Steve Aylward

General Manager for Health & Life Sciences (HLS)

Microsoft

Steve Aylward is Microsoft's General Manager for Health & Life Sciences (HLS). Steve came to Microsoft in 2006 after a thirteen year career at Siemens Medical Solutions (SMS) where he was the Vice President and National Sales Director responsible for Revenue Cycle Solutions.At Microsoft, Steve is responsible for strategy, alliances, marketing, and sales execution for a $1.2 billion business which includes approximately 800 customers and partners spanning healthcare providers, health plans, and life sciences organizations. His efforts are part of Microsoft's continued and growing commitment to helping the healthcare industry realize its potential for improved productivity, quality, and safety through proven technology innovation and administrative simplification.Aylward gained an in-depth knowledge of the need for providers, health plans, and other healthcare parties to collaborate and connect for better health outcomes through his five years as National Sales Director for Healthcare Data Exchange (HDX). His experience there dovetails with many of the key business issues currently facing healthcare today: clinician connectivity, administrative simplification, the need for adoption of an electronic patient record, and the drive toward consumer driven healthcare. The adoption and use of technology will certainly play a prominent role in the evolving strategies the industry, the government, and the marketplace implement to address these important topics.Hisextensive experience within IT, healthcare and general businessprovide an excellentbackground in his role as General Manager for Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft.Steve holds a bachelors degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a member of various trade associations including; Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

Scott Cowsill

Sr. Product Manager Diagnostic Solutions

Nuance Healthcare

Scott has a rich history and expertise in healthcare provider relations, practice management, hospital administration and healthcare & government contracting. He has spent the last several years of his career pioneering "Electronic Clinical Decision Support," with emphasis on high-tech diagnostic imaging, in both the private and Federal sectors. Scott continues to define this market segment through collaborative relationships with healthcare technology vendors, as well as, the national work he does as Chair of the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition.

Ray Desrochers

Chief Operating Officer

HealthEdge

Ray Desrochers is a senior technology and business executive responsible for leading operations at HealthEdge, an agile and innovative software company that offers the patented, award-winning HealthRules product suite. Joining the organization just after its inception, Ray has played a key role in building the company, bringing its products to market, and establishing HealthEdge's reputation as an industry leader and innovator that provides next-generation, enterprise-class software products that uniquely address 21st-century healthcare business needs.Prior to HealthEdge, Ray served as Vice President of Development at Amicore, where he led the design and creation of a new suite of hosted electronic medical record and physician practice management solutions. Ray's past experience also includes executive-level roles at organizations including Keyware Technologies, Anchorsilk, and at Webhire, a company that he helped lead through a successful IPO. Ray has been a frequent speaker at technology events and conferences around the world.

Lynne Dunbrack

Program Director, Provider/Health Payer Research

IDC Health Industry Insight

Lynne Dunbrack is a nationally recognized thought leader in the application of information technology (IT) to the business problems of the health industry. Her understanding of industry needs is grounded in experience over the last 25 years working as a consultant and in the healthcare field. Dunbrack is a frequent contributor to industry publications such as Health Affairs, Managed Care Quarterly, Healthcare Review, Health Plan, and Healthcare Management Technology, and has been quoted by national media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Business Week, and San Jose Business Journal. She also speaks regularly at industry conferences. Dunbrack holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, and an MBA with a concentration in healthcare management and MSMIS from Boston University's Graduate School of Management.

Jim Hand

Clinical Solutions Consultant

Microsoft Corporation

As a Clinical Solutions Consultant for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft, Jim Hand is responsible for supporting the Microsoft Health Solutions Group throughout the United States and Canada. In this role, Jim is a subject matter expert for the Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System. Jim began his career as a registered nurse specializing in critical care and emergency. In 1996, he stepped out as an entrepreneur and opened AMH Group, a healthcare IT consulting and continuing education services resource for physicians, nurses, and allied healthcare personnel. His impressive client list includes The American Heart Association, Allscripts, Kaiser Permanente, Emory Healthcare, Bon Secours Health System of Richmond, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. AMH Group continues to provide high-quality consulting and education services to clients today. In addition to his role at Microsoft, Jim acts as a American Heart Association Training Center Faculty member in both Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Basic Life Support. Jim comes to Microsoft from McKesson, where he was a Client Executive in charge of procuring and managing several major national hospital accounts. In that role, Jim was responsible for all components of a complex selling process including, but not limited to arranging presentations, demonstrating key products, conducting site visits, and leading contract negotiations. Prior to his work with McKesson, Jim worked as a consultant for A4 Health Systems (now Allscripts), then as Vice President of Sales for ECDS EmpowER Systems. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Jim is a graduate of Emory University with a bachelor's degree in Nursing and holds an MBA from Mercer University Stetson School of Business and Economics. He enjoys spending time with his family, golfing, cooking, hiking, biking (both motor and bicycle) and volunteer work. He currently resides outside of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Anne and three children; 20-year old son Michael, 14-year old Emily and 9-year old Abigail.

Judy Hanover

Research Manager

IDC Health Industry Insights

Judy Hanover provides research, market analysis and consulting on healthcare information technology, strategy and best practices for both the inpatient and ambulatory healthcare settings at Health Industry Insights. Her understanding of healthcare information technology is based on her experience working in the healthcare provider and payer vendor community, as well as her experience with healthcare IT end users. Ms. Hanover holds a BA in Chemistry from Harvard University, as well as an MBA, with concentration in Marketing, and an MS in Information Systems, from Boston University.

Tim Huckaby

CEO

InterKnowlogy

Tony Jurek

Practice Principal - Healthcare Payer Services

HP Software & Solutions

Mr. Jurek is currently the Practice Principal for HP's Healthcare Payers Business Intelligence consulting practice, providing data integration and business intelligence solutions to some of the largest healthcare payer organizations in the country. Mr. Jurek has 20+ years experience in management of consulting services business organizations, large scale software design and development project teams and overall program management across multiple companies and industries. Prior to joining HP, he worked for IBM/Ascential Software/Mercator Software and Mobius Management systems, specializing in enterprise data integration, data quality, content management and enterprise information delivery.

Justin Levy

General Manager

New Marketing Labs

Justin Levy is General Manager of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency as well as home to the Inbound Marketing Summit events, Inbound Marketing Bootcamps and a host of other educational events. In this role Justin helps businesses navigate the unknown seas of new media marketing including how to use social media tools, blogs, community platforms, and listening tools to drive business value. When not busy with New Marketing Labs, Justin is Partner and General Manager of Caminito Argentinean Steakhouse, located in Northampton, MA.

Matthew Long

VP of Marketing Healthcare Informatics

Philips

Matthew Long is the Vice President for Healthcare Informatics, Global Sales and Service, North America for Philips Healthcare. In this capacity, Mr. Long is responsible for the Sales and Marketing activities for Radiology PACS/RIS, Cardiology PACS/CVIS, and the Patient Monitoring Informatics businesses, which include the recently acquired VISICU and Emergin.Previously, Mr. Long served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Stentor from June 2000 to August 2005. From March 1999 to May 2000, Mr. Long was Vice President of Marketing at Cemax-Icon, Inc., a PACS company owned by Eastman Kodak Company. Prior to his Vice President position, Mr. Long, held several management positions within the Cemax-Icon organization. These opportunities included both the European Business Manager, Director of Marketing and Product Manager positions.Mr. Long received a B.S.E.E from the University of Santa Clara.

Scott Lundstrom

Vice President of Research

IDC Health Insight

As Research Vice President, Scott Lundstrom is responsible for managing Health Industry Insights research-based advisory and consulting offerings, which provide full coverage of the health care industry value chain, including payer, provider and life science segments. Lundstrom's experience has given him a thorough understanding of market dynamics, business strategies and processes, and technology solutions. Lundstrom is a regular speaker on the future of information technology in business, healthcare, life sciences, supply chain management, manufacturing, and compliance. He is also a source for the media on health care and life science issues and is often quoted by major publications such as USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, The Boston Globe and BusinessWeek.

Manish Mehta

Engagement Manager

Syntel

Manish Mehta manages Syntel's partnership with a large U.S.-based healthcare product organization. In this role, he is responsible for delivery of large-scale programs through Syntel's Global Delivery Model including Product Development, Support, Testing and Implementation. In addition, he provides the client with strategic consulting to reduce costs and retain market leadership. In addition to his experience managing this significant partnership, Mr. Mehta has experience in large scale healthcare provider and payer systems dealing in areas such as revenue cycle management, care management, claims management and more. He has first hand experience in developing complex and state-of-the-art enterprise IT frameworks and understands complex technical architectures.

Doug Moeller, MD

Medical Director

McKesson Corp

Dr. Moeller joined McKesson as a Medical Director in September 2003. His accountabilities include the clinical integrity of the Claims Auditing KnowledgeBase, as well as customer support, special projects, and new product development. He also leads the Claims Performance Clinical Outreach initiative. Doug is a Board-certified General Internist and was in private medical practice for 13 years before his transition into managed care and medical informatics.

Frank Nydam

Program Manager - Healthcare

VMware

Frank Nydam is the Vertical Industry Program Manager for Healthcare, responsible for Healthcare solutions and business development. In his role Frank works with a broad range of Healthcare ecosystem partners including hospitals, clinical application providers, hardware manufactures and industry groups to help deliver safer more efficient Healthcare solutions. Frank has been with VMware since 2002 and has helped incubate and evangelize many core VMware solutions and products. Prior to his current role Frank was a principle systems engineer and national evangelist for VMware. Before joining VMware, Frank was the Director of Technology at a national Microsoft Business Solutions partner responsible for application development and infrastructure services. Frank holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering/Management from Kent State University and Executive MBA's certificates in Finance and Healthcare studies from Rutgers University and Stevens.

Gautham Palani

Practice Head of Healthcare Consulting

Tata Consultancy Services

Gautham has more than 20 years experience of which 9+ yrs are in developing Healthcare Solutions for Global Healthcare companies. Gautham has implemented innovative and cost-effective compliance solutions to comply with government and industry mandated regulations for transactions, privacy, security and membership identity management. Gautham has engaged with various Healthcare clients in areas like HIPAA Compliance, business process, technology integration and enterprise solutions to the healthcare industry. He specializes in consulting services for selection of enterprise architecture, strategy and IT governance, Architecture and Technology assessment, Master Data management and Process Excellence. As part of the healthcare practice solution development he currently works on building key solutions in the areas of EMR's, HMS, Healthcare analytics, HIE's and ICD10 implementations leveraging key industry standards like HL7, WEDI etc. Additionally, by working with partners like SAP, Oracle, EDIFECS etc. to bring comprehensive solutions to customer problems in the Healthcare and Life science industry.

Victor Panza

Vice President, Imaging Utilization Solutions

Nuance Healthcare

Prior to joining Nuance, Victor was a co-founder and SVP of National Imaging Associates, Inc. a leading radiology benefits management firm. He has over 15 years of leadership experience in the development, marketing and sales of radiology benefit management programs and has worked with the countries leading health care payor organizations.. He has been at the forefront of this new and emerging industry and has been consulted by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding application of RBM services to government healthcare programs. National Imaging Associates was acquired by Magellan Health Services in 2006.

Paul Pilat

Director of Healthcare Relations

Intel

Mr. Paul Pilat is the director of Healthcare Relations and Payer Segment Manager within Intel's Digital Health Group. The mission of the Digital Health Group is to connect individuals, their families and clinicians to the right information at the right time so they can make better and more informed healthcare decisions. In his current position, Mr. Pilat is charged with shepherding the introduction of personal health products or platforms that may come to market as an outcome of Intel's health research. Mr. Pilat joined Intel Corporation in 1999. He has more than 20 years of experience in the consumer technology industry and is now applying that knowledge to consumers' use of healthcare technology. Mr. Pilat has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth.

Jared Quoyeser

Healthcare Industry Manager

Intel

Jared Quoyeser is currently the Healthcare Industry Manager for Intel Americas Inc. Prior to his current position he held various business and market development positions at Intel, including worldwide wireless market development and strategic business development for the cellular handheld division.Prior to joining Intel, Jared served in various management and business development roles for Sutter Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Columbia/HCA and Physician Corporation of America.Jared holds a Masters of Healthcare Administration and Business Administration from the University of Houston and Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Rajiv Sabharwal

Chief Solutions Architect

InfosysTechnologies, Ltd

Rajiv is the Chief Solutions Architect, within the Healthcare and Life sciences practice at Infosys. He provides functional and architectural guidance and has been the chief architect of various solutions. Rajiv has managed more than 80 projects of various sizes, across various business areas and technology platforms. Rajiv has extensive experience in application development and solution architecting

Amit Shukla

Senior Engagement Manager

Infosys Technologies, Ltd

Amit is a senior engagement manager within Infosys in the payer practice. He manages large client engagements and manages relationships with key IT and business leaders in the client organization. Amit also manages large transformational programs involving system consolidation, DW/BI and analytics.

Daryl Stanbery

Director of e-Health & Life Sciences Solutions

Hitachi Data Systems

Daryl Stanbery joined Hitachi LTD / Hitachi Data Systems in 2002 as Director of e-Health & Life Sciences Solutions, responsible for the Americas Healthcare business strategy, execution, and worldwide growth. Mr. Stanbery is a seasoned executive with extensive clinical software experience and a long track record of past successes. Prior to joining HDS, Stanbery was the Director of Sales for Hitachi LTD UB Group, providing mobile solutions to Point of Care in Healthcare IT; his leadership resulted in a successful partnership with Cardinal Health. Previous experience includes senior level positions at NTT Mr. Stanbery is currently active in HIMSS, CHIME, AHIMA, and AHA. He holds various advisory board positions with HIMSS and other Healthcare IT organizations. Mr Stanbery is a graduate from California State University Chico and an alumni of Theta Chi Fraternity.

John Tempesco

Vice President of Client Services

Informatics Corporation of America (ICA)

John Tempesco was promoted to Vice President of Client Services for Informatics Corporation America (ICA). His role within ICA has been expanded to include marketing responsibilities in addition to his responsibilities of implementation and support of the ICA solution across the country. Mr. Tempesco joined ICA in February of 2008 from HealthPort (formerly Companion Technologies) and has 34 years of healthcare experience including 18 years of experience in HIT in both the civilian and government sectors. He served as the Vice President of Operations for the Practice Management, Electronic Medical Records and Revenue Cycle Management product lines of HealthPort. Prior to assuming this position within HealthPort, he was the General Manager for East Coast Operations and then National Director of Support Services for Companion Technologies. Mr. Tempesco also served as Director of Operations and then Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Companion Information Management Resources, a company specializing in the out-sourcing of health and dental insurance claims processing and Internet customer service products. Prior to these civilian endeavors, Mr. Tempesco completed a career in the United States Navy as a healthcare administrator. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Department of Defense's Tricare program. He holds a BS in Business at Lock Haven University and a MHA from Baylor University. He is a Fellow in the Life Management Institute, a Certified Managed Care Executive, and a Diplomat in the American College of Health Care Executives.

Janice Young

Program Director, Payer IT Strategies

Health Industry Insight

As Program Director of Health Industry Insights' Payer IT Strategies program, Janice Young is charged with identifying the key emerging trends and technologies impacting payer business success and IT portfolio management today. A renown industry veteran with extensive research experience, Young is dedicated to helping healthcare stakeholders establish strong strategic, business and operational plans supported by integrated and aligned IT strategies. Her research focuses on solutions to improve market positioning, product development and execution, operational efficiencies, customer satisfaction, quality of care and care outcomes. Specific hot topics include as future healthcare business and IT scenarios, consumer directed health plans (CDHP), and outsourcing trends and directions, advanced analytics and pay for performance. Young holds both a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and a Master of Health Sciences, Health Finance and Management from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.