About Us
Leadership Team
EZ’s passion for Whole Person Care, pragmatic innovation and life-long learning led him to found Alphind healthcare.
Ez has 30+ years of experience as an inspirational leader, entrepreneur, consultant, and engineer. Prior to honing in on healthcare, Ez consulted with global conglomerates, and led teams in technology innovations for public & private healthcare sectors working with payers and providers in behavioral health.
Ez’s invention in Alpha-CM has played a pivotal role in North Carolina’s mandated behavioral health transformation in serving all the managed care organizations and 40% of the providers. His other flagship products topped CapTerra Healthcare list. Alphind was rated among the twenty fastest growing SaaS companies in healthcare.
“To be successful,” says Ez, “You must have a grand vision grounded in solid understanding of the problem space; exude genuine empathy to your employees, customers, and ecosystem partners; and give it time.”
As Alphind healthcare’s Global Head of Health Sciences & Marketing, Dr. Ron plays a key role in Alphind’s product strategy by elevating intelligence across all go-to market domains within the public and private healthcare sectors globally. He is a champion leading through the vision of activating intelligence and making it pervasive throughout the whole person care ecosystem. He leads the charters for all strategic marketing channels including partner and analyst ecosystems.
Prior to Alphind, Dr. Ron was a leader and consultant with leading global organizations by bringing innovative digital transformation to minimize or eliminate the disease burden within the global healthcare space. He was an academician, a clinical practitioner, a technology enthusiast and entrepreneur in bridging the gap in technology and clinical areas. He played a key role in designing and developing EMR, AI-enabled Clinical Event Monitor, and Clinical Data Warehouses, among others. His work at National Academic Medical Center Information Collaborative’s (NAMCIC) architecture design was adopted by NCI’s Cancer Biomedical informatic Grid (CaBIG). Dr. Ron and his team won an Intel Award for Healthcare IT Value Model. He has designed and implemented human capacity development models in transforming Rwanda’s Vision 2020’s Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP) to action.
Dr. Ron served as an Air Force Flight Surgeon, Primary Care Physician, and Senior Resident in Pediatrics; Director of Applications at Boston Children’s Hospital; Research Fellow in Medical Informatics at Harvard; CIO & Asst. Professor, Pediatrics at UMass Medical Center; CIO, Marcus Center for Developmental Disabilities & Asst. Professor, Clinical Evaluation Sciences at Emory University; Professor at Rockefeller Center of eHealth at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Rwanda; and Sr. Healthcare Strategist at Intel.
Doug’s visionary leadership of Alphind’s global sales is marked by relentless passion for elevating customer experience from transactional to delightful and nurturing long-term mutually beneficial relationship. He played a key role in transforming Alphind from providing technology services to activating Whole Person Care intelligence.
Doug’s life-long customer-centric orientation from marketing to sales, operations, and service excellence is rooted in his journey through the hospitality sector that culminated in his leadership role at the iconic, world renowned Five-Star Drake Hotel Chicago, a Hilton International flagship establishment.
Additionally, Doug brings to our customers over three decades of diverse experience in marketing, sales, operations, services and M&A working for entrepreneurial and global leading brands in the technology and legal sectors.
Doug studied Hospitality & Tourism at British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Advisors
As founding Member of Alphind healthcare’s Advisory Council, Audrey augments Alphind’s Whole Person Care intelligence activation in national-scale Public Private Partnerships.
Presently, Audrey and Alphind collaborate to help several States in the US elevate and activate Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) intelligence designed to promote employee health and provide social safety net by bringing together employers and community-based providers of behavioral health, physical health, and social services.
A renowned thought leader and pragmatic innovator, Audrey is CEO of Resource Partners, LLC. where she leads her team's response to the National Opioid Crisis, and multi-agency Strategic Targeted Response (STR) in the District of Columbia. STR collected information, generated insights, and activated intelligence needed for evidence-based, culturally and linguistically appropriate best practices, services, and perpetual service-model innovation.
Audrey works with several state Health Information Exchange Projects as a subject matter expert for Accountable Care Organizations, Managed Care Organizations, and Managed Services Organizations; and leads a District of Columbia team on CMS' (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) AmeriHealth Caring Communities and Medicare Value in Treatment Demonstration Programs.
As a Certified NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) Content Expert, Audrey helped various health systems providers and technology vendors think through and implement Value Based care programs.
Audrey holds a Masters and a Bachelor of Science Degrees from the University of South Carolina. She has two adult children and enjoys traveling with family and friends.
A nationally renowned avid proponent of person centered supports and empowerment Pam brings to Alphind healthcare over four decades of experience in strategic leadership, innovation management, and ecosystem collaboration across the public and private sectors designed to serve special needs populations the Whole Person Care way.
Prior to joining Alphind’s Advisors, Pam served as Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer & Legislative Liaison for Monarch of North Carolina, serving nearly 30,000 individuals with I/DD, mental illness and substance use disorders across 177 sites and residential care in 97 counties.
As COO, then CEO of Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions, a North Carolina public authority, that became a public managed care organization Pam led 4X revenue growth to $650M under a Medicaid capitated waiver pilot and 3X population growth to a general population of 2.4M individuals, many which were disadvantaged by poverty, disability, mental health and substance use conditions. She successfully led Cardinal through cyclical policy changes, including the HITECH Act of 2009 and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 that disrupted the US healthcare landscape, drove enormous achievements in technology, and an ever-changing business environment of unprecedented proportions.
Pam played a key role in transforming North Carolina’s centralized management of the Medicaid service delivery system by designing and leading the implementation of the State’s first Medicaid Managed Care Waiver. This model, while modified is still in use today. And she drove collaboration with Physician-directed Primary Care to achieve individualized whole person care state-wide.
Currently, Pam volunteers with the NC Direct Support Professionals Workgroup, a community-based organization that envisions, inspires, and improves the care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) at home.
Pam earned her master’s degree in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.