About us - Ingenious Med

Glenn Steele, MD, PH.d.

Glenn Steele is the former president and chief executive officer of Geisinger Health System. Steele previously served as the dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine and as vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago, as well as the Richard T. Crane Professor in the Department of Surgery. Before that, he was the William V. McDermott Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, president and chief executive officer of Deaconess Professional Practice Group, Boston, MA, and chairman of the department of surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital (Boston, MA). Widely recognized for his investigations into the treatment of primary and metastatic liver cancer and colorectal cancer surgery, Steele is past chairman of the American Board of Surgery.

Jim Denny

Jim Denny founded Navicure, Inc. in 2000 (now Waystar, a combination of Navicure and ZirMed) and has been its Chairman since 2000. Mr. Denny served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Navicure, Inc. He has more than fifteen years of leadership experience in the healthcare technology industry. From 1995 to 2000, he served in a variety of senior management positions with NDCHealth’s Provider Healthcare Transaction Group. Mr. Denny was responsible for a NDCHealth’s unit that supported 30,000 healthcare providers and processed more than 70 million transactions annually. During his six year tenure, he led NDCHealth’s unit to profitability for the first time in its operating history. Prior to NDC, Mr. Denny served with PepsiCo’s Pizza Hut division, where he oversaw operations for the Southeast Atlanta market. Prior to his employment with PepsiCo, he served in various sales and marketing roles with National Reference Laboratories and Bio-Analytical Technologies. He serves as Director of Navicure, Inc. Mr. Denny graduated from St. Lawrence University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature in 1985. He holds an M.B.A. degree from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with a concentration in Finance and Marketing in 1993.

George F. Lynn

George Lynn has more than 30 years of experience as a healthcare executive for provider organizations. For 21 years, he served as president and CEO of AtlantiCare, a clinically integrated health system serving Southeastern New Jersey. In 2009, AtlantiCare received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Mr. Lynn served two terms as chairman of the American Hospital Association. He is active in community service and sits on the Boards of Lourdes Health System and the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, both located in Camden New Jersey.

He is a member of the board of directors of Valence Health (Chicago, IL) and LHP Hospital Group (Plano, TX). He serves as an advisor to Lillibridge Healthcare (Chicago, IL) and several private equity firms.

Steven Liu, MD, SFHM

Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Steven Liu is the founder of Ingenious Med and creator of the original application. He served 10 years as the company’s executive chairman and CEO and now functions as a company director and CMO with a focus on overall vision and direction of the company and its solutions.

Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Site Director and Director of Medical Informatics for the Hospital Medicine Division at Emory University in Atlanta. Before his pursuit of medicine, Dr. Liu received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Virginia and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Washington University, Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He is actively board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Liu is currently involved in multiple projects involving care coordination, patient transition and healthcare cost management and continues to practice as an ICU hospitalist at Scripps Healthcare in San Diego, California. He is an active member and Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine and has participated on numerous committees such as the Society’s Benchmark, Practice Management and Public Policy/Practice Issues committees. Dr. Liu has received recognition as one of the nation’s Top Hospitalists by the American College of Physicians and was the 2011 recipient of Modern Healthcare’s Physician Entrepreneur of the Year.

Nimesh Shah

Chief Executive Officer

Nimesh Shah serves as Chief Executive Officer of Ingenious Med, bringing more than 25 years of technology and managed services leadership experience to the company. He has extensive experience in leading business transformation and driving client-centric process improvements that increase customer satisfaction, service delivery excellence, and revenue growth.

Prior to joining Ingenious Med, Shah served as President, Enterprise Information Solutions (EIS) at McKesson (acquired by Allscripts). Before accepting leadership responsibility for EIS, he held the positions of Senior Vice President, EIS Sales and Portfolio Management and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Managed Services. Before joining McKesson, Shah held leadership positions at CSC, AT&T, and Sprint, among others.

Shah holds a bachelor’s degree from Mary Washington College and a master’s degree from George Mason University.

David Lamm

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

David Lamm serves as CFO and Chief Compliance Officer of Ingenious Med and is responsible for capitalizing on opportunities to improve financial results and enhance operational effectiveness. He joined the firm with more than 20 years’ experience in managing finances for large healthcare enterprises. Lamm previously served as CFO for United Allergy Services, MedData and U.S. HealthWorks. Prior to this, he held prominent roles at healthcare companies Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp., as well as roles at three software and technology firms.

Lamm earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Ohio State University and is a certified public accountant

Russell Smith

Chief Portfolio Officer

Russell Smith serves as Chief Portfolio Officer of Ingenious Med, bringing more than 25 years of enterprise technology, services, and business transformation experience to the company. He has extensive experience as a business operator and portfolio leader and has a documented record of increased sales, operating income, and market penetration, as well as improved customer service.

Prior to joining Ingenious Med, Smith served as Senior Vice President, General Manager for Enterprise Information Solutions (EIS) at McKesson Corporation. He also held the position of Senior Vice President, EIS Product and Portfolio Management while at McKesson. Before joining McKesson, Smith held leadership positions at AT&T, American Express Corp., Grant Thornton LLP, and SC Johnson.

Smith holds an MBA from Clark Atlanta University and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Alabama A&M University.

Lynn Mettler

Client Delivery Officer

Lynn Mettler serves as Client Delivery Officer (CDO) of Ingenious Med and is responsible for development, infrastructure, implementation, support, and application engineering of our solutions. Mr. Mettler has more than 20 years of experience developing and delivering complex software solutions in the healthcare, digital publishing, and telecom industries.

Before joining Ingenious Med, Mettler spent 16 years at Change Healthcare (formerly with McKesson Corporation) in various leadership positions. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Engineering in the Software & Analytics business unit with responsibility over a broad suite of decision support and financial products. He was also responsible for overseeing the development and launch of McKesson’s OneContent content management platform (now owned by Hyland Software). Additionally, Mettler held leadership positions at a number of start-up and private-equity-backed firms.

Mettler has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Columbus State University and a master’s in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

Jim Hall

Chief Revenue Officer

Jim Hall serves as Chief Revenue Officer, bringing over 35 years of healthcare experience to Ingenious Med. Having sold healthcare IT services, EMRs, and ancillary software solutions, Hall is an expert in the complexities and needs facing healthcare IT consumers. Additionally, he has extensive experience across the healthcare space including the health system, physician, and payer markets.

Prior to joining Ingenious Med, Hall served at Leidos Commercial Health as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Throughout his career Hall has held senior roles at a number of leading healthcare information technology companies including McKesson, iMedeon, and IMNET.

Hall holds a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University.

Doug Kingsley

Doug Kingsley co-founded Guidepost Growth Equity in 2007 and is a Managing Partner. With nearly three decades of growth equity investment experience, he has served on more than thirty boards of private and public technology companies.

Doug spent 15 years at Advent International, most recently as a Managing Director and Co-Head of US Investments, where he helped grow the firm from $300 million to $10 billion of assets under management. Doug also had operating roles at Teradyne, the world’s largest manufacturer of automatic test equipment.

Doug’s introduction to private equity came as a consultant to Alcan Aluminum’s venture capital arm during the late eighties. A native New Englander, Doug has worked and studied in Venezuela, Spain and France. He holds an M.B.A., with Distinction, from Harvard Business School, a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and a B.E. from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Doug is a trustee of Providence College.m, MA.

David McClellan

David McClellan co-founded Heritage Group, LLC in 1986 and has served as a Managing Director of the firm since 1989. Heritage Group is a privately-held investment and advisory firm focused on early-stage healthcare opportunities. Over the past 30 years, Mr. McClellan has served in numerous executive positions within Heritage Group’s portfolio of companies. In addition to his other activities, since 2002 Mr. McClellan has functioned in a corporate development capacity for several of the companies launched by the firm including Sourcemark, LLC and Theralogix, LLC.

From 1995-1998, Mr. McClellan served as founder and CEO of ProSeed, LLC. The company partnered with hospitals and radiation oncologists and urologists throughout the US to launch prostate brachytherapy centers. The company was acquired by a public company.

From 1992-1995, Mr. McClellan led Corporate Development for Surgical Health Corporation, a company engaged in the development and management of outpatient surgery centers. After acquiring and developing 37 ambulatory surgery centers in the US, the company was acquired by a public company in 1998.

From 1986-1991, Heritage Group developed and managed more than 50 physician/hospital outpatient ventures involving over 5,000 physician investors encompassing a wide array of surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.

Mr. McClellan holds a BS from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree in hospital and health administration from the Medical College of Virginia. He began his healthcare career as an associate administrator with Hospital Corporation of America in 1983. Mr. McClellan resides in Nashville with his wife and three children.

Roshen Menon

Roshen Menon is a Managing Partner of Guidepost Growth Equity and has been with the firm since its inception in 2007. Roshen has been making growth equity investments for over 13 years and focuses on vertical software and technology-enabled investments in healthcare and information services.

Previously Roshen was with Summit Partners and was also a corporate strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting advising domestic and international healthcare and technology corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, growth strategy, operations, and new product development. He began his career as an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group at FleetBoston Financial. Roshen has an A.B. in Psychology and Asian Studies from Bowdoin College, where he was a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar.