SafeMed Board Members
Suren Dutia
Suren Dutia is an executive with extensive and successful multi-industry experience, including internet/e-commerce, document management software, medical instrumentation and other varied high technology businesses. He has been involved in corporate management since 1981, when he was President of Dynatech Fluid Technology Corporation. In 1986, he moved to the Dynatech Corporate headquarters in Boston and oversaw the management of 4 subsidiaries. Subsequently, from January 1989 to July 1999, Suren served as President and CEO of Xscribe Corporation and its successor entity, Photomatrix Corporation, a publicly traded company in San Diego. Prior to working in the private sector, Suren spent ten years in the public sector - three years as Deputy Director of the Community Action Agency (War on Poverty), six years as Executive Director for a human services agency and one year in the Carter Administration. In addition to his leadership role as President of the San Diego chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Suren is actively involved on the Regional Cabinet of Washington University in St. Louis. Suren is an investor in a number of ventures and is currently working as a consulting advisor and Board member in two going concerns and three "start-up" ventures. Suren has a B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering and B.A. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and holds an MBA degree from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas.
John Gavin
John Gavin is founder/chairman of Gamma Holdings, an international capital and consulting firm. He serves on the boards of: Causeway International Value Funds (Chairman); Claxson Interactive Group (an integrated provider of branded entertainment in Ibero-America); The Hotchkis & Wiley Funds (Chairman); SafeMed (medical decision support systems); and The TCW Funds. He is also Senior Counselor to Hicks Trans American Partners (a division of Hicks Holdings). Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and partner of HMTF (Latin America), President of Univisa Satellite Corporation, and vice president of Atlantic Richfield (ARCO), as well as a director of that company and other major corporations. As Ambassador to Mexico he led the then largest U.S. diplomatic mission abroad for more than five years. Ambassador Gavin is a graduate of Stanford University where he did honors work in Economic History of Latin America.
John D. Halamka
John D. Halamka, MD, MS is the Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School where he oversees all educational, research and administrative including all electronic courseware development. He is also the Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3,000 doctors, 12,000 employees and one million patients. As Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), Dr. Halamka oversees the HIPAA transactions exchanged among the payors and providers in New England. He is also the Chair of the Healthcare Information Technology Standard Panel, where he oversees electronic data standards harmonization for stakeholders throughout the US.
Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University where he received a degree in Medical Microbiology and a degree in Public Policy with a focus on technology issues. He went to medical school at the University of California San Francisco and simultaneously pursued graduate work in Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on technology issues in medicine. Dr. Halamka served his residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Thomas O. Hicks
Thomas O. Hicks is chairman of Hicks Holdings LLC, a holding company for sports, real estate and private equity investments of Mr. Hicks and his family, including the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers and a 50% interest in the English Premier League's Liverpool Football Club. Hicks Holdings is also the controlling stockholder of Latrobe Specialty Steel Company, a specialty steel manufacturer. Its other corporate holdings include DirecPath, Ocular LCD, Inc., Berkshire Resources, Grupo Pilar, SafeMed, and River City Landscape Supply. Hicks Holdings also holds approximately 20% of the equity of Greatwide Logistics Services.
Mr. Hicks co-founded Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a nationally prominent private equity firm in the United States that specialized in leveraged acquisitions, and served as chairman from 1989 through 2004. During Mr. Hicks' tenure as chairman, Hicks Muse raised over $12 billion of private equity funds, and consummated over $50 billion of leveraged acquisitions, and was one of the most active private investment firms in the country. Mr. Hicks also co-founded and served as co-chief executive officer of the leveraged buy-out firm Hicks & Haas from 1984 until 1989. Mr. Hicks received a Master's of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California in 1970 and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas in 1968.
Christina Weaver Vest
Christina Weaver Vest currently serves as a managing director and partner of Hicks Equity Partners LLC, and previously served from 2005 until April 2007 as a senior vice president of its affiliate, Hicks Holdings LLC. Ms. Vest also serves as a Principal at HM Capital (formerly Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst), which she joined in 1995. At HM Capital, Ms. Vest principally focused on the firm's domestic branded consumer products investments as well as on several Latin American media investments, the latter of which is her current area of focus at HM Capital. Ms. Vest currently serves as a director of Ocular LCD Inc. and of SafeMed, as well as an observer on the Greatwide Logistics Services board of directors. She is also a director of various Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst portfolio companies, including Sturm Foods, Inc., Fox Pan American Sports LLC, Claxson Interactive Group, Inc., and Digital Latin America LLC. Ms. Vest received a Bachelors of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1993 and a Master's of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School in 1999.
The following members of the SafeMed Management team are also members of the SafeMed Board of Directors:
Richard Noffsinger (Chief Executive Officer)
Ahmed Ghouri (Founder & Chief Medical Officer)
Raghu Sugavanam (Chief Technology Officer)