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.

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

General Manager

A nationally recognized expert in healthcare management, benefits design and medical informatics, Dr. Robert S. London is responsible for ikaSystems market responsiveness and revenue generation activities, including sales, product development and marketing units.

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, Finance and Operations

Aruna Wickremeratne, who oversees ikaSystems’ financial operations, has a strong background in accounting theory and practices as well as federal, state and international tax regulations. 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 an 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.

Cynthia Burghard

Senior Vice President, Market Intelligence

Cynthia Burghard, who spearheads ikaSystem’s market strategy, is a renowned expert in the health insurance industry. She has spent over 30 years in the healthcare information systems market, holding market research, consulting and analytic product development roles for healthcare payers, employers, providers and regulators.

Before joining ikaSystems, Ms. Burghard was a research director for 14 years at Gartner, a leading IT research and advisory services firm, where she authored over 100 publications on topics such as care management, consumer engagement, magnetic card and underwriting automation technologies. She was also a consultant and market researcher for Charles J. Singer & Co. and held management positions at Bay State Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado.

Raghu Ramaya, PhD
Senior Vice President, Sales

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.

William Wetmore

Vice President, Relationship Management

William Wetmore has more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare field in project management, training, sales and product development. At ikaSystems, he focuses on developing partnerships and full integration with clients.

Mr. Wetmore is a noted expert in developing and implementing successful project/product strategies and in process improvement. He also has extensive experience developing 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 such companies as Fidelity Human Resources Health and Welfare Plan Outsourcing and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Mr. Wetmore completed an undergraduate degree in history from Merrimack College and an MBA degree from Boston College. Additionally, he has earned certificate awards in Six Sigma, Agile development methodology, project management, requirements analysis and product development.

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).

Randall L. Morrison

Vice President, Portal Sales

Randall L. Morrison brings to ikaSystems 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.

Mr. Morrison has held sales leadership positions at a variety of leading organizations, including GlobalCare, IntelliClaim, MedUnite, TriZetto, ProxyMed and N.E.I.C. (before it became ENVOY and ultimately WebMD). In addition, he spent 13 years in executive management and sales positions at the FoxMeyer Drug Company, which specialized in retail pharmacy computer systems for drug stores and hospital based labs/pharmacies.

Mr. Morrison was one of the original founders and creators of ClaimsNet.com, the first recognized Internet-capable claims processing solutions for hospital and physician claims.

Steven Georgiadis

Vice President, Claims and Enterprise Sales

Steven Georgiadis 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.

Mr. 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. In addition, he was instrumental in developing, designing and managing the company’s inside sales department. During his last years with OAO, he was responsible for sales of a new payer product, Resolution; he later spearheaded the sale of Resolution to Definity Health, which eventually sold it to UnitedHealthcare.

Mr. Georgiadis began his sales career with HBOC, selling nurse triage software to call centers.

Sandy Cummings

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 holds a BA degree in English from Amherst College.

Karen Mandelbaum

General Counsel

Karen Mandelbaum has over six years of experience in the healthcare industry and possesses a strong background in the contracting, compliance and regulatory affairs issues that uniquely affect healthcare organizations. Before joining ikaSystems, she was an economics consultant to healthcare organizations, served in the Law and Health Policy department of an insurance company and practiced law, representing clients with medical malpractice claims.

Ms. Mandelbaum earned a BA degree in history at the University of Minnesota, a JD degree at William Mitchell College of Law and a master’s degree in managed healthcare administration at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. She is admitted to practice law in the State of Minnesota.