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VALEOVOX, INC. NAME PRESTIGIOUS GROUP OF BUSINESS LEADERS TO ITS NEW BOARD OF ADVISORS

Boston –– ValeoVox, a broad-based consulting and software development firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, has announced the appointment of a group well-known executives who will serve as the company’s board of advisors.  Jeff Emerson, president of NorthEnd Group LLC,  S. Robert Levine, MD, a national leader and supporter of the inclusion of information and communications technology into all aspects of the  health care system and  chairman of the growth Philanthropy Network, Steve Gang, founder of Gang & Gang and Resonance Research,  and David Sundahl, Ph.D., managing director of Rule 4 Consulting will provide ValeoVox the advise and direction needed to drive the firm’s access into target markets and increase its general visibility.   

According to the Co-Founder and President Amelia Spiliotes, ValeoVox has received steady and sustained visibility over the last year.  The new Board of Advisors “will help enable us to move into a number of university and health care organizations and provide them with necessary product applications and workflow processes for specific disease management protocols.  We are thrilled to have these distinguished experts join our team and offer their expertise and experience to us.”

The advisory board consists of:

Jeff D. Emerson, Head of Aetna Healthcare Management. He was previously the executive vice president of public sector for ValueOptions, a $1 billion a year privately held behavioral health company.  Jeff was also chief information officer and executive vice president of Employer Solutions for Magellan Health Services, a $2 billion a year publicly-traded company and president of CIGNA HealthCare Mid-Atlantic, responsible for $4 billion in revenues, 2 million insured lives and 800+ employees. Earlier in his career, Jeff was CEO of SkyTel where he developed and built the first satellite-based messaging system in the United States. Jeff has 16 years experience in computer and telecommunications systems management.  He has served on the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Symphony, the House of Ruth, Hospice of Prince George's and NYLCare/Mid-Atlantic. He is a Trustee of Bowdoin College.

S. Robert Levine, MD is a national leader in efforts to promote the wider use of advanced information and communications technologies to improve health care quality and access; increase public contributions to medical research and promote more rapid translation of scientific discoveries into public benefits.  His work supports the reform of our health enterprise in ways that are responsive to the core purpose of improving health, for all.

As co-author of the policy papers “Creating a Health Information Network,” “An ABC Proposal to Modernize Medicare”, “Healthy Aging v. Chronic Illness: Preparing Medicare for the New Health Care Challenge”, and “A Progressive Path Toward Universal Health Coverage” published by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) (www.ppionline.org) Dr. Levine has helped develop substantive approaches to health care reform, as well as present a compelling vision of the promise of an information age health system. He serves as chairman of the PPI’s Health Priorities Project,

Dr. Levine, the JDRF chair of government relations, is a recipient of Research America's 1998 Research Advocacy Award, recognizing his leadership in organizing widespread support for significant increases in federal funding of biomedical research.  He is the current Chairman of JDRF’s Clinical Affairs Working Group.  His “Path to the Cure” vision led to JDRF’s unique “Research Mapping” process (1996) which helped shape their research program to be more responsive to the clinical concerns of people with diabetes while emphasizing support for mission-critical activities which would have the greatest impact on accelerating progress toward a cure.

Dr. Levine is a founder and Chairman of the Growth Philanthropy Network (www.growthphilanthropy.org) a non-profit enterprise whose purpose is to help top performing social programs expand in order to scale their social impact through a unique marketplace model.

Steve Gang founded Gang & Gang, Inc. and Resonance Research (progenitors of Resonance Insights). Steve is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several start-ups across multiple industries - Exchange Partners (CRM software and consulting) which was acquired by Ernst & Young; Original Cinema (high-quality independent feature production & distribution), now Sony Pictures Classics; Marot Medical Databases (Joint Venture with CBS-Saunders and Thyssen). He was a vice president at Telesis/Towers Perrin and Boston Consulting Group. Steve holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar), a JD from Harvard Law School and an AB from Amherst College (summa cum laude, econometrics). Steve is a non-professional musician and a part of the Solstice Singers (bargain counter tenor), The Clams (The North Shore’s premier geriatric rock band), frequent late-night jams and still trying to master a well-tempered Clavier.

David L. Sundahl, Ph.D. is the managing director of Rule 4 Consulting a leading healthcare industry consulting firm that combines principal business strategy to help organizations think and act differently to solve persistent and nagging problems that prevent growth.   David was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School, where he wrote on innovation and the creation of new growth business with organizations such as; Banking Institute of America, Nortel Networks, British Telecom, Thomson Financial Services, Moody’s Investor Service, SAP, and Polycom. At Kenagy & Associates he gained hands-on experience implementing adaptive systems in healthcare with hospitals and health systems in Denver, CO; Jackson, WY; Cambridge, MA; and Minneapolis, MN. He is a founding director of Rule 4 Consulting with current responsibilities for guiding adaptive work in Indiana, Minnesota, Massachusetts and California.

He is a co-author of the Microsoft white paper "Delivering on the Promise: An Adaptive Design Approach to Information Technology in Healthcare".  David’s Ph.D. is from Harvard University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. In addition, he has taught at Harvard and in China and is facile in seven languages.

About Valeovox
ValeoVox is a broad-based consulting and software development company that concentrates on providing solutions to workflow processes and patient management for hospitals, group practices and community health organizations. The company recently launched its eWP2.0 product, a web-enabled care coordination program which, when applied to specific diseases such as diabetes, depression, cancer, orthopedics and cardiac rehab, aids caregivers to communicate thoroughly and effectively and therefore better manage patient care.
   

 

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