Dixon Gould Email Address

Chief Information Officer and CISO

ABILITY Network is a leading healthcare technology company, trusted for over a decade by thousands of hospitals, home health care agencies, hospices, skilled nursing facilities, DME providers and physicians to provide secure and reliable connections to Medicare and other payers and for a broad suite of innovative products and services that help manage the administrative complexities of healthcare. ABILITY is elevating the healthcare conversation, bringing about meaningful change by ultimately improving the patient experience and helping providers focus on what is most important: providing the best possible care to each patient in every community across our country.

As a senior IT executive, I partner with the business leaders to achieve their objectives and leverage technology to deliver on their strategies. Specializing in the ability to transform IT into a customer centric business partner, I consistently execute and deliver innovative solutions while having a positive impact on the financial statements. With an MBA and over 30 years leading IT organizations, I’ve championed numerous complex initiatives and delivered exemplary results. ▪Led IT integration activity for three large corporate mergers combining multinational firms; efforts included technology rationalization, asset portfolio analysis, resource evaluations, and integration planning and execution. ▪Overhauled entire business application stack ranging from Inquiry to Cash increasing sales velocity, pipeline management, improved A/R posture, revenue retention, cash reconciliation, and enhanced compliance with SOX and PCI controls. ▪Replaced a failed domestic outsourcing effort by leveraging low cost global regions. Not only delivered greater agility and faster execution, achieved significant cost savings and ensured knowledge retention. ▪Built multitenant Cloud solution significantly reducing risk profile while improving the disaster recovery and high availability along with elasticity of compute and storage resources. Specialties: Business and IT alignment, Strategic Planning, Six Sigma & Lean Strategies, Financial Management, Organizational Change Management, Regulated Environments, HIPAA/HITECH, HITRUST, SOX, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, PCI, ITAR, M&A Integration, Contract Negotiations, Vendor Management, and leveraging information technology as a business accelerator.