Joseph Lemaire is a Certified Public Accountant who received his degree in accountancy from Fairleigh Dickeson University. Over a 35-year professional career Joe was an audit partner at EY overseeing the firms NJ hospital audit practice. In that role Joe grew the practice from 15 hospital audit clients to 43 becoming the largest healthcare practice in the State. In addition, Joe also had responsibility for the health care consulting and tax practices. As part of the consulting practice Joe was involved in over 30 tax exempt bond issues serving as the feasibility consultant and helping to structure the debt facility. Joe was also involved in physician joint ventures, new service development and physician acquisitions. In 2009 Accenture acquired the health care consulting practice of EY and Joe became a partner in Accenture’s life sciences group. In addiction to his hospital work Joe also worked with several large pharmaceutical companies as well as major medical device companies on significant IT implementations and strategic projects
In 2014 Joe joined Holy Name Medical Center as their Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Under Joe’s leadership the hospital’s finance department was completely revamped and the hospitals operating results were returned to profitability. After 5 years at Holy Name Joe joined the Meridian Health System as their CFO. Meridian enjoyed it’s best operating results undoer Joe’s leadership. In 2016 Meridian merged with Hackensack University Health System where Joe assumed the role of President of Hackensack Meridian Health Ventures ( HMHV). HMHV encompassed all the non-acute care business’s of HMHV which included the long term care division, home care, surgery centers, dialysis centers and all the other health related joint ventures including 7 free standing radiology sites
Joe retired in May 2021 and has since joined the board of several private equity owned health care related companies. Joe continues to stay active in the health care industry speaking at events and providing strategic consulting advice to clients
