SCIOinspire Leadership

Siva NamasivayamChief Executive Officer

With more than 20 years experience in business services strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and operations, Siva brings a wealth of expertise and thought leadership to drive the next generation of outsourced healthcare business services delivery. Formerly CEO of EDS/MphasiS Healthcare (Eldorado Computing) and Head of BPO - Americas for EDS/MphasiS, Siva played a key role in building MphasiS organically and through strategic acquisitions and partnerships, leading to its purchase by EDS in 2006.

In addition to vast healthcare experience, Siva has deep expertise in technology, financial and M&A markets. He has worked with such industry-leading firms as Perot Systems, Gartner, Fidelity Investments and Intel Corporation, giving him unique insight into the strategic application of business process and technology to solve real business problems. Siva is a frequent speaker in industry events and has published thought pieces in the areas of healthcare business process outsourcing and next generation of business process outsourcing.

Siva holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Ian Duncan, FSA FIA FCIA MAAAPresident, Analytics and Consulting

Ian is founder of Solucia Inc., a Connecticut-based provider of analytical and consulting services to the healthcare financing industry. He has 30 years of experience in healthcare and insurance product design, management, financing, pricing, and delivery. He has started and built consulting practices, and was a founder of a company providing predictive modeling services to managed health insurers. He is the only actuary who has actually implemented and managed disease management programs.

Ian holds a post-graduate degree in economics from Balliol College, Oxford, and is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He serves on the boards of directors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Healthcare Connector Authority and the Freelancers Insurance Co. He serves as chair of the Society of Actuaries Healthcare External Relations committee. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, and is the author of numerous papers and books.

Krishna KottapalliChief Sales and Marketing Officer

Krishna has more than 16 years of experience in sales, marketing, M&A, and operations of BPO and IT services. His experience in healthcare services includes managing units that deliver services to payers and providers. Offerings included claims management, claims audit & recovery to payers and RCM, and billing services to hospitals and physicians.

Krishna has worked with industry-leading firms including Perot Systems, Gartner, Infinite, and IBM, driving more than $50M in healthcare services business. He has also played key roles in the negotiation and execution of several sizeable acquisitions.

Krishna holds an M.B.A from New York University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.

Karthik KrishnaswamiPresident, BPO and Knowledge Services

Karthik has over 20 years of experience in the IT/BPO Industry in areas of operations, delivery, sales, M&A, and operations management. As Head of Operations Management for Chennai Delivery Center of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), he oversaw 20,000 employees and $1B revenues.

Karthik headed two acquisitions, Combined Benefits Insurance Company, Missoula, MT, and Phoenix Global Services, CT. He also headed the transformation for the largest BPO deal in Insurance area (UK-based Pearl deal, valued at over $800M). Karthik has conceptualized and launched several strategic initiatives in leadership development, knowledge management (KM), and innovation. Karthik holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from University of Madras.

Brendon TuckerChief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President, OPL Services

Brendon has more than 20 years of experience in Operations and Technology, specializing in data processing, data migration, business process improvements, and systems implementation. He has international experience and expertise in six sigma methodology and process improvement. Prior to joining SOCRATES, Mr. Tucker was the head of technology for International Personal Banking – a division of Citigroup.

Mr. Tucker holds an Associate Arts Degree in Computer Science from St. John Rigby College, Wigan, UK, and he is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Christian BirkmeyerExecutive Vice President, Analytics Products

Chris has extensive experience in health services research, predictive modeling, and outcomes analysis. Prior to joining Solucia, he directed the Informatics Department at Health Dialog, focusing on measuring program performance, data implementation and management, predictive modeling, and client reporting. Previously, he managed the Data Center for the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and consulted for The Leapfrog Group. He holds a B.S in accounting from the University of Connecticut and an M.S. in epidemiology/biostatistics from Dartmouth.

Jacob ManiChief Financial Officer

Jacob is a Finance professional with more than 18 years of experience in Finance, Accounting, Commercial, Legal, Audit, Mergers & Acquisitions, etc. Prior to joining SCIOinspire, Jacob held senior finance positions in MphasiS, a EDS Company with annual revenues in excess of $700 million. There he was the VP Finance of MphasiS BPO - the 10,000+ strong business process outsourcing division of MphasiS, EVP of Eldorado Computing, the healthcare benefit management division of MphasiS. Jacob played a key role in all the major acquisitions of MphasiS - in China, India, US, UK, etc. Jacob has also held senior positions in PepsiCo, as the CFO of one of its joint ventures and was also a Senior Manager in KPMG.

Jacob is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Commerce graduate.

Blaise GuzewiczGeneral Counsel and Vice President, OPL Services

Blaise has been a practicing attorney for over 17 years. For the past three years he has concentrated his practice in all areas of subrogation and reimbursement, representing subrogation professionals at healthcare payers, self-funded plans, and government and Medicaid plans.

Blaise has negotiated with attorneys, insurance companies, and other third party payers in the collection and enforcement of the subrogation/ reimbursement rights of the health payers he represents. He has litigated in seeking enforcement of those rights before workers' compensation judges, administrative judges, and both the federal and state court systems. Prior to joining SOCRATES INC, Mr. Guzewicz gained experience in many other aspects of the legal profession that have proved to be assets at SCIOinspire.

Business Unit Leadership
SaaS Analytics Technology Products

Arun RangamaniVice President, Technology & Process

Arun has over 14 years of experience in the healthcare IT industry. He worked with Kaiser Permanente for about 7 years in the U.S., and later managed from offshore. Arun was Head of the U.S., Healthcare Payer practice at TCS – the largest IT/BPO services firm in India. He has designed and improved payer services processes and set up large-scale offshore provider services.

Arun brings with him wealth of expertise in technology and processes used to deliver effective services in a Global Delivery Model. In his current role, he spearheads the development of SCIOinspire’s new products. He has initiated metrics dashboard for management insight into productivity.

Arun completed his post-graduation from Indian Institue of Technolgy (Roorkee) with specialization on Power Electronics

Sumant RaoVice President, Product Management

Sumant joined the SCIOinspire team in October 2009. As Vice President - Product Management, he is responsible for the portfolio of products, defining the roadmaps and accelerating go-to market decisions.

Sumant most recently served as senior director, Implementations at Eldorado Computing Inc., an HP company where he was part of the team leading product design, delivery and implementations. Throughout his career, Sumant has been involved in the areas of product management, business process improvements, operations and strategy consulting.

Sumant holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management(L) with a dual specialization in Systems and Marketing.

Care and Wellness Management Support

David HomPresident, Care Management Services

David Hom is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of Value-based Benefits and Employee Wellness. He joined Solucia after more than 25 years with Pitney-Bowes Corporation, where he was responsible for introducing their leading-edge programs in value-based wellness, responsible for reducing medical trend to half of the industry average over a number of years.

David has co-authored two leading books on Value Based Designs and co-founded a non profit company in 2007

Barton BrackenSenior Vice President, Care Management Services

Bart is a healthcare executive with more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare and disability industries as a consultant and serving in senior leadership positions with large managed care organizations and specialty entrepreneurial companies. His broad experience includes managed care operations, strategic planning, marketing, business development, product development, and program management with both private and public sector programs. He has a Master in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a BA, magna cum laude, in Economics from St. Lawrence University.

Other-party Liability (Subrogation, COB)

Brendon TuckerChief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President, OPL Services

Brendon has more than 20 years of experience in Operations and Technology, specializing in data processing, data migration, business process improvements, and systems implementation. He has international experience and expertise in six sigma methodology and process improvement. Prior to joining SOCRATES, Mr. Tucker was the head of technology for International Personal Banking – a division of Citigroup.

Mr. Tucker holds an Associate Arts Degree in Computer Science from St. John Rigby College, Wigan, UK, and he is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Blaise GuzewiczGeneral Counsel and Vice President, OPL Services

Blaise has been a practicing attorney for over 17 years. For the past three years he has concentrated his practice in all areas of subrogation and reimbursement, representing subrogation professionals at healthcare payers, self-funded plans, and government and Medicaid plans.

Blaise has negotiated with attorneys, insurance companies, and other third party payers in the collection and enforcement of the subrogation/ reimbursement rights of the health payers he represents. He has litigated in seeking enforcement of those rights before workers' compensation judges, administrative judges, and both the federal and state court systems. Prior to joining SOCRATES INC, Mr. Guzewicz gained experience in many other aspects of the legal profession that have proved to be assets at SCIOinspire.

Business Process Outsourcing

Subrahmanyam ManthaVice President, Service Delivery

Mantha is a management graduate with over 13 years of immense operational and leadership experience in Insurance, Banking and Health Care verticals in BPO and KPO space.

Mantha is a Six Sigma black belt & has experience in setting up processes from scratch & moves them up the value chain.

Prior to joining SCIOinspire Mantha had held Management and Leadership positions with GE Capital, ABN AMRO Bank, Symphony, Patni Computers, and Infinite. Mantha leads the Service Delivery function at SCIOinspire and has a key role in Business Process Improvement initiatives in the OPL, COB and Overpayments Division of SCIOinspire.

Audit and Overpayment

Rodger F. SmithSenior Vice President, Claim Audit & Recovery Services

Rodger has over ten years of health insurance experience in the areas of litigation, fraud and abuse investigation, and claims cost management. Rodger was a co-founder and Principal of WayMark Associates LLC, a specialty claim overpayment identification & recovery firm started in 2006, which provided retrospective audit services to healthcare payers. WayMark was acquired by SCIOinspire in 2009.

Prior to starting WayMark, Rodger worked for Oxford Health Plans, a Connecticut based health insurance company and United Healthcare, which acquired Oxford in 2004. His most recent role there was Director of the Special Investigations Unit. Prior to joining Oxford in 2000, Rodger practiced law in New York City. He holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a law degree from New York University.

Nicola S. ColemanSenior Vice President, Claim Audit & Recovery Services

Nicola has over ten years of health insurance experience and was a co-founder and Principal of WayMark Associates LLC, a specialty claim overpayment identification & recovery firm started in 2006, which provided retrospective audit services to healthcare payers. WayMark was acquired by SCIOinspire in 2009. Prior to starting WayMark, Nikki worked for Oxford Health Plans, a Connecticut based health insurance Company, where she had a senior information technology role in developing and implementing fraud and abuse data analytic tools and queries. Nicola is a graduate of Skidmore College.

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