Management
Michael J. Doyle
President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael J. Doyle is a distinguished entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer who has excelled at creating value for investors in healthcare and technology. Mike joined Medsphere in October 2007 after serving as President and CEO of Advantedge Healthcare Solutions, a New York-based Software as a Service (SaaS) outsourced physician-billing company backed by private equity investors. From 2000 to 2004, Mike served as Chairman and CEO of Salesnet, one of three pioneering global enterprise software providers who established the SaaS customer relationship market. In 1989 Mike founded The Standish Care Company, a provider of assisted living and long-term care services. As Chairman and CEO, he built the company organically, and in 1992 guided it through the first successful initial public offering (IPO) for an assisted-living service provider. A series of mergers and acquisitions in the years that followed resulted in the merger in 1996 of Standish with Carematrix; after the merger Mike served as CEO of the combined companies, which retained the Carematrix name. Mike's efforts ultimately yielded a highly successful organization with a market capitalization in excess of $500 million. In his career, Mike has held senior management positions at Voluntary Hospitals of America, and Tenet Healthcare Corporation's predecessor National Medical Enterprises. He received a bachelor of science in biology with a minor in community health from Tufts University, and an MBA with a focus on healthcare and finance from the University of Chicago, where he was a Kaiser Fellow.
Rick Jung
Chief Operating Officer
Richard G. (Rick) Jung has two decades of experience in healthcare and information technology (IT), including sales and executive management positions in traditional healthcare corporations and leadership positions with healthcare IT startups. From 2006 to the present Rick operated an independent consultancy advising private equity firms, hedge funds, and their prospective healthcare IT investment partners on strategy, operations, and business development for the Web 2.0 market. From 2003 to 2006, he served as senior vice president for sales and marketing at MDeverywhere, Inc., a startup providing web-based, automated reimbursement services for physician offices. From 1999 to 2002 Rick was a member of the strategic leadership team and worked as the chief revenue officer for Athenahealth, a provider of automated, web-based healthcare revenue cycle management solutions. Prior to that, he served as interim president and CEO of The Care Group, where he directed turnaround activities for the troubled company. Rick's early years in healthcare were spent learning the business on the payer side from a sales and marketing perspective and as vice president and general manager for U.S. Healthcare, since acquired by Aetna. He is a graduate of the State College of New York, Cortland, where he earned a degree in mathematics and education.
Edmund Billings, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Edmund was a pioneer in the development of electronic medical records (EMR) and is a seasoned healthcare information technology (IT) entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded Open Health Data, an Open Source company formed to leverage the transition of healthcare data from creation and sharing to use and reuse. Several years prior he co-founded Billings Brand Development, a firm focused on improving physician practices through information technology and practice automation solutions. During this period, Edmund developed the Voice of the Physician™ methodology, which drives the definition, validation, and adoption of products by networks of physician practices. In 1988 Edmund co-founded Oceania, a company that collaborated with Kaiser Permanente to pioneer EMR design and technology. He has also served as Chief Medical Officer for both adam.com and Precurrence, two San Francisco-based development partners focused on the syndication of multimedia health content. Edmund trained in general surgery at the University of California, San Diego, and practiced emergency medicine for several years at Kaiser Permanente. A graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Edmund completed post-doctoral fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Burn Institute. He earned his bachelors degree focused on premedical training from Tufts University.
Irv Lichtenwald
Chief Financial Officer
With more than 25 years experience in finance and information technology, Irv H. Lichtenwald has consistently demonstrated a strong attraction to the entrepreneurial enterprise and the groundbreaking idea. From 1995 to 2003 he served as CFO, executive vice president and corporate secretary for Advent Software, the leading provider of investment management software. Between 1995 and 2001, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings that raised more than $270 million in capital for the company. In his nine-year tenure, the company's compounded annual growth rates exceeded 27 percent for revenues and 30 percent for operating profit and net income. Irv is a graduate of the University of Chicago MBA program.
John Danahy
Vice President, Sales
John Danahy is a proven healthcare IT sales executive with a consistent track record of performance over more than two decades in the industry. John came to Medsphere from McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 18 company, where he was most recently vice president for customer operations and had responsibility for $74 million in annual revenue. McKesson entrusted John with managing hospital account and partner (Hewlett-Packard and Cisco) relationships, developing the entire sales force, and cross-selling the full McKesson product line. John joined McKesson in 2002 when the company acquired his previous employer, A.L.I. Technologies. At A.L.I., he worked as area manager for the west region, selling a range of capital equipment, picture archiving and communications, and teleradiology software solutions. John began his healthcare IT career in 1995 with Picker International before becoming a digital solutions specialist for Cemax-Icon in 1998. John is a graduate of the University of San Diego, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English.
Walter Groszewski
Vice President, Business Development
Over a 25-year career with IBM, Walter Groszewski has demonstrated an enduring interest in learning and growing with the healthcare IT industry by embracing positions requiring steadily increasing levels of knowledge and responsibility. From 2004 to 2009, Walter's executive responsibilities included global sales of healthcare provider and information-based medicine solutions, and working with health and human services clients in New York City. His sales achievements include exceeding a significant 2008 global provider revenue target, and growing revenue for information-based medicine solutions from $8 million in the first year of the division to $135 million in the third. Prior to 2004, Walter held executive positions within the life sciences and global services solution groups, where he was a key member of a management team that grew the life sciences business to over $1 billion over a three year period. He added solution management to his resume by overseeing the design, sale and delivery of IBM's radio frequency identification (RFID) and health data network solutions. Early in his sales career Walter spent several years as a client executive in New York. He began his career with IBM in 1984 as a programmer. Walter is a summa cum laude graduate of the MBA program at Pace University, and a magna cum laude graduate in mathematics and computer science of Manhattan College.