VANTIQ - Key Persons
Bill's distinguished career includes executive financial and operations roles in venture, private equity, and public companies. Bill was most recently Chief Financial Officer for First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with $1B+ of investments. Prior to First Virtual Group, Bill was VP Finance and Operations and Interim CFO for C3 IoT, Inc., an AI software provider. Prior to C3 IoT, Bill held executive roles with Ziff Davis Media, AMP Incorporated and several venture and private equity backed companies. Prior to business school, he served in the United States Navy on USS Queenfish, based in Pearl Harbor. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Ryan Vega serves as the Chief Health Officer for Vantiq and is the former Chief Innovation Officer for the Veterans Health Administration where he led enterprise innovation efforts across the largest integrated health system in the United States. His work has spanned large-scale digital modernization efforts, design and deployment of innovative care and payment models, and early design and development of healthcare software focused on improving health care delivery and experience for patients and providers. Dr. Vega also currently sits as the Physician in Residence for the Digital Medicine Society and holds academic appointments as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration at Georgetown University as well as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at George Washington University. He is the recipient of many awards for his work in healthcare innovation and has published numerous articles on the topic.
Tamba Hironobu joined Vodafone (now SoftBank) in 2004 after working at Japan Digital Equipment (now HPE), Openwave and Aicent. After leading the planning and program management for both consumer and corporate customers at SoftBank, he became the head of mobile device strategy, planning, development, verification, quality control and technical examination. Currently he is VP and General Manager of SoftBank's IoT & AI Technology Division, and is engaged in business and customer acquisition, acquiring and implementing new technologies, and finding new partners that deliver advanced business models.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- President and CEO of Grace
Captain Joe Grace, USN (Retired), is the President and CEO of Grace and Associates, LLC. Mr. Grace is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and earned his MBA from the University of New Orleans. After serving as a nuclear submarine officer, he then joined the Naval Reserves and worked a variety of military assignments, completing his Naval career as the Chief Information Officer for Navy medicine. Joe Grace now works with the industrial base supporting government agencies, with an emphasis on Military Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs. His many roles include facilitator, a key trusted advisor to leadership and a mentor to industry and government. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Grace has started many technology-based companies and taken three public. Grace and Associates continues to work diligently to improve the care of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines and their dependents.
John is the Founding and Managing Partner at Easton Capital Investment Group, a venture capital firm with a focus in healthcare and life sciences, for the past twenty years. Previously, John founded and led Security Pacific Capital Investors and was a Managing Director and Partner at E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc., where he spent more than eight years. John also co-founded Comverse Technology, which grew to a revenue run rate in excess of $1 billion and a market capitalization of more than $12 billion. During his career John has invested in more than 100 transactions across multiple sectors, including healthcare and technology.
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- CEO
- Chairman of the Board
- Co - Founder
- Visionary Leader
Marty Sprinzen is a visionary leader and successful software entrepreneur. The organizations he created and led have introduced some of the most innovative software solutions in the areas of systems management, relational databases, internet application development and, currently, real-time, event-driven applications. Sprinzen founded and became CEO of VANTIQ Corporation. Prior to VANTIQ, he was CEO and co-founder of Forte Software, which was acquired for over $1B. He also served as VP of International Operations and VP of Engineering at Ingres and VP of Development at Candle Corporation. He holds a BSEE from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
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- Chief Business Development Officer
Miguel is the Chief Business Development Officer of Vantiq and has more than 30 years of global business development experience. During his career, Miguel has designed and implemented go-to-market with local/regional/global partners , that resulted in strong business growth. Prior to Vantiq, Miguel was the VP for Latin America at Tableau Software. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering , Systems Engineering and Computer Science.
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- Co - Founder
- CTO
- Member of the Board
- Technology Leader
Paul Butterworth is a noted technology leader with a lengthy career of demonstrated innovation and business success. Past roles include founder and CTO of Emotive, where he conceived and designed the Emotive Cloud Platform for enterprise mobile computing, Architect at Oracle, Founder & CTO at AmberPoint where he directed the technical strategy for the AmberPoint SOA governance products, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technologist for Sun Microsystems, and Founder and Chief Architect for Forte Software, an internet application development company. Paul also served as Chief Systems Architect at Ingres. Paul holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from UC Irvine.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Member of the Board
Dr. Saurabha Bhatnagar leverages his deep knowledge of medicine, technology, human centered design and quality to drive health care innovation globally. He is a software engineer turned Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physician. Dr. Bhatnagar is Chief Health Officer at Commure. Previously he served as Chief Medical Officer, Head of Digital & Technology at UnitedHealthcare, spearheading various digital health initiatives across Medicare, Medicaid and commercial businesses. Prior to UnitedHealthcare, he led the formulation and establishment of national healthcare policies, programs and operational initiatives in a variety of roles at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, including Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Information Officer for EHR Modernization and Assistant Deputy Undersecretary overseeing enterprise Quality, Safety and Value operations. He also teaches in Global Executive Education programs at Harvard Medical School. LinkedIn
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Acting CEO at Garden for Wildlife
Shubber Ali is currently acting CEO at Garden for Wildlife. Previously he worked as Global Lead of Digital Innovation at Accenture, and Vice President of Strategic Innovation at Salesforce. As an experienced entrepreneur, he co-founded the software company Centriq & Flaik. At the moment he's also a guest lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tamba Hironobu joined Vodafone (now SoftBank) in 2004 after working at Japan Digital Equipment (now HPE), Openwave and Aicent. After leading the planning and program management for both consumer and corporate customers at SoftBank, he became the head of mobile device strategy, planning, development, verification, quality control and technical examination. Currently he is VP and General Manager of SoftBank's IoT & AI Technology Division, and is engaged in business and customer acquisition, acquiring and implementing new technologies, and finding new partners that deliver advanced business models.
Toby is a multilingual, multicultural, transformational global technology innovator, business executive, board member, and board advisor. He delivered company-firsts, industry-firsts, and world-firsts as he worked in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Asia. His impact and influence spans Silicon Valley; incubators; next-gen startups; Fortune 20 enterprises; the first 5G labs on earth; public and private entities; and military/government. Toby builds, scales, transforms, modernizes, expands the competitive edge, and future-proofs organizations.