David Scott was a Healthcare IT director at Deloitte where he was implementing large-system solutions. In 2006 and 2007, he says he noticed a big turn in the size and scope of the projects he was working on. In 2008, he left Deloitte to launch Pivot Point Consulting.
"If you remember, that was a very difficult time to be launching any business, right at the height of the downturn, but I knew there was a big future in healthcare, and it was a just matter of finding a niche that would work," says Scott, Partner and co-founder of the firm.
Initially, Dave was going it alone. But in 2009, on an implementation project at a hospital in Pennsylvania, he met Rachel Halonen Marano, who was working on implementation from the client side. "We quickly realized that we both had similar visions, and we joined forces and, literally, spent eight months trying to figure of the solutions to the problems of running a healthcare consultancy," Scott says.
