krcConsult♦, LLC

Business Strategy and Development

Kenneth Cahill is Principal for krcConsult, a firm focused on management and business development strategies for companies providing consulting services in developing countries. Through May, 2014, he was a Principal with Deloitte Consulting. He was responsible for Deloitte’s global health and social protection business in emerging markets on behalf of international donor institutions.  Prior to his work in the private sector consulting, Mr. Cahill spent 15 years with the Congressional Research Service as a social policy specialist and head of the Research Methodology Section. Mr. Cahill focuses on organizational strategy and development for companies engaged in health care, pension and insurance reform in developing and transitioning countries.  His specialized technical areas include health and social protection policy and regulation, social and private health insurance and financing mechanisms, corporate governance, business development and organizational strategy. He has worked in and managed projects in over 20 emerging market countries. His projects included designing and increasing the impact of social health insurance schemes in India including persons living with HIV/AIDS; improving the medical supply chain in Kenya by promoting an improved regulatory environment as well as local organizational capacity;

building a social safety net in Iraq; capacity building for local organizations to deliver high quality HIV/AIDS services in Nigeria; restructuring Egypt’s public pension system; and strengthening the health financing capacity of the Ministry of Health in Afghanistan.  He has also been active in piloting programs to introduce innovative approaches, including mobile health, to improve the sustainability of donor health initiatives.

Mr. Cahill serves on the Advisory Board of University Research Corporation (URC), a premier supplier of health quality and health systems strengthening in the developing world.

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Professional Experience

2014 Present: Principal. krcConsult:  A firm providing professional services to organizations engaged in health and social protection work in developing countries and domestic US government work.  Key services include business strategy, business development, corporate planning and technical work in the areas of health and social protection policy, regulation, and implementation.

2009- 2014: Partner/Principal. Deloitte.  Mr. Cahill was responsible for health, pension, and social protection business funded by donor agencies in emerging market countries. He led Deloitte’s effort to re-establish itself with the international donor community resulting in over $100 million in contract awards.    Major projects include development of social health insurance in India; a social safety net for widows and orphans in Iraq; improvements to medical supply chain in Kenya and improving HIV/AIDS services in Nigeria and Mozambique.

2000 – 2009: Managing Director. BearingPoint.  Mr. Cahill started and built BearingPoint’s emerging markets health and social protection business line. He developed relationships with each of the major donor organizations and won an executed projects in a diverse set of countries including Serbia, Bulgaria, Armenia, India, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, and several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 

1994- 1999: Director. KPMG.  Mr. Cahill developed KPMG’s domestic health economics practice based on his 15 years of experience working for the US Congress. He managed projects and served as principal analyst for projects that develop health reform options to expand coverage and improve efficiency; develop and analyze health provider and payer regulations; analyze proposals to control costs; promote access and improve quality of care.

1978 – 1994: Section Chief and Specialist in Social Legislation.  The Congressional Research Service.  Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Cahill was a senior leader for the Congressional Research Service, one of the support agencies for the U.S. Congress.  He was chief of the research methods group that was responsible for analysis of major public policy issues before the Congress.  His team provided analysis to Congress for the new Federal Employees RetirementType your paragraph here.