Prem Urali
Chairman
Prior to co-founding HealthUnity™ Corporation, Prem was a Group Manager in
the BizTalk Server division of Microsoft, responsible for the BizTalk Accelerator
line of server products including the HL7 and HIPAA Accelerators (integration engine).
Prem incubated these initiatives from concept to $10 million in incremental revenue
in 3 years. Prior to Microsoft, he founded a B2B software company Commercia Corp,
which was acquired by Microsoft in 2000.
Prior to that Prem held the position of CTO of Petopia, now a division of Petco
Animal Supplies (NASDAQ: PETC). Under his leadership, Petopia was ranked by InfoWorld
in its e-Business 100 list in 1999. Previously, Prem worked for 4 years in the consulting
services division of Microsoft, where he was one of the youngest persons to be elevated
to the position of Principal Consultant in 1998. In this capacity, Prem led the
program that launched the very first electronic commerce presence for Gap, Baby
Gap and Gap Kids. Prem has founded companies in India and US in the software consulting
and product areas.
He holds a Master of Science degree from Iowa State University in Computer Engineering.
He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Prem has 3 patents pending in the area of message-oriented middleware systems.
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.
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.
Lee Green
Lee was a co-founder and former CEO & Chairman of Triple G Systems Group, Inc.
(TSX:TGG), a world leader in medical laboratory information systems software. Lee
led Triple G from a pre-revenue start-up through several private equity financings
before completing an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in June of 2001. Subsequent to
the IPO, the company was acquired by GE Medical Systems in August of 2003 for $84
million. Under his leadership, Triple G grew from pre-revenue to $25 million in
revenue of which 80% was generated outside Canada. More than 120 leading healthcare
organizations operating over 400 laboratories in 11 countries use Triple G software
in critical patient care activities. In February of 2003, Triple G achieved recognition
by KLAS Enterprises, the leading US healthcare market intelligence organization,
as the #1 ranked laboratory software vendor in North America.
Prior to founding Triple G, Lee was Director of Healthcare Systems for MAI Canada.
During the 1980's, he was involved in a number of software ventures.
Rick Segal
Prior to joining J. L. Albright Venture Partners, Rick was President and Chief Executive
Officer of Microforum (TSE:MCF), a leader in providing integrated e-business solutions
in a wide array of industry verticals. Rick joined Microforum in July 2000 from
Chapters Online Inc. (TSE:COL), a leading Canadian e-commerce company, where he
held the position of President and Chief Operating Officer (1997-2000). Rick began
working with Chapters Inc. in 1997, as a consultant on the technical development
of the Chapters e-commerce venture. Based on this successful collaboration, he was
named the President of Chapters Online in August 1998.
Prior to joining Chapters Online, Rick was a partner at the international firm of
TMS Consulting from 1996 to 1998. He worked at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond,
Washington from 1992 until 1996 as Director of technical services for the Internet
Customer Unit.
Rick is also the author of four books on Network Management and Windows software
development. He serves as a director of Genesis TP Inc., Predixis Corporation, Sirit
Inc., and Truition Marketplace Solutions.