Leadership Team

Craig Thier

Craig is a co-founder and partner of Blue Line.  A former healthcare Finance and Operations executive, Craig has deep Healthcare Provider Industry Experience in Hospital and Physician Revenue Cycle, Planning & Budgeting, Reengineering and System Implementation.  Craig has run many of Blue Line’s largest healthcare implementations – including University of Maryland Medical System, Hospital for Special Surgery, Boston Children’s and Young Adult Institute.  Prior to Blue Line, Craig was a 6 year veteran of Cognos.  Craig attended Marist College for his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and holds an MBA from National University.

Gary Connors

Gary is a co-founder and partner of Blue Line. A former IBM/Cognos Architect in the Enterprise Planning space, Gary brings 25 years of experience in software implementation and process re-engineering to our clients.  His insight in helping clients design and implement process changes to support ever evolving business needs has led to successful implementations at some of the worlds largest companies.

Before founding Blue Line, Gary was a 6 year veteran of Cognos, and prior to that he was the VP of Budgeting and Forecasting at Chase Manhattan’s Trust Services Division.  Gary attended Pace University for his undergraduate degree in Business Administration and holds an MBA in Finance from St. John’s University.

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