Caresoft Inc. Adds Three Executives from Pharmaceutical and Financial Industry to Management Team.Business Editors/Health &Medical Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 31, 2000 Caresoft, Inc. the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company with a focus on the top diseases and conditions connecting consumers to their clinical laboratory data and highly contextual, personalized content and commerce, announced today the addition of three new executives to its management team. W. Stephen Jackson For the American football running back, see . Stephen Jesse Jackson (born April 5 1978 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA) is an American professional basketball and a co-captain player for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. has joined Caresoft as Chief Financial Officer (CFO See Chief Financial Officer. ), Nathan Schultz, Pharm.D., as Senior Vice President of Sales and Account Management, and Shel Silverberg as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. The management team additions enhance Caresoft's already robust management team that is led by CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. J.J. Singh and Chairman John A. Young, retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. Caresoft operates the award-winning health management web site TheDailyApple.com, which provides consumers with individual accounts to securely access health-related services, programs and community forums to help them better manage their health. The New Executives W. Stephen Jackson W. Stephen Jackson, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. , Chief Financial Officer, brings over 30 years of financial experience to his position and will play a key role in helping move Caresoft forward in this market-driven health care industry. Prior to joining Caresoft, Jackson was CFO at Reno Air Reno Air was a scheduled passenger airline that provided service from its hubs at Reno/Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada and San Jose International Airport in San Jose, California to destinations throughout the western United States, with limited service to the US east , where, as a member of Reno Air's new management team, he turned operations around from losses of over $20 million to profits of $15 million and sold the company to American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Inc. Before this, Jackson was CFO of Mesa Air Group Mesa Air Group (NASDAQ: MESA) is a Nevada Corporation[1] commercial aviation holding company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. The company operates three regional airline subsidiaries: Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines, and Air Midwest, and five supporting , a $500 million regional airline, where he acquired and financed over $1.2 billion of aircraft to enable the airline's transition from a propeller driven to a jet aircraft fleet. Jackson's experience also includes over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. with KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Peat Marwick, where he was elected to the partnership at age 33. At KPMG, Jackson was responsible for significant public companies in the high-technology and financial institution industries. Nathan Shultz Nathan Shultz, Pharm.D., Senior Vice President of Sales and Account Management, will add the insights of more than 15 years of pharmaceutical industry and clinical services experience to his sales team at Caresoft. Before joining the company, Schultz was Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Relations at Express Scripts Inc, where he was responsible for Express Scripts pharmaceutical manufacturer rebate program as well as manufacturer funded information and services agreements. Prior to that, Schultz was at Diversified Pharmaceutical Services where he helped lead the development of DPS Minicomputer series from Bull HN. 1. (language, text) DPS - Display PostScript. 2. (language) DPS - A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests. ["Language Constructs for Distributed Real-Time PRogramming", I. from an internal service at United HealthCare to a national Pharmaceutical Benefits Management force serving more than 30 million people. Shel Silverberg Shel Silverberg, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business development, has more than 30 years of experience in the development of information products and services for the pharmaceutical industry and will be instrumental in Caresoft's continuing success in the online health care industry. His most recent position was Senior Vice President for National Data Corporation's Health Information Services See Information Systems. Group. Silverberg was one of the founders and president of Pharmaceutical Data Services (PDS (1) (Processor Direct Slot) A single expansion slot on certain, early Macintosh models that was used to connect high-speed peripherals as well as additional CPUs. Providing a channel directly to the CPU, the PDS coexisted with NuBus slots on some models. ) Inc., which revolutionized the pharmaceutical market research industry by employing electronically captured prescription data for sales and marketing applications. &uot;Stephen, Nathan and Shel are great additions to the Caresoft management team and will significantly help fuel the company's success,&uot; said J.J. Singh, president and CEO of Caresoft. &uot;Their combined financial, consulting and pharmaceutical industry experience will be indispensable in driving sales and business development as well as structuring the company financially.&uot; About Caresoft Caresoft, Inc., is the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company with a focus on the top diseases and conditions connecting consumers to their clinical laboratory data and highly contextual, personalized content and commerce. Caresoft operates TheDailyApple.com, which provides consumers with individual accounts to securely access health-related services, programs and community forums to help them better manage their health. Caresoft is a private company, located in Sunnyvale, and can be contacted at http://www.thedailyapple.com. |
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