Va. Beach health care consultancy hires chief strategy officer

Sam Hanna joins Divurgent as executive vice president

Published January 6, 2021 by Sydney Lake

Virginia Beach-based health care consulting company Divurgent announced Wednesday it has hired Sam Hanna as its chief strategy officer and executive vice president of innovation and consulting .

Hanna joins the firm with experience as an executive adviser to Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and several medical device and artificial intelligence startups.

“Having Sam join our team has inspired and energized our team,” Divurgent Chief Operating Officer Shane Danaher said in a statement. “Whenever you have someone with Sam’s level of expertise and forward-thinking approach to the industry, it propels us as an organization to think even further outside the box to deliver value to our clients through our solutions and products.”

In his new role, he will lead the design and development of Divurgent’s products and will oversee future company investments.

Founded in 2007, Divurgent provides health care consulting services to hospitals, health systems and affiliated providers. In the past decade, the company has been featured on the Inc. 5000 list (recognizing the fastest-growing privately held companies) six times.