- Siva Namasivayam
- Ian Duncan
- Paul J. Gitnik
- Barton Bracken
- Krishna Kottapalli
- Christian Birkmeyer
- Timothy Cahill
- Karthik Krishnaswami
- Mary Ellen O'Donnell
- Jacob Mani
- Blaise Guzewicz
Siva Namasivayam
Chief 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 MAAA
President, Solucia - Care management Analytics and Consulting Services
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.
Paul J. Gitnik, J.D., LL.M.
Founder, Third Party Liability Services
Paul founded SOCRATES, INC., which provides outsourcing, technology, and consulting claims recovery (for example, coordination of benefits, subrogation/reimbursement, data mining, duplicate payments, and overpayments) to the health payor industry. During Paul's tenure, SOCRATES, INC. was selected as an AHIP Solutions Partner and an A.M. Best Company rated recommended subrogation firm. Paul stewarded the development of SOCRATES® and MY SOCRATES® family of proprietary software programs.
Paul received his B.A., cum laude, and his J.D. from Duquesne University. He received his LL.M. in Taxation from the Georgetown Law Center. Mr. Gitnik is on the adjunct faculty of the Duquesne University School of Law, where he teaches Business Planning and is a frequent lecturer on subrogation/ reimbursement and choice of business entities, for various bar associations and national subrogation and health payor associations.
Barton Bracken
Senior Vice-President; New Services Development and Medical 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.
Krishna Kottapalli
Chief 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.
Christian Birkmeyer
Senior Vice President, Medical Data Management and Analytics
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.
Timothy E. Cahill
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Timothy E. Cahill has over 20 years of executive level marketing and business development experience in the healthcare and healthcare cost management services industry focusing on both the payer and provider markets, as well as, the growing consumer directed health services markets. Prior to joining SCIOInspire as Senior Vice President, Mr. Cahill was the founder and CEO of My Medical Control, LLC, a web enabled consumer directed claim cost management intermediary recently acquired by a privately held software technology company. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavor, Mr. Cahill served in various executive roles within rapidly growing and successful healthcare services organizations such Viant Holdings, Inc., Trover Solutions, Inc. and U.S Surgical Corporation, with specific focus on enterprise wide business development and strategic revenue growth opportunities.
Karthik Krishnaswami
Group Chief Operating Officer
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 a Engineering degree in Computer Science from University of Madras.
Mary Ellen O'Donnell
Vice President, Care Management Business Development
Mary has extensive experience in strategic consulting, risk reduction and turn-around initiatives in health plans, managed care organizations and care management programs. Her experience includes business and opportunity analyses, strategic planning, risk assessments, operations evaluations, implementation and program operations, preparation for and/or compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies, data analysis and marketing and sales.
Jacob Mani
Chief 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 Guzewicz
Chief Compliance Officer and Legal Counsel
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 payors, self-funded plans, and government and Medicaid plans.
Blaise has negotiated with attorneys, insurance companies, and other third party payors in the collection and enforcement of the subrogation/ reimbursement rights of the health payors 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.
