Frank Artale

Frank Artale is the Vice President of Business Development at XenSource and an active advisor to emerging software companies. He has advised or is advising such companies as iConclude, Klir, Rendition Networks (acquired by Opsware), Mendocino Software 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.

Bruce Kleaveland

Bruce is one of the most tenured executives in the relatively young ambulatory EHR industry, with over twenty years experience in healthcare technology and ten years experience in senior management with one of the industry leaders, Physician Micro Systems (PMSI). As Chief Operating Officer of PMSI, he helped navigate the company to both technology and marketplace leadership. He is currently president of Kleaveland Consulting, Inc., an independent consulting firm focused on healthcare information technology.

Mr. Kleaveland has a Bachelor of Science in Biology with honors from Washington State University and a MBA from the University of Washington.

John S. Azariah
Chief Technical Advisor

John has over 12 years of software and framework development experience, including a year in the Oracle Forms Development Group, Oracle Corporation and 6 years at Microsoft with several groups including Microsoft Excel(4.5), Microsoft Project(95, 98) and Microsoft Visual J#.NET (2000).

He is the Chief Architect behind BrightSword Designer and is responsible for defining and executing the strategic technical mission of the company. His special interests lie in architecting and designing innovative products that redefine conventional software development methodologies.

John graduated with honors from Dartmouth College, US with a Double Major in Chemistry and Computer Science.