For investors, operators, governments and founders

Verified clinicians and operators, on the questions that matter to you.

We are building the largest and most informed expert network in healthcare. The Network gives you people who have run the services, treated the patients and set the rules behind your question, verified against registration and career history, matched on what they have actually done, and engaged as part of your team.

Convened by Foundry Health. A clinician-led healthcare strategy and investment advisory firm since 2020, with teams across the Asia Pacific, North America and the UK.

Tell us the decision behind the question. We scope the right people and come back to you

Who we work with

Investors, operators, governments and founders making decisions about which services are funded, scaled, bought or built.

  • Investors

    Private equity, infrastructure and corporate development teams

    Diligence on clinical, operational and commercial assumptions, with people who have run the assets you are assessing

  • Operators

    Hospitals, aged care, primary care and specialist groups

    Strategy, service design and benchmarks shaped with clinicians and executives who have done it before

  • Governments and funders

    Departments, agencies, insurers and program funders

    Policy and program design informed by front-line evidence, and consultation that reaches the professions delivering care

  • Founders

    Medtech, digital health and health services founders

    Test value propositions, clinical assumptions and routes to market with the clinicians who would use what you are building

A clinician wearing a stethoscope points at a screen while a client in a dark blazer looks on, in a hospital corridor
40+
clinicians and operators in the community
12
specialties represented, and growing
500+
years of clinical and operational experience in healthcare
3
focus regions: Asia Pacific, North America and the UK

What we do

What clients commission through the community
Policy

Inform policy and funding decisions

Clinicians and operators bring first-hand experience to submissions, consultations and reviews, so what has moved on the ground reaches the people who set the rules

Strategy

Develop innovative corporate and service strategies

Former executives, clinicians and directors work with boards and leadership teams on service mix, workforce, growth and new operating models

Due diligence

Qualify clinical, operational and commercial assumptions

Members test the assumptions behind an investment, merger or expansion alongside a Foundry diligence team, from referral patterns to unit economics

Toolkit

Test value propositions and build practical toolkits

Working groups pressure-test new products and services with the people who would use them, and write the playbooks, benchmarks and trackers the sector asks for

How it works

Three steps from question to people. Foundry scopes and quotes before any work starts.

1 Brief

Tell us the decision behind the question, the settings it touches and when you need to move. A short call or a paragraph is enough to start.

2 Match

We scope the roles and career histories that bear on it and put the proposed people to you. Conflicts are already registered, and nothing reaches a member until you approve the panel.

3 Engage

Calls, surveys, working groups or a member alongside a Foundry project team. Findings come back as part of your team’s work, in the form the decision needs.

Who you can reach

Clinicians, operators and executives from across healthcare, at every career stage and in every market we work in. Every member is verified against registration and career history before they are matched to a question.

GPs, dentists, specialists, registrars and residents

A widely sought perspective. No leadership role needed

Nurses, midwives, allied health

How care is delivered, from the professions delivering it

Practice owners and service leads

Anyone who has run a practice, ward or program

Executives, current and former

Hospital, aged care, disability, community, primary care

Funders, government, policy

People who set or administered the rules

Pharma, medtech, digital health

Commercial, medical, regulatory and product roles

Rural, remote and regional

Perspectives that are often under-represented

Retired, on leave, between roles

Your history is the asset and it does not expire

Make an enquiry Tell us the decision behind the question and we will scope the right people

Where members are

Our focus is Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific, the US and Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Anywhere else? We accept applications from around the world

  • Focus regions
  • Members welcome from anywhere

Have a question in mind?

Lodge an enquiry and we will come back to you with how The Network can help, or reach a partner directly.

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What you can commission

Expert calls, panels and surveys, matched on career history

Working groups and position papers on sector-wide questions

Benchmarks, playbooks and trackers, authored with members

Questions we get asked

How are members verified?

Foundry clinicians and former operators confirm each member's roles and registration against their career history before they can be matched to a question. Conflicts are registered at sign-up, so no one is routed a request about their own employer or a direct competitor.

How are people matched to our question?

On what they have actually done, not on a keyword. We ask for the decision behind the question, scope the roles and settings that bear on it, and put the proposed people to you before anyone is briefed.

How is confidentiality handled?

Nothing about your question reaches a member until they accept a specific request, and confidentiality terms are agreed before anyone is briefed. Calls are recorded only with consent from everyone on them.

How is pricing set?

Foundry scopes each engagement and quotes before work starts. Members are paid for their contributions at a rate set with the community, so the people you speak to are engaged as part of the team, not as a favour.

Can we engage Foundry's own team as well?

Yes. Members often work alongside a Foundry project team on diligence, strategy and board work. Tell us the shape of the problem and we will propose the right mix.

Which regions do you cover?

Our focus is Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific, the US and Canada, and the United Kingdom, with members joining from elsewhere. If a question needs a profile we do not yet have in the community, we say so.

Bring us the question

Tell us the decision behind it. We scope the right people from the community and come back to you with how to proceed.

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