Board of Directors
Trygve Mikkelsen, Chairman
Mr. Mikkelsen is the founder and General Partner of T+T Holdings, LLC, a private investment company focused on private equity and hedge fund investments. His other Board positions include: Diabetica Solutions Inc. and Slate Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Prior to founding T+T Holdings, Mr. Mikkelsen was a Managing Director with Citigroup (2004-2007), Deutsche Bank (1999-2002), and Credit Suisse First Boston (1987-1999). His specialty as an investment banker was M&A advisory, primarily with a focus on health care. In addition to his advisory responsibilities, Mr. Mikkelsen held several management positions including Head of US Healthcare at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was also appointed to the Investment Banking Management Committee. Prior to investment banking, Mr. Mikkelsen worked for McKinsey & Co. in Scandinavia.
Mr. Mikkelsen graduated cum laude with a BS from University of Utah, where he was an All-American skier, and received an MBA with Honors from Columbia University.
W. Robert Dahl, Director
Mr. Dahl is a founding member of Arrowhawk Capital Partners, an investment management firm. Previously he was a managing director of The Carlyle Group where he oversaw The Carlyle Group’s investing activities in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, he spent 13 years with Credit Suisse First Boston, most recently as Managing Director and co-head of their U.S. Healthcare Group.
Mr. Dahl is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and a Loeb Rhodes fellow, and Middlebury College.
Ted Chin, Director
Mr. Chin is the former Chairman and Chief Strategic Officer of Ted Chin & Company, Inc., a strategic marketing/advertising company he founded in 1974 at the urging of David Ogilvy. Clients included both domestic and international companies, including several Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to founding his own company, Mr. Chin was a Vice President at B & B/Publicis.
After selling his company in 2007, Mr. Chin became a Senior Advisor to several former client companies. More recently, Mr. Chin became an Advisor to Teton Advisors, an affiliate of Gabelli & Co.
Peter Sereny, Director
Peter is the founder of Amkai. Prior to founding Amkai, Peter co-founded HealthIS, a company that delivered software solutions to the healthcare industry. Peter attended UCLA, where he attained honors in mathematics, was on the University Honor Roll, Dean’s List, and was a University Scholar. He then attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Joe Macies, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Joe’s achievements span Professional Services, Technology, Business Management, Sales, and Operations in Health Care, Government, and High Tech industries. He has held several senior executive roles fusing business development and strategy in consulting and corporate organizations. He was a Senior Client Partner at two international consulting firms, Accenture, (CAN, NYSE) and Unisys,(UIS, NYSE) managing the development and implementation of strategic information technology solutions to the Fortune 500 and some of the largest Federal and State Agencies. He held senior leadership roles in the health care practice of both firms.
Joe also held senior executive leadership roles in two start-up companies, Spielo Gaming International and W-Technologies. Spielo Gaming designed games and manufactured Video Lottery terminals for Casinos and point of sales terminals and related software for retail sales of tickets for National, Provincial and State lotteries. W-Technologies provided a wireless software platform and applications for the Financial Services and Insurance industries. Prior to Amkai he was responsible for the client services group at Callidus Software (CALD Nasdaq) which provides Sales Performance Management software solutions.
Joe is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and received his MBA from York University.
Management
Joe Macies, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Joe’s achievements span Professional Services, Technology, Business Management, Sales, and Operations in Health Care, Government, and High Tech industries. He has held several senior executive roles fusing business development and strategy in consulting and corporate organizations. He was a Senior Client Partner at two international consulting firms, Accenture, (CAN, NYSE) and Unisys,(UIS, NYSE) managing the development and implementation of strategic information technology solutions to the Fortune 500 and some of the largest Federal and State Agencies. He held senior leadership roles in the health care practice of both firms.
Joe also held senior executive leadership roles in two start-up companies, Spielo Gaming International and W-Technologies. Spielo Gaming designed games and manufactured Video Lottery terminals for Casinos and point of sales terminals and related software for retail sales of tickets for National, Provincial and State lotteries. W-Technologies provided a wireless software platform and applications for the Financial Services and Insurance industries. Prior to Amkai he was responsible for the client services group at Callidus Software (CALD Nasdaq) which provides Sales Performance Management software solutions.
Joe is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and received his MBA from York University.
Craig Veach, Senior VP – Operations
Craig has a distinguished and varied thirty year career with hands-on experience in many phases of operations including Enterprise Management, Customer Service, Sales, Systems, Training and Acquisition & Mergers. Most recently, he was Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Practice Management and Ambulatory Surgery/Surgical Hospital Division of Source Medical Solutions, Inc. He managed a national sales force that was responsible for generating over 85% of the company’s annual revenue. Prior to this, Craig was Vice President, Product Management for Practice Management, Ambulatory Surgery and EMR systems for Source Medical.
From 1993 to 2002 Craig worked in various capacities at HealthIS, a national company supplying management systems to healthcare industry specializing in the practice management and ambulatory surgery market. Prior to the acquisition of HealthIS by Source Medical, Craig was Vice President, National Sales. Craig also had several years of experience as Vice President Marketing, Sales, Customer Service and Support for Information Software, Inc. of Bloomfield, CT, and as Vice President, Research & Development ADVO System, Inc. of Bloomfield, CT. Craig is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University.
Don Fallati, Senior VP – Marketing
Don brings over 20 years of senior operating, marketing, and planning experience in both larger and smaller companies. He was most recently Executive Vice President of Dictaphone Corporation, having served at that leading healthcare technology company for 11 years until its recent sale to Nuance Communications. As part of the senior executive leadership, he helped guide the transformation of Dictaphone from a vendor of proprietary dictation systems into a growth company powered by advanced technology solutions in speech recognition and natural language processing. During this period Dictaphone became the acknowledged leader in speech recognition to healthcare leading to its broad market adoption. Don was directly responsible for all marketing, corporate development, product management, sales support, national account and strategic planning activities of Dictaphone’s healthcare information technology businesses.
Don has served on the Board of the Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) of the American Health Information Management Association. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University, a Master’s from University of Iowa, and an MBA from New York University.
Craig Lahey, VP – Sales
Craig has a wide range of experience in all phases of outpatient healthcare IT. Following his graduation from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Business Administration, he joined HealthIS, a market leader in the ASC/SH IT sector. Craig has progressed through end-user training and support, client advocacy, and client advocate manager (managing a team of four advocates, whose primary functions were customer satisfaction and selling software and hardware upgrades) through to sales. He sold administrative software to physicians and outpatient surgical facilities throughout the eastern United States and Puerto Rico. While at HealthIS, Craig gained experience in strategic planning, advertising and promotions.
Craig has also had his share of entrepreneurship. In 2002, he founded and managed iNfuse Productions, Inc, a web design, training and support company. From 2000 to 2002, Craig was Product Manager for LifeCare, Inc, of Westport, CT, where he managed LifeCare’s website content, interactive tools and cross-integration of communities.
Jason Troiano,VP – Technical Services
Jason joins Amkai with many years of in-depth experience in most phases of software and systems development and support. He was one of the earliest employees of HealthIS, a market leader in the ASC/SH IT sector. Jason started his career in end-user training and support, and soon rose to the position of Team Leader of the company’s support group. Prior to joining Amkai, he was Manager, User Interface Development Team and Senior EMR+ Analyst for Source Medical Solution (the company that acquired HealthIS).
At HealthIS, Jason was also involved in sales, handling all regional inside sales, add-ons and upgrades, from discovery and quote preparation to post-installation satisfaction. With Jason’s broad understanding of the healthcare industry, he is well positioned to lead Amkai’s UI development efforts.
Jason is a graduate of Iona College with degrees in Philosophy and Psychology
Dean Moroniti, VP – Client Services
Dean is heading the very important function of end-user services, including implementations and end-user support. He is extremely well qualified for this, having experienced all phases of client services. Dean began at HealthIS, a market leader in the ASC/SH IT sector, as an implementations/training specialist. He later became a senior training specialist, then Product Manager, and ultimately, Director, EMR+ Implementations for Source Medical (the company that acquired HealthIS).
In these roles, Dean gained solid understanding and experience in all phases of end-user support, including product management, organization and planning, troubleshooting, and training and instruction.
Dean is a graduate of Quinnipiac University with a degree in Healthcare Services Administration. Dean is also a Six Sigma Green Belt.
Rhonda Hixson, VP – Product Management AmkaiOffice
Rhonda and the Product Management team are responsible for the design of AmkaiOffice. Rhonda brings over 15 years of experience to Amkai having started in client services with HealthIS and advancing to the position of Director, Client Relations prior to joining Amkai in 2008.
Rhonda holds an MBA from the University of New Haven and is a certified EMT in the state of Connecticut.
Thomas Pinelli, VP - Product Management AmkaiCharts
Tom and his Product Management team are responsible for the design and development of AmkaiCharts, Amkai’s leading electronic medical record solution for Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), Surgical Hospitals (SH), and Surgical Practices. Tom has been with Amkai since its inception, and has over 10 years of experience working with clinical users in an ASC and practice environment of all specialties. He started his career in healthcare IT at HealthIS as a member of the company’s research and development team. His special talent of working hand in hand with end users was soon discovered, and he was given the task of interacting with clinical users. Tom enjoys travelling to ASC's across the country to ensure that AmkaiCharts is the easiest and most comprehensive electronic medical record for ASC's, SHs, and their associated practices.
Tom graduated from Pace University with a degree in General Sciences with a minor in Biology and Education. Tom also holds a MS in Computer Science and Information Systems and is currently working on a degree in Heathcare Informatics.