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Reviews
“I had the opportunity to work with Doug advising a mutual client on a divestiture of a family-owned business. Doug was a valuable partner on this assignment. He was extremely hard-working, diligent and thorough. He was action-oriented and helped drive the process towards outcomes. It was a pleasure to work together.”
Goldman Sachs Co-Head of Global M&A “Doug was engaged by WellPoint to assist in the development of the strategic plan for the Commercial business. Doug's strong strategic skills, operational background and healthcare industry experience allowed him to quickly assess the company's situation and the market environment. Doug effectively navigated the senior levels of the organization and provided substantive external market input based upon his strong relationships with customers and the investment community. Doug is a high caliber, strategic leader with keen intellect and market insights. His ability to provide both strategic thinking and process guidance greatly increased the value of the work product.” WellPoint Senior Executive “Doug was a consultant to FHC Health Systems and a colleague in addressing the needs of ValueOptions, our largest subsidary. I found him to be focused and thorough in his approach to our challenges. He easily engaged the senior management team in conversations designed to improve productivity and positioning of the company to attract investment partners. Doug is talented, skillful and able to enhance any company that engages him.” FHC Health Systems Senior Executive “Doug is an excellent board member. He has deep knowledge of internet business strategy, expert networks, job boards, and health care. He is a precise thinker who makes well organized and actionable recommendations. Doug is also extremely well connected and efficient at leveraging his contacts to help make Zintro successful.” Zintro Founder & CEO "Just like most of Biorasi board members, Doug and I met by chance. After spending time with Doug, I quickly became impressed by both his strategic thinking and wisdom in strategies implementation. Naturally I asked him to join our Board. Based upon his diverse background in healthcare and technology-based businesses and his experience in helping founders and investors as a board director, Doug quickly became an integral part of our board creating a seamless fit. His contribution has exceeded everything that I hoped for and it has been a pleasure to work together." Biorasi Chairman & CEO “Doug balances insight with attention to detail. He is a deep thinker into the evolution of technology and very knowledgeable in the areas of consumer internet, healthcare and publishing. At the same time, Doug can see hidden connections and helps to bring people and companies together when they can help accelerate each other's business. Doug has helped us to work through a lot of the early business strategy and focus on what makes most sense for our business. We will continue to work with Doug for as long as he will have us.” iAMscientist.com Founder & CEO “Doug has served ably, actively, and altruistically over the two years he has been a board member of MedCommons. He has helped guide our thinking towards product innovation in patient-centric healthcare. Doug introduced us his own network of service providers and under his guidance we successfully transitioned to better quality legal, financial and public relations partners. Doug has carefully and judiciously introduced us to potential healthcare clients and partners and has not wasted anyone's time in the process. Finally, when we were considering raising money externally Doug gladly introduced us to several tier-1 venture funds in New York and Boston and it was clear that everyone knew and liked Doug and would open doors for him." MedCommons Founder & CEO “I had the pleasure of working for Doug Klinger for about 2 years. Doug is a very strategic business leader with intelligence, integrity, and the drive to succeed. He has a deep knowledge of business and a passion for doing the right thing for the customer. What impressed me the most about Doug were his innovative, results oriented ideas and that he was constantly challenging us to meet our commitments in new and different ways. Doug was instrumental in leveraging the Monster brand to develop new distribution channels for our Products. He is a highly effective manager, and has a talent for getting diverse individuals to work as a cohesive, collaborative, and highly effective team.” Monster Worldwide Senior Executive “Doug is one of the brightest executives that I’ve had the pleasure of working with. His problem solving ability is the best that I have ever seen in a senior leader. He can get to the core of an issue quickly, determine potential solutions and then pick the right one. He has a fantastic external network on which he can draw. Doug brought tons of external perspectives to the real strategic issues that Monster faced. He spent lots of his energy in attracting and building a talented leadership team at Monster. Doug’s work ethic is outstanding, he’s very widely read and his passion and hobby clearly is running businesses.” Monster.com CFO |