Karl Straub
President
Karl Straub brings 30 years of healthcare information technology
and services experience to his role as President for Care
Logistics. Prior to joining Care Logistics, Straub held a variety
of executive leadership positions with Per-Se Technologies,
McKesson Provider Technologies, and SmithKline Beecham HealthCare
Services. As a recognized Healthcare Information Technology
(HCIT) leader, Straub has led the growth of clinical, revenue
cycle, and resource management businesses by focusing on the
customer experience with an operational philosophy that puts
excellent customer results as priority #1. To complement his
"focus on our customer's results" approach, Straub emphasizes the
creation and maintenance of a workplace culture that values each
individual contributor within a team setting of honesty, openness,
and integrity. Straub is a reputable industry speaker and has
conducted a number of interviews with hospital and HCIT
publications. He is a magna cum laude graduate of West Chester
University with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Jim Rosenblum, MS, CPHIMS
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Jim Rosenblum brings over 15 years of software development,
healthcare solution and leadership experience to Care Logistics. He
is focused on defining Care Logistics' product strategy and
development, as well as scaling the organization and its processes
to support the company's growth. Most recently, he served as Chief
Technology Officer for Emmi Solutions where he was integral in
shaping their technology vision, strategic planning, developing
software, and managing product development and healthcare
information technology departments. Prior to Emmi Solutions, he
served in senior executive roles at I-trax and Ikadega. At I-trax,
Inc., a healthcare management company, he was their Chief
Information Officer responsible for the company's technology
platform, product management, software development and QA
departments. Prior to that Rosenblum was Chief Technology Officer
of Allscripts, Inc., a billion dollar healthcare information
technology company. At Allscripts, Rosenblum managed the product
development of its highly successful, hand-held physician
prescribing system and was a leader in transitioning the company to
its Internet strategy. He contributed significantly to Allscripts
becoming a billion dollar company, following its successful IPO.
Rosenblum is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and
Management Systems (CPHIMS).
Ben Sawyer
Executive Vice President
Ben Sawyer has taken a lead role in developing the industry's
first Hospital Operating SystemTM solution. He has over
25 years experience in managing healthcare operations. He was the
executive responsible for system-wide performance and process
improvement, and served as the quality council chair for St. Mary's
Health Care System (a CHE hospital system in Georgia). Sawyer also
managed multiple operational service lines within two other health
systems before coming to CareLogistics. His hospital operational
and PI/Quality leadership experience gives him a unique and
practical approach when addressing the capacity and patient
throughput challenges hospitals and health systems face today. He
is pleased to now be overseeing a Care Logistics team of
professionals who are passionately committed to enabling hospitals
to transform their operations. Sawyer was recruited to Care
Logistics after his own pursuit of patient throughput hospital
management systems led him to Care Logistics as the
vendor-of-choice. During his tenure at Care Logistics he has served
in a number of leadership roles including Executive Vice President
of Client Services responsible for Implementation, Support, Product
Management, and Transformation Engineering, as well as the
Executive Vice President responsible for Sales and Marketing. Ben
is experienced in addressing healthcare industry groups and
hospital organizations on the operational challenges facing
healthcare executives, process improvement methodologies and
technologies, and sharing case studies regarding strategic partner
engagements for the establishment of hospital operating
systems.
Alyn Ford
Vice President, Marketing
Alyn Ford has over 25 years of experience in healthcare. Alyn is
responsible for the market awareness of Care Logistics' Hospital
Operating System SolutionTM and demand generation for the company's
solution offering. Most reecently, he was the VP of Product
Management for Care Logistics during the establishment of the first
seven hospital sites with the complete Hospital Operating System
solution. Ford has been the VP of Product Management for
McKesson's Managed Services division and was also the VP of Sales
for McKesson's Southeastern New Business region and the Central
Cardiology region. He led the business development and product
strategy effort for Siemens' Integrated Performance Solutions for
Cardiology and has lived and worked in Belgium with responsibility
for Global Sales and Marketing for the IMPAX Division of AGFA
Healthcare. He was one of the initial contributors who established
the commercial PACS market in Canada and was also the General
Manager for the Medical Imaging Group for ISG Technologies, one of
the first commercial 3D imaging companies in the radiology market
sector. Ford studied Physics at the University of Alberta; achieved
the highest national academic and clinical standing for his year of
certification as a Medical Radiation Technologist, and holds a
certificate in Business Administration from the University of
Saskatchewan.
Tom Overton
Senior Vice President, Solutions Delivery
Tom Overton has over 28 years experience in business and
healthcare information technology. He is responsible for the
implementation and support of Care Logistics' products and
services. His past employers have included The Coca-Cola Company,
CheckFree Corporation, and McKesson Provider Technologies. Overton
recently focused on implementing enterprise-wide applications in
large hospital customers. His career focus has been on
organizational improvement, process improvement and cycle time
reductions, customer relationship management, call center
management, solution delivery/consulting, healthcare information
technology, and sales support. Overton earned a BBA in Computer
Information Systems from Georgia State University.
Perry Russoniello
Senior Vice President, Product Management
Perry Russoniello is a Critical Care
Registered Nurse with 28 years years of clinical and administrative
experience in the acute care setting. His long career
in healthcare informatics and product management
includes developing one of the industry's
first nursing clinical documentation systems with IBAX
corporation and pioneering in the design of clinical
data repositories and GUI based patient care systems with
MSA. He has worked on the design of surgical
information systems, enterprise patient
scheduling, workforce management and capacity
management systems with Per-Se Technologies and McKesson
Corporation. As Vice President of the Workforce Management
Solutions business unit at McKesson, he provided
leadership and direction to Product Management, Development,
and the Customer and Professional services organizations that
supported a large customer base of over 1000 hospitals in the US,
the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Most
recently, he designed and developed a
revolutionary automated patient acuity
system integrated into the market
leading staffing and productivity management system for
hospitals worldwide. His strength is in the
conceptualization and creation of innovative new
products for health
care that uses emerging technologies in new
and exciting ways that improve the landscape
of health care, clinical delivery as well
as hospital operations and efficiency.