Leadership
Driving Innovation and Meeting Market Needs
A diverse powerhouse of entrepreneurs, physicians, data scientists, and subject matter experts, HealthEC’s management team and board members are spearheading the healthcare industry’s transition to data-driven, value-based care.
Arthur Kapoor
President and CEO
Arthur Kapoor is a creative and driven entrepreneur that has spent the last 33 years building financial, clinical and operational platforms to solve the most perplexing challenges across several industries.
Armed with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and an MBA from Rutgers University, Kapoor pioneered technology that helped business executives visualize data in new and different ways, creating market leadership and differentiation for the clients he served. In 1986, he partnered with fellow entrepreneurs to create Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs for the furniture industry, pioneering the concept of visualizing facilities management floor plans with office furniture, which was acquired by a leading furniture manufacturer. In 1991, Kapoor entered the healthcare arena by founding Med-Link Technologies, which became the fastest growing healthcare claims clearinghouse in the US; Med-Link was subsequently acquired by Emdeon.
In 1997, Kapoor founded Infotech Global, Inc. a software development company that uses agile methodologies to build applications for its clients, offering a wide range of services across the entire software application lifecycle. Kapoor returned his focus to healthcare in 2005, after noting the continued challenges faced by providers in accessing and using data to drive informed patient care. Kapoor was an early pioneer in interoperability and health information exchange, providing the infrastructure for the New Jersey Health Information Network. In 2012, HealthEC was formed to enable healthcare organizations to manage their population’s health by aggregating information from all sources and translating that knowledge into action. Building on its expertise in data exchange, analytics and workflow, HealthEC developed a full spectrum of solutions to help organizations deliver on the promise of value-based care – improving the quality of care for a population of patients through prevention, care coordination and chronic care management.
Kapoor is also a passionate philanthropist. He founded Akluyva in 2010, and continues to ensure that almost 400 orphaned Indian children are provided with food, clothing, education and medical care. Kapoor is also a regular speaker and panelist on the lecture circuit of World Economic Forum addressing Third World Technology challenges, and contributes his free time to counsel startup leaders. In 2011, Kapoor was knighted by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta for his charitable work around the world.
Kapoor remains active in academia as well, serving as the Co-Executive Vice Chair, Board of Overseers: Membership, for the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) which provides a leadership role in fundraising, and a critical link between academe and the business community.
Arthur Kapoor
President and CEO
Swaminathan Nadarajan
Chief Technology Officer
Swami has been in the software development industry for over 21 years. Over the last 15 years, he has been developing software products catering to the healthcare and health insurance industry. Swami has successfully led technology transformations of single-tenant, monolithic product solutions to multi-tenant, SaaS solutions using microservices and serverless architectures resulting in higher margins and reduced total cost of ownership. Prior to joining HealthEC, Swami held senior technology leadership positions at Connecture and Benefitfocus. He started his career at Tata Consultancy Services as a consultant and helped implement ERP and Engineering Lifecycle Management solutions at GE Plastics and GE Healthcare.
Swami graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University.
As Chief Technology Officer at HealthEC, Swami is responsible for establishing and executing the technology and software engineering strategies for the company.
Swaminathan Nadarajan
Chief Technology Officer
Sita Kapoor
Chief Information Officer
Sita is a healthcare IT entrepreneur and innovative leader directing HealthEC’s research and development team, applying mathematical and computing models in the custom development of large-scale data integration and analytics solutions that empower physicians and healthcare organizations to identify and engage at-risk patients requiring closer medical attention. She also serves as a board member of the Population Health Alliance and is actively involved in HIPAA workgroups charged with defining consent and transaction standards.
Prior to HealthEC, Sita was co-founder and CIO of IGI Health, a provider of IT solutions and BPO services. There, she built the Med-Link clearinghouse that allowed provider organizations working with any billing system to capture and convert data into discrete data formats for claims adjudication. Sita further designed the foundation for custom and packaged healthcare portal solutions, including the payer-provider portal, clinical exchange and the personal health record. She has also provided consulting services for numerous multi-national healthcare companies including United Healthcare, Siemens Medical Systems and Johnson & Johnson healthcare.
Sita began her data scientist career in the aeronautics sector in the mid-1980s. She was part of an engineering team that programmed the navigational backup system for the U.S. Air Force's F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. She also converted raw satellite telemetry data that was fed to the first UNIX database for satellite monitoring via Microsoft tools. For a NASA project, she interpreted encrypted satellite data to prevent spacecraft communication failure.
She holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and a Master of Computer Science degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Sita Kapoor
Chief Information Officer
Subbarao Mulpuru
Sr VP of Product Strategy, Operations
Subbarao Mulpuru joins the HealthEC team as the Senior VP of Product Strategy, Operations.
Subba is a senior healthcare leader with deep experience in healthcare delivery, operational transformation, clinical outcomes and cost of care. He has served in a number of senior roles with Kaiser Permanente, Arcadia and others. Most recently, Subba had been managing one of the country's largest FQHCs in California.
As a member of HealthEC's senior leadership, Subba will be primarily responsible for refining and driving our product strategy and roadmap, and working closely with our data analytics, technology, and operations teams to maximize and streamline the HealthEC value equation.
Subba comes to HealthEC with a drive for learning and applying his years of experience to bring about positive change by making healthcare affordable and accessible to everyone.
Subbarao Mulpuru
Sr VP of Product Strategy, Operations
Jason Darrow
Vice President of Client Services
Jason Darrow is the Vice President of Client Services and joined the HealthEC in 2022. Jason has over a decade of experience in the healthcare space and has worked extensively in value-based care and data analytics, focusing on helping systems achieve their population health goals.
He has experience leading diverse healthcare groups and recently worked with his team to earn a place as one of Oregon's Top 100 Companies to Work For.
Known for his openness and teaching leadership style, Jason brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to HealthEC, as well as an energy & desire to create positive change to healthcare systems.
Jason Darrow
Vice President of Client Services
Karen Scherma
Vice President, EDI
Karen Scherma, with over 30 years experience in healthcare, is an expert in EDI transactions, especially as it relates to the healthcare revenue cycle. Her major work includes workflow/data analysis and documentation, business modelling and business process re-engineering, project planning, design and development of system specifications, internal and user procedures, forms and manuals, X12 Syntax Training, and HIPAA Transaction Set mapping.
Prior to joining HealthEC, Karen was an executive at CareInsite where she was a technical liaison for Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, GHI and HIP (now both known as Emblem Health) and Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield; and a Director of EDI Transaction Development at NEIC, the largest healthcare claims clearinghouse prior to its being sold to a competing company.
Karen was a co-creator of the original National Standard Format – a precursor to the HIPAA 837 and 835 Transaction Sets; she is also a former voting member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI X12), where she played a critical role in the creation of the HIPAA healthcare transaction sets enacted into law. She has authored white papers used as input to the HIPAA process, is a former member of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), and a former participant in the Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP).
Karen Scherma
Vice President, EDI
Violet Crabb
Director of Marketing
Violet Crabb is the Director of Marketing and joined HealthEC in 2021. She has worked in field of B2B and B2C healthcare marketing as a director for HIT startups and sleep medicine multi-state practices, and as a consultant for public health and academic medical research companies.
In addition to her experiences in healthcare marketing, Violet co-owned a marketing firm and photography group that she started with a friend after graduating from college. The two businesses grew over the years to include hundreds of clients across a diverse field of businesses, including healthcare companies, school districts, historic homes, personal wedding photography, and real estate. Violet’s photography is most recognized among historical societies and historians and has been featured on History Channel®. You will find her images commonly used by the American Battlefield Trust® and published in a number of books, magazines, and digital blogs.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN.
Violet Crabb
Director of Marketing
Kevin J. O'Brien
EVP, Head of Analytics & Data Science
Kevin J. O'Brien has served as a leader and key executive in Accountable Care initiatives for over 25 years. He has successfully developed and implemented provider driven accountable care and quality improvement programs for physician organizations, health plans, employers, and healthcare benefit plan sponsors.
Previously, Mr. O'Brien served Partners In Care (a NJ MSO) from 1995 through 2013 in various capacities including eight years as CEO, a member of the Leadership Committee of the New Jersey Healthcare Quality Institute, a member of the CIGNA National Health Care Advisory Council, and a co-chair of New Jersey’s Regional Action Coalition Nursing Initiatives Taskforce Data Workgroup.
His expertise is in using the data to rapidly identify the story of an organization through the eyes of senior executives and line operations. He brings a blend of end-to-end healthcare industry knowledge from the Executive Suite to the Exam Room coupled with skill in database and analytic toolsets.
Mr. O'Brien holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology/Psychology from Columbia College, Columbia University and a Masters in Business Administration with a specialization in Healthcare Administration from the University of Miami.
Kevin J. O'Brien
EVP, Head of Analytics & Data Science
Board of Managers
Arthur Kapoor
President and CEO
Arthur Kapoor is a creative and driven entrepreneur that has spent the last 33 years building financial, clinical and operational platforms to solve the most perplexing challenges across several industries.
Armed with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and an MBA from Rutgers University, Kapoor pioneered technology that helped business executives visualize data in new and different ways, creating market leadership and differentiation for the clients he served. In 1986, he partnered with fellow entrepreneurs to create Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs for the furniture industry, pioneering the concept of visualizing facilities management floor plans with office furniture, which was acquired by a leading furniture manufacturer. In 1991, Kapoor entered the healthcare arena by founding Med-Link Technologies, which became the fastest growing healthcare claims clearinghouse in the US; Med-Link was subsequently acquired by Emdeon.
In 1997, Kapoor founded Infotech Global, Inc. a software development company that uses agile methodologies to build applications for its clients, offering a wide range of services across the entire software application lifecycle. Kapoor returned his focus to healthcare in 2005, after noting the continued challenges faced by providers in accessing and using data to drive informed patient care. Kapoor was an early pioneer in interoperability and health information exchange, providing the infrastructure for the New Jersey Health Information Network. In 2012, HealthEC was formed to enable healthcare organizations to manage their population’s health by aggregating information from all sources and translating that knowledge into action. Building on its expertise in data exchange, analytics and workflow, HealthEC developed a full spectrum of solutions to help organizations deliver on the promise of value-based care – improving the quality of care for a population of patients through prevention, care coordination and chronic care management.
Kapoor is also a passionate philanthropist. He founded Akluyva in 2010, and continues to ensure that almost 400 orphaned Indian children are provided with food, clothing, education and medical care. Kapoor is also a regular speaker and panelist on the lecture circuit of World Economic Forum addressing Third World Technology challenges, and contributes his free time to counsel startup leaders. In 2011, Kapoor was knighted by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta for his charitable work around the world.
Kapoor remains active in academia as well, serving as the Co-Executive Vice Chair, Board of Overseers: Membership, for the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) which provides a leadership role in fundraising, and a critical link between academe and the business community.
Arthur Kapoor
President and CEO
Sita Kapoor
Chief Information Officer
Sita is a healthcare IT entrepreneur and innovative leader directing HealthEC’s research and development team, applying mathematical and computing models in the custom development of large-scale data integration and analytics solutions that empower physicians and healthcare organizations to identify and engage at-risk patients requiring closer medical attention. She also serves as a board member of the Population Health Alliance and is actively involved in HIPAA workgroups charged with defining consent and transaction standards.
Prior to HealthEC, Sita was co-founder and CIO of IGI Health, a provider of IT solutions and BPO services. There, she built the Med-Link clearinghouse that allowed provider organizations working with any billing system to capture and convert data into discrete data formats for claims adjudication. Sita further designed the foundation for custom and packaged healthcare portal solutions, including the payer-provider portal, clinical exchange and the personal health record. She has also provided consulting services for numerous multi-national healthcare companies including United Healthcare, Siemens Medical Systems and Johnson & Johnson healthcare.
Sita began her data scientist career in the aeronautics sector in the mid-1980s. She was part of an engineering team that programmed the navigational backup system for the U.S. Air Force's F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. She also converted raw satellite telemetry data that was fed to the first UNIX database for satellite monitoring via Microsoft tools. For a NASA project, she interpreted encrypted satellite data to prevent spacecraft communication failure.
She holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and a Master of Computer Science degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Sita Kapoor
Chief Information Officer
Shilpa Nayyar
Board Member
Shilpa Nayyar is a Partner and COO at FirstMark Capital, a PE firm. Before joining FirstMark Capital, she was a Managing Director and Chief of Staff to Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone. Shilpa spent 15 years at Credit Suisse in New York, most recently as Chief of Staff and Head of Business and Client Strategy for the Investment Banking & Capital Markets division. In this capacity, she was responsible for the development, execution and tracking of all divisional strategic planning activities and objectives. Prior to these roles, Shilpa held several management roles within Investment Banking and Capital Markets, including Chief Operating Officer of the Financial Sponsors and Los Angeles Investment Banking groups. Shilpa began her career as a healthcare investment banker at Credit Suisse, where she focused on M&A and corporate finance transactions for healthcare services and medical device clients for almost a decade.
Shilpa holds an MBA from the Wharton School and Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Applied Science, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Shilpa Nayyar
Board Member
Steve Tolle
Partner | HLM Venture Partners
Steve brings 30 years of commercial healthcare technology expertise in the areas of strategy, business development, and product management to HLM. Steve has spent his career helping to develop and manage some of the most important themes in healthcare innovation and investment today, including artificial intelligence, diagnostic imaging/medical devices, electronic health records, population health, managed care, and value-based pharmaceutical pricing. Currently, Steve is a director at b.well Connected Health and PatientPop and a board observer at mPulse Mobile, Nordic Consulting, and Vaxcare. He has previously served as a director at LetsGetChecked.
Prior to joining HLM, Steve was global Vice President of Strategy at IBM Watson Health. Previously, he was Chief Strategy Officer at Merge Healthcare (acquired by IBM for $1B in 2015). Steve led the effort to move Merge Healthcare into the AI space and played a key role in the successful sale to IBM. As part of the Merge/Watson Health leadership team, Steve worked on over $3.6 billion of strategic M&A deal opportunities.
Other notable previous roles include Senior Vice President/General Manager at Optum, Vice President of Product Management at Allscripts, and Director of Product Management at Pfizer.
Steve Tolle
Partner | HLM Venture Partners
Enrico Picozza
Partner | HLM Venture Partners
Enrico is a pioneer in the life sciences with a history of recognizing and developing new technologies that move markets. He is currently a director of DermTech (NASDAQ; DMTK), mPulse Mobile, RubiconMD, and Wayspring, and a board observer Ascellus, b.well Connected Health, Blue Rabbit Ventures, and OnShift. His previous board appointments included AbleTo (recapped), Spinal Kinetics (Sold to Orthofix), Transcend Medical (sold to Alcon), LetsGetChecked, Medicalis (Sold to Siemens), Aventura (sold to Philips), SensAble Technologies (sold to 3D Systems) and was a board observer and special advisor to Interlace Medical (sold to Hologic) and Tandem Diabetes (NASDAQ; TNDM).
Prior to joining HLM as a Venture Partner, Enrico co-founded HTS Biosystems, Inc., an early developer of platforms for drug discovery and point of care diagnostics, where he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to HTS, Enrico held leadership positions with PerkinElmer, Inc. and Applied Biosystems, Inc. At Applied Biosystems, Enrico was one of the major forces behind the development and commercialization of PCR, the revolutionary DNA-replicating technology that enabled the development of some of the most significant advancements in molecular biology and diagnostics.
Enrico is the holder of nine patents and has been recognized by the Smithsonian Institute for his achievements in PCR. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and has been a frequent domestic and international speaker.
Enrico attended the University of Connecticut for undergraduate and post graduate studies.
