Executive Leadership

 

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.