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 number one. 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 System™ solution, clearing the way for hospitals to achieve total hospital efficiency and effectiveness. Ben has over 25 years experience in managing healthcare operations.  Prior to coming to Care Logistics in 2005, he served as the Quality and Performance Improvement executive at St. Mary's Health System, personally leading many LEAN initiatives and Kaizen events, and innovating new approaches to healthcare delivery. Earlier in his career Ben served as a service line executive for two other health systems. Ben's hospital operational and Quality/PI leadership experience gives him a unique and practical approach when addressing the operational challenges hospitals and health systems face today. He is pleased to lead a Care Logistics team of professionals passionately committed to helping hospitals achieve transformational operational results. Ben was recruited to Care Logistics after his own pursuit of enterprise logistical control systems led him to Care Logistics as the provider-of-choice. During his tenure at Care Logistics Ben has served in a number of important leadership roles including EVP, Client Services overseeing Transformation Engineering, Product Management, Implementation, and Support, as well as the EVP, Sales and Marketing. Bens' insight and experience in helping hospitals transform their operations to thrive in an era of significant healthcare reform, has led to numerous speaking engagements at healthcare industry group meetings and to hospital organizations across the country.  Ben is committed to helping hospitals wash out the 40% waste embedded in their operations, in order to achieve dramatic and sustainable gains in operational performance.

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 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 use emerging technologies in new and exciting ways that improve the landscape of health care, clinical delivery as well as hospital operations and efficiency.

Alyn Ford

Vice President, Business Development & Enterprise Vice President, Western Region

Alyn Ford has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare. Mr. Ford is responsible for business development for the Care Logistics channel partners. Most recently, he was the VP of Product Management for Care Logistics during the establishment of the first seven hospital sites and the inception of the Order Logistics module. 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 Cedara Software (previously 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 Brunelle

Enterprise Vice President, Northeast Region

Tom Brunelle has more than 30 years of experience working in hospital administration. He previously served as EVP and CEO of the Warwick, N.Y., and Port Jervis, N.Y. hospitals for the Bon Secours Charity Health System, and EVP and COO of the Samaritan Health system in Watertown, N.Y. He has established a reputation as an excellent leader with high integrity and complete knowledge of hospital operations. He learned hospital operations from the bottom up, having started out as a respiratory therapist. Tom is known as an executive with turnaround capability and an effective leader of the medical staff and executive boards. He has managed both independent hospitals and multi-facility systems, improving profitability through revenue growth, cost reduction, physician practice development, new program development and improving customer service in competitive markets. During Tom's hospital executive leadership career, he also served on multiple regional and national system task forces and committees focused on improving clinical quality, reducing length of stay, reducing costs, and upgrading information technology systems.

Ed Bonn

Enterprise Vice President, Southeast Region

With 30-plus years of experience as a hospital and health systems executive in Georgia,  Ed Bonn understands the needs of hospitals from the CEOs' perspective, and how hospital executive and operating teams work. He began his career in health administration with Kennestone Hospital in 1979, where he held various executive positions including president of Kennestone Hospital and executive vice president of the WellStar Health System. From September 2000 through December 2008, Ed served as president and CEO of Southern Regional Health System in Riverdale, Georgia. Ed and his team at Southern Regional engineered a dramatic financial turnaround in FY2001, raised customer satisfaction levels by 15 points to the 90th percentile, achieved quality and patient safety recognitions, and redefined the organization's image and culture in its community. The hospital achieved recognition by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for three consecutive years as an "A+ Employer," and was a finalist in Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Places to Work."  Southern Regional also improved EBIDA by $30 million.

Doug Walker

VP of Marketing

Doug Walker has 20 years of experience in marketing and management of software and technology solutions. He has planned and managed successful launches and major releases for more than 20 technology and software products. Before joining Care Logistics, Walker owned and managed Block & Tackle Marketing, a successful marketing consulting and research company focused on technology businesses. Previously, Walker worked as director of marketing for Trusted Network Technologies, which delivered security software solutions for the healthcare and other industries. His team won both the 2006 Marketing Award for Excellence (MAX Award) and 2006 Technology Association of Georgia TAMY award for marketing excellence. Walker has published several articles in national and regional long-term care publications, and has presented sessions on technology issues at conference hosted by several healthcare industry organizations.

Kristie Huff

Vice President of Transformation

Kristie Huff has 14 years of experience as a health systems leader. She began her career in healthcare with Lee Memorial Health Systems in 1995, where she held various executive level positions including director of resource management for patient care services. From 2005 through 2012, Kristie served as system director of resource management and staffing for patient care services of Lee Memorial Health Systems in Fort Myers, Florida. Kristie and her team at Lee Memorial Health System exceeded financial division goals by 13 percent, raised employee satisfaction levels over three years to the 90th percentile, exceeded productivity goals by 5.6 percent, and established the performance practice of measuring hours per patient day for nursing units on weighted average that saved the system of $1.5 million. The hospital achieved recognition by the Southwest Florida Regional Technology Partnership in the Transformation category for its implementation of system-wide electronic health records for patients.