Biography

Al Giambone is Co-founder and CEO of Martin, Blanck & Associates, a federal health services consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. He provides health care policy, management, strategic planning, and business development advice to local, national and international organizations within the private and public sector alike. He specializes in procurement strategy and proposal management services to successfully capture contracts in the federal health sector. Since 2000, Mr. Giambone has played a major role in securing over $30 billion in contracts for his clients. In May 1998, Mr. Giambone retired from the U.S. Army at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., as Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. In this role, he served as the personal and principal advisor to the nation’s most senior military health care official. Mr. Giambone advised the Assistant Secretary on all health care and operational policies and was responsible to the Department, the Administration, and Congress for critical issues such as TRICARE, the Department’s managed care reform effort. He also managed the policy formulation process within Health Affairs to include all strategic planning activities and was responsible for developing and coordinating the legislative strategy and activities.