Blake has over 10 years of experience in healthcare management consulting, specializing in provider compensation valuation and advisory work. Blake's clients appreciate his ability to apply qualitative facts and circumstances to quantitative data and analytics. He takes a personal approach to projects, establishing strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure he understands the people behind the process and the local market factors that must be accounted for in provider transactions. Blake's goal is to help organizations get the most out of their largest investment—their employees.

Prior to joining ECG, Blake was a senior consultant at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., where he managed consulting services related to provider compensation valuation, provider compensation program design and administration, and physician-hospital alignment strategies. His client experience is diverse; Blake has consulted for 10 of the 40 largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the US, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review, along with Critical Access Hospitals and small, family-owned private practices. Blake's areas of expertise include FMV and CR analyses, provider compensation program design, compliance risk assessments, provider compensation governance, and stakeholder education. Examples of his work include being the preferred FMV and CR consulting partner for Providence (51 hospitals, 1,014 clinics, and 125,000+ caregivers across seven states) and managing the compensation design process for employed faculty and physician leadership at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute.