Chuck Parker

Executive Director,
Continua Health Alliance

Chuck Parker is a healthcare professional with more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Charles was most recently the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Masspro, one of the United States' leading performance improvement organizations dedicated to advancing healthcare quality.

Clint McClellan

President and Chair of the Board of Directors,
Continua Health Alliance

Senior Director of Strategic Marketing
Qualcomm Life

Clint McClellan is currently the Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for Qualcomm Life. Clint's current responsibilities include establishing opportunities in the Wireless Health Market. McClellan joined Qualcomm in December of 1997 as director of Strategic Marketing. Clint brings a wealth of wireless industry analysis experience to Qualcomm. Since joining Qualcomm, he has served in business development roles and established the Global Industry Analyst program and Global Market Intelligence program at Qualcomm. Currently, he is the President and Chairman of the Board of the Continua Health Alliance.

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Horst Merkle

Vice President,
Continua Health Alliance

Director Information Management Sytems Diabetes Care,
Roche Diagnostics Corporation

Horst Merkle has served as the Director of Information Management Systems, Diabetes Care since 2003. In this position he is responsible for the proposal and the development of key components for the Roche Diabetes Care information management product portfolio with focus on interoperability/connectivity, tele-health and standardization.

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Paul Coebergh van den Braak

Second Vice President,
Continua Health Alliance

Intellectual Property and Standards, Senior Director Standardization
Philips

Paul Coebergh van den Braak has more than 25 years of experience in managing product and technology development in various companies and application fields, with emphasis on software, electronics and ICT systems. He was with Philips for 8 years in the eighties and again since 1998. Over the last 10 years he has frequently been responsible for advanced developments in the Healthcare domain including Home Healthcare.

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Petra Wilson

Secretary,
Continua Health Alliance

Senior Director of the European Health and Care team in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)
Cisco Systems

Petra Wilson is Senior Director of the European Health and Care team in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Her work focuses on helping health and care providers develop their strategies for making good use of communication and collaboration technology to demands of care provision for an ageing society, where patients' needs become wider and demands on health and care providers straddle many of the established silos of care organization.

Previously, she was Deputy Director of the European Health Management Association (EHMA), a membership organization committed to improving healthcare in Europe by raising standards of managerial performance in the health sector. At EHMA she had responsibility for the association's Brussels' office and, in particular, EHMA's relationship with the European Commission. In that role, Petra advised a wide number of European healthcare organizations on EU-level health policy and assisted them in engaging with policy-makers in the Commission.

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Kaoru Hiraoka

GM of Advanced Technology and Standardization, Mobile Phones Unit
Fujitsu Limited

Kaoru Hiraoka has more than 30 years experience in mobile phones and computer systems product planning, development and support within Fujitsu. From 1988, Mr. Hiraoka was a product manager of UNIX DB/DC system products and led the project of LAN and IP network introduction to Fujitsu.

In 2000, he transitioned to the Mobile Phones unit. During this period, he developed the mobile phone based intranet messaging system and other phone features. His current interest is Mobile Healthcare focusing on improving people's QoL using ICT technology. He has been a Board Member of Open Mobile Alliance since 2006. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electronic Engineerings from Osaka University.

Rick Cnossen

Director of Personal Health Enabling,
Intel Corporation Digital Health Group

Rick Cnossen is the director of Personal Health Enabling for Intel in its Digital Health Group with a focus on medical device interoperability standards. He is currently leading a large, international, cross-industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an eco-system of interoperable, personal telehealth systems.

Mr. Cnossen serves on the HITSP Board of Directors and as a chairperson for the ISO/IEEE 11073 Medical Device Communications WG. He is a participating member of the ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data WG, the HITSP Consumer Perspectives Technical Committee, the Health Level Seven (HL7) Structured Document Technical Committee, the USB Personal Health Device WG, and the Bluetooth Medical Device Profile WG.

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Kimio Minami

General Manager of Healthcare Systems Development Office,
Panasonic

Kimio Minami has more than 27 years of experience in consulting and sales in information systems architecture within Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), working predominantly with Japanese Government organizations and large enterprises. Mr. Minami's specialty is reorganizing management operations by making extensive use of IT solutions For the past five years, he has been engaged in the development of Internet service businesses based on consumer platforms such as Digital TV and Digital Video Recorders and the development of network infrastructure including network connectivity, authentication and billing systems.

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Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D.

Director, Center for Connected Health,
Partners HealthCare

Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., is Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare that is applying communications technology and online resources to improve access and delivery of quality patient care. Dr. Kvedar is internationally recognized for his leadership in the field of connected health. He is a past President and board member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and co-editor of Home Telehealth: Connecting Care within the Community, the first book to report on the applications of technology to deliver quality healthcare in the home. Dr. Kvedar is also a board-certified dermatologist and Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

Youngsoo Kim

Vice President, Corporate Strategy Planning Team,
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Youngsoo Kim is Vice President of Corporate Strategy Planning Team of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. a position he has held since January, 2004. In this function he is responsible for the areas of strategic alliance, mergers and acquisitions as well as new business development. Prior to current position, he was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Samsung Corning Micro-optics, Inc. which was a joint venture company between Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Corning, Inc. for optical component business.

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Ibrahim Sezan

Chief Technology Officer and Director of AVDT,
Sharp

Ibrahim Sezan is the Chief Technology Officer and the Director of Advanced Video and Display Technologies at Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (SLA). SLA is a multidisciplinary R&D laboratory pursuing applied research within a very broad spectrum of scientific endeavor.  Areas of focus include research on new and differentiated materials, devices, advanced algorithms and systems, with applications to displays, solar energy, energy management, biosensors, ambulatory health and wellness monitoring, solid state lighting, and factory automation.  Prior to joining SLA in 1996 as a Senior Manager, Ibrahim was the founding leader of the Motion and Video Technology Area at Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories. He received his Ph D in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984.  He holds an MSc degree in Applied Physics and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He is a Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Marc Perlman

Global Vice President, Healthcare and Life Sciences,
Oracle

Marc Perlman is Oracle's Global Vice President for the healthcare and life sciences industry. He is responsible for driving strategy and industry enablement across the organization.

With more than 28 years in the healthcare industry, he has deep experience in working with payers, providers, consumers, and the U.S. federal government to improve operational performance, clinical quality, patient safety, and revenue cycle performance.

Mr. Perlman joined Oracle after a 12-year tenure at McKesson Corporation, where he progressed through operational and sales leadership roles in the company's healthcare information technology, medication safety, and automation businesses. Prior to McKesson, Mr. Perlman held executive roles with various healthcare organizations focused on analytics, services, and innovative disease management programs.

Thierry Zylberberg

Global Vice President, Healthcare and Life Sciences,
France Telecom - Orange

Thierry Zylberberg is Executive Vice President of the France Telecom/Orange Group, and Head of Orange Healthcare, the Group’s Healthcare Division that he created in 2007.  Orange Healthcare aims to develop e-health activities in France and internationally leveraging the France Telecom-Orange Group’s expertise in Information and Communication Technologies.

Thierry is a widely recognized thought leader on the transformational impact of new technologies on the healthcare ecosystem. He frequently speaks at a wide range of conferences on the subject of m-Health and e-Health. He was recognized by the French Magazine L’Usine Nouvelle as “one of the 100 leaders who will transform the Industry in 2011”

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Jayant Parthasarathy  

Innovation, Research and Development Group Director,
UnitedHealth Group

Jayant Parthasarathy (JP) started his career in healthcare designing nano-sensors and wireless chipsets to better understand neuronal functioning and aid Alzheimer's research. JP applied his understanding of sensor and wireless technology to design award-winning products at Nonin Medical Inc. to aid patients suffering from chronic cardio-pulmonary diseases. With a keen interest to commercialize his group’s inventions, he also launched the eHealth Business segment at Nonin to serve a global market in chronic respiratory care.

As Chair of the Technology Group at the Continua Health Alliance, JP led a world-wide group of architects from Fortune 50 companies and start-ups alike to develop industry-first guidelines to promote interoperability, improved care co-ordination and reduce integration costs for systems designed to aid personal health & fitness, chronic disease management and facilitate independence for an aging population.

Currently, as Director of the Innovation, Research and Development group at UnitedHealth Group, JP’s team led the concept and development of a comprehensive health management platform integrating social and mobile technologies, biometric devices, advanced analytics to discern crowd-sourced behavioral patterns and live coaching elements. He is working on emerging business concepts that aim to disrupt healthcare delivery as it is practiced today and significantly improve access to high quality and cost efficient care.

JP attended Purdue University and the University of Minnesota, where he received his Doctorate in Engineering.