CENSINET - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chief
• Member of the Censinet Advisory Board
• Senior Vice President
• Senior Vice President, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Baptist Health

Aaron Miri is Senior Vice President, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Baptist Health. Previously, he was the CIO for The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin. He brings more than a decade of health care experience driving growth and innovation, leading both provider and commercial health care enterprises and providing thought leadership and close collaboration with state and federal representatives. As CIO, Miri is passionate about humanizing technology by collaborating with clinicians, technology partners and business champions to truly transform health care delivery for consumers, patients and providers. In 2018, Miri was congressionally appointed by Senator Chuck Schumer to the Health and Human Services (HHS), federal Health IT Advisory Committee, established under the 21st Century Cures Act. He was federally appointed by HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell to serve on the HHS Health IT Policy Committee established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Miri is the prior chair of the Health Care Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) National Public Policy Committee and serves as an expert adviser to the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and to other congressional panels engaged in numerous Health IT policy topics. Miri brings a deep understanding of how to leverage digital health and the latest technology to accelerate health care delivery across the continuum of care. Prior to joining UT, Miri served as the chief information officer for Imprivata, the health care IT security leader, where he helped to build and transform a global commercial enterprise focused on health care cyber security. Prior to Imprivata, he was the chief information officer for Walnut Hill Medical Center, lauded by Forbes Magazine as the hospital that Steve Jobs would have built. Miri has successfully led organizations that achieved the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award, HIMSS Level six and HIMSS Level seven EMRAM status, HITRUST CSF designation and led the first provider organization to receive the SECURETexas Health Information Privacy and Security certification awarded through the Texas Health Services Authority. Miri received his Master of Business Administration, with honors, from the University of Dallas and his Bachelor of Science in management information systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a certified health care chief information officer through the College of Health Care Information Management Executives, a distinguished fellow with the Health Information Management Systems Society and he is a project management professional with the Project Management Institute. Miri was previously recognized as a 2015 and 2016 CIOs to Know by Beckers Hospital Review and was honored with the 2016 Computerworld Premier 100 Technology Leaders award and 2017 Texas Health IT Leadership Award.

Job Titles:

• Principal at Schooner Capital

Alexandra Manick is a Principal at Schooner Capital, a Boston-based private investment office founded in 1971. She focuses primarily on venture and growth-stage opportunities and provides strategic support across the private portfolio, including managing many of the firm's biotechnology and healthcare investments. She holds a BS in Materials Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford.

Job Titles:

• Managing Partner
• Managing Partner at Excelerate Health Ventures
• Managing Partner: Excelerate Health Ventures

Bobby Bahram is a Managing Partner at Excelerate Health Ventures - a seed and early-stage healthcare IT-focused fund. He has more than 20 years of operational experience building and growing start-up companies and managing high-performing teams. His experience includes serving as a director for a variety of private and public companies and playing an active role in successful spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions. Bobby has held executive-level positions with a variety of technology-based start-up ventures. He was the founding CEO and served as the CFO and COO of RadarFind, a software and services company that tracked medical equipment and patients in hospitals and was acquired by TeleTracking Technologies.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director, MemorialCare Innovation Fund

Mr. Winder co-leads the investment activities of the MemorialCare Innovation Fund. He has over 30 years of venture capital investment experience in early to mid-stage healthcare technology companies. He sources, leads, and syndicates deals, and subsequently, he works closely with portfolio companies to develop scalable commercial and marketing strategies to maximize value for founders and shareholders. Mr. Winder has both private and public company board experience and is currently (or formerly) Board Director or Observer at Aileron Therapeutics (IPO), AristaMD, Aventura (acquired by Philips Medical), Ayogo Health, BabyScripts, ClearDATA, Censinet, Cleveland HeartLab (acquired by Quest Diagnostics), Foldax, InfoBionic, Laudio, Molecular Templates (IPO), Oculus Health, Protenus, ShapeUp (merged with Virgin Pulse, acquired by Marlin), Silvercloud Health (acquired by Amwell), Saladax Biomedical, Twistle (acquired by Health Catalyst), MedVentive (acquired by McKesson), Qstream, WellDoc, and Xcellerex (acquired by GE Healthcare). He also serves as a Trustee for the Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust. Prior to joining MCIF, Mr. Winder was Co-Founder (and remains) Managing Director at Excel Venture Management. Prior to Excel Venture, Mr. Winder was a Principal at Biotechonomy Ventures where he was involved in the founding of Synthetic Genomics, the firm's investments in BioTrove (acquired by Life Technologies), BIOCIUS (acquired by Agilent Technologies), and Xcellerex (acquired by GE Healthcare). Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Winder was an award-winning sales and marketing executive at medical equipment and diagnostics companies, Midmark Corporation and MGC Diagnostics. He graduated magna cum laude with an MBA from Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, where he was a Fellow in the Center for Technology Enterprise. He earned a BA in Biology and a minor in Economics from Colby College.

Job Titles:

• Chief Commercial Officer
• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team
• President

Before Censinet, Cormac was an executive at Optum. He had P&L responsibility for the payer and provider markets in the Optum Analytics business unit, which focuses on unifying both claims and clinical EHR data to drive total-cost-of-care analytics for payers, health systems, and other providers. He also helped to launch the company's analytics outsourcing managed services business. Cormac started his career at the Advisory Board Company, a best practice research and technology company serving health care and higher education, where he worked for 21 years. He was one of the named Executive Officers. He held a variety of C-level roles in both strategy and product development, as well as the general management role for the company's health care analytics business. He also launched the company's first foray into higher education technology with an offering focused on student success, which is now the leading student success management platform in the industry. Cormac holds a bachelor of science degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Job Titles:

• Chief Information Security Officer
• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team

Dr. David Woska is the Chief Information Security Officer at Censinet, and brings over two decades of expertise in healthcare cybersecurity. Having spent much of his career working with hospitals and health systems, David has spearheaded major cybersecurity initiatives that have significantly enhanced data protection and compliance in complex healthcare environments. Before joining Censinet, David played a pivotal role at Northwell Health in New York, where he was instrumental in developing and implementing third-party risk management and IT governance programs. His efforts not only fortified the security posture of the organization but also fostered a culture of security awareness. As a former professor and published author, David is passionate about education in cybersecurity, often leveraging his extensive knowledge to enhance understanding and engagement across all levels of an organization. David holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Founder
• Member of the Censinet Board of Directors
• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team
• CEO and Founder of Censinet, the Risk Never Sleeps Podcast

Job Titles:

• Member of the Censinet Advisory Board

Eric Yablonka has over thirty-five years of experience as an industry-leading Chief Information Officer (CIO). He currently advises companies, funds, and organizations on all matters relating to health information technologies, digital and business strategies, and their applications. He is an Investor/Advisor with Excelerate Health Ventures and an advisor to YL Ventures. Previously Yablonka was the Chief Information Officer and Associate Dean at Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine. Eric's responsibilities included all information technology and digital systems, information security, and biomedical engineering for the health system and school of medicine. Eric's role was to develop and execute strategies that leverage technologies across patient care, medical research, and teaching. He closely collaborated with leaders at the Health System, Stanford School of Medicine, and Stanford University in the execution of those strategies and to support enterprise technology needs. Prior to Stanford Health Care, Eric served as the Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the University of Chicago Medicine since 2001. Eric was a member of the Senior Management Group and worked with management and the UCM Board of Trustees to execute the organization's business strategies. He has also served at Northwestern Memorial, University of Nebraska, St. Raphael Health System, and Beaumont Health in leadership roles. Eric is also a former Director for TeraMedica, an imaging management company that exited through an acquisition. Eric has been honored to receive the John E. Gall CIO of the Year award from CHIME/HIMSS and the Executives Club of Chicago/SIM/AITP CIO of the Year award. He and his team have been recognized with numerous awards, including multiple CIO100 awards, Most Wired, Information Week Elite 100, CHEF Innovation, and SIM/AITP Most Effective Team recognition. He is a fellow in both CHIME and HIMSS and has had leadership roles in both organizations. Eric earned his MBA from the Advanced Management Program, Broad School of Management at Michigan State University, and his BS in Business Studies at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

James W. Noga former Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of Mass General Brigham from 2011 to 2022. Mass General Brigham (a.k.a. Partners HealthCare) was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Mr. Noga came to this role with a deep and rich history with Mass General Brigham. He was recruited by Massachusetts General Hospital as Director of Clinical Applications in 1990 and assumed the role CIO of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in 1997. Under Mr. Noga's leadership, the MGH and Mass General Brigham underwent significant technology advances to support all aspects of clinical care and research including the implementation of an enterprise EHR (electronic health record). Mr. Noga retired in June 2022 after forty-one years in healthcare IT and now serves as a healthcare IT advisor in various roles.

Job Titles:

• Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for Mass General Brigham
• Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer, Emory Hospital

Jigar Kadakia is the Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for Mass General Brigham. He has more than 17 years of information security experience across multiple industries, with a focus on health care delivery. Kadakia has spoken at many security and privacy forums/roundtables/conferences, and is a leader in the health care information security and privacy space. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Master in Business Administration from Xavier University. He is CISSP, CIPP and HITRUST Certified. He is also certified in Risk and Information System Controls.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Censinet Advisory Board
• Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Healthcare
• Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Nuance

Joe Petro is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Healthcare division where he leads a large global team on research and development of the entire Nuance Healthcare product portfolio, and collaborates with clients to bring solutions to market. Prior to Nuance, Joe was the senior vice president of product development at Eclipsys Corporation, a major player in the electronic health record (EHR) and clinical provider order entry (CPOE) space. While at Eclipsys, Joe served on the executive staff where he was responsible for the development of more than 30 products from ADT, Departmental, Inpatient, Ancillaries, Patient Financial Management and Outpatient solutions. He earned an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of New Hampshire, graduating both with Summa Cum Laude accolades.

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, President, Mayo Clinic Platform at Mayo Clinic, and a practicing emergency physician. He strives to improve healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency for patients, providers, and payers throughout the world using information technology. He has written 12 books, several hundred articles, and the popular Geekdoctor blog. He is also an organic farmer in Sherborn, Massachusetts, overseeing 70 acres of agriculture, animals, and cider/mead making.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team
• Vice President, Engineering

Josh has 15 years of healthcare experience, comprising consulting and product development roles. Before joining Censinet, Josh led application development for Arcadia.io - launching its best-in-KLAS population health analytics platform, which integrates clinical and claims data and offers engagement/outreach tools to improve health outcomes for over 100 million patients. Josh is passionate about understanding the needs of users; simple, user-focused, design; automated testing; rapid development and release cycles; and continuous learning.

For more than 30 years, Karl West has been involved in information technology and security. West was the former CISO at Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based not-for-profit healthcare system with more than 41,000 caregivers and an integrated delivery network of 23 hospitals and 300 clinics. Under his guidance, the healthcare system has become a leader in innovative healthcare technology adoption and in health information security.

Job Titles:

• General Partner
• Member of the Censinet Board of Directors
• General Partner at LRV Health

Keith is a general partner at LRV Health. He was most recently at Premier as SVP of healthcare informatics and oversaw strategy, sales, marketing, client support, development, delivery, and operations. He created the vision for and built PremierConnect and extended its capabilities through acquisitions and strategic investments including CECity, Theradoc, and Meddius. Prior to Premier, Keith was with Eclipsys (acquired by Allscripts) as its SVP of Enterprise Solutions. He was Vice President of International operations, during which time he built the company's first international operation in India. And he served as Vice President of corporate development where he owned the annual strategic planning process, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnership development, and spearheaded new business initiatives focusing on performance improvement, clinical trials and clinical content markets. Earlier in his career, Keith was the senior business development executive at a management consulting and systems integration company focusing on Fortune 1000 companies and previously served in a variety of business development and marketing roles within the health information technology industry including work for Per-Se Technologies, Medaphis and NEC. Keith has an M.B.A. from Boston University and a B.A. from Wheaton College.

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team
• Chief Executive Officer, Edaris Health

Job Titles:

• Chief Product Officer
• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team

Paul has more than 20 years of software experience across various product, design, and engineering roles. Prior to joining Censinet, Paul was VP of Product Management and Design at Cogito Corp where he drove a scalable machine learning program, coupled with best in class user experience design, that delivered real-time speech AI and live behavioral guidance resulting in improved outcomes in Enterprise Contact Centers. He brings a wealth of healthcare software experience from his role as VP of Product Management at Imprivata where he established their Cloud Platform, grew their Secure Messaging Solution, and expanded their Confirm ID product line which delivers best in class authentication solutions for EPCS, Clinical Workflows, and Medical Devices. Paul's security background was honed in Cisco Systems's Security and Access Management group where his product line responsibilities included the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, and the AnyConnect Secure Mobility desktop and mobile clients. Paul holds a Masters in Information Technology from Harvard Extension School.

Job Titles:

• Chief Revenue Officer
• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team

Sean has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, spanning both consulting, business services, and technology companies. Most recently, Sean has held senior roles at several high-growth startups across a variety of healthcare domains, including patient engagement, clinical documentation integrity, and AI-driven automation. In these roles, Sean drove nearly 5x growth in new bookings in a single year and led a successful exit to private equity. Previously, Sean held key positions in new product development, strategic planning, and business development at the Advisory Board Company, a best practice research and technology company serving hospitals and health systems in the U.S. and abroad. Sean earned his BA in Communication from the University of California, San Diego.

Job Titles:

• Chief Financial Officer
• Member of the Censinet Leadership Team

Shawn has more than 25 years of corporate finance experience in both private and public technology and healthcare companies. Previously, he held executive finance positions at RStudio and Imprivata. Shawn has deep expertise across accounting and finance, combined with significant experience in raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and ERP implementations. Shawn also held finance management positions at Myomo, Inc., Axcelis Technologies, Cisco Systems, Starent Networks, NxStage Medical, and ViaCell. He earned his B.S.B.A in Accounting from Merrimack College and is a Certified Management Accountant.

Job Titles:

• Executive Chairman
• Executive Chairman of the Censinet Board of Directors

Stan Nowak leads Consumer Experience for Aetna as part of the Digitalization organization. His organization is responsible for Aetna-wide strategies and initiatives to transform the experience of Aetna members by prioritizing investments in digital strategies. Over the past few years his team has transformed the onboarding experience, implemented personalized video to educate members about their benefits, and developed digital resource centers to help members managing high-stress health diagnoses including several cancers. At the same time, they've promoted a culture of member obsession by developing assets like the "Path to Better Health" and the Consumer Experience Innovation Challenge. Stan was most recently the president of Silverlink, a Welltok Company. In that capacity he ran Silverlink and was the general manager of the Welltok Rewards business unit. He was the co-founder, president and CEO of Silverlink Communications, which was founded in 2001. Silverlink is a category leader in healthcare consumer engagement and has contacted over 1/3 of the US population on behalf of its 80 healthcare payers, pharmacy, and health management customers since inception. Silverlink was sold to Welltok in 2015. Stan was the first to apply marketing analytics to technology-based healthcare communications, and Silverlink amassed the broadest industry data-set around the impact of pro-active intervention strategies on consumer health behaviors. He attended Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Job Titles:

• General Partner
• General Partner: LRVHealth

Tripp co-founded Long River Ventures in 2000 and has served as a General Partner in all three Long River Ventures funds with a total of $70 million under management. He has been lead investor and/or board member at numerous companies including Diameter Health, Extreme Reach, Health Guru (acquired by Kitara Media), Machine Metrics, Optasite (acquired by SBA Communications), Profile Systems (acquired by Comergent), Protedyne (acquired by LabCorp), Sovereign Hill Software (acquired by Dataware), and Western Mass Radio Group (acquired by Pamal Broadcasting). Prior to Long River, Tripp was a partner at Kestrel Venture Management, where he focused on the management of the Mass Ventures Equity Fund, a $14 million early stage fund established in western Massachusetts in 1997. Tripp holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A from Yale University.

Job Titles:

• Partner
• Director at ClearDATA Networks
• Partner: HLM Venture Partners

Vin is a director at ClearDATA Networks, Prism Education and ReGroup Therapy, and a board observer at ArroHealth, Binary Fountain, Carevive, mPulse Mobile and Persivia. Vin is responsible for the firm's Health Care Accelerator efforts and a mentor in Blueprint Health (www.blueprinthealth.org) and StartUp Health (www.startuphealth.com) programs, as well as a mentor/advisor to several companies including WellTrackOne and Mediquire. Prior to joining HLM, Vin was Vice President - General Manager at First Data Investor Services. He was responsible for the management of a $35 million division providing outsourced accounting and administrative services to mutual fund and brokerage companies. At First Data (formerly The Boston Company), he was responsible for developing offshore administration and global custody businesses to support clients' international growth. In this role, he established strategic relationships in Ireland, the Cayman Islands and Curacao.