Board of Directors

Jay Pathy

Jay has over 15 years of experience working with customers in delivering mission critical enterprise solutions in diverse industry verticals such as healthcare, financial services, retail, and government.

Prior to co-founding HealthUnity™ Corporation, Jay spent 14 years with Microsoft where he was involved with various teams holding senior engineering, project management and business development positions mostly focused towards Microsoft's large enterprise customers, leading ISVs, IHVs, ODMs and OEMs. During his career, he led various projects which enabled Microsoft win major market share in strategic enterprise software market segments. Customer focus, Jay believes, is his defining value with a "can do, never give up" attitude.

Jay has been actively involved in the community for decades and he presently serves as a board member to the Autism Spectrum Treatment and Research Center in Seattle. Previously, he was a member of the technical advisory board of Habitat for Humanity International. He holds a BS and an MS in Computer Science from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Eric Hughes

Eric is an accomplished sales executive with over 14 years of experience building and leading high performance sales teams in the enterprise software business. His successful track record includes leadership roles across the full spectrum of IT operations and Healthcare information management technologies. At HealthUnity, Eric is the senior sales executive and has responsibility for worldwide sales and technical field operations.

Prior to joining HealthUnity, Eric held various executive positions with HP Software's enterprise and SMB sales organizations. Eric joined HP Software via their acquisition of Opsware subsequent to Opsware acquisition of iConclude. At Opsware he was the Worldwide Vice President of Sales for a major product line. Before joining Opsware, Eric spent over 10 years in various leadership roles in sales and field technical operations at iConclude, Pacific Edge Software and Cerner. Eric holds a BS in Marketing from the St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, prior to that he attended Aalborg University in Denmark.

Frank Artale

Frank Artale is Vice President, Business Development at Citrix Systems. He has 24 years of experience in the software industry and is responsible for all aspects of Citrix™'s business development with software and hardware technology partners.

Frank joined Citrix as part of the acquisition of XenSource where he was Vice President of Business Development. He has advised or is advising such companies as iConclude (acquired by Opsware), Rendition Networks (acquired by Opsware), Zenprise and Centrify Software. He is a member of the Venture Development team at Accel Partners. Previous to his role at XenSource, Mr. Artale co-founded Therion Software, which was conceived and executed as a structured spin-in with Brocade Communications. Prior to that Frank was the founder and CEO of Consera Software, a technology venture acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2004 for $85M.

Previously, Frank served as Vice President of the Windows Solutions Group at VERITAS, where he oversaw overall product strategy of Windows targeted solutions. Frank also spent nine years at Microsoft, where he held a variety of senior management positions that were focused on product development, services and sales, including General Manager of the Windows 2000 group and Director of Program Management for Windows NT 4.0. At Microsoft, Frank received Chairman's Award for Top US Member of Technical Staff in 1993.

John C. Erickson

John is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for Erickson Retirement Communities. He founded Erickson Retirement Communities in 1983. John has been involved in the senior care industry since the early 1970s, acquiring and developing moderate income retirement housing in Florida and Arizona. In 1983, he began concentrating on providing full-service continuing care retirement housing in the northeastern United States with the flagship community of Charlestown near Baltimore, Md. The $250 million campus is America's largest retirement community.

From 1972 to 1979, as president of Florida Leisure Communities, Inc., John acquired, built and managed over 3,000 housing units for moderate-income retirees in Florida. In 1979, as owner and president of Retirement & Health Services Corporation, John continued his leisure housing work in Florida and expanded into commercial development in the Palm Beach area.

John holds a B.A. from St. Bernard's College and an M.A. from Catholic University.