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Our Company
Leadership
Advisors
• Business & Strategy Advisors
- Jeffrey O. Henley
- Richard J. Henley
- Virgil Elings, Ph.D.
- Alan Portela
- Gene Wang
• Applications & Clinical Advisors
• Scientific & Technical Advisors
Quality
Awards
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Business & Strategy Advisors
Jeffrey O. Henley is Chairman of Oracle Corporation. Mr. Henley held the position of Oracle's Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Vice President for 13 years from 1991 to 2004, and has been a member of their Board of Directors since 1995. He also serves on their Executive Management Committee.
Prior to joining Oracle in 1991, Mr. Henley served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Pacific Holding Company, a privately-held company with diversified interests in manufacturing and real estate, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Saga Corp., a multi-billion dollar food service company. He also served as Director of Finance at Memorex Corp. in its large storage division, and as Controller of International Operations at Fairchild Camera and Instruments. Mr. Henley holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a MBA in finance from UCLA. He is also a National Trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Richard J. Henley serves as President and CEO at Healthcare Strategic Solutions, LLC, a consulting practice focused on the development of high-performance organizations through the achievement of strategic, governance, leadership, financial and operational excellence. Richard is a highly experienced and accomplished executive who has held senior leadership positions in a wide range of healthcare settings including at an academic medical center, at a multi-hospital system and at community hospitals. Richard brings twenty-five years of experience as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with significant expertise in strategic planning, financial management, leadership development, governance, operations improvement and business development.
Richard simultaneously earned a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, from The City College of The City University of New York, where he was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
Richard is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). Richard served as Chairman of the Board of Directors at HFMA and on the Board of Governors at ACHE. He is the recipient of several awards from HFMA including the Founder's Medal of Honor and National Life Membership. He also earned the Distinguished Service Award from ACHE.
Richard has held faculty appointments at several graduate programs in healthcare management including at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and New York University. He has served as either Chairman or Director on several business, civic and professional Boards of Directors. He has also presented at numerous national conferences and has published articles in professional journals.
Virgil Elings, Ph.D., is the founder of Digital Instruments (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Veeco Corporation [Nasdaq: VECO]). He served as the company's president and chairman of the board until his retirement in 1999. Digital Instruments remains the global leader in the design and manufacture of scanning probe microscopes, including scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes. Dr. Elings is currently Chairman of the Board at NanoDevices and is actively involved in several philanthropic organizations. Dr. Elings earned his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, was a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds 42 patents.
Alan Portela has more than 25 years experience as an information technology strategist and executive. Mr. Portela serves as the President and Board Member at CliniComp, Intl. a leading provider of high-acuity clinical documentation systems. He was a driving force guiding CliniComp to become one of the industry's top clinical documentation leaders as well as the Inpatient Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for the U.S Department of Defense.
Before CliniComp, Mr. Portela was executive vice president of Client Services at Global Care Quest, an Aliso Viejo, CA-based firm that integrates and delivers high-acuity clinical data to clinicians via handheld wireless devices and desktop computers. Prior to Global Care Quest, he served as Chief Strategic Officer at Patient Care Technology Systems, Mission Viejo, CA, a leading provider of asset tracking and real-time location systems solutions for the healthcare industry.
In the industry, he helped pioneer an EMR deployment model which combines clinical systems around their ability to automate functional gaps, "Clinical Automation via Functional Clusters". He advanced this concept through national speaking engagements, published industry interviews and journal articles. Today, the industry refers to it as the new HIT trend of "Best of Suite" and it is recognized as the best model to meet the different stages required by the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) under the Meaningful Use program.
Mr. Portela lectured for several years on healthcare IT for a Healthcare Executives MBA Program at the University of California Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, formerly the Graduate School of Management. He also serves on the advisory boards of several healthcare technology companies.
Gene Wang is currently Chairman and CEO of People Power Co., a green tech startup focusing on Energy Efficiency. People Power is helping consumers save money on their electric bills while helping to save the planet by reducing carbon emissions.
At HP, Gene was VP Marketing and led the marketing, business development and industrial design organizations for the Handheld business unit, responsible for taking mobile innovation across the world. Gene was previously Chairman and CEO of Bitfone, which he sold to HP in 2007. Bitfone was the industry leader in Over-The-Air device management solutions for mobile phones. Mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LGE, Sony Ericsson, and carriers such as China Mobile and T-Mobile used Bitfone's products. Gene was CEO and Chairman of Photo Access, where he sold its hardware business unit to Agilent Technologies in 2000. Gene was the CEO of Computer Motion, a leader in medical robotics, which he led through a successful IPO in 1997. At Symantec, Gene was Executive VP where he managed four divisions and helped grow the annual sales from $172 million to $412 million. Gene was VP and general manager at Borland, where he drove sales of the C++ programming language to over one million copies. Gene earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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