Chris Augustian, CPA

Chris Augustian, CPA

President of Clinic Ventures

Chris Augustian is president of clinic ventures for BayCare Clinic. He helps manage and advance the joint venture relationship between BayCare Clinic and Advocate Aurora Health. BayCare Clinic has been a joint partner in Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, a 167-bed full-service hospital, for more than 20 years. Augustian also is the chairman of the hospital’s board of managers. Before moving into his new role as president of clinic ventures in 2022, Augustian was BayCare Clinic’s chief executive officer for 10 years. During that time, BayCare Clinic opened a new headquarters building on Green Bay’s east side in 2016, a new Plastic Surgery & Skin Specialists facility in Bellevue in 2017 and partnered with Aurora Health Care to build the Aurora BayCare Health Center in Kaukauna, which opened in 2020. BayCare Clinic also significantly expanded its Manitowoc services during Augustian’s tenure as CEO, adding orthopedics, sports medicine, ophthalmology and optometry providers through mergers in 2013 and 2015 and building the BayCare Clinic Lakeside Campus facility, which opened in 2021. Augustian joined BayCare Clinic in 2004 as controller and became chief financial officer in 2006. He is involved in the community, serving on the board of the New Community Shelter in Green Bay. Augustian is a certified public accountant. He received a bachelor's degree in managerial accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.