Management
Susan D. DeVore
President and CEO
Susan D. DeVore is president and CEO of Premier Inc. Prior to her role as
president and CEO, DeVore was chief operating officer of Premier, leading
Premier's four business units – Premier Purchasing Partners, LP; Healthcare
Informatics; Premier Consulting Solutions; and Premier Insurance Management
Services Inc. Prior to serving as COO of Premier, DeVore was president of
Premier Purchasing Partners, which provides group purchasing and supply
chain services, technologies and solutions to Premier's member hospitals and
other providers. She led the purchasing division to its position as a
leading GPO in the industry, with more than 2,300 members and $33 billion in
purchasing volume.
DeVore has vast healthcare experience encompassing a wide variety of skills in strategy, large-scale operations transformation, quality improvement and financial management. Her leadership was instrumental in Premier's recognition as a 2006 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the 2007 Charlotte Ethics in Business Award.
She spent more than 20 years with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY) as a senior healthcare industry management practice leader and member of the executive committee for the North American consulting organization. She also led high-tech, manufacturing and other business units of CGEY, giving her a broad understanding of business issues and solutions across multiple industries. Those experiences, coupled with her prior experience in hospital finance, bring proven skills in leading, managing and understanding healthcare strategy, quality, operations and finance.
DeVore has been named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare and to the magazine's list of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare. She was a recipient of the 2007 Top 25 Women in Business by the Charlotte Business Journal. She also is also a member of the board of HGPII (Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative), of which Premier is a member. And she serves on the board of Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), of which Premier is an owner. GHX provides an open and neutral electronic trading exchange to improve the procurement-to-payment process in the healthcare supply chain.
DeVore is involved in the Charlotte community as a Member of the Master of Health Administration Healthcare Management Advisory Board in the Department of Public Health Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and serves on the board of the Arts & Science Council.