Skills• IoT• Cybersecurity• Strategy• Remote Patient/Device Monitoring• Digital Health• Connected Medical Devices• Chronic Disease ManagementRichard Powers is a prescient leader who creatively orchestrates technology and people to cost-effectively produce beautifully efficient platforms that delight customers, create value drivers, grow revenue, and enable diverse new business opportunities. At WebOps, Richard focused on improving efficiency and rolling out enhancements to meet WebOps’ continued rapid growth by applying leading edge technology and development methodologies across all of the new and existing product lines.At CardioMEMS, Richard's self-directed role transformation in a medical device startup took him from sensor R&D to user interface development, to marketing management, and, ultimately, to creating the flagship healthcare portal and architecting the powerful cloud infrastructure that is the heart of the CardioMEMS heart failure management system. The platform was a key value proposition in what was ultimately an acquisition deal valued at over $450 million. Under his leadership at CardioMEMS, Richard and his team designed and developed a secure, cloud-based, remote healthcare monitoring disease management IoT platform powering the world’s first FDA-approved implantable wireless blood pressure sensor for patients with heart failure. The ISO-27001 certified Ruby on Rails based platform allows physicians to monitor patients’ pulmonary artery pressure trends and use this information to adjust their medications, thereby avoiding hospitalizations. Richard demonstrated prescience by developing the platform utilizing virtualization and open-source technology before the industry was talking about “the cloud”. The utilization of these two technologies not only enabled the company to offer such a service, but saved millions of dollars in infrastructure and development costs, even in the security-sensitive, heavily-regulated healthcare industry.