Prem Urali
President and CEO
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
Senior Vice President, Business and Market Development
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.
Goutham Sukumar
Vice President, Engineering
Goutham has 15 years of experience designing and developing software on various
technologies and platforms. Prior to joining HealthUnity, he served as a Program
Manager in the Microsoft BizTalk Server team. There, he was responsible for various
features of BizTalk Server 2006, including the improved Setup and Configuration,
Deployment, Orchestration Designer and the XLANG/s engine. He was also responsible
for managing the Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts tool. He also made
significant contributions to the initial designs that went into the Solution Designer
tool, a revolutionary interface for enabling first time users of Biztalk to quickly
implement solutions with BizTalk.
Prior to Microsoft, Goutham held senior consulting and systems engineering positions
in Object Design, which later was renamed to Excelon Corporation and acquired by
Sonic Software, assisting customers worldwide effectively design and develop high-performance
solutions around the Objectstore Object Oriented Database, Excelon XML data server,
Excelon BPM and Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Goutham has also served as a lead developer and project manager at 01 Systems llc,
Bahrain for a period of four years. While there, he led the team that developed
the DocSafe document management system. This system assisted large banks in fast
archiving and retrieval of routing large-volume reports to COLD (Computer Output
to Laser Disk) systems, thereby improving the turnaround time for retrieval of such
reports from days to seconds.
Goutham holds bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science from University
of Poona, India.