Management
Matt Simas
Executive Chairman
Matthew Simas has more than 24 years of experience in the healthcare industry. In addition to his role with HERAE, he serves as Managing Director with San Diego, CA-based SilverStream Capital, LLC, a private investment management firm with both majority and minority holdings in healthcare-related companies around the country. He also serves as CEO of Shared Solutions, LLC, a company that provides shared services to the SilverStream Capital portfolio companies including finance administration, human resource management, information technology operations and infrastructure management.
From 2007 through 2009, he served as a General Manager at IMS Health, a global company with 2008 revenue of $2.3 billion and a presence in 100+ countries worldwide. Prior to IMS, he was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of MedInitiatives, Inc., a Sacramento, CA-based provider of business intelligence technology and data analytics to healthcare companies founded in 2000. In 2005, MedInitiatives created MIHS Holdings, Inc., which acquired Milwaukee-based Innovative Health Strategies, Inc., a provider of business process outsourcing and analytics for the Life Sciences/Pharma market. MIHS Holdings was acquired by IMS Health in November 2007. Prior to MedInitiatives, he was Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Service at PCN (Pharmaceutical Care Network), a national pharmacy benefit management company (PBM). During his nine years in this role with PCN, he led the effort in growing annual revenue from $4 million to $350 million.
Matt also serves on a number of other corporate and advisory boards including: MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc; HealthyCircles; Healthation, LLC; BlueStep Systems, LLC; and Cornerstone Partners.
Matt completed the Executive Education Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and he received a Bachelor's degree in Organizational Communication from California State University, Sacramento.
Ragui Selwanes
President
Ragui Selwanes is President at HERAE. He is a 16 year veteran of the healthcare and financial services industries. His core expertise lies in planning and developing cutting-edge transaction and payment processing products. He was the lead inventor of a US patent application for a multiparty transaction medium. With a broad based background spanning financial services and the healthcare value chain (managed care, transaction services, pharmaceuticals, and health systems), Ragui has used his knowledge and experience to advise Boards of Directors, C-level decision makers, and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies.
Distinguished by his ability to drive change and deliver results, Ragui joined UnitedHealth Group's Exante Financial Services as Chief Marketing Officer in 2002. As part of the executive leadership team, Ragui was directly responsible for developing and launching United's Payment Automation and Consumer Directed Accounts programs. Following his success with Exante Bank, Ragui was named Chief of Staff for UnitedHealth Group's Uniprise Strategic Solutions Division where he successfully spearheaded efforts to reverse operational excess, improve customer service, and set the stage for new business development.
Prior to UnitedHealth Group, Ragui was recruited to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) as Lead Technology Controller for NASDAQ and the American Stock Exchange. Promoted to Technology Chief of Staff within a year, he played a key role in extracting Amex's technology infrastructure when NASDAQ separated from NASD. During his years with NASD, he instituted hundreds of millions of dollars in cost saving initiatives.
Ragui applied his entrepreneurial acumen in cofounding Philliou & Selwanes Partners, a consultancy dedicated to supporting healthcare and financial services companies to achieve their vision of success through strategic business partnerships and product development. Ragui's firm was responsible for designing, developing and launching some of the industry's leading payment and data automation solutions operating in the marketplace today.
Ragui holds a Bachelor's degree and MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business and completed the Executive Leadership Program at Wharton School of Business.
Dave Keane
CFO
Dave Keane serves as HERAE’s CFO. Dave is also CFO, Portfolio Management at SilverStream Capital. Dave is an executive with 25 years of finance and accounting experience primarily in healthcare related fields. Prior to HERAE, Dave was Vice President of Finance for Carl Zeiss Vision’s $490 million AMPAC region. Prior to Carl Zeiss Vision, Dave was co-founder of SynergyApplied, a consulting firm providing CFO services. Prior to SynergyApplied Dave served as CFO and CEO at PCN, a $450 million national pharmacy benefits manager. Dave graduated from the University of Cincinnati and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mark Starr
Senior Vice President
Sales & Marketing
Mark Starr serves as Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing for HERAE. Mark is leading the direct sales and marketing efforts for the Institutional market, Payer market and HERAE's channel partner market. Mark brings with him over 18 years experience in the Healthcare arena with roles ranging from Contract Management, Hospital Administration and Business Development. Mark's career spans large healthcare focused companies such as Marriott, Sodexho, Compass Group, McKesson, and Emdeon. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University in College Station.
Lynn Mullahey
Senior Vice President
COO
Lynn Mullahey is Vice President of Operations at HERAE, including oversight of the IT department, customer support, account management, and enrollments, as well as external and internal training, and project management. Lynn is an expert at fusing technology and business principles from her years of executive IT and operations success in the industry.
Prior to HERAE, Lynn was head of IT/Operations at Entra Health Systems, Global, and an international applied technology company. She led design of worldwide inventory control and supply chain management to achieve ISO, FDA certification and compliance.
Prior to Entra Health Systems Lynn was employed with Anacomp, Global, an information infrastructure of global data centers where she held numerous executive positions. Lynn worked as Senior Vice President of Operations, Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Vice President of Information Technology. Lynn had many high-level responsibilities during her tenure at Anacomp: Negotiated multi-million dollar contracts with AT&T, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft to contain costs and maintain competitive advantage and developed a "service first" program to enable the company to increase customer satisfaction and retention.
Lynn has a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from San Diego State University, is certified in American Production and Inventory Control.
Landon Gordon
Senior Vice President
CTO
Landon Gordon is the Vice President of Technology at HERAE where he leads product innovation, software development, and quality assurance for HERAE’s many technology solutions.
He is an accomplished developer of healthcare information technology services with more than 10 years of experience in developing technology solutions. He has been a leader in the creation of sophisticated Software as a Service (SaaS) models which have saved providers money and helped healthcare professionals effectively manage patient safety, coordinate remote telemedicine visits, and utilize software that alerts doctors to cardiac events in real time.
Prior to joining HERAE, Landon was the Quality Assurance and Product Lead for Cardionet, where he drove product and quality innovation for the medical device company. Before Cardionet he served as Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Bridge Medical from 2000 to 2003. Previously, he was Quality Assurance Manager at Vidimedix from 1998 to 2000.
Landon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University.
