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Board
Melinda Benton
CEO
Ryan Woodley
Director
Bryce Youngren
Director
Sheila H. Schweitzer
Director
Thomas W. Hughes
Director
John Morgan
Director
Melinda (Lindy) H. Benton
Chief Executive Officer
Lindy Benton has worked in the Healthcare Information Technology field for over 20 years and is currently the CEO of EA Holdings which includes Medical Electronic Attachment, Inc. (MEA) and National Electronic Attachment, Inc. (NEA).
Prior to MEA/NEA, Lindy served as divisional executive at The Sage Group, managing a $350 million division with 1,400 employees. Prior to Sage, Lindy worked at Cerner Corporation for 15 years. She held various leadership positions where she achieved double digit revenue growth while building high performing teams that were recognized year after year with Outstanding Achievement Awards. Previously she worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as the division manager responsible for healthcare business in the Southeast.
Lindy serves on advisory boards for several health IT and capital investment companies, working with executive teams to drive both acquisition and organic growth strategies in North American and global markets. Lindy is a member of the Foundation Board for Florida Hospital for Children and serves on executive councils for several health related committees and industry associations. She is also an active member of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Lindy holds a Master of Science degree from Florida State University with extended post graduate work in Measurement and Statistics.
Ryan Woodley
Director
Ryan Woodley is a principal in Polaris' Boston office. He joined Polaris in 2004 and focuses on growth equity investments and buyout opportunities across all industries.
Prior to joining Polaris, Ryan was a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group. During his tenure at Monitor, Ryan worked with Fortune 500 clients on a range of strategic and operating issues, focusing primarily on growth strategy adn performance improvement. Prior to Monitor, he worked as an analyst and manager at Authorize.Net, an online payment gateway. Ryan also has experience at Google where he was a manager in the Online Sales and Operations group.
Ryan was part of the investment teams responsible for Polaris' investments in Art.com, Botanical Laboratories, Living Proof, National Electronic Attachment, UltraShape, and Xpressdocs.
Ryan represents Polaris as a director on the board of National Electronic Attachment.
Bryce Youngren
Director
Bryce Youngren is a general partner in Polaris' Boston office. He focuses primarily on growth equity investments in the technology, healthcare, media, and business services industries.
Prior to joining Polaris, Bryce was a senior associate at Great Hill Partners, where he sourced and executed investments in SmartMail Services (acquired by Deutsche Post) and ManagedStorage International (acquired by Incentra Solutions) and served as a director on the boards of both companies. Previously, Bryce served as an analyst for Willis Stein & Partners in Chicago and for Bear Stearns & Co.'s technology investment banking group in New York. Bryce was part of the investment teams responsible for Polaris' investments in Alimera Sciences, Art.com, AWS Convergence Technologies (Weatherbug), Cardlytics, Cushcraft, e-Rewards, Free & Clear, National Electronic Attachment, TechTarget, and Xpressdocs.
Bryce is Chairman of the board of directors of Xpressdocs and also serves as a director on the boards of Alimera Sciences, Cardlytics, and e-Rewards and National Electronic Attachment. He was formerly Chairman of the Board of Cushcraft Corporation prior to their sale to Laird Group in March 2007.
Bryce holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ryan Woodley
Principal in Polaris' Boston office
Ryan Woodley is a principal in Polaris' Boston office. He joined Polaris in 2004 and focuses on growth equity investments and buyout opportunities accross all industries.
Prior to joining Polaris, Ryan was a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group. During his tenure at Monitor, Ryan worked with Fortune 500 clients on a range of strategic and operating issues, focusing primarily on growth strategy and performance improvement. Prior to Monitor, he worked as an analyst and manager at Authorize.Net, an online payment gateway. Ryan also has experience at Google where he was a manager in the Online Sales and Operations group.
Ryan was part of the investment teams responsible for Polaris' investments in Art.com, Botanical Laboratories, Living Proof, National Electronic Attachment, UltraShape, and Xpressdocs.
Ryan received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
Bryce Youngren
General partner in Polaris' Boston office
Bryce Youngren is a general partner in Polaris' Boston office. He focuses primarily on growth equity investments in the technology, healthcare, media, and business services industries.
Prior to joining Polaris, Bryce was a senior associate at Great Hill Partners, where he sourced and executed investments in SmartMail Services (acquired by Deutsche Post) and ManagedStorage International (acquired by Incentra Solutions) and served as a director on the boards of both companies. Previously, Bryce served as an analyst for Willis Stein & Partners in Chicago and for Bear Stearns & Co.'s technology investment banking group in New York. Bryce was part of the investment teams responsible for Polaris' investments in Alimera Sciences, Art.com, AWS Convergence Technologies (Weatherbug), Cardlytics, Cushscraft, e-Rewards, Free & Clear, National Electronic Attachment, TechTarget, and Xpressdocs.
Bryce is Chairman of the board of directors of Xpressdocs and also serves as a director on the boards of Alimera Sciences, Cardlytics, and e-Rewards. He was formerly Chairman of the Board of Cushcraft Corporation prior to their sale to Laird Group in March 2007.
Bryce holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Sheila H. Schweitzer
Director
Ms. Schweitzer has focused professionally on the revenue cycle management industry for the past 30 years. In such capacity, Ms Schweitzer has held numerous founder and executive/industry association leadership roles with several companies and organizations. Ms Schweitzer joined Caremedic in March of 2003 as COO and was appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO in September 2003. Under her leadership Caremedic achieved a lead position in the HCIT revenue cycle market. During her tenure revenue and EBITDA grew by 650 percent and Caremedic successfully brought to market the first enterprise class revenue management system, the Electronic Financial Record (eFR). Ms Schweitzer sold Caremedic to Ingenix in December 2009.
Prior to joining CareMedic, Ms. Schweitzer was recruited to MedUnite Inc, a consortium of seven health plans -- Aetna, Cigna, Wellpoint, Anthem, Oxford, Healthnet, and PacificCare - which was formed to develop a network that connects physicians with payers for the electronic exchange of health data such as eligibility, claim status, referrals, authorizations and claim submission. Ms Schweitzer served in a consulting capacity to MedUnite in an initiative to position the Company for a sale. During her consulting tenure, Ms Schweitzer served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of MedUnite as well as a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Following her successful effort to rationalize overhead and functionalize MedUnite's web product offering for real-time transaction processing, Ms Schweitzer managed a multi-bid auction process, which led to the Company's sale to ProxyMed, Inc. in December 2002.
Prior to MedUnite, Ms. Schweitzer served as Chief Executive Officer of Presideo, Inc., which developed and marketed a biometric security technology for HCIT systems. Presideo was funded by Mayo Medical Ventures and Safeguard Scientifics, among others. Ms Schweitzer led the Company from its inception to product launch (following an 18-month product development period) and recruited a host of luminary hospital clients, including MD Anderson, Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville and Mayo Clinic - Scottsdale. Presideo was later sold to Smart Biometrics, Inc.
Prior to Presideo, Ms Schweitzer served as Senior Vice President of Operations with ENVOY Corporation (now a division of Emdeon), the nation's largest healthcare transactions service company. In this capacity, Ms. Schweitzer oversaw the management of 1,600 employees and acted in a direct reporting relationship to the Co-CEO's of ENVOY while serving on the firm's Executive Committee. During her six-year tenure, Ms Schweitzer led the healthcare transaction processing operations of ENVOY from inception to over $280 million in revenues, representing over 30 million transactions processed per month. Further, Ms Schweitzer managed the due diligence, negotiation and operational integration of 18 acquisitions and oversaw the sale of ENVOY's credit card processing division to First Data Corporation.
Thomas W. Hughes, MBA
Director
Mr. Hughes founded Electronic Claims & Funding, Inc. (ECF), in 1990 and along with a strong entrepreneurial group, built the company into the nation's largest dental electronic claims clearinghouse. In 1995, Mr. Hughes sold ECF to MedeAmerica and today ECF is basically the Dental Division of Emdeon. While growing the business at ECF, Mr. Hughes saw a need for an electronic attachment clearinghouse and in 1997 started NEA. Many of the former employees of ECF now work with Mr. Hughes, and NEA remains today as the largest collection of brainpower and knowledge in the area of electronic attachments. Mr. Hughes further expanded his vision in 2007 and created Medical Electronic Attachment, Inc. to fill the void for attachment processing in the medical market space. Mr. Hughes is recognized as a thought leader in the attachment committee of HL7.
Mr. Hughes is an avid sailor and often speaks at healthcare events around the country. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Children Everywhere and is a sponsor of the Faith Works schools in Zambia, Africa. Mr. Hughes and his wife Barbara have three children and six grandchildren. Mr. Hughes graduated from Florida State University and has an MBA from Kennesaw State University.
John Morgan
Director
John W. Morgan is the Chief Executive Officer for Avamere Health Services, a family of independent companies providing integrated senior care in the Pacific Northwest. Committed to seniors' health and well-being, Avamere's purpose is to keep seniors healthy, independent, and at their home of choice for as long as practical. Avamere's family of companies offer a continuum of care throughout northwest communities including private duty and skilled home health care services, independent/retirement living, assisted-living, dementia care, long term and post-acute transitional care, hospice, inpatient and outpatient rehab therapy and pharmacy products and services.
John is also currently a member of the board of directors of Cambia Health Solutions. Before joining Avamere, John served as the President of Cambia Health Solutions' Direct Health Solutions division, overseeing the growth and development of the company's portfolio of health services and healthcare IT companies and was responsible for Cambia's corporate and business development function.
John previously led some of the most innovative and well-known companies in the biotech and medical device industries. Most notably, he served as President, Mid-America Region of Baxter International, Inc.; President, Regent Medical Products Group Limited; CEO, Epitope, Inc.; President and CEO, Curon Medical, Inc.; and CEO of HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc.
John serves as Chairperson of the Oregon Innovation Council and is also a member of the board of directors of BioQuiddity, Inc., National Electronic Attachments, Inc., GNS Healthcare, Rise Health, and Care Team Connect. He is a past board member of AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Technology Association) and Oregon Bioscience Association. John is a graduate of the University of Arizona where he received his degree in Economics and Public Administration.
