Our Team

ROBERT L. HUGHES

Senior Consultant

Bob Hughes has spent his career at the nexus of business, government and the media. He is a versatile executive with successful experience in both the non-profit and publicly traded sectors. Bob has spent the last 20 years in the healthcare sector, first at the Massachusetts Association of HMOs as president and CEO, and later at Brockton Hospital as vice president of marketing and planning. He gained valuable health policy, management and operations experience that he is able to bring to bear on almost any complicated, seemingly intractable management concern.

Before MAHMO, Bob worked in marketing and investor relations for Cullinet Software, then the world's largest, independent mainframe database company with a market capitalization of $1 billion. Before moving to Cullinet, Bob spent nearly 14 years at the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a non-partisan research and policy "think tank" focusing on state management and fiscal issues.

Bob has a bachelor's degree from Boston University's College of Communication, an MPA degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from New England School of Law.

Bob has also attended the Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives, the Center for Creative Leadership Program at the University of Maryland, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Executive Program on Strategy and Organization.

He is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia Bars. He serves on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health and the Boston Fencing Club, where he is treasurer.

Bob has held senior level positions at:

Brockton Hospital-Vice President Marketing and Planning
Mass. Association of HMOs-President/CEO
New England Association of HMOs - President/CEO
Cullinet Software - Marketing/Investor Relations
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation - Vice President