It's fantastic to be part of a great team that partners with clinicians working in acute care - EmOpti is focused on optimizing performance across the spectrum of acute care settings through a new generation of technology and re-organized patient care workflows. Our collaboration with customers promises to improve throughput and overall productivity in emergency departments and other acute care settings, help match patients with the best site to care for their problems, reduce variability in care, and lead to happier more satisfied patients.

Happy to have played a key role in the early evolution of Caradigm, a 50:50 joint venture between Microsoft and GE Healthcare. Senior executive with product strategy team, with diverse responsibilities tying together product strategy with sales, business development and services groups and extensive customer facing activities.

Led pursuit of opportunities to utilize Amalga for aggregation/analytics and HealthVault for patient engagement in health information exchange settings and other situations involving exchange of health data across traditional organizational boundaries.Oversight of both direct reports and virtual teams. Successfully negotiated and closed deals servicing millions of patients in multiple states.

Founder and PresidentEstablished Wisconsin Health Information ExchangeExtensive work with C-suite execs from health provider orgs to establish legal, business models for exchangeRecruited executive team and advisorsNegotiated technology provider contracts

Member of executive management team from inceptionLeader of all strategic planningOversight of information systems strategies and raised millions of dollars in research grants for IT projectsPursued variety of new business development activitiesLeader of clinical practice and quality program administration

Founder and member of board throughout term, providing software solutions to over half of the nation's hospitalsSuccesfully negotiated spin off and angel investment termsLeader of strategic planning and product roadmap developmentOversaw marked growth and eventual sale to private equity firm