C-Suite Scoop

Steve Kovzan – Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

🏢 PayIt | LinkedIn

Previously CFO at NIC Inc. for 14 years; former assurance manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers

🎯 Key Focus:
- Guide PayIt's financial strategy
- Drive company growth as it scales
- Help government agencies modernize and improve efficiency

📌 About PayIt:
PayIt provides digital customer experience and payment solutions for state and local governments, enabling agencies to deliver modern resident services and improve operational efficiency.

Jason Macaleer – Chief Strategy Officer

🏢 Vida Health | LinkedIn

Previously at Transcarent, Teladoc Health, and Livongo - Led strategic initiatives scaling employer and health plan partnerships and advancing value-based care.

🎯 Key Focus:
- Scale Vida Health’s impact in evidence-based obesity and cardiometabolic care
- Strengthen employer and payer partnerships
- Optimize Rx integration
- Accelerate growth

📌 About Vida Health:
Vida Health is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider helping patients manage obesity and related conditions using evidence-based treatment and a whole-person approach.

Daphne Wotherspoon – President

🏢 Women in Technology (WIT) | LinkedIn

Previously President of WIT in 2020-2021; U.S. Markets Director of Sales, Akkodis – Capitol Region

🎯 Key Focus: - Advancing WIT’s mission to support and uplift women in technology - Providing resources, mentorship, and leadership opportunities

📌 About Women in Technology (WIT): WIT is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing women in technology from the classroom to the boardroom, offering leadership development, education, networking, and mentoring for women and girls in STEM.

Dr. Lynne J. Baldwin – President

Michael Meeks – Chief Technology Officer

🏢 BHMI | LinkedIn

Previously at Applied Communications (ACI); established the first Chicago branch office. Also served as Computer Science faculty at University of Nebraska at Omaha and Creighton University.

🎯 Key Focus:
- Preserving Jack T. Baldwin’s values and vision
- Leading BHMI with integrity, intelligence, and heart

📌 About BHMI:
A respected provider of software solutions for managing the back-office processing of electronic payment transactions; best known for its Concourse Financial Software Suite.

Massimo Mazzeo Ocello – VP of Global Systems Engineering, Customer Support and Services

🏢 NETGEAR | LinkedIn

Previously at RUCKUS/Commscope, holding leadership roles in systems engineering, technical pre-sales, product management, and managed services

🎯 Key Focus:
- Leading global systems engineering, customer support, and services strategy
- Simplifying AV and IT rollouts
- Reducing complexity
- Launching outcome-driven professional services for business customers

📌 About NETGEAR:
Global leader in innovative networking technologies, delivering intelligent solutions for businesses, homes, and service providers, with emphasis on reliable, high-performance networking and AV over IP technologies.

Stephen Brannan, M.D. – Board of Directors member

🏢 Newleos Therapeutics, Inc. | LinkedIn

Previously Chief Medical Officer at Karuna Therapeutics

🎯 Key Focus:
- Leveraging neuroscience drug development expertise
- Guiding clinical studies for NTX-1955 in anxiety
- Advancing neuropsychiatric drug pipeline

📌 About Newleos Therapeutics, Inc.:
Clinical-stage biotech company developing innovative treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders. Focused on novel mechanisms to reduce side effects and improve outcomes.