Directors and Advisors

Meet the Directors and Advisors

Our Directors and Advisors are Leading the way with Vision and Experience

Piali De, PhD
Chair, Board of Directors

Piali De is a co-founder and CEO of Senscio Systems. She is the co-inventor of Senscio’s patented Scio™ framework, the artificially intelligent inference engine that contextualizes data in any domain into actionable intelligence. Built upon Scio, Senscio Systems’ Ibis Health Program is a complex chronic care management system designed to improve self-management for patients with complex chronic conditions designed to enable coordination with multiple care team members resulting in early intervention to avoid complications. It provides the perfect balance between technology and the right touch for individuals with complex health needs, resulting in fewer avoidable hospital admissions and improved health outcomes.
A recognized thought leader in digital health innovation, Piali is a frequent and eloquent speaker and guest lecturer at digital health summits and health care conferences, including HFMA, HIMSS, The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge , Medical Development Group, MedSpeaks, and Health Innovators.
Prior to Senscio Systems, Piali was an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems. At Raytheon, she developed a system called Confluence™, designed to deliver knowledge-based decision support for public safety missions, pandemic crisis, natural disaster responses, military missions, and situations that require multiple organizations to analyze data simultaneously and respond in immediate unison.

Richard Goldstein, MD
Member, Board of Directors

Dr. Richard Goldstein is currently the Chief Medical Officer for the Northeast Medical Group and a Vice President of Yale Health. Until recently and for the past five years, he served as the President of Central Maine Medical Group and President of the Medical Staff of Central Maine Medical Center. Central Maine Medical Center is the flagship hospital of Central Maine Healthcare. The medical center has 250 inpatient beds and offers a broad and robust range of services that include, among others, a Level II trauma center, neurosurgery, cardiovascular medicine, vascular and cardiac surgery, a bariatric center of excellence, medical and radiation oncology.

Prior to his most recent role, Dr. Goldstein served as the Vice Dean Clinical Affairs and Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville. At the University of Louisville, he held the Kenneth F. vonRoenn, M.D. Family Chair in Surgical Endocrinology. As the CEO/CMO for University Physician Associates (UPA) Services, he was directly responsible for all the Commercial Payor Contracting and Credentialing of the 450+ full-time clinical faculty of University of Louisville.

Dr. Goldstein also co-founded Edumedics, LLC, a company committed to the development and deployment of innovative health delivery solutions. Edumedics is focused on the management of populations with chronic disease conditions. Edumedics works both with entities that self-fund their health plans and with Medicare populations.

Dr. Goldstein was an Associate Professor of Surgery (with tenure) at Vanderbilt from 1997 - 2002. He holds an M.D. (Medicine) from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, (1982); a Ph.D. in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (1994); and a BA from Amherst College (1978). He completed his Residency in Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (1990) and he completed a Masters in Health Care Management at Harvard University (2010).

Soeren Mattke, MD, D.Sc.
Member, Board of Directors

Soeren Mattke is a Research Professor at the University of Southern California and the Director of the Center for Improving Chronic Illness Care.

Dr. Mattke is an expert in evaluating new technologies and products as well as innovative approaches to organizing and delivering health care services, especially for chronic care. He has worked with a long list of leading pharmaceutical, device, and health care technology companies and is helping his clients worldwide on how to measure and communicate the value of their innovations. He is advising clients on strategic planning decisions, product approval applications, coverage and reimbursement strategy, post-market product development, and corporate communications. Before joining USC, he was the managing director of RAND Health Advisory Services, the consulting practice of RAND Health, and worked at Bain & Company, the OECD and Harvard University. Dr. Mattke received his M.D. from the University of Munich, where he trained in internal medicine and cardiology, and his M.P.H. and D.Sc. from Harvard.

Bill Bachrach
Member, Board of Directors

Bill is a focused and driven Senior Executive with over 25 years of experience in guiding businesses to breakthrough their current state leading to the acceleration of their wealth and value. He is known for transitioning an organization from a reactive environment to a proactive company culture that drives continuous innovation. Bill has been successful COO in two start-up companies InphoMatch/Mobile365, which sold to Sybase for $425M and Roam Data which sold to Ingenico.

Bill has been senior executive leader for 4 public company divisions with revenue ranging from $100M to $500M: MTS-Test, MTS-Sensors, Murata Power Electronics, and KEMET-Capacitors. Bill has a business degree from MIT Sloan, a Masters and Doctoral Degree in Computational Mechanics from Northwestern University, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

Jim Roosevelt Jr.
Member, Board of Directors

Jim advises health care payers, providers, trade associations, and service providers on business matters, legislative and regulatory issues, governance, and personnel matters. He regularly represents medical device and medical process startups, including with respect to telehealth, artificial intelligence, and treatment utilizing legal psychedelics. He is also a national speaker and author on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid policy, and Social Security.For more than 10 years, Jim was CEO of Tufts Health Plan, where he led a turnaround that nearly doubled the membership and achieved consistent profitability while attaining #1 ranking in the United States from the national accrediting organization. He was previously in-house General Counsel and was a former partner in the Health Care Practice Group of Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston. Before joining Tufts Health Plan, he served as Associate Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
In 2016, Jim was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He continues as a clinical instructor in the Public Health and Community Medicine Department of Tufts University School of Medicine.
Public policy and politics are Jim's personal passions. He co-chairs the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee and is volunteer legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He is a trustee of the Cambridge Public Library and the Cambridge Community Foundation. He has co-chaired Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo's Healthcare Leaders Task Force on Health Care Cost Growth, and he co-chaired the Massachusetts Hospital Association's work group on access to behavioral health care.
Jim and his wife, Ann, enjoy living near their daughters and their husbands and three grandsons in Cambridge, MA, as well as visiting their daughter, her husband and their newest grandson in Washington, DC.

Frank Ferguson
Observer, Board of Directors

Frank Ferguson is one of five co-founders of Curriculum Associates. Frank graduated from Iowa State University in 1950 with a degree in journalism and minors in education and psychology. He received an MBA from MIT in 1959. Frank served as President of the BOSE Corporation from 1969–1976, as President of Curriculum Associates from 1976–2008 and since then as its Chairman until his retirement. Frank is a member of the Boston chapter of Social Venture Partners, a non-profit that mentors and financially supports organizations with social missions.

Since 2010, Frank has been a board advisor to the Lionheart Foundation. He has been profoundly influenced by the work of Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman, and especially by the implications for instruction and learning arising from the connection of oral language to cognition set forth in Lev Vygotsky's seminal work, Thought and Language. Frank was recently honored with an AAP Hall of Fame Award for lifetime achievement and contributions to the education industry.

Strategic Advisory

Donald Freeman, PhD

Donald C. Freeman, Jr., PhD, was President/CEO of HydroCision, Inc., a fluidjet-based medical device company, from 1996 to 2002, when he retired. From 1996 until 2000, he was also Chairman/CEO/Director of RadioMed Corporation, which was acquired by IBA in 2000. Previously, Dr. Freeman was a Principal of Grayson & Associates, an investment banking firm specializing in the healthcare field. Earlier, he was President/CEO of Intra-Sonix, Xenotech Laboratories, and was President of Davol, Inc, which was acquired by C. R. Bard, after which he served as a Group Vice President of Bard. He was President of Friesen International, a hospital design firm owned by AMA and was Director, New Business Development for Union Carbide Corporation, where he was also General Manager of its clinical diagnostics, radiopharmaceuticals and imaging businesses. He holds an ScB Degree from Brown and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Maryland, and did post-doctoral research in physics at Duke. He is inventor or co-inventor on 22 US patents, plus foreign counterparts. He attended the Harvard AMP and is currently on the board of directors of Medical Record Bank, Design Mentor, Respiratory Motion, and Pluromed Corporation (until recently acquired). Dr. Freeman is also a board member and advisor at the North Shore InnoVentures Business Incubator.

Howard Brick

Howard Brick was Senior Vice President, Business Development and Commercial Strategy, at Senscio. He is an experienced information technology and healthcare sector executive and investment banker. In his role with Senscio, Howard was responsible for corporate partnerships, business development activities with payer, ACO, and provider organizations, and other corporate development activities.

From March 2014 to December 2016, he was a Managing Director at Ferghana Partners, a healthcare specialty investment bank, where he worked with healthcare technology companies on financing, partnering, and M&A transactions. Prior to Ferghana, he served as in a variety of successive roles, including COO and CEO of MedPanel, an Internet-based provider of global market intelligence solutions for the healthcare technology industry and healthcare-focused institutional investors. Prior to joining MedPanel, Howard was Vice President of Business Development, Finance & Legal Affairs at CSW, Inc., a technology based information products company for the mortgage banking industry. As a principal and adviser, he has been involved in numerous financial and strategic transactions for technology companies.

Earlier in his career, Howard practiced law in Boston for 12 years, specializing in complex commercial litigation, intellectual property disputes, and white-collar criminal matters. He worked both in private practice and as an Assistant Attorney General with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.

Howard holds a B.A. degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Dartmouth College and received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

When not working, Howard enjoys skiing, hiking, and kayaking, reading about history and politics, and is an avid (if mediocre) tennis player. He also serves on the board of several Boston-based social services organizations.

John Brooks

John L. Brooks III is the Managing Director of Healthcare Capital LLC, which advises early-stage life sciences companies. Healthcare Capital specializes in advancing disruptive and innovative solutions in healthcare, especially in obesity, pre-diabetes, and diabetes. Mr. Brooks is on the board of a number of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Mr. Brooks is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Joslin Diabetes Center, a Boston based diabetes research, clinical care, and education organization.

Mr. Brooks is a well-known life sciences executive. He has co-founded seven life sciences companies. He was a co-founder of Prism Venture Partners, a $1.25B venture capital firm.

Prior to that, Mr. Brooks was a senior medical device executive at Pfizer, and a senior manager at Arthur Andersen & Co. in Boston, MA, where he focused on early stage companies.

A native of Massachusetts, he holds an M.S. in Business Administration and a B.B.A. cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and he is a Certified Public Accountant.

Simon Trussler, PhD

Simon Trussler has over 30 years of experience in healthcare strategy consulting and operational leadership. He is currently the Director of I Know, LLC, a management and technology consulting and systems integration firm. He is also a Partner and Senior Adviser at Assabet Ventures, a management advisory firm that assists companies through critical transformations and transitions. He served as a senior vice president at Health Dialog, where he led the firm’s start-up and business development activities in Spain and Australia.

Prior to Health Dialog, Simon was a partner with Boston Consulting Group (BCG). As part of the strategy consulting practice, he completed more than 80 assignments throughout western Europe and established the company’s Nordic region offices. Simon also created and led BCG’s global knowledge management and research functions, with responsibility for systems development and integration, knowledge capture and global research operations.

Simon graduated from Cambridge University in England with double First Class honors where he earned a PhD based on his research covering econometric analysis of tax impacts in the United States, based on his research at Cambridge, Princeton University and the Urban Institute in Washington D.C.

Charles Zanazzi

Charles Zanazzi serves as the Board Chair for the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, in Lawrence, MA.

His professional career brings extensive banking and finance experience to the health care industry. Currently he serves as the Harbor One Bank Professional Group Market Lead where he manages the Professional Services Specialty serving Lawyers, Accountants, Physicians and other Healthcare, Education & Not-for-Profit Institutions in New England in conjunction with Harbor One’s Commercial and Retail Banking teams.

Prior to joining Harbor One, he was the Professionals Group Leader for the Northern and Southern New England Market for TD Wealth Management. His experience in banking and finance includes commercial lending leadership roles in the health care sector with Sovereign Bank and at BankBoston where he managed a team within the Healthcare and Education Group which serviced Hospitals, Insurance Groups, Home Care and Long Term Care organizations and other professionals in the New England healthcare marketplace.

Previous experience includes work as a general auditor for Deloitte, Haskins, and Sells, having earned his CPA in Connecticut. Mr. Zanazzi earned his MBA in Finance from Babson College and his BA in Economics and Accounting from the College of the Holy Cross.

He is an active member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Medical Group Management Association and is a National Presenter on financing opportunities for Physician Practice Groups as well as a participant in the RI and MA Society of CPAs.

Jonathan Gruber, PhD

Dr. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and President of the American Society of Health Economists. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Econometric Society. He has published more than 160 research articles, has edited six research volumes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy, a leading undergraduate text, and Health Care Reform, a graphic novel. In 2006 he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.

During the 1997-1998 academic year, Dr. Gruber was on leave as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department. From 2003-2006 he was a key architect of Massachusetts’ ambitious health reform effort, and in 2006 became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for that effort. During 2009-2010 he served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration and worked with both the Administration and Congress to help craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2011 he was named “One of the Top 25 Most Innovative and Practical Thinkers of Our Time” by Slate Magazine. In both 2006 and 2012 he was rated as one of the top 100 most powerful people in health care in the United States by Modern Healthcare Magazine. Dr. Gruber is the Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for Flare Capital Partners, and is on the board of the Health Care Cost Institute.

Medical Advisory

David S. Green, MD

Dr. Green attended the University of Rochester for undergraduate and the School of Medicine before completing his pulmonary fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine. He then started the pulmonary service at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts where he has continued to practice. In 2000 The Chronic Lung Disease Program at Emerson Hospital's Home Care Department, which he founded and still directs, received the Nesson Award for Innovation from Partners Community Healthcare, Inc. The program dramatically reduced hospitalization and Emergency Department visits for patients with chronic lung disease. In 2006 he was awarded Clinician of the Year from the Massachusetts District Medical Society. In 2009 he attended Boston University as a Faculty Scholar in Geriatrics as a Hartford Foundation Fellow and in 2016 was awarded Physician of the Year by the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts. Starting in 2013 Dr. Green has been working with Atrius Health focusing on patients needing home care or residing in skilled nursing facilities.
Dr. Green has been an early member of the Senscio team focusing on improving home care. He has been involved in creating the algorithms for patients with lung disease and in developing processes to deliver excellent home care.

Aylit Schultz, MD

Aylit Schultz, MD brings a broad array of experience both as a practicing physician and digital health entrepreneur. She served as Chief Medical Officer of Senscio Systems, and as Clinical Director of Ibis Health Services, the Chronic Care "specialty" medical practices closely aligned with Senscio Systems.

Dr. Schultz also works as a per-diem Hospitalist and Nephrologist at Hebrew Senior Life in Boston, MA, and in the past has practiced as a part-time Hospitalist at Martha's Vineyard Hospital and Kindred Boston Long Term Acute Care. She has served as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Nephrology at Boston University School of Medicine.

Her digital health experience includes founding a startup that developed a novel method to deliver guideline-driven personalized recommendations to patients via a custom mobile application. Dr. Schultz also serves as an Advisor to SageCare, Inc, a private residential care home for people with dementia and Bitome, a portable hydration monitor for managing Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease.

Dr. Schultz received her Doctor of Medicine from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, and a Fellowship in Nephrology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

In her spare time, Dr. Schultz enjoys learning about mindfulness, creating food art, and experimenting with indoor gardening.

Dan Rome, MD

Dan Rome is a senior physician executive with more than 25 years of experience in direct patient care, healthcare administration, and managed behavioral healthcare. Currently, his consulting activities are focused on working with organizations actively pursuing the IHI/CMS Triple Aim goals of improved population health, improved patient -- and provider -- experience of care, and reduced healthcare costs.

He brings to this triple aim focus a particular emphasis on primary behavioral care: the integration and "normalization" of behavioral health capabilities into primary care and other medical settings; longitudinal, patient-centered care management, especially for high-risk, high-need populations; and alternative payment methods to both motivate and facilitate providers' ability to deliver high quality and high value care.

Dr. Rome's previous experience includes executive medical positions at Evolent Health, Beacon Health Strategies, Fallon Health, Tufts Health Plan, and the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans. Dr. Rome is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.

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