Christine J. Spadafor is an experienced corporate, private equity, venture capital, university and non-profit board director with deep expertise in regulatory compliance and quality, enterprise growth strategies, corporate transitions, corporate sustainability, M&A, turnarounds, and risk management. She has a demonstrated track record leading both domestic and international initiatives at the intersection of strategy, operations, finance, and human capital management across a broad spectrum of industries, specifically healthcare “from the bedside to the boardroom.” She has worked extensively as an advisor to Fortune 100 C-suite executives, boards of directors and private equity.

Christine is CEO of SpadaforClay Group, a management consulting firm. She serves as an Independent Director at Boyd Gaming Corporation, a $3.9B NYSE-listed, highly regulated company,  here she is the Chair of its Governance and Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. Christine is also on the President’s Council of Massachusetts General Hospital’s MGH Institute of Health Professions. In addition, she served on the boards of Kindred at Home, a private company that is the largest provider of home care and hospice services in the US, where she was Chair of the Quality and Compliance Committee and of Intus Care, a private company with a proprietary platform to synthesize healthcare data to identify risks, trends and optimize patient outcomes. Christine serves on the Board of Trustees for Mercyhurst University, on the Advisory Board of WBUR, one of the premier National Public Radio stations in the US, and is a commentator on the BBC World Service “Business Matters” global radio broadcast and podcast and BBC News. She is a frequent contributor to Fortune, Forbes, Inc., and other business journals.

Christine graduated from Harvard Law School and received a Master of Science degree in Physiology from Harvard School of Public Health, which included course work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, she co-authored a workplace health treatise published by Johns Hopkins University Press with a professor in the Science and Technology core. In addition, Christine was a Partner in three premier global management consulting firms (The Boston Consulting Group, CSC Index, AlixPartners), was an editor of The Harvard Environmental Law Review, and was selected by the Business Section of the American Bar Association/Direct Women as one of the top 20 female attorneys in the country with expertise for corporate board service.

In addition to her educational background in science and public health, Christine understands healthcare at its core, having worked as an ICU nurse at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her trajectory evolved into serving as the Interim Chief Administrative Officer at a medical equipment leasing company highlighted on the cover of Inc. magazine; CEO of a mental health facility facing a financial crisis; CEO of a clinical social services organization that required building teams from scratch and designing new therapeutic programs; General Counsel at a pediatric hospital; advisor to the United Nations in China on public health and sustainability; led the strategy and implementation for the CEO at a major international medical equipment manufacturer, transitioning it to a digital corporation; led the operational restructuring of multiple key departments of a major US academic medical center, focused on improving quality of care, improving patient outcomes, and increasing patient satisfaction. She also worked as a Health/Environmental Scientist at the US Department of Labor and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Christine speaks the language of the industry, its employees and persons it serves.

Blending backgrounds in medicine and business, Christine became a “go to” for private equity boards, whom she advised on strategy, operations, and governance projects: conducting an executive assessment for an in-home infusion portfolio company’s management team prior to going to market; conducting an organizational assessment after the failed sale of a portfolio company serving intellectually challenged persons, mentoring/coaching the management team, developing the company’s first strategic plan, and leading its implementation. The company sold for a handsome multiple three years later; leading a pre-acquisition integration plan and post-merger governance structure.

Christine is a lecturer on Strategic Leadership in the Visiting Executive Program at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a lecturer/presenter at Harvard Medical School and other graduate schools. She is a speaker/keynote at conferences, meetings, and podcasts addressing agile leadership and board governance, including the US Chamber of Commerce, Young Presidents Organization, the American Medical Group Association, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Circle of Advisors. Christine also holds two Doctor of Humane Letters degrees – awarded in recognition of her professional accomplishments and lifelong contributions to vulnerable and at-risk populations.