Our role is to provide support and specialized technical assistance and services to assist communities to improve the health and well-being of their citizens.

Cyrus Baghelai, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer

Cyrus Baghelai has more than 25 years of research experience managing and conducting major analytical studies. Many of those studies have involved developing and applying microeconomic theories, econometrics, operations research, and statistical and mathematical models.

His experience in the energy, health, housing, and aviation fields includes program evaluation, economic analysis and econometric modeling, cost/benefit analysis, impact analysis, policy analysis, contingency analysis, statistical analysis of survey data, and environmental impact analyses. He is the hands-on project director for many contracts with government agencies

He has extensive expertise in policy and program research, data analysis, evaluation studies, statistical analysis, econometrics, survey research, and applied mathematics.

An economist and operations research analyst by training, Mr. Baghelai has served as Principal Investigator and Project Director under contracts on behalf of many Federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Labor, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Small Business Administration, and Corporation for National and Community Service. These efforts have utilized Mr. Baghelai’s technical expertise in areas requiring complex analytical and statistical capabilities.

Mr. Baghelai’s capabilities extend to significant project management skills that have been applied to multiple, concurrent, and quick-turnaround studies under task order contracts and basic ordering agreements. He has managed large-scale research initiatives ranging from an assessment of HUD’s Community Development Block Grant program, to providing technical assistance for policy review at the Federal Aviation Administration, to evaluating the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor demonstration on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Mr. Baghelai is adept at ensuring the overall quality of work while conceptualizing, organizing, directing, overseeing, and maintaining professional standards and fiscal responsibility for all aspects of project performance. His combination of technical, managerial, and leadership skills have been utilized for the benefit of multiple local, State, and Federal Government programs.

Mr. Baghelai has published widely and diversely in areas that range from comparing program data collected on the impact of spinal cord injuries to assessing uncertainty in the nation’s energy modeling system.

Mr. Baghelai holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the National University, an M.S. in Economics from the University of Southern California, and an M.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.