate University and MBA coursework at NYU Stern School of Business.

Cathy Ronca

Content Advisor
Areas of Focus: Long Term Care, Workforce, Technology

Cathy is instrumental in developing original viewpoints on the SNF sector from a business, policy, and regulatory angle Cathy keeps a pulse on the industry through continuous research and on-going discussions with the industry’s leading executives. 

Prior to joining Lincoln, Cathy was the Marketing Director for a Washington DC consultancy and Reed Exhibitions.  She received a BA from American University.

 

 

Executive Advisors

Our Expert Advisors collaborate closely with Intelligence Group analysts and members to further deepen the group’s breadth of strategic and operational perspectives on our core pillars of leadership, strategy and innovation.

Hank Ross

Hank Ross is the Founder of Physician Housecalls, a company that has provided more than 250,000 housecall visits in OK, KS and MO. Mr. Ross also founded and served as CEO of Ross Health Care, a OK-based home care company, and spent 14 years in hospital leadership. Most recently, he's been integrally involved in REACH High Needs ACO models serving the most expensive and frail patients in the Medicare system. He currently serves on two ACO boards and is the point person for the Academy REACH HN ACO dedicated to housecall providers.