April 11, 2008
ikaSystems Expands
Management Team to Support Rapid Company Growth
ikaSystems, managed care’s premier
provider of Web-based ERP technology for process automation
and intelligence management, has made several strategic hires
to support its rapid growth. William Wetmore, Randall I.
Morrison, Laurence Gunsberg, Steven Georgiadis and Sandy
Cummings all join the ikaSystems management team in vice
president roles, bolstering the company’s sales, marketing and
client services functions.
“Interest has never been stronger in our modular, agile
technology, which allows managed care companies to automate
all key process in the managed care business cycle — sales,
underwriting, finance, operations, claims administration and
medical management — and share information and activities with
other stakeholders via Web portals,” said Ravi Ika, president
of ikaSystems. “With these hires, we continue ikaSystems’
long-standing tradition of bringing on board those who share
our vision and commitment to client satisfaction and quality,
and who we feel are well-prepared to contribute to our future
success.”
William Wetmore is the company’s vice president, relationship
management. He has more than 20 years of experience in process
improvement and the development and implementation of
successful project/product strategies as well as strategies to
positively incorporate technology and manage change in the
workplace. In 2000, as a member of the management team
implementing an electronic medical record at Harvard Pilgrim
Healthcare/Atrius Health, he earned the Davies Award, a
national award for excellence in implementation quality. He
has also held senior positions with Fidelity Human Resources
Health and Welfare Plan Outsourcing and Blue Cross Blue Shield
of Massachusetts. Wetmore has earned certificate awards in Six
Sigma, Agile development methodology, project management,
requirements analysis and product development.
Randall L. Morrison, who is vice president, portal sales,
brings to the company over 30 years of successful payer, TPA,
physician, clinical, hospital, pharmacy and lab related sales
and sales management experience as well as project management
and business development expertise. Before joining ikaSystems,
he was a national sales executive with Connecture, selling
portal sales automation solutions into the payer market.
Morrison has held leadership positions at GlobalCare,
IntelliClaim, MedUnite, TriZetto, ProxyMed, N.E.I.C. and the
FoxMeyer Drug Company. He was also one of the original
founders and creators of ClaimsNet.com, the first recognized
Internet-capable claims processing solutions for hospital and
physician claims.
Laurence Gunsberg is vice president, medical management sales.
He has over 20 years of sales, marketing and team management
experience working with insurance companies, hospitals and
other provider groups, hospital risk groups, managed care
organizations, national health plans and Blues organizations.
Before joining ikaSystems, Gunsberg was a national sales
director for several large providers of medical management
decision support systems, including Computer Science
Corporation and Ingenix, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.
He was also a personal lines insurance agent.
Steven Georgiadis, vice president, claims and enterprise
sales, has over 14 years of senior-level sales and management
experience with advanced software systems for the payer
market. Before joining ikaSystems, he was a senior sales
executive at TriZetto, responsible for selling the Facets
enterprise-wide core administration system to health plans
with fewer than 500,000 members. Georgiadis was also a
regional vice president at OAO Healthcare Solutions, where he
sold 12 complete systems to health plans such as UPMC Health
Plan, Johns Hopkins Healthcare, Martin’s Point Health Plan and
the American Postal Workers Union. He began his sales career
with HBOC, selling nurse triage software to call centers.
Sandy Cummings is vice president, marketing. A 20-year veteran
in healthcare communications. Before joining ikaSystems,
Cummings was a vice president at Aria Marketing, a marketing
and public relations agency focusing exclusively on the
healthcare industry, where her clients included McKesson
Health Solutions, Silverlink and Eclipsys. 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.
