Wayne M. Adams | Board of Directors Chairman, SNIA
Wayne M. Adams is a Senior Technologist and Director of Standards within the Office of the CTO, responsible for expanding and managing EMC technology initiatives with the industry standards bodies. Wayne has proudly served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 and was previously elected Chair for two years. Wayne also is a Board Member for the DMTF technology association and serves as the Vice President of Marketing. Within EMC, previous managing positions include partner management and software product management, where responsibilities included API licensing and product lifecycle management for Storage Resource Management, SAN Management, and I/O pathing product lines. Prior to EMC, Wayne was responsible for product marketing and business development of various strategic software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation. He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time control systems. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer Science.
Abigail Barrow | Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)
Abi is responsible for the overall management of the MTTC and the development of its programs. Prior to joining the MTTC, Dr. Barrow served as managing director of William J. von Liebig Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The von Liebig Center was created in 2001 to support the commercialization of research being performed in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. She has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technologies Consortium (CCAT), which assisted in the identification and commercialization of technologies in the area of crisis and consequence management and received more than $25 million in federal funding from the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Barrow worked in a variety of roles at UCSD CONNECT from 1990 to 2001. At CONNECT, she developed and expanded many of its programs to support early-stage company formation and technology commercialization. Dr. Barrow is on the board and is Chair of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (MOITI) and is on the board of the National Collegiate Inventors and innovators Alliance (NCIIA). In addition, she is a Fellow of the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management at UCSD. Dr. Barrow received her Ph.D. from the Science Studies Unit and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.
Gary Barnett | Partner and Chief Technical Officer, Bathwick
For the last ten years Gary Barnett has worked as an analyst and consultant, providing advice to end-user organisations on technology selection and IT Infrastructure strategy. He has also advised technology vendors and services companies ranging from the leading IT companies to start-ups on topics such as product strategy, competitive analysis and business planning. Gary’s current research interests include – Next-generation Infrastructure (notably Cloud Computing), SOA, Data Management, Globalisation, Green IT, Innovation, Business-focussed IT Strategy, the Role of the CIO, Legacy Modernization and Infrastructure. Prior to joining Bathwick, Gary was Research Director at Ovum where he launched and lead a number of Ovum’s research programmes on the topics of innovation, open source, intellectual property, middleware, infrastructure and the CIO agenda. Before becoming an analyst Gary worked first as a software engineer then as an enterprise architect in the UK and France, developing and designing mainframe and large-scale client-server applications. Gary is frequently quoted in the worldwide trade press and is a well-known speaker at conferences, on topics as varied as ‘The future of the CIO’ and Outsourcing.
Leon Barzin | Director of Health Information Technology, Massachusetts Medical Society
Leon Barzin became the first Director of Health Information Technology at the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) in 2011 having previously spent 10 years implementing strategy for the MMS Committee on Information Technology. Since early 2010 he has published the free e-newsletter ARRA Advisor (http://massmed.org/newsletters) providing actionable information for providers looking to adopt Health Information Technology or engage with the Federal incentives program. Prior to assuming his current position, he worked as the director of technical support for the MMS, Journal Watch and New England Journal of Medicine, participating in a panoply of technical projects including video and publishing workflows. He was also technical director for Journal Watch’s Women’s Health in the New Millennium conference held at the Louvre in Paris, France. He holds a degree in environmental biology from the University of Oregon, a degree in English from Hiram College and a technical translator certificate from the University of Grenoble, France.
Colin Bower | President, Clintara
Mr. Bower brings extensive business consulting and senior executive experience, having managed and driven substantial growth of public and private companies on a global scale. Colin led Arthur Andersen’s multi-million dollar global capital markets practice, providing advisory, strategy and transaction services to multinational clients and sovereign entities across EMEA and APAC.
Prior to joining Andersen, Colin was a US Presidential Appointee at the US Department of the Treasury. Upon leaving Andersen, Colin successfully managed and grew high growth companies to capital events, and was the founder and general partner of a private equity fund.
Colin has a BA from McGill University, an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Certificate in Advanced Corporate Finance from INSEAD, France.
Ray Campbell | Executive Director and CEO, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
Ray Campbell is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Prior to MHDC he was a lawyer and consultant in private practice specializing in issues at the intersection of public policy, technology, and the law. Mr. Campbell’s public sector experience includes serving as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, as the General Counsel of the Massachusetts Information Technology Division, and as the Director of Special Projects at the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance. He was an attorney in private practice prior to entering the public sector and has a BA from Bates College, a JD from Suffolk University, and an MPA from Harvard University. Mr. Campbell is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative and is on the Board of Directors of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), in addition to serving on numerous other public and private boards, committees and workgroups.
David Dimond | Chief Strategist for EMC's Healthcare industry solutions
Dave is the Chief Strategist of Health Sciences in EMC’s Global Solutions Group which focuses on early stage development of collaborative healthcare and big data solutions to meet global market demands. Before joining EMC, Dave was a strategic advisor to several healthcare technology companies, startups and investment banks while co-founding the social media platform, WhatNext.com. Prior to this, Dave was the Senior Vice President of Innovation at TSC where his focus was on the translation of process innovation methods from mature industries, such as lean manufacturing, into product development for the healthcare industry. Dave has written numerous articles, technical papers, book chapters and has delivered a number of courses over his extensive career. He has a MS in Engineering from Northeastern University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He is an Adjunct Professor at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in the MBA program with a focus on the business of healthcare IT. Dave also serves on the Strategic Advisory Council at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he guides the formation and growth of their Healthcare Delivery Institute.
Stephen Doogan | VP Healthcare, dMetrics Sciences
In 2006, Stephen co-founded WeAre.Us, one of healthcare’s first social networking platforms for chronic disease management. Stephen led the development of its health-tracking and clinical trial recruitment platform which facilitated interventional and observational research across specialty disease areas. Having crafted some of the industry’s first interactions with social media, Stephen made his foray into data analytics by forging a partnership with MIT spin-out, dMetrics, where he eventually became VP of Healthcare Operations in 2010. Stephen led the commercialization of the company’s free-text analytics and natural language processing software in healthcare, enabling rapid research of unstructured healthcare datasets for the pharmaceutical industry.
Amnon Gavish | Senior Vice President, Vertical Solutions
Amnon brings more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications market. Before joining Vidyo in October 2009, Amnon was the Chief Technology Officer at Keisense Inc., an innovator in the field of textual user interface for Computer Electronics devices. Previously, he served as Vice President of Business Development at RADVISION, where he was responsible for the company’s strategic partnerships and for the definition of the company’s product offering to the service providers market. Amnon was the CEO and co-Founder of Surf Communications, where he was responsible for all company activities, from product inception, through go-to-market strategy, strategic partnerships and sales. Amnon holds a Sc.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
Dave Franklin | Chief Development Officer, Connance
David co-founded Connance, and is now responsible for product management, new product development and client implementation efforts. For 15 years, David was a Partner at Monitor Group, helping companies make smarter decisions and improve operations through the applied use of analytics. David holds degrees from the Wharton School and the School of Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania.
Keri Fraser | Director of Marketing, Vocantas
Keri Fraser is Director of Marketing at Vocantas. In this role Keri is responsible for all aspects of the company’s marketing function, including; creating interest, demand and recognition for Vocantas IVR solutions and its IVR products through both strategic and tactical marketing programs.
Keri brings over 15 years of marketing and communications experience to Vocantas along with a proven track record delivering successful marketing programs at both private and public companies including; JetForm (now Adobe), Telecom Ottawa (now Atria Networks), and Tundra Semiconductor (now IDT). During Keri’s tenure at Telecom Ottawa the company achieved 100% penetration of its target market, the Ottawa MUSH sector (Municipalities, Utilities, Schools and Hospitals). Prior to joining Vocantas, Keri was Director of Corporate Communications at Gennum Corporation — a global leader of analog mixed signal semiconductor devices. Keri is a member of the COPD Canada Patient Network Board of Directors.
John Goodhue | Executive Director, MGHPCC
John Goodhue is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, a joint project between MIT, University of Massachusetts, Boston University, Northeastern University, and Harvard University to build and operate a scientific computing center to support the growing demands of faculty-driven research. John is a business and technical leader with 30 years experience in networking and high performance computing. He has held senior engineering management, general management, and technology leadership positions at established organizations such Cisco and BBN, and has been on the early management teams for several startup companies. John holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gary T. Hannah | President and CEO
Under Gary Hannah’s leadership, Vocantas has matured from a concept to a profitable IVR organization. Active in the field of computers and service for more than 27 years, Hannah has specialized in high technology, telecommunications, financial and manufacturing business solutions. His successes range from establishing unique marketing and distribution strategies to resolving a number of strategic planning issues, coupled with extensive channel experience. Prior to founding Vocantas, Hannah was President and CEO of Internet start-up ThinWEB Technologies. In this role, Hannah laid the framework in sales and marketing to enable ThinWEB to pursue an IPO in the U.S. He was also a member of the board for ThinWEB and NoTime Wireless. Before joining ThinWEB, Hannah was vice president at JetForm Corporation (now Adobe) in marketing, sales and services, where he was responsible for the Global Partner Program that included OEMs, VARs and distributors worldwide, client relations and channel sales.
Dan Housman | Co-Founder and Managing Director, Analytical Applications, Recombinant Data Corp
Dan is a software veteran with a proven track record of providing valuable and innovative decision support systems to large, complex organizations. Dan leads Recombinant's strategy, product planning, and development, and is very active in Recombinant client engagements with a focus on translational research, bioinformatics and innovative approaches to data capture, analysis, and reporting for clinical quality and performance improvement. He has conceived and delivered a wide range of successful web-based analytical solutions for Recombinant clients including clinical performance dashboards, analytic and reporting solutions for performance metrics such as Meaningful Use and PQRS, and clinical research and disease management registry systems.
Martin Kohn | Chief Medical Scientist for Care Delivery Systems in IBM Research
Dr. Kohn is Chief Medical Scientist for Care Delivery Systems in IBM Research. He is a leader in IBM’s effort in collaborative care for addressing the challenges to primary care and access to healthcare. He also supports the transformation of healthcare and development of accountable care organizations. His research work includes healthcare population analytics and the role of expert systems in the clinical decision process, including the use of the Watson supercomputer in healthcare.
He speaks frequently on the issues on healthcare transformation, the role of information technology, the Patient Centered Medical Home and clinical decision support. Dr. Kohn is a co-author of IBM’s white paper “Patient-Centered Medical Home – What, Why and How.” He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Kohn was previously in IBM Healthcare Strategy and Change which helped healthcare systems and clinicians optimize process and make best use of health information technology. He has published multiple articles and book chapters on both clinical and management subjects. Dr. Kohn is an emergency physician with over 30 years of hospital-based practice and management experience. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Physician Executives.
Kurt Johnson | Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development, Courion Corporation
Kurt is responsible for Courion’s corporate and product strategy, corporate development, and securing and managing Courion’s strategic alliances and partnerships. Prior to joining Courion, Kurt was Vice President of the Service Management Strategies program at META Group, a prominent international industry research organization. At META, Kurt established himself as a leading authority in the areas of the help desk, IT service management, system management and IT outsourcing markets.
Previous to working at META Group, Kurt held consulting and management positions with The Bentley Company, part of eLoyalty, an enterprise CRM service and solutions company, and International Data Corporation (IDC), a premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets.
Widely recognized as an authority on IT security, support automation and self-service operations, Kurt is a founding member of the HDI Strategic Advisory Board. He is a frequent speaker at well-known security and compliance events including Gartner’s Security and IAM Summits; ISACA; MIS Training Institute and Help Desk Institute conferences; and CONVERGE, Courion’s annual customer conference, to name a few. Kurt begaan his career working in financial and software product management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation. Kurt holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Marketing and Finance from Boston College.
Gino Johnson | Sr. VP and GM, Vocantas
Barry Libert | Partner, OpenMattersMr. Johnson has held various Marketing, Business Development and Leadership positions over the past two decades within the healthcare technology industry. Mr. Johnson’s career includes more than 12 years with IDX Systems Corporation (acquired by GE Healthcare). Mr. Johnson is a Founder of CapSite, a Burlington, VT based healthcare technology Research and Advisory Firm. Mr. Johnson has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
Barry Libert has spent the last decade founding, investing and advising large and small organizations on the power of social networks, information exchanges and human capital into today’s socially connected world. He was the founder of Mzinga and is a board member/Advisor of MedNetworks, The Pulse Network, Innocentive as well as the SEI Center for Advanced Studies at the Wharton School.
Paulo Machado | CEO/Founder at Health Innovation Partners LLC
Paulo Machado was guided by his unwavering passion to improve the delivery of healthcare when he launched, Health Innovation Partners LLC. Paulo has leveraged his background in innovation, marketing, business management, strategic planning, business development, product development, alliance management and team building to drive success for his clients. Health Innovation Partners guides client through the development and implementation of innovative customer centered strategies, which will drive superior performance & stakeholder value. Paulo is a member/advisor/partner with the following organizations: BluePrint Health, CMS Innovation Center, ONC, #HealthIT100, Your Encore expert network, Health 2.0 Advisors, Jefferson Population Health School, Innovation Management Institute, Center for Connected Health, Drexel University’s MBA/BioPharma Advisory Council, Aurora Capital, Kairon Capital and the Walking Gallery.
Joe Petro | SVP of Healthcare Research and Development
Joe Petro is Senior Vice President of Engineering for Nuance Healthcare’s Research and Development team. He is responsible for providing strategy and leadership for all product development associated with the Nuance Healthcare 360 solutions portfolio. Joe’s team is comprised of 400 engineers and researchers worldwide who work to advance Nuance Healthcare’s voice-enabled clinical documentation, clinical language understanding and analytics solutions to facilitate the capture, knowledge-extraction and intelligent use of patient data for good across the healthcare enterprise.
Prior to assuming his current position, Joe was SVP of Product Development at Eclipsys Corporation, a leader in the electronic health record space, where he served on the executive staff and was a reporting officer. Joe received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of New Hampshire Summa Cum Laude and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering Summa Cum Laude.
Richard Pro | Principal, Healthcare Practice at Tata Consultancy Services
Richard Pro is a dynamic executive leader with twenty-four years of analytics and operations experience crossing multiple business units. Expertise driving enterprise business analytics, strategic analysis, marketing & product management, and organizational transformation efforts. Recognized thought leader combining creativity and innovation with a pragmatic, results-oriented style.
Robert E. Rogers Jr. | Founder and CTO, Application Matrix
Robert E. Rogers Jr. serves as Chief Technology Officer of the Company and has more than twenty-five years of data processing experience, including 20 years just in storage management. Previously, he was Chief Storage Technologist for BMC Software, where he was responsible for creating product strategies, and the design and architecture of storage products. Prior to that, he was President of Firebird Software, Inc, a startup storage software company specializing in data replication and mirroring. As Director of Market Strategy and Planning and Chief Architect at SOFTWORKS, he was responsible for the design and development of the CenterStage and Resource Availability products for Windows NT, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and z/OS. CenterStage was the basis for SOFTWORKS’ 1998 IPO, and EMC's $192 million dollar acquisition of SOFTWORKS in 1999. Mr. Rogers spent three years in the design and development of enterprise storage resource managers at SOFTWORKS and then moved into Marketing to help oversee the development of marketing tools, partner relationships, and other elements key to the success of a new product.
Denis Salins | COO/CIO of First Medical Solutions
Denis Salins is a technology innovator and much of the creative force and mastermind behind the design and functionalities of First Medical Suite®. Denis currently holds a B.S Degree in Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University and is currently enrolled in the M.S Degree Program. Denis leads a Team of highly qualified technology gurus that have a core competency in Technology as well as the Business of Medicine along with Advancement of Business Relations.
Shahid N. Shah | CEO of Netspective Communications
Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential healthcare IT thought leader who is known as "The Healthcare IT Guy" across the Internet. He is a consultant to various federal agenices on IT matters and winner of Federal Computer Week's coveted "Fed 100" award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 20 year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross's electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he's built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he's designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH's SBIR/STTR program helping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications..
Amy Silberbauer | Executive IT Specialist, Rational Unleash the Labs team, IBM
Amy Silberbauer is an Executive IT Specialist on the Rational Unleash the Labs team, The ULL team is charged with providing technical enablement and setting solution direction, as well as acting as the liason between IBM field teams and the development labs. She currently serves as the lead architect for Rational Industry Solutions, with a focus on Enterprise Modernization, SOA and BPM, ensuring Rational’s strategy is aligned with the above-brand industry solutions. She focuses on client enablement and the development of frameworks to ensure successful deployment of Enterprise Modernization solutions in client environments. She also consults with clients to provide practical guidance, planning and implementation roadmaps, and guidance on the cultural challenges that arise in typical modernization efforts. She has been an IBM employee for 25 years, 22 of which were spent in software development in both the AIM and Rational organizations as lead architect and development manager. Most of her development history has been in the enterprise modernization area. She has several patents in the area of metadata modeling.
Tony Shan | Chief Cloudologist, NTT DATA/CTS Firm
Tony Shan is a renowned thought leader and technology visionary with over 25 years of field experience and guru-level expertise on cutting-edge enterprise computing. With a proven track record of repeated success in directing and advising the lifecycle strategization and operationalization of large-scale distributed systems on diverse platforms in Fortune 100 companies and public sector organizations, his innovative work on emerging technologies like cloud, SOA, and social computing has earned multiple awards and honors. He contributed to multiple IT encyclopedias and authored over 10 books and hundreds of technical publications on various advanced computing subjects. He is a regular keynote speaker/organizer/panelist in more than 100 preeminent conferences, an editor/advisory board of IT journals, a judge in cloud competition awards, and a founder of several user groups/forums and startups of leading-edge technologies.
Vera Tice | Managing Director, Healthcare Delivery Institute at WPI
As Managing Director, Vera Tice is establishing and leading the Healthcare Delivery Institute at WPI. She is a chief strategist, business, and R&D engineering executive whose career has been focused in the healthcare, medical device, and mobile telecommunications industries. She is an expert in research and development of new technology-based systems, products, and services to innovate and improve healthcare across the continuum of care. Prior to joining WPI, Tice held positions as Chief Operating Officer, Vice President, and Senior Director at healthcare technology companies and led her own consulting company. As a strategic consultant, she advised technology companies, private equity firms, global foundations, and healthcare delivery and academic organizations engaged or investing in healthcare-focused product and service development and research. She has also held senior business and R&D engineering leadership positions at Nokia and Hewlett-Packard's Medical Products Group, now Philips Healthcare. Tice holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Engineering with High Honor in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Micky Tripathi | President & Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
Micky Tripathi is the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit collaboration of 34 leading Massachusetts organizations. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the eHealth Initiative, a national organization promoting health information technology, the co-chair of the Health Exchange Working Group of the national Health Information Technology Policy Committee, which is providing recommendations to the federal government on health information exchange requirements related to the HITECH Act, and a member of the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), a regional health information exchange based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Steve Wardell | Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Activate Networks, Inc.
Steve Wardell is a business development and corporate finance professional with transactional and company-building experience in e-health, health services, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices. Steve is Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Activate Networks, Inc. Activate Networks is the world leader in developing an innovative analytic technology that integrates data to enable client companies to reach their customers and employees more effectively by means of highly specific targeting information and real-world social networks. Its network-analysis technology also discovers trends and prepares its customers to take advantage of future developments. Prior to working in the Boston-area healthcare industry, Steve participated on Wall Street in over $20 billion worth of M&A and financing transactions at Citigroup in the healthcare, technology, and industrial sectors. Steve has been named a winner of the Boston Jaycees' Ten Outstanding Young Leaders Award for his contributions to the greater Boston area through outstanding professional, civic, and personal achievements, and the Boston Business Journal has also chosen him as one of their Top 40 Under 40 business leaders. Steve is a frequent speaker and panelist on entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture capital at industry conferences and academic courses, and as guest lecturer at area universities. Steve holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University, and a BA from Harvard College.
Steve Weaver | Rational Cloud Solutions GTM Manager, IBM Software Group, Rational
Steve Weaver joined IBM Rational in 2000 as an IT specialist, installing and configuring Rational solutions to customers across the United States. Moving into technical marketing in 2008, Steve has led Rational marketing efforts around Architecture Management, Asset Management and Service Oriented Architectures before becoming the Rational marketing manager for cloud solutions. Steve has spoken as a cloud subject matter expert at numerous IBM events, including Pulse, Impact and Innovate conferences, as well as industry events such as CloudConnect and the Gartner Symposium.
