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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 Operations 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.

Kathy Doub-English

Vice President, Product Management

Kathy Doub-English is a Registered Nurse with over fifteen years of Healthcare IT experience and has spent the last decade heading product marketing and management as the SVP of Product Marketing at Picis, Inc., a manufacturer of high acuity care delivery automation for emergency, perioperative and critical care departments. Kathy joined Medsphere as the Vice President of Product Management leading the company through market analysis, product strategy and shaping the product road map. Prior to joining Medsphere, Kathy spearheaded global product direction at Picis and was instrumental in instituting a process-oriented product design, build and deployment process. Kathy joined Picis in February 1996 as a clinical consultant to assist the organization with establishing the business in the United States. Prior to joining Picis, Kathy was product manager of clinical systems at Compucare (now QuadraMed). Kathy has a bachelor's degree in nursing from George Mason University and she has seven years of experience in patient care and nursing management in critical care, surgery and oncology.

Scott McMullen

Vice President, Engineering

During his twenty-three years in software and business development, Scott McMullen has pioneered the implementation of software development processes for computer based medical systems, adapting and streamlining public sector Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards to private industry. In 1992 Scott founded Systems Engineering and Development Corporation, incorporated later as McMullen Technologies Inc. (MTI), a consulting firm specializing in software development services and system engineering focused primarily on medical devices and healthcare information technology (IT). MTI succeeded largely through assisting startups and acquired business units in companies such as Dade International, Baxter, and Alcon progress from early stages to profitability through the implementation of repeatable processes. Scott has also held senior/executive management and partner positions with companies such as Baxter and Misys, among others. Recent notable accomplishments include 1200 percent growth at Misys in year-to-year monthly revenues in just over two years. Scott began his career at General Dynamics Corporation in signal processing, control systems, and system engineering, where his innovations included simulations and computer models for image processing algorithms, embedded microprocessors/controllers, electro-mechanical control systems, and matched filters. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Mark Czepiel

Vice President, Finance

Mark Czepiel brings over eighteen years of finance experience to Medsphere, including key finance and accounting roles within the enterprise software industry. Mark joined Medsphere in late 2004 and played an instrumental role in finalizing the company's first commercial customer contract and completing Medsphere's Series B financing. From 2000 to 2004 Mark was a partner in a private equity fund where he was actively involved in the placement of over $225 million in primary investments. In the four years prior to that he was with Sybase, eventually taking on responsibility for the accounting, finance, and corporate development activities of one of the company's four business units. Before joining Sybase, Mark worked for the investment banking arm of a British bank. Mark is a graduate of the MBA program at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and has a bachelor's degree in economics from Loyola University of Chicago.

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.