Sanjaya Kumar, MD, MPH

President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Kumar is driven by an agenda aimed at improving the quality of care provided to patients by today's evolving healthcare delivery systems. He has been the clinical lead on a number of cooperative clinical quality improvement projects in various phases of development and implementation. Dr. Kumar also serves on numerous quality improvement committees, task forces, and working groups, both at the national and state level and is a frequent speaker at national healthcare conferences and meetings. Dr. Kumar has published widely in peer reviewed medical journals and has also been involved in hosting various healthcare industry conferences.

Thomas Leahy

Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Tom is a Co-Founder of Quantros, serving with the organization since September of 2000. During this tenure, he has been responsible for building Quantros sales and client support organizations and developing key channel and strategic relationships. As Vice President of Business Development, he is responsible for evaluating and developing new licensing and strategic alliances for the company. He has served over twenty one years as a Senior leader in the health information and health management services industries including sales and general management roles with Caredata.com, Sun Healthcare Group, Transcend Services, Baxter Healthcare, and The Upjohn Company . Tom holds an MBA, with honors, from Santa Clara University and a BA in Chemistry from Southern Methodist University.

Gerard Livaudais, MD, MPH

Executive Vice President, Product Management
Dr. Livaudais brings many years of healthcare industry experience to Quantros. As Executive Vice President of Product Management and Services Gerard drives product direction and leads growth into new and existing markets. Dr. Livaudais background includes the full-cycle innovation, development, testing and production of software applications for clinical care and healthcare administration environments and a wealth of experience in clinical and administrative medicine. Most recently, Gerard was an internist with the Kaiser Hawaii Permanente Medical Group.

Steve Miller

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Steve is a proven executive with twenty years of senior-level financial and accounting experience within the software industry. He is a people-oriented, customer focused leader adept at fostering teamwork and continuous improvement. Prior to Quantros, Steve held director and controller-level positions at Microbar Corporation, Global Sight Corporation, Sapient Software, TV Interactive and DHL Systems. In a spirit of giving back to the business community, Steve proudly has served as an adjunct faculty member for National University and Columbia College.

Chris Bethell

Vice President, Marketing
Chris has been at Quantros since December 2004 and is responsible for marketing, public relations and product management activities within the company. Prior to Quantros, Chris held senior positions at leading technology companies including Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Apple Computer. He has led sales and marketing activities at venture-backed companies such as Arcsoft, Acumation and Findlaw. Chris holds a bachelors degree from the University of San Francisco.

Jay Lechtman

Vice President, Consulting and Program Development
Jay comes to Quantros with 15 years experience in managing new product development, business development and strategic planning for healthcare information services firms such as St. Anthony Publishing and its successor, the publishing division of Ingenix (United Health Group), FDA News and DecisionHealth in executive and consulting roles. Prior to his career in specialized information, Jay covered local and national politics, news, business and features for daily and weekly newspapers and magazines in California and Maryland. He holds a Master of Arts in Communications from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University.

Randy Everett

Vice President, Operations and Human Resources
Randy has been with Quantros since January 2004 and is responsible for leading all aspects of the company's operations, support, documentation, application maintenance and Human Resources. Randy is particularly adept at bringing process and efficiency to an organization. Prior to Quantros, Randy served as Director of World Wide Technical Support for Citadon, Inc, a leading Application Service Provider (ASP, SAAS) for large commercial construction projects. Randy has also held similar operational roles with Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems and Cadence Design Systems and has managed large scale support and services projects and organizations for over 15 years.

Syed Tirmizi, MD

Vice President, International Business Development and Government Relations
As Vice President of International Business Development and Government Relations, Syed Tirmizi is focused on delivering Quantros’ message of patient safety and clinical quality improvement to the international community. He brings a tremendous amount of government experience to the position - Dr. Tirmizi was a clinician and medical informatics leader at the US Department of Veterans Affairs for over 20 years. Tirmizi helped lead the VA into its position as a pioneer in the use of electronic medical records (EMR) for point of care service delivery, enabling meaningful use of data to further patient safety and quality initiatives. He chaired the VA-DoD Clinical Decision Support work group and has belonged to the VA’s Evidence Based Practice Workgroup since 2003. Tirmizi also has had wide experience as a practicing internist, Chief of Medicine & Primary Care and Chief of Staff. Because of Tirmizi’s international expertise, he was the VA’s ambassador to healthcare organizations around the world.

Venky Vaddineni, MS

Vice President, Engineering and System Design
Venky has been with Quantros since January 2000 and has been deeply involved in the all aspects of Quantros technology development. Prior to Quantros, Venky served as Technical Architect for CyberSoft Inc, Canada, a leading consulting firm dealing with Healthcare and Internet based applications. His experience encompasses all aspects of web-based technology specifically focused within the healthcare industry. Venky holds an advanced degree in Computer Science from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Chris Rasmussen

Vice President, Legal and General Counsel, Secretary
Chris is currently is a sole practitioner and specializes in startup companies and corporate transactions. He is currently the vice president and general counsel of a number of small companies and sits on a number of boards. Before retiring from the telephone company, he was the General Counsel, Vice President-Law and Regulatory and Secretary for Southwestern Bell Communications (SBC) Services, Inc., the long distance subsidiary of SBC. Prior to that he was the General Counsel, Vice President and Secretary for Pacific Bell Network Integration, the data equipment and networking subsidiary of the Pacific Telesis Group (PTG). He has practiced law for 30 years and is a member of the California bar. He has a juris doctorate with honors from Santa Clara University Law School and a bachelor of arts in political science from Stanford University.

Jenny Bell, RN

Executive Director, Quantros Patient Safety Center
Jenny has been with Quantros since June 2002 and is responsible for directing all client-facing implementation, training and ongoing support activities for Quantros Safety and Risk and Accreditation and Compliance. Jenny oversees a large team of experienced account managers and implementation specialists throughout the United States. Prior to Quantros, Jenny held executive, administrative and operational roles within the healthcare provider setting throughout the Southeast. Prior to this, she was involved in healthcare support with the United States services for several years. Jenny holds a bachelor's degree in nursing and maintains her credentials as a registered nurse and is a Certified Professional Healthcare Quality member in good standing.

Eric Frizell

Senior Director of U.S. Sales
Eric Frizell is responsible for managing the sales team in the United States. Eric has 19 years experience delivering sales excellence in the highly complex healthcare information environment. He has held senior sales and leadership positions at companies such as HBSI, NRC, and Solucient. Eric holds a BS in Communication from the University of Kansas.

Neena Arora, MD

Executive Director, Performance Measurement Center
Neena has been with Quantros since April 2005 and directs all client-facing efforts surrounding regulatory reporting solutions. Neena is a physician with experience in ER and various other medical and surgical departments. Prior to Quantros, Neena was deeply involved in managed care compliance and regulations. She was the regulatory liaison for a California-based HMO for state agencies such as the DMHC (Department of Managed Health Care) and the DHS (Department of Health Services). She has also worked in the medical material supply chain management industry, creating processes for standardization of hospitals' inventories by finding innovative and efficient ways to validate, enrich and categorize their product information. In addition to her other credentials, Neena also holds an advanced degree in healthcare administration.

Ali Rashidee, MD

Director, Product Management, Safety and Risk
Ali has been at Quantros since August 2005 and is responsible for product management and domain guidance of the Quantros Safety and Risk Management Solution. Ali is a physician with in-depth knowledge of clinical informatics and data management. Prior to Quantros, Ali held senior roles within leading healthcare academic and public organizations including Vanderbilt University, AHRQ and the CDC as well as roles within the healthcare setting at the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and the Bajitpur Health Complex. In addition to his medical credentials, Ali also holds an advanced degree in medical physics.

Donna Scott, RN, CPHQ, LHRM

Director, Product Management, Accreditation and Compliance and Insight
Donna joined the company in March 2007.  She has more than 30 years experience in healthcare, the last 15 in leadership roles guiding performance improvement, Joint Commission preparation, resource management and patient safety.  She was recruited to Florida in 1997 to set up a patient safety program after a highly publicized incident.  She contributed to the book, First Do No Harm, in 1998 and published the results of her efforts in reducing medical mistakes in RN Magazine, August 2000.  She was instrumental in winning the HITS Award for her organization (Healthcare Innovations in Technology Systems) in May of 2000.  She recently published in the Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare journal in April 2005.  Donna has spoken to numerous audiences on patient safety since 1998 including five HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conferences, MedInfo, the NPSF (National Patient Safety Foundation) Congress and AHIP.  She is affiliate faculty at University of South Florida and has taught at the University of Phoenix.  Donna was selected in 2006 by the American Nurses Association to serve on the International Council of Nurses Bank of Nurse Experts in Patient Safety.  She is a nationally Certified Professional in HealthCare Quality and is a Licensed Healthcare Risk Manager in Florida.  She holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Sarasota and a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Florida State University. 

Michael Tulloch

Director, IT Consulting
Michael leads the IT Consulting Services practice featuring application development, application maintenance and remote access services. These offerings have been a staple for Quantros since its inception and represents a significant growth opportunity for the future. Michael brings more than 20 years of sales, project management and product management experience in the delivery and procurement of information technology services. Prior to joining Quantros Michael held senior level positions at Objectiva Software Solutions, State Street Bank and BankBoston. Michael holds a bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a MBA from Northeastern University.