Tony is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Meridian Group (Meridian). Meridian is a certified minority business enterprise ("MBE") within multiple jurisdictions throughout the United States, a federal disadvantaged business enterprise ("DBE"), and is certified by the National Minority Supplier Diversity Council ("NMSDC"). As an industry thought-leader, Tony brings operational, project management, financial, internal control, public policy, information technology and senior management expertise to the organization. He holds 20 years of business advisory and audit experience, and has advised an array of clients within several industries including: information technology risk and advisory, banking and financial services, manufacturing, not-for-profit, state and local government, and insurance (health).
Prior to forming The Meridian Group, he held several senior level positions with various organizations. He was a partner with a national consulting practice and was responsible for the management and growth of its business advisory, insurance risk services, and government solutions business lines. Tony was chief audit executive for a preferred provider organization located in the Baltimore, MD/Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. During his tenure, he developed data analysis tools to serve as an effective vehicle to perform retrospective reviews of medical claims payments and effectuate cost prevention. He developed innovative approaches to detect claims overpayments, subrogation recovery opportunities and further other initiatives pertaining to the mitigation of exposure to fraud, abuse and waste.
During his career, Tony has provided advisory services to major Fortune 500 firms in the area of Sarbanes-Oxley § 404 compliance, which in part requires publicly traded corporations to strengthen internal controls with respect to financial reporting. Certain of his clients were multinational corporations with annual revenues above $1 trillion. Tony has consulted with major government entities on operational restructuring and forensic review engagements that yielded significant cost savings to both the respective agencies and taxpayers. In particular, he led and supervised a consulting project with the District of Columbia Government focused on empowering the District to identify the per capita costs of its Medicaid program (at that time the highest in the nation) and to suggest areas of financial and operational improvements. Tony has consulted state and large municipal governments on American Rescue Plan Act/State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (ARPA/SLFRF) programmatic compliance, monitoring, and project management. These types of projects include construction, low-income housing, mental health, education, and other community investments.
He has published articles on the constitutionality of various legislative proposals, and the financial viability of Medicare as it relates to the provisions of the Balanced Budget Act. He has been interviewed on television and radio talk shows including C-SPAN's Washington Journal and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation." He was featured on the cover of the Philadelphia Business Journal regarding the health insurance industry’s implementation of the Annual Financial Reporting Model Regulation ("Model Audit Rule"). He is a recipient of leadership awards from both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s state legislature (senate) and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Tony served as legislative assistant to two members of the United States House of Representatives (including the late U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings from Baltimore, MD) and focused on policies pertaining to transportation funding, agriculture, federal budget, and small business development. An advocate of education and economic development opportunities in disadvantaged communities, he advises many organizations, including ministries, through board memberships and other supportive means. Tony attended St. Joseph's University (Accounting), the prestigious Washington Center for Internships and Seminars, and Harvard Business School's Executive Education Program, "Leading Change in the 21st Century."
