Bonnie Ortiz
Vice President, Center for Health Program Advancement

Ortiz has more than 30 years of experience in both public- and private-sector, health-related services and solutions businesses. She also has extensive experience with business start-up, product and service marketing strategies, business alliance strategies, and operations and program management. Throughout her career, she has held numerous executive leadership roles and has worked with many different clients and other stakeholders, including physicians, nurses, and scientists.

Most recently, Ortiz served as senior Vice President of technical services for AdvanceMed, formerly FMAS Corporation, a DynCorp company. In this role, she developed a strategic business and marketing plan for creating a commercial business unit, which emphasized a new vision for the industry and its markets and focused on core competencies and expanded technology offerings. She also managed daily operations, including the oversight of more than 300 health-care professionals in the areas of marketing, proposal development, product management/development, program management, and customer support.

Ortiz has also held the position of president of Semega and Associates, LLC, where she provided comprehensive business management consulting services to information technology, management and health-care companies, and institutions. She also served as senior Vice President of product delivery for APACHE Medical Systems, Inc.; senior Vice President of operations for Integrated Systems Technology, Inc.; managing director, TDS Healthcare Systems, Corp.; and group program manager for AT&T.

Ortiz received a bachelor's in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh and has completed studies for a master's in project management from the University of Maryland. She has master's certificates in federal program management and commercial program management from George Washington University.