Leadership Team

  • Chris Gerhardt

    Chris Gerhardt, CEO

    Chris Gerhardt brings over 20+ years successfully leading high-impact engineering, operations, consultation, and project teams. He is an expert in digital transformation driving organizational change and alignment with current and emerging technology trends and regulatory standards. Read More

  • Daniel Brown

    Daniel Brown, CFO

    Daniel Brown brings over 30 years of business experience, including leadership roles as President, CFO and COO. He has directed acquisitions and led new business development and financial management. He has capitalized several businesses, raising over $90 million, and led an IPO filing with the SEC. Read More

  • gene lawson

    Gene Lawson, EVP Revenue Cycle

    H. Gene Lawson Jr. has over 30 years of Revenue Cycle Management experience. He has over 20 years at the Vice President level, both PB and HB, with 18 of those years on Epic. He has helped 16 hospitals implement Epic. Read More

  • Ricky Caplin

    Ricky Caplin, Strategic Advisor

    Ricky Caplin is globally recognized as a leading entrepreneur who has launched and led multiple organizations that have created thousands of jobs, including The HCI Group – one of the largest global healthcare IT consulting firms. Read More

  • Karen Flinn Fowler, Strategic Advisor

    Ms. Flinn Fowler currently provides consulting services Coast-to-Coast to hospitals, physician organizations, home health agencies, hospice and infusion therapy service providers. Her focus is on revenue cycle improvement, payer negotiations, payer settlements, billing rate analysis, etc. Read More

  • Kerry Gillespie, Strategic Advisor

    Kerry Gillespsie is an experienced finance administrator with 25 years in the hospital & health care industry. He most recently served as VP Revenue Services at Intermountain Healthcare where he was the lead executive over the system’s revenue cycle operations, payer contracting and HIMS. Read More

  • Kartik Ramamurthy, Strategic Advisor

    Seasoned M&A professional with experience of over 22 years in originating, structuring, negotiating and executing Mergers & Acquisitions (“M&A”) as well as private equity and other strategic investment transactions. Read More

  • Ted Shaw

    Ted Shaw, Strategic Advisor

    Ted Shaw was recently the CEO/President of the Texas Hospital Association as key strategist on behalf of +450 THA member hospitals and health systems. Prior to joining THA, Shaw served as interim EVP and CFO for Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas. Read More

  • Robert Smith

    Robert Smith, Strategic Advisor

    Robert Smith is an experienced multi-facility healthcare executive. During his more than 40 year career he has held CEO and other executive roles at various hospitals and multi-market publicly traded health care organizations. Read More