Senior Advisory Board
MedDirect's executive management team and senior advisory board represent a broad spectrum of business, professional, technical, and management skills.
Scott Addison
Ira Chandler
Michael S. Davenport
Brian Gould, M.D.
Stephen W. Kett
Robert Kocher, M.D.
Randall S. Moore, M.D., MBA
Ralph W. Muller
C.A. Lance Piccolo
Drew Rogers
James Yee
Scott Addison, M.D.
Co-Founder & Senior Advisor
After graduating from Hope College in Holland, Michigan and the University of Michigan Medical School and completing a residency in family practice, Dr. Addison joined Norton Family Practice in Muskegon, Michigan where he continues to practice. Combining a 25-year friendship with the knowledge and experience they gained in their respective fields, Dr. Addison and Mr. VandenBosch founded MedDirect in 2000. Dr. Addison's intimate knowledge of the medical field has helped MedDirect tailor its suite of products to meet the specific needs of both providers and patients. He provides MedDirect with invaluable product development insights.
Ira Chandler
President, Curbstone Corporation, Senior Advisor
Mr. Chandler is the President and founder of Curbstone Corporation, a sales and support organization, selling and supporting off-the-shelf credit card authorization and settlement software. Curbstone is an "Advanced" level IBM Business Partner. Mr. Chandler is responsible for the specification, architecture, and design of the software. Three networks are formally certified: Chase/Paymentech, Nova, and Vital.
Curbstone was invited to be the first software company to certify Paymentech's newest Level III protocol and the first company invited by American Express to certify XML Settlement. "Curbstone Card" was validated by the Payment Card Industry (VISA, MC, and AmEx) as compliant with their Cardholder information Security Program (CISP) "Payment Application Best Practices" security requirements by a third-party security auditor.
Curbstone is a Member of the IBM Tools Innovation Program, and Curbstone Card was selected by IBM for their "iSeries Roadmap" IBM's official developer's guide. "Curbstone Card" won the Silver "2004 Product of the Year" award from TechTarget / Search400.com and has been certified as "Server Proven" by IBM.
Prior to founding Curbstone, Mr. Chandler co-founded ROI Corporation, a company providing credit card processing software to businesses. In 1993, he wrote the first commercial credit card authorization and settlement software for the IBM AS/400 midrange platform. He took ROI Corporation public in 2000 and acquired GO Software in 2001. The entire credit card software business was later sold to Verifone Holdings, Inc. At that time, ROI was the leader in IBM midrange AS/400 card auth software, and GO was the leader in Windows card auth software ("PC-Charge") with more than 150,000 businesses using the software to process payments.
Michael S. Davenport
Director of Consumer Lending Compliance, US Bank
After graduating from the University of Cincinnati-College of law in 1996, Mr. Davenport has enjoyed a diverse and illustrious career. He has over 10 years of experience in a variety of management positions with a wide array of companies, from being the Assistant Basketball Coach at Xavier University, Batesville Casket Company, to marchFIRST.
Mr. Davenport has demonstrated his ability to be highly motivated during his career with US Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. In four years time he has risen from Branch Manager to Director of Consumer Lending Compliance. In this role with US Bank he is responsible for managing and leading the Corporate Compliance efforts for the Consumer Lending Business Unit. This is includes managing compliance officers in developing comprehensive business line compliance strategies, managing Consumer Lending Compliance audits, monitoring and developing strategies for pending legislation.
Mr. Davenport's educational experience also includes a full ride basketball scholarship to the Xavier University where he earned a BS in Psychology.
Brian Gould, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Navimedix, Senior Advisor
Dr. Gould has had an extensive career in U.S. and International healthcare. Educated at the Johns Hopkins University and the School of Medicine of the University of California in San Francisco, California Dr. Gould is a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He was in clinical practice in San Francisco in the field of clinical psychopharmacology for eleven years. Pursuing his growing interest in medical informatics, he left practice to enter industry in 1985. Dr. Gould achieved senior management positions at Blue Cross of California, where he served as Corporate Medical Director from 1986 through 1990, and the United HealthCare Corporation. Appointed United's Senior Vice President of Specialty Operations, Dr. Gould oversaw the company's seven specialty services subsidiaries (including its pioneering pharmaceutical benefit management company, Diversified Pharmaceutical Services) during a period of astonishing growth. Following the sale of DPS to SmithKline Beecham for $2.4 billion in 1994, he founded the United's International Services Division. During its first four years United successfully negotiated and operationalized five joint ventures €“ South Africa (with the Anglo American Corporation), Germany (with the AOK, "Germany's Blue Cross"), the Mediterranean Basin (with Munich Re), Hong Kong (with AIG), and Portugal (with The Victoria Bank).
After leaving United in early 1998, Dr. Gould has continued to pursue his professional interests in international health and electronic information technologies. He has been an early stage investor and advisor to several healthcare information technology startups and conducted two major international development projects, the first for a South African company planning a U.S. subsidiary, Discovery Health PLC; the second in 2000, advising David Mahoney, then co-CEO of McKessonHBOC, on international opportunities for its ambulatory care connectivity products.
In 2001-2002 Dr. Gould served as COO for RxHub LLC. This pioneering company was founded as a joint venture by the nation's three largest pharmaceutical benefit management companies to create a single universal connectivity platform for electronic prescribing. He left RxHub after its successful launch and during 2003 and 2004 worked with several other electronic application vendors. In late 2004 Dr. Gould became a contributor to a new major international healthcare strategic venture. In May 2005, Dr. Gould was appointed Managing Director of WorldWide Services for ARCUS Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Wellpoint, the leading health plan in the U.S.
Stephen W. Kett
Executive Director, The Advisory Board Company, Senior Advisor
After graduating from the University of Vermont and Harvard University, Mr. Kett spent six years with Bain & Company in its Boston office. There he worked in the Consumer Products Strategy Group with a wide variety of U.S. and International clients, including Reebok, Filene's, and Chrysler. Also while at Bain, he worked on its earliest LBO team, which later evolved into the venture capital arm of the firm, Bain Capital. Mr. Kett then served as a Partner in a start-up service quality consulting firm, The TQM Group, serving clients in the hospitality and gaming industries.
Since 1992, Mr. Kett has served as an Executive Director at The Advisory Board Company in Washington, D.C. The company was founded in 1979 as a best practices research company serving Fortune 500 companies as well as America's largest 2,000 hospitals and health systems. In 1998 the Corporate Executive Board was successfully spun off and taken public; the Healthcare Advisory Board IPO occurred in 2001. Across much of his tenure, Mr. Kett has had primary responsibility for the company's new product development. His work in this capacity has resulted in the successful introduction of several operational, clinical, and financial research products. Beyond its traditional research business, Mr. Kett has helped lead The Healthcare Advisory Board successfully into both the consulting (H*Works) and executive education (Advisory Board Academies) businesses. He currently serves as an executive in the Academies division.
Mr. Kett also serves as a member of The Advisory Board's Policy Committee
Robert Kocher, M.D.
Partner, McKinsey & Co.; Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Kocher is an Associate Principal in the Washington, D.C. office of McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, he works extensively with hospitals and health systems around the world including US, Canada, UK, Middle East, India, Asia and South America to improve clinical quality, operations, patient experience, service line strategy, and financial performance. In addition, he led a major research effort working with the McKinsey Global Institute to understand why healthcare is more costly in the US and develop a framework for guiding health system reform around the world.
Dr. Kocher received a BS in Zoology and a BA in Political Science from the University of Washington and a MD with honors from the George Washington University (1999), completed a research fellowship with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health, and residency training at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School. At Harvard, he was awarded the 2001 Harvard Outstanding Clinical Teaching Award. After completing his residency, he co-founded Instant EKG, Inc. Dr. Kocher is board certified in Internal Medicine and licensed in Virginia.
Randall S. Moore, M.D., MBA
Chairman, President and CEO, American Telecare, Inc.
Mr. Moore joined the Board of Directors in December 2001, was appointed acting CEO in February 2002, and was appointed to his current role July 2002. From 2000 until 2002, he managed Medical Excellence, a consulting firm specializing in business development, managed care and board governance services for healthcare organizations. From 1996 until 1999, Dr. Moore was the Senior Vice President, Integrated Medical Development for MedPartners, Inc. (NYSE:MDM) a physician practice, prescription benefit, and diseases management company. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Caremark, International (NYSE:CMX), serving in line, staff and business development roles, from 1991 until its merger with MedPartners in 1996. Prior to 1991, he served in a variety of clinical, administrative and teaching roles on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Medical Card System, an 800,000+ member health plan located in Puerto Rico. Dr. Moore is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD (1983) where he graduated first in his class for clinical curriculum and earned AOA honors. He received his MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (1999). He earned valedictorian honors and was elected Phi Beta Kappa during undergraduate studies in chemistry and mathematics at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN (1979) with studies at the University of London, London, England.
Ralph W. Muller
Chief Executive Officer, University Of Pennsylvania Health System
As Chief Executive Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Ralph W. Muller oversees three hospitals, a faculty practice plan, a primary-care provider network, three multi-specialty satellite facilities, home care, hospice care, and long-term care. He works closely with PENN Medicine leadership to help implement its overarching strategic plan.
Mr. Muller came to UPHS from Stockamp & Associates, a national hospital consulting firm, where he was Managing Director. From 1985 to 2001, he was President and CEO of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System. The University of Chicago Medical Center has consistently been rated at the highest levels in national surveys of patient care.
In 1985-86, Mr. Muller also served as the Deputy Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Previously, he had been Budget Director at the University. Before joining the University of Chicago, Mr. Muller held senior positions with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Mr. Muller received his bachelor's degree in economics from Syracuse University and a master's degree in government from Harvard University.
He has served and currently serves on the boards of several national, regional, and local health-care organizations and was recently reappointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) for a second three-year term. He served as Chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Chairman of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH), and Vice Chairman of the University Healthsystems Consortium (UHC). Mr. Muller is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and serves on the Board of Directors of The National Committee for Quality Assurance, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality.
C.A. Lance Piccolo
President and Chief Executive Officer, HealthPic Consultant, Inc.
C. A. Lance Piccolo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of HealthPic Consultants and was formerly the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Caremark International Inc. Mr. Piccolo serves on the board of directors of American TeleCare, Chemtura Corporation, CVS Caremark Corporation, Lake Forest Hospital Foundation, NovaMed, Inc. and Physiotherapy Corporation. He is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago Hospitals and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management Advisory Board of Northwestern University. Mr. Piccolo holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University.
Drew Rogers
Founder and President, NetGAIN, Rolling Hills Estates, CA, Senior Advisor
Mr. Rogers is the founder and president of NetGAIN. He has spent more than 25 years in sales, sales management and senior management. Mr. Rogers is the former President/General Manager of Medical Data Electronics (MDE), a manufacturer of portable patient monitors and telemetry monitors. Mr. Rogers took MDE from $2 million to $40 million in annual sales, achieving 15% annual net income and 10% annual growth.
He has personally recruited and trained more than 300 direct sales reps, managers and clinical specialists in the domestic healthcare areas as well as recruiting and training dealers and distributors encompassing more than 500 sales reps across all 50 United States. Mr. Rogers has established and managed worldwide distribution including 40+ international dealers. Since creating NetGAIN he has developed sales channels for a variety of clients including Viasys Healthcare, Philips Medical, Masimo Corp., Emergin and MDBuyline.
Mr. Rogers participated in the concept, development and marketing of the first ambulatory blood pressure unit in 1980 and the first wireless patient monitoring network system in 1990. He has established OEM partnerships on behalf of clients involving Abbott, Allegiance, Datex Ohmeda and Nellcor. He has procured contracts with all major Group Purchasing Organizations, including VA, Columbia/HCA, Novation and Premier.
Prior to his founding NetGAIN and his earlier position with MDE, he was National Sales Director of SpaceLabs, Inc. Mr. Rogers was educated at the University of Missouri, Columbia where he majored in journalism.
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James Yee
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, UnionBanCal Corporation and Union Bank of California, Senior Advisor
Mr. Yee is responsible for the bank's systems and technology group and oversees a staff of 650 with round-the-clock operations in Monterey Park, San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland, California.
Operations within the group include central and distributed computing systems, systems development, data processing, telecommunications, security and contingency planning, information technology planning and engineering, and PC and LAN management. Mr. Yee is a member of the bank's executive management committee. He reports directly to Philip Flynn, vice chairman and CEO.
Mr. Yee has 30 years of experience in the systems and technology fields. Most recently he was a senior vice president for information technology at Charles Schwab and Company in San Francisco. His experience also includes serving as chief information officer of Banc of America Securities and Stanford University Medical Center.
Earlier in his career, he has held a number of operations and technology management positions at Citibank, Paine Webber and Chase Manhattan Bank. Mr. Yee earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering at Columbia University, New York and received an MBA degree in finance from St. John's University in New York.
Based in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation is a bank holding company with assets of $49.4 billion at March 31, 2005. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank of California, N.A., had 316 banking offices in California, Oregon and Washington, and 21 international facilities, at March 31, 2005