Walter Larkins is a successful serial entrepreneur and inventor with over 25 years of business development experience in creating, managing and motivating entrepreneurial companies, sales professionals in Healthcare focused businesses. Currently he is President and Co-CEO of startup venture Sapphire RCMS, a SaaS solutions tech company, focusing on optimizing NPR and Payer Contracting. We level the playing field between providers and payers determining "what's been left on the table". By harnessing claims, financial, and contract data, we significantly boost healthcare providers contracted top-line revenue.Formerly he was President and CEO of Endosurgical Development Corp. (EDC) that invented a system for minimally invasive heart surgery that was ultimately acquired by a Johnson & Johnson company; As an investor and Principle he started a variety of entrepreneurial companies including CDR Financial Services, LLC, a leading Healthcare focused AR management company, CDR Research, a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Company in India that serviced Healthcare providers. He served on the BOD NASDAQ traded En Ponte Technology, Inc. He held positions in Sales, Training and Marketing with Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson start-up Ethicon Endo-surgery. He holds several issued and pending international and US patents. Walter served 4 years in the US Army, achieving the rank of Captain, while stationed in Europe and attended Boston University's European Division MBA program, the US Military Academy at West Point and is a graduate of UCLA, where he was a ROTC scholarship winner. He serves on a number of Non-Profit Boards and commissions including the Memorial Care Foundation of Long Beach, the Long Beach Economic Development commission and is a founder and board member of E=O2 Foundation an 501(c3) http://www.EequalsO2.org
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