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Chief Technology Officer

Vendavo is the leading provider of price management software to global chemical, manufacturing, high-tech, and distribution corporations. Vendavo's customers significantly increase their net margins by empowering their executives and sales teams to make every transaction more profitable. These companies have deployed Vendavo to solve a broad range of complex pricing challenges that include analyzing prices and margins, negotiating deals, setting prices and terms, managing price lists, and communicating prices across the organization.

Friends and colleagues would characterize me as a thoughtful technology leader with an unwavering penchant for excellence balanced with a healthy sense of pragmatism. Apart from an extensive background in health care software development, I had the fortune of being dropped into a position of leadership at a very early stage in my career. Those timely opportunities led to the emergence of a principle-centered and results-oriented leadership style with a history of cultivating strong teams. I am currently the CTO at Vendavo, a global software and services company focused on helping large enterprises sell more profitably by harvesting margin opportunities. The prior 25 years with Cerner had been spent leading the company through pivotal shifts in technology, architecture and process. I spent much of the 1990s building distributed client/server middleware, followed in 2005 by a developer en masse movement to Java and a process transition from waterfall to agile, then in 2009 launching a cloud-based EHR search product whose seminal architecture fundamentally changed the design of future solutions. In 2008, I was awarded the Engineering Fellow designation in recognition of distinguished technical contributions. Since 2010, I had executive responsibility for a core platform group that designed and built web-scale services primarily centered around identity, authentication, auditing, administration, and petabyte-sized data ingestion and processing. Never accused of sitting idle, I balance my spare time between maintaining an active lifestyle, serving as an advisor to a local health care startup, staying current on a variety of technical disciplines, exploring new dining experiences, and searching for the perfect cocktail.