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	Ravi Ika President & CEO A consummate entrepreneur, health plan technologist and business process expert, Ravi Ika founded ikaGroup, companies that have been providing software solutions and consulting services to Fortune 500 companies in the commercial, government, telecommunications, insurance and financial sectors since 1992. In 1999, he launched ikaSystems with the goal of creating an integrated, real-time e-commerce platform that would bring insurers, brokers, purchasers, healthcare providers and health plan members together online. Today, ikaSystems is one of the fastest growing providers of enterprise-level software to the health insurance industry. Mr. Ika has built a series of diversified businesses throughout his career, including technology companies in federal government services, commercial sectors and global IT project deployment. In 1992, he founded Envitec Corp., New England’s premier provider of innovative IT consulting solutions, and doubled its revenue every year from 1995 to 2000. Essential components of Mr. Ika’s leadership are his vision for what technology can accomplish, his hands-on approach to clients’ success and his ability to build world-class development and implementation teams that possess the synergistic competencies of technical and business process reengineering expertise. Even today, Mr. Ika enjoys being personally involved in implementation initiatives and product demonstrations. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Mr. Ika worked as a research scientist at Harvard University. He has a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Old Dominion University.
	David Henderson Chief Operating Officer For over 20 years, Dave Henderson has focused on the rapid growth and successful operation of all components of the healthcare delivery system, including IPA-, staff- and group-model HMOs, physician practices and hospital systems. His extensive health plan experience encompasses operations, contracting, business development and strategic planning, business process reengineering, technology strategy development and implementation, marketing and sales. Over his career, he has developed a widespread reputation for applying innovative technologies to further organizational goals. Before joining ikaSystems, Mr. Henderson was enterprise-wide executive vice president and chief marketing officer of MVP Health Care of Schenectady, New York, which covers 750,000 members across New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. Prior to joining the staff of MVP, Mr. Henderson was senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Capital District Physicians Health Plan in Albany, New York, and he held senior management positions at Group Health Inc. and HealthFirst, both in New York City, and CIGNA-Healthsource-CMCH in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Henderson has published articles in leading journals and is regularly interviewed by prominent industry publications. He earned an MBA degree from Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and a BS degree from Westfield State College in Westfield, Massachusetts.
	Ian Belinsky Chief Financial Officer Mr. Belinsky spearheads the company’s financial functions. He was previously chief financial officer at DentaQuest, one of the nation’s leading oral health companies, where he headed up its controllership, planning and analysis, underwriting, treasury and internal audit groups and also served as a member of the executive team. During his tenure at DentaQuest, Mr. Belinsky initiated numerous performance measurement and improvement initiatives, including the expansion of functions designed to support and improve the executive team’s business decision-making and planning activities. Prior to joining DentaQuest, Mr. Belinsky worked for Thomson Reuters as chief financial officer of a number of divisions, most notably of European operations (in London) for two years and ultimately of joint venture Omgeo, based in Boston. Mr. Belinsky also worked for KPMG Peat Marwick in Johannesburg, South Africa, and New York. Mr. Belinsky is a Chartered Accountant and holds a bachelor of accounting degree from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In addition, he has completed numerous executive education programs, including attending INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
	Robert S. London, MD Chief Medical Officer A nationally recognized expert in healthcare management, benefits design and medical informatics, Dr. Robert S. London is responsible for the medical/clinical aspects of ikaSystems solutions. He oversees clinical staff, supports sales efforts, ensures the quality of clinical products and services, and serves as the company’s external liaison to the healthcare business community. Dr. London has spent more than 20 years in operational, clinical and academic roles with some of the nation’s most prominent organizations. He was formerly corporate chief clinical officer at TriZetto, where he led the company’s cost and quality-of-care solutions business unit and spearheaded development of the CareAdvance care management product suite. In addition, Dr. London held executive leadership positions at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (WellPoint), where he directed healthcare management for the organization’s western region, as well as CNA Insurance, UnitedHealthcare and NYLCare Health Plans. Most recently, he was chief development officer for D2Hawkeye, a provider of medical data reporting and analytics solutions, with responsibility for product development, marketing and revenue generation. A frequent speaker at national and international conferences and the author of more than 75 scientific articles in various medical journals, Dr. London has served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Colorado School of Business. He holds degrees from George Washington University and University of Maryland School of Medicine, is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Nutrition.
	Aruna Wickremeratne, CPA Senior Vice President, Operations One of ikaSystems’ first employees, Aruna Wickremeratne has served ikaSystems in numerous capacities over his tenure with the company, playing key roles in financial, operational, sales and client service areas. In his current role, he works closely with ikaSystems’ chief executives to set corporate strategy and ensure the smooth function of financial, accounting and client service programs. Prior to joining ikaSystems, he served on the management team of a regional public accounting firm, where he led audits for several software firms. Mr. Wickremeratne earned a BA degree in economics magna cum laude and a master’s degree in accounting from Clark University, where he was a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society and received the Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award for academic excellence in economics. He is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA).
	Solomon J. Zak, MD Senior Vice President, Business and Medical Intelligence For the past 15 years, Dr. Solomon J. Zak has guided medical intelligence product development. An invaluable contributor to the ikaSystems team, he brings to ikaSystems a degree of healthcare industry knowledge and foresight possessed by few in the field. Before joining ikaSystems, Dr. Zak founded several healthcare companies. In the process, he identified actuarially defined, case-mix adjusted and provider risk tiers for 40 health plans and insurance entities throughout the United States. His most recent endeavor, DataMedica, created a primary care provider quality assessment system, the Zak Quality Index (ZQI), consisting of 59 measures. The ZQI demonstrates that economic profiling of primary care physicians is an excellent proxy for quality of practice. DataMedica was also one of the first companies to offer solutions for HEDIS reporting. In previous positions, Dr. Zak served as medical director of SHARE Health Plan of Minnesota and co-corporate medical director of Share Development Corporation until it merged with UnitedHealthcare. He was also a consultant to Humana Hospital Corporation in its acquisition of IMC and initiated the licensing of UCARE, a successful University of Minnesota HMO. Dr. Zak graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, and he has taught hematology, conducted research and has been published in many peer-review journals.
	Barbara Linder Senior Vice President, Product Development Barbara Linder has over 20 years of experience in healthcare strategic planning, operational, finance and information technology. A noted expert in procedural and organizational optimization of healthcare operations, she spearheads ikaSystems product development efforts, deploying industry-standard tools and techniques to ensure clients achieve value from ikaSystems technology rapidly and efficiently. Before joining ikaSystems, Ms. Linder was chief executive officer for Delta Medical Care of Clearwater, Florida, a third-party administrator specializing in Medicare Advantage claim administration. She also held a range of leadership positions, including chief operating officer, at the Florida Hospital Healthcare System in Orlando, covering operations, procedures, reporting and staffing; over a period of seven years, she helped the at-risk physician hospital organization transition from an operating loss to a multi-million-dollar profitable company. Ms. Linder also has also lent her extensive management skills to Options Behavioral Health of Norfolk, Virginia; Florida 1st Health Plans of Winter Haven, Florida; Administrative Services of Tampa; Quality Network Plus of Clearwater (an ancillary PPO covering the state of Florida that she also co-founded); ABI Administrative Services, Health Plan Administrators and Coordinated Benefit Plans, all located in Tampa; and Power Group Designs of Overland Park, Kansas. Ms. Linder has served in executive roles for the Florida Association of Health Underwriters and the West Coast Association of Health Underwriters, as well as several charitable organizations. She has a BS/BA from the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
	Raghu Ramaya, PhD Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development Raghu Ramaya brings to ikaSystems a proven record of success in rapidly growing sales and formulating and implementing new strategic business initiatives in competitive environments and compressed timeframes. His experience spans a number of industries, including insurance, information technology and investment banking. At one of the world’s leading specialty insurance companies, Mr. Ramaya helped start and rapidly grow a consulting business that assisted clients with proactively managing business losses that resulted from major capital equipment breakdown. In Wall Street, as a trader and market maker for an investment bank, he started and built a large emerging market currency options book in the Mexican peso. He has also worked for a number of information technology companies, where he helped build and grow various industry practices in record time. His entrepreneurial experience includes starting a management consulting practice with leading industry experts to provide process efficiency improvement solutions to healthcare organizations and improved risk selection procedures to insurance companies. Mr. Ramaya completed his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and MBA and PhD degrees at Syracuse University, where he was awarded the School of Management’s distinguished alumni award for exemplary academic achievement. He also taught undergraduate chemistry as an assistant professor in the State University of New York system.
	Sandy Cummings Senior Vice President, Marketing Sandy Cummings, who guides ikaSystems’ marketing strategies, is a 20-year veteran in healthcare communications. Before joining ikaSystems, Ms. Cummings was a vice president at Aria Marketing, a marketing and public relations agency focusing exclusively on the healthcare industry. There, she led account teams, spearheaded thought leadership programs and ensured the clear and consistent communication of clients’ unique value propositions. Her experience runs the gamut from payer to provider technologies, including business intelligence, claims performance, care management workflow, evidence-based medical decision support, electronic health records, computerized physician order entry and RFID-driven location systems. Over the course of her career, Ms. Cummings has held management positions at the IT consultancies IDC and Gartner, as well as at organizations in healthcare delivery, environmental consulting, pharmaceutical sales training and trade publishing. She currently serves on the board of Minute Man Arc, an organization serving the intellectually and developmentally disabled in and around Concord, Massachusetts. She holds a BA degree in English from Amherst College.
	Bijendra P. Malik Vice President, Technology Bijendra P. Malik, who drives ikaSystems’ technical direction, has 20 years of experience in industries such as insurance, finance, manufacturing and telecommunications. His versatile background, strong management and leadership skills, and experience in creating strategies for disaster recovery and processes to improve and maintain high security and service levels provide ikaSystems with the solid foundation necessary for architecturally designing various hardware and software applications. His technical leadership has also been invaluable in guiding health plans interested in migrating from legacy to next-generation systems. Mr. Malik has held strategic positions with companies such as GE Silicones and LG Electronics, a Fortune 500 company. His extensive experience includes providing over 99.9% uptime and operations and security leadership for multiple datacenters, designing and implementing disaster recovery plans using highly integrated blade servers, creating WANs using “Delta changes” technology, and SAN strategies. He has hands-on experience with redundant Cisco switching, Cisco PIX firewalls, data protection using replication, performance and availability monitoring, Safeword Secure Tokens Cisco-based VPNs for remote and mobile users, Oracle 10G and SQL Server databases. Mr. Malik has a BS degree in electrical engineering and numerous certifications that include Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), IBM’s Certified Lotus Professional (CLP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator (CCSA), Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) and Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA).
	Amy E. Donahue Vice President and Controller ikaSystems’ financial controller, Amy Donahue has more than 20 years of experience working with high-technology early-stage and mature companies. She has managed finance, accounting, financial planning, tax, human resources and administrative functions. Prior to joining ikaSystems, she was a senior controller at EMC Corporation and director of finance for Virgin HealthMiles, Inc., a Virgin Group company, and Crossbeam Systems, Inc. Ms. Donahue graduated from State University of New York College at Fredonia, where she earned a BA in accounting.
	Cheryl Moisan Vice President, Human Resources Cheryl Moisan has more than fourteen years of experience in human resources, including over eight years in leadership roles at Sycamore Networks and Ipswitch. To ikaSystems, she provides a balance of strategic insight, tactical solutions and compassion that positively impacts business results. Ms. Moisan has a significant track record of streamlining operations, developing and implementing organizational solutions, and applying broad-based HR expertise in diverse, demanding and rapid-growth environments. Specific expertise areas include strategic and tactical HR leadership, development, and implementation of HR programs and systems, benefits and wellness planning and design, mergers and acquisitions, employee and leadership development, change management, compensation and reward and recognition strategies, employee relations, coaching and communications, workforce planning and talent acquisition strategies. Ms. Moisan is a member of the Northeast Human Resources Association, the Society of Human Resource Management, the Senior Human Resources Network and the Boston Recruiters Group. She holds certifications in Professional Human Resources and other management areas, and she is a Global Professional in Human Resources.