Stephen D. Savas, MBA

Executive Vice President and Chief of System Development and Strategic Initiatives, Mount Sinai Health System

Stephen D. Savas, MBA, serves as Executive Vice President and Chief of System Development and Strategic Initiatives, Mount Sinai Health System.

In his role, Mr. Savas is responsible for working with Mount Sinai’s executive team to drive long-term strategy, system development, and execution excellence. He helps align Mount Sinai’s strategy across clinical care, research, education, and innovation while advancing the One Mount Sinai transformation, which reinforces a center-led model to ensure that each component of the Health System serves to optimize the whole of Mount Sinai. Mr. Savas also helps the organization identify and drive enterprise-level growth opportunities through strategic partnerships and innovative business models.

Mr. Savas has more than 30 years of experience in health care strategy, operations, and technology. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, he served as a managing director of Accenture, a global professional services company, since 2013, and as the company’s North America Health Lead since 2023. In that position, he and his team advised Mount Sinai’s plan for the One Mount Sinai transformation, and in his current role, he is helping lead that transformation from the inside. 

At Accenture, Mr. Savas led the business unit that helps payers and providers define growth and innovation strategies and improve the cost and quality of care. Across his career, he assessed and executed numerous merger and joint venture opportunities, and managed partnerships with leading technology companies.

Before joining Accenture, he was a partner and leader of McKinsey’s health care information technology practice from 2007 to 2013; he previously worked in equity research at Goldman Sachs and in the pharmaceutical industry at Pfizer. Mr. Savas was also co-founder of the  clinical software company Provation Medical.

Mr. Savas holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He has co-authored papers on innovative topics throughout his career, most recently on generative AI in health care.