Dena McNeill

Summary

Dena Regas McNeill is a senior business development executive with over 30 years of experience advising leaders across healthcare providers, payers, academic medical centers, higher education, and the public sector. As a strategic business development advisor for Affirm Strategy, an AI-native advisory firm serving the health sciences enterprise, she helps organizations navigate complex decisions and align strategy with execution across educational, clinical, operational, organizational, and technology initiatives.

Experience

Prior to joining Affirm Strategy, Dena held leadership and advisory roles with PwC, Accenture, and 3M Health Information Systems, where she worked with healthcare and higher education organizations on strategic transformation, technology modernization, operational improvement, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.

Her advisory track record encompasses major enterprise transformations, including large-scale Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations ($75M+), IT Systems Strategies (health and university), medical imaging and document management platforms, speech recognition technologies, and cloud strategy. Beyond technology, she brings substantial expertise in academic medicine, having advised health systems and universities through LCME accreditation, curriculum design, and faculty practice plan establishment for new medical schools.

A long-time Houston resident with deep local roots, Dena leverages an extensive regional and national network and an intimate understanding of the Southern healthcare and higher education ecosystem to build lasting client partnerships and drive bottom-line value.