About MobileSmith Health
Headquartered in beautiful Raleigh, North Carolina – one of America’s 10 fastest growing cities
We are changing healthcare one app at a time by targeting the glaring inefficiencies in the American healthcare delivery model.
We help our clients improve health outcomes, patient satisfaction and grow profit margins using our toolbox of proven mobile app technologies.
We’ve targeted select patient segments that struggle with areas like medication adherence, discharge instruction compliance, and health literacy, and provide new innovative digital patient experiences like indoor navigation and clinic “check-ins” that directly improve critical patient satisfaction.
We are helping our clients meet their healthcare consumers where they are, on their mobile devices, to extend the reach of providers to modify behavior with apps that remind, educate, track, and engage the patients that use them.
193,957
Patients Impacted
7,221
Physicians and Nurses Supported
39,028
Staff Impacted
Industry Alliances
Leadership Team
Randy Tomlin
Director
Prior to his role at MobileSmith, Randy previously served as Senior Vice President – U-verse Field Operations at AT&T. Randy was responsible for all field operations for AT&T U-verse, including service, installation at customer homes, repair and maintenance. Randy began his career with Southwestern Bell in 1982, and has held various managerial positions in customer service, network, and external affairs throughout his career. During his career with AT&T, he also served as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Operations Support, responsible for leading the network services staff organization as well as the network standardization effort to move to common centers, best practices and a single suite of systems. He has led many of SBC’s acquisitions integration activities including AT&T, BellSouth, and Cingular. Randy received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
Chris Caramanico
Chris has spent over 20 years in the Healthcare Information Technology, (HIT) space partnering with top companies like Cerner, IDX/GE, and EPIC Systems.
In addition, Chris has served as CEO of Orthus Health and in senior leadership positions with Eclipsys/Allscripts, responsible for New Business Sales, and Enterprise Revenue Cycle Product Development. Previously at McKesson, Chris led the Managed Services Group (MSG), including Remote Hosting, IT Outsourcing, and Technology Sales. Chris began his HIT career in Imaging, and software consulting sales.
Gleb Mikhailov
Chief Financial Officer
Gleb joined MobileSmith as Chief Financial Officer in April 2013, bringing with him eight years of experience in public accounting. In addition to supervising the company’s revenue, employee and resource growth, Gleb is responsible for guiding the company’s continued financial success as it expands into emerging healthcare sectors.
As Audit Manager with EisnerAmper, LLP, a large regional New York-based accounting and consulting firm, Gleb oversaw the audits of SEC filers and clients with international operations. Later in his career at EisnerAmper, Gleb helped develop the financial reporting consulting group of EisnerAmper, where he provided outsourced CFO/Controller services to firm’s clients. Gleb received his BA in accounting and MBA in finance from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Greg Jones
Chief Technology Officer
In his role as Vice President of Technology, Greg spearheads technology innovation in the design of MobileSmith’s proven suite of mobile Blueprints. This includes the use of emerging technologies and IT best practices to not only develop the highest quality mobile apps, but to support the seamless integration with partnering technologies.
He was previously Chief Technology Officer for N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, providing nationally award-winning services for citizens, law enforcement and first responder support. Greg has more than 20 years of experience designing and leading large enterprise developments for various industries including biotech, finance, state and federal government, ecommerce and manufacturing. He holds a BSEE from the University of Nebraska and is a US Navy Submarine Veteran.
David Wardlaw
Chief Revenue Officer
David Wardlaw brings an extensive set of experiences leading healthcare sales organizations across the full continuum of care with a focus on disruptive technology breakthroughs that enhance patient safety, engagement and health outcomes, as well as delivering caregiver solutions that drive operational effectiveness. David’s understanding of the patient experience and the interoperability requirements to pull together a single unifying window for not only the consumer side, but also for any health system to create an inviting virtual front door experience positions David to lead MobileSmith Health into this exciting mobile platform digital health revolution. “I’ve had countless opportunities during my years at Cardinal Health, Omnicell, Alaris (now Becton Dickinson), Masimo and Philips to sell best of breed, groundbreaking solutions into health systems where the greatest focus is determining how to best serve our potential customers in their decision-making processes so that they can make great organizational decisions, however that unfolds.”
Bruce Kennedy
Chief Marketing and Client Officer
A healthcare marketing strategist with more than 20 years’ experience in multiple care delivery environments, including surgical patient safety and quality and digital hospital product development, Kennedy leads MobileSmith Health’s expansion of new and existing hospital client and project growth as well as oversees client success operations and client application utilization.
Prior to joining MobileSmith Health, Kennedy served as executive practice leader for Relevate Health Group where he led the organization’s hospital solutions division developing strategic consumer, patient, and physician engagement programs. He also led marketing operations at Duke Health for over a decade as part of Duke’s Strategic Business and Planning division. Kennedy has held consulting roles with Ascension, WebMD, Everyday Health and participated in initiatives advancing global patient safety, clinical quality, and combating healthcare disparities.
Lew Walker
Chief Human Resource Officer
Lew Walker is the Head of Human Resources for MobileSmith Health. Lew has forged a successful and diverse career and has led every functional generally under an HR organization as well as other areas such as payroll and EHS (environmental health and safety). Prior to MobileSmith Health, Lew was the Vice President of customer support and business development for Celectiv. Before joining Celectiv, he was with ATT, in his last role he was Vice President of Human Resources supporting the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the Group President of Technology. Lew and his team provided support for over 125,000 employees worldwide. Prior to this role Lew, was the Vice President of Learning Services, responsible for initial and continual training for ATT’s 265,000 employees and outsourced vendors across the globe. Under Lew’s leadership, Learning Services received wide recognition.
Chief Learning Officer magazine named them the first place for their inaugural Learning Elite award in 2011. They also received one of five editor’s choice awards for Best Business Support. In 2012, they tied for second place, however in 2013 they came in first place once again and were one of two companies placed in the magazine’s first Hall of Fame. Bersin and associates recognized them in 2012 winning three learning leader awards. Lew also received the next generation award from Woman in Technology International (WITI) for his support in developing woman leadership in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). In 2000 Lew was one of the leading executives at Cingular Wireless and held the role of Vice President of HR operations and labor relations. In 2006 he was named Vice President of Human Resources for ATT’s Consumer business unit. Prior to these roles, he was Vice President of Human Resources for Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems.
Lew has played key roles in numerous acquisitions including Pacific Bell, Ameritech, ATT Wireless and Direct T.V. Lew is a published author and has spoken at numerous industry events as a keynote, facilitator, and panelist.
Kimberly Tart
Director of Service Delivery
In her role as Director of Service Delivery, Kimberly is accountable for the planning, development, and implementation of our product delivery strategy. She oversees the quality and timely delivery of our products, ranging from new product solutions to production incident management. In addition, she leads the team responsible for supporting our internal business operations that enable end-to-end consistency between Marketing, Sales and Finance teams. Since joining MobileSmith Health in October 2009, Kimberly has put her process-driven background to work formulating successful processes and operations based on the company’s strategic direction.
Prior to joining MobileSmith Health, Kimberly spent 11 years with IBM where she honed skills in all facets of the software development life cycle. Kimberly has a BS in Computer Information Systems from Appalachian State University.
Bridget Lamb, Ph.D
Director of Customer Success
As Director of Customer Success (CS), Bridget partners with MobileSmith Health’s clients throughout their journey to ensure they get maximum value from our products and services. She strives to understand each client’s needs, collaborate on the achievement of desired outcomes, and ensure all clients experience excellent service.
Bridget has over 20 years of experience in healthcare quality improvement, including leadership roles in administering contracts with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration, and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. This transitioned to positions in healthcare technology and software, beginning as a CS Account Manager and ultimately directing the CS department for a healthcare analytics software company. Bridget enjoys helping people use technology to do their jobs more effectively and accomplish their goals.
Bridget has a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from St. Louis University. Although she has moved to the south, she is still an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan and enjoys watching them play.
Les Jordan
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
In his role, Les leads the assessment and development of Mobilesmith Health’s overall product strategy and development roadmap. This includes the execution of all current and future products to ensure that they are aligned with market demand and viability while simultaneously positioned to increase revenues. A product manager and technical evangelist with more than 20 years in the Health and Life Sciences industry, Les enjoys working with customers and internal constituents in designing products that people love to use. His passion is in driving change in the Health and Life Sciences industry, enabling patients to make well-informed decisions on their own health, taking advantage of his background in patient engagement and digital health. He is deeply experienced in industry regulations and standards including HL7, CDISC, 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, HIPAA and GDPR, with a background in clinical trials as well as software design focused on mobile technologies and mHealth.
Prior to joining MobileSmith Health, Les has served as VP and Chief Product Evangelist for Target Health where he ran the software business unit, VP of Everything at Bad Rabbit where he helped run a small software consulting company focused on clinical trial regulatory compliance, and CTO for Microsoft’s Life Sciences Industry Unit where he was responsible for working with internal product teams to design features and capabilities for the life sciences industry.
Marc Harris
Senior DevOps Engineer
Marc joined MobileSmith in March of 2015. During his tenure here, he has continued to grow and develop as an engineer to assume a variety of responsibilities. Currently, he is responsible for the development, maintenance, and advancement of MobileSmith’s CI/CD processes as well as ensuring the platform’s underlying architecture adheres to modern best practices and ensuring MobileSmith is positioned to provide the most secure platform in the market for customers and users in the healthcare field.
Marc is a DevOps engineer with experience building cloud-native and hybrid-cloud solutions. Seasoned Linux administrator with expertise architecting, implementing, and maintaining solutions that utilize microservices and serverless functions in a service-oriented, loosely coupled ecosystem. Experience with migrations of solutions that utilized monolithic architecture to more modern architecture framework solutions. Highly adept at learning and utilizing new tools, processes, and frameworks, and a proven ability to deliver results in high stress, high stakes scenarios. History of working as a federal subcontractor to deliver solutions that met and/or exceeded NIST CSF regulations and requirements.
Marc enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, as well as constantly researching new, cutting-edge technologies and toolsets that can ensure that MobileSmith’s customers have the best possible experience from our products.
Kjersti Signe
Cloud Development Manager
In her role of Cloud Development Manager, Kjersti leads the development of backend services and web clients, transforming the product vision into well-architected, production-ready enterprise solutions. She draws from a background in information science and user experience design to anticipate customer needs and provide logical and intuitive applications and build native cross-cloud services. Kjersti directs her personal interest in mindfulness and compassion toward meeting customer needs and fostering team cohesion, and cross-team collaboration.
Ashley Dubray
Director of Clinical Solutions
Ashley DuBray is MobileSmith Health’s Director of Clinical Solutions. Her role is to partner with our client’s clinical stakeholders and leaders to holistically impact client clinical performance, satisfaction, and clinical and business outcomes. She is a healthcare strategist with over a decade of experience ensuring profitability and operational effectiveness in US healthcare organizations. Her experience spans hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, medical device companies, and surgical quality improvement organizations.
Ashley lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her daughter, doodle, and cat and enjoys traveling, horseback riding, and working out.
Tanner Smith
Director of Sales
Tanner joined MobileSmith Health as Director of Sales in January 2021, bringing a decade of Healthcare IT experience that spans the continuum of care. He recognizes the importance of efficient clinical workflows and seamless integrations into the EMR. His primary motivation is to make it easier for patients to participate in their own care and is passionate about extending the reach of clinicians to engage patients through mobile applications, resulting in improved medical adherence and outcomes.
Prior to joining MobileSmith Health, Tanner served as an Advisory Executive at Cerner promoting clinician mobility solutions (CareAware Connect) as well as SurgiNet and Anesthesia workflows. Most recently as a Director at Tissue Analytics, a fellow validated partner in the Cerner CODE Program and Epic AppOrchard, he helped develop a patient facing application to remotely monitor wound healing progress to reduce cost of care and improve outcomes.
Michelle Jacobson
Controller
Michelle joined MobileSmith as Controller in March 2021, bringing with her 15 years of progressive experience in accounting, finance and system integrations. In addition to the traditional duties of controllership, she is spearheading internal projects and serving as a liaison to external partners.
Michelle received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. She is a native Floridian, animal lover and enjoys working out, fantasy football and Sunday family dinners followed by games of Scrabble.
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Mark A. Costanza
Chief Client and Operations Officer
Mark Costanza is an accomplished business executive with more than 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. He has been a leader in the development of strategies and tactics that propel business growth and profitability. His experience includes work in both public and private companies, where he has been a catalyst in turning around underperforming organizations, launching new business initiatives, and driving business growth in professional services, customer success, and post-sale client management. As a customer crusader, he is deeply committed to driving value by aligning on their needs, goals and priorities. He builds teams that are focused on the experience as well as the success delivering for clients. He is knowledgeable in the creation of more effective and efficient hospital systems through the integration of medical care with leading-edge healthcare technology.
Michele Norton
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Michele Norton has over 25 years experience in healthcare across many facets of the industry including hospital/health systems, ACOs, payer and life sciences organizations. She brings considerable experience and expertise in healthcare technology product, strategy, and marketing as well as optimization of clinical and analytics solutions and services.
Prior to joining MobileSmith Health, Michele held various senior executive positions at HealthMyne, SCIO Health Analytics, Zynx Health and McKesson Corporation. Her clinical and nursing informatics background provides her with a unique perspective on the impact data and technology can have on care quality and outcomes. She is passionate about helping clients translate insights into action, improve processes, drive engagement, measure outcomes and disseminate results.
Michele received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with high honors from the University of Florida and her Master of Science in Nursing with a healthcare informatics specialty from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Strategic Advisory Board
The MobileSmith Strategic Advisory Board provides advice to the executive management team on software products, including feedback on features and capabilities, audience targeting, competition, major industry trends and other related issues. At MobileSmith, we strive to ensure our products are effective in bridging the gap between providers and patients, and patients and their health. The Strategic Advisory Board provides unmatched insight from the doctors, nurses, patient advocates and other hospital staff who are on the frontlines of healthcare.
Russell C. Langan
Saint Barnabas Medical Center / RWJBarnabas Health
Chief of Surgical Oncology and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
Chairman of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Surgical Director of the Comprehensive Liver Center
Board of Trustees Member for Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Russell C. Langan, MD, FACS, board certified surgical oncologist, joined Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC), RWJBarnabas Health in a dual appointment with the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. He specializes in complex surgical oncology and has a particular interest and expertise in the surgical management of diseases of the liver, pancreas, bile ducts, gallbladder and stomach as well as cancers which have spread to the peritoneum. Additionally, he cares for all benign biliary pathologies. Dr. Langan strives to provide the highest level of expertise and precision with unwavering compassion, optimism and hope to my patients and their families.
He is the Chief of Surgical Oncology and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, the Chairman of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), the Surgical Director of the Comprehensive Liver Center and a member of the Board of Trustees at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility.
As a member of both SBMC and the Gastrointestinal/Hepatobiliary Program at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, he works collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary disease management teams including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, pathologists, genetic counselors and dietitians to ensure my patients receive the highest level of evidence-based care including clinical trials. At SBMC, he launched a Pancreatic Cyst Screening program to monitor pancreatic lesions which do not merit immediate removal but require observation.
Prior to joining SBMC, he completed a general surgery residency at Georgetown University Hospital and fellowships in Tumor Immunotherapy and Surgical Oncology under Steven Rosenberg, MD, PhD, at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NCI,NIH) as well as a fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he received specialized training in the surgical management of hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers.
Dr. Langan has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and eight book chapters dedicated to surgical oncology. He continues to present and lecture regionally and nationally and is very involved in clinical research as an investigator on numerous clinical trials.
Dr. Langan is a member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Surgical Oncology, Advanced Cancer Therapies, American Hepatopancreatobiliary Association and the Association for Academic Surgery. He has received numerous awards including from the National Institutes of Health, Health and Human Services (Recognition for Special Act and Service), Georgetown University Hospital, DC Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Black Academic Surgeons, the Marquis Who’s Who award in 2015, the Top Doctor Award for surgical oncology in New York, New York for 2016, NJ Magazine Top Doctor Award in 2019 and 2020 and the Diamond Award from the NJ American Cancer Society in 2019.
Dr. Langan recognizes the paramount importance of oncologic research on clinical outcomes and continues to publish and present at local and national conferences. At SBMC, he has established hepatopancreatobiliary enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols and continues to investigate ways to further enhance the care of the cancer patient.
Rhonda Collins
Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN
Vocera
Chief Nursing Officer
As the Chief Nursing Officer of Vocera, Rhonda Collins is responsible for working with nursing leadership groups globally to increase their understanding of Vocera solutions, share clinical best practices and to bring their specific requirements to Vocera’s product and solutions teams. Dr. Collins began her nursing career more than 30 years ago in Labor and Delivery, caring for high-risk mothers and their babies. has served as the Chief Nursing Officer since January 2014. After 10 years in direct care for patients, she assumed leadership positions in several hospitals across Texas. She was Vice President for Women and Children’s Services at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas when she made the decision to enter the healthcare business industry as a clinical subject matter expert.
In 2003, Dr. Collins joined Cardinal Health/ALARIS Medical Systems, where she held several executive positions. For nearly 10 years, she managed and supported business development and client relations focused on medication safety for the Clinical Technology and Services business unit, known as CareFusion.
After her tenure at CareFusion, Dr. Collins became the Vice President of Nursing at Masimo Corporation in Irvine California, and then Vice President and Business Manager for Fresenius Kabi, USA, LLC in Schaumburg, Illinois, where she managed a medical device through FDA clearance and launched it in the U.S. market.
In 2012, Dr. Collins co-founded The American Nurse Project dedicated to telling the stories of nurses all across the country. Since 2014, Dr. Collins has served as the Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for Vocera Communications, Inc., a leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions that improve care team collaboration, and the patient, family and staff experience.
Dr. Collins was named a Fellow by the American Academy of Nursing in 2019. She was also recognized as a Women of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal and one of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT by Health Data Management. In 2018 and 2017 Becker’s Hospital Review included Dr. Collin’s on its “Woman in MedTech to Know” and “Female Healthcare IT Leaders to Know” lists.
Dr. Collins earned her bachelor’s degree and a Doctor of Nursing practice from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and a master’s degree in nursing administration from the University of Texas. She is a frequent speaker on the evolving role of nurses, the importance of communication, and how to use technology to improve care team collaboration.
Cindy Geoghegan
Cindy Geoghegan
Patients and Partners, LLC
Founder and Principal
A patient advocate and cancer survivor with decades of health policy, communications and capacity-building experience, Cindy Geoghegan founded Patient and Partners LLC in 2009 as a consulting firm committed to patient-focused outcomes. P&P provides strategic consulting, health communications and policy counsel to academic institutions, non-profit organizations and healthcare companies that share a common goal – accelerating the discovery and delivery of healthcare products and services that improve people’s lives. Ms. Geoghegan ensures that representative patient perspectives are considered in decision-making, communications and planning across the healthcare continuum.
Ms. Geoghegan has led several national and regional breast cancer organizations since her breast cancer diagnosis in 1995. She helped found the Maryland Affiliate of Susan G. Komen in 1997. When she relocated to NYC, she became board president of Komen’s Greater New York City Affiliate a role she held until 2007, when she took on a staff role of that organization’s global senior leadership team, serving as executive advisor of scientific community relations, a role she held until 2009. In 2010, she became CEO of Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization, which she served until 2012. She has served on advocacy initiatives for the National Cancer Institute, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Stand Up To Cancer, and serves on the external advisory board to the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, among others. She is currently a member of the Scientific Leadership Board of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe).
Through Patients & Partners LLC, Geoghegan has developed programs focused on patient priorities for academic institutions including the Yale Cancer Center, non-profits, including the AVON Breast Cancer Foundation, Sage BioNetworks and the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation, and to high-profile multistakeholder initiatives such Project Data Sphere, the clinical trials data sharing platform sponsored by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer.
Dr. Jean Wright
Dr. Jean Wright, MD, MBA
Dr. Wright has been recognized as one of the Top 30 Chief Innovation Officers and one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Health IT in the United States. Prior to working at Atrium Health, Dr. Wright practiced as a pediatric anesthesiologist and intensivist. She has also held positions as a Physician Executive at Emory, Chair of Pediatrics for Mercer, and Executive Director for Memorial Health’s Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Savannah, and was Chief Medical Officer for Atrium Health Cabarrus. She is also a former health services researcher who has served on federal advisory committees including the CDC National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect and the Fogarty International Center of the NIH and has given testimony in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. A current board member for the COPD Foundation, Dr. Wright speaks nationally on the topic. In 1998 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity from Westminster College, and in 2000 she was recognized by the American College of Physician Executives with the Physician of Excellence Award.
Joel French
Joel French
For 30 years, Joel French has contributed to health industry business and clinical process improvements as CEO of multiple technology firms and as an advisor to leaders of provider enterprises, health plans, and technology companies. French most recently served as CEO of SCI Solutions, a market-leading patient access and digital health company, prior to its acquisition by R1 RCM. French is widely published in industry journals and frequently lectures at industry conferences. He serves as a board trustee for Seattle Childrens Hospital and is a founder/managing partner of Nephalios Group, LLC, a strategy and management consulting firm. He received a BA in Economics from Pacific Lutheran University.
Perioperative Services leadership Committee
MobileSmith Health recognizes the critically important role that Perioperative Services leaders play in operating room environments as they pursue operational and workflow improvements along with driving enhanced patient experiences and outcomes, whether through new processes or emerging technologies. The Perioperative Services leadership Committee initiative’s main focus is to provide a mobile-health thought leadership platform where the voice of these Perioperative leaders can be heard and new insights shared.
Elina Lazo, DNP, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CPHQ
With 20 years’ experience in healthcare, Elina Lazo currently serves as the director of surgery at a leading Seattle-based health system. She previously served in many roles that have significantly contributed toward patient safety and quality; staff and provider satisfaction; and cost containment and resource management.
Sami L. Placer PhD, BSN, RN, CNOR, NPD-BC, CASC
Dr. Miranda Woods Duncan, DNP, RN, NE-BC, NPD-BC
Dr. Miranda Woods Duncan, DNP, RN, NE-BC, NPD-BC
Director, Perioperative Services at the University of Louisville Health – Jewish Hospital
Miranda Woods Duncan DNP, RN, NE-BC, NPD-C has been an RN for 25 years. She has a clinical background in surgical services, critical care, and education. She is dually certified as a nurse executive and a nursing professional development specialist and has 17 years of progressive experience in transformational leadership in perioperative services and nursing professional development. She previously led HCA East Florida Division as Vice President of Center for Clinical Advancement and is now serves University of Louisville Health-Jewish Campus, as Director of Surgical Services. She is a volunteer at Hosea’s House, a member of the finance committee at Home of the Innocents, and a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Dr. Katherine Frederick, RN, MSN, MBA, DNP, CNOR, CPHQ, NE-BC
Jennifer Misajet, MHA RN CNOR CSSM
Jennifer Misajet, MHA RN CNOR CSSM
First Choice Vice President Operations/Patient Care Services,
Chief Nurse Executive at Trinity Health
Jennifer Misajet is an accomplished Healthcare Executive Leading Nursing, Acute & Ambulatory care delivery strategy, operations, and execution at local, regional, and national levels. Accountable executive for NCQA 5-Star Health Plan. With deep perioperative services expertise, Jennifer is successful building & leading high-functioning multidisciplinary teams, change management, and effective physician partnerships in interim and permanent roles in the perioperative setting. Her leadership background includes direct accountability for all of Perioperative and Interventional Services, In-patient Acute-Care and Behavioral Health units and hospital-based and freestanding Emergency Departments. In addition Jennifer has executive leadership experience with Patient Experience, Pharmacy, Imaging, Lab, Security and Environmental Services.
Jennifer maintains both CNOR and CSSM perioperative certifications. She is an IHI Improvement Advisor and Patient Safety Executive. She has worked developing Culture of Safety and HRO principals across multiple departments and organizations.
She has a strong background in Supply & Capital contracting, Studer, Watson Caring Science and Highly reliable Surgical Teams. Jennifer has had both interim leadership and consulting opportunities with hospitals from critical access to tertiary referral/academic centers. Jennifer describes her leadership style as inclusive, transformational and hands on creating a vision for success and working with and involving all stakeholders to achieve systems that deliver the highest quality patient care and outcomes .
Sami L. Placer PhD, BSN, RN, CNOR, NPD-BC, CASC
Senior System Director of Perioperative Services
Dr. Katherine Frederick, RN, MSN, MBA, DNP, CNOR, CPHQ, NE-BC
Regional Quality Peer Review Nurse at Kaiser Permanente
Board of Directors
Robert L. Smith
Board Chair
Mr. Robert L. Smith has held the role of Chairman of the Board since March 2020 and joined the MobileSmith board October 2017. In his position, Bob directs the company’s strategic growth and operational excellence, and is responsible for the successful proliferation of the company’s mobile app technologies throughout the healthcare spectrum.
Bob is a health care executive with a varied background in complex teaching, urban and rural health care settings. During his 40-year career in the industry he has held Chief Executive Officer and other executive positions of various for profit and non-profit hospitals and healthcare organizations, where he demonstrated ability to turnaround, create and grow business units in complex and competitive environments. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri and a graduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
Jerry Lepore
Jerry Lepore served as CEO from January 2020 thru January 2022 before rejoining the Board of Directors in February of 2022. He is an experienced business and technology executive with a strong background in a range of industries, including health care, insurance, financial services, education, and software. In his 40-year career he has held CEO, COO and CTO positions in public and private companies and has provided transitional leadership in turnaround and/or growth situations. Jerry has also founded and operated several companies in the software and strategic services industries. He has experience in capital raises, public offerings, strategic sales, corporate acquisitions, and mergers.
Mr. Lepore has served on boards of healthcare and software organizations, and is currently President of Lepore Associates LLC, a technology and operations consulting firm. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.
Amir Elbaz
Director
Amir joined the Board of Directors in January 2010 and served as chairman and CEO from 2012 to January 2017. Amir has extensive experience in managing technology companies through their critical growth stages and utilizes his background to bring innovative ideas and products into the companies he manages. Amir has been advising companies on business strategy, restructuring and business development since 2005. During his career he held CFO, marketing and business development positions.
Prior to turning to managerial roles Amir had several positions with investment funds in the US and Europe, focusing on high-tech investments. Amir holds a BA and MBA in Finance and Investments. In spite of his many duties, Amir likes to run and exercise, travel with his family to exotic places and initiate bridges between business people around the world.
Ronen Shviki
Director
Ronen has joined the board of in mid February 2013. He is currently the VP for Business Development at Mendelssohn LTD in Israel. The company exclusively represents world leading manufacturers in Israel and EMEA and distributes over 35,000 different items. Until late 2012 Ronen served as a Colonel in the Israeli Army and served in many leadership roles of combat and command units. Ronen’s academic background includes leadership, strategy and management seminars and courses. He holds a BA in Finance and LLB.
Interested in a New Career?
We are always looking for bright, energetic people who have a passion for improving healthcare, if you have an interest in us please send your resume to careers@mobilesmith.com. If we see a match for one of our roles we will contact you.