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Board of Directors
Eran BroshyEran Broshy is chairman of the board and a senior advisor at Providence Equity Partners, LLC. Before joining Providence in 2009, Mr. Broshy served as chief executive officer of inVentiv Health, Inc., where he transformed the company into the leading provider of commercialization and complementary services to the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He remains executive chairman of inVentiv. Previously, Mr. Broshy was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was responsible for the healthcare practice across the Americas. He was also president and chief executive officer of Coelacanth Corp., a privately held biotechnology company.Mr. Broshy serves on the boards of Magellan Health Services and Neurogen Corp., and he is on the New York executive board of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, an MS degree from Stanford University and a BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ravi IkaA 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. Steve WigginsSteve Wiggins founded Oxford Health Plans and served 14 years as the company’s chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Under his leadership, Oxford grew to over $5 billion in annual revenue and ranked among the 300 largest U.S. corporations. Mr. Wiggins was also the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of HealthMarket, Inc., an insurance company that gave birth to innovative consumer-driven health plans and grew to over $150 million in revenue before being acquired by UICI. In 1993, he co-founded Health Partners, Inc., a physician practice management company that grew to $140 million in annual revenue before it was sold. In addition, Mr. Wiggins was a principal co-founder of Intelliclaim, Inc., which provided claim auditing and productivity software and services to over 20 health insurers before it was sold to McKesson, and BenefitPort, LLC, a consolidation of health insurance general agencies. He has been an active private equity investor on his own and in partnership with private equity funds, typically originating transactions or organizing new businesses.Mr. Wiggins joined Essex Woodlands in 2007, where he is a managing director. In addition to ikaSystems, he serves on the board of directors for Touchstone Health Partnership, Inc. Mr. Wiggins is also the founder and serves as a director of Accessible Space, Inc., a nonprofit organization that develops and operates residential facilities for individuals with mobility impairments and brain injuries. He holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BA degree from Macalester College, where he currently serves as a trustee. Peter O. WildePeter Wilde is a managing director of Providence Equity Partners, LLC. He is chairman of Archipelago Learning and a director of Asurion, Decision Resources, Edline, Education Management Corp., JBP Holdings (Assessment Technologies Institute and Jones and Bartlett Publishers) and Survey Sampling International. Before joining Providence in 2002, Mr. Wilde was a general partner at BCI Partners, where he began his career in private equity in 1992. While at BCI, he was involved in investment activities in traditional media, education and marketing services companies. Previously, Mr. Wilde worked at LaSalle Partners in the acquisitions group. He received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BA degree from Colorado College.Jesse M. Du BeyJesse Du Bey is a principal at Providence Equity Partners, LLC. He is a director of Kerasotes Theatres, The Vendome Group and World Triathlon Corp. Before joining Providence in 2008, Mr. Du Bey was a Director at Wasserstein & Co., where he worked on middle-market leveraged buyout and venture capital transactions across a variety of sectors, with a focus on media and business services. Previously, Mr. Du Bey was an associate at Wasserstein Perella Group. He received a BA degree from the University of Washington. |