Matt Weisman
Phillip Phipippides
Robert Skok
Victor Vurpillat
Francoise Gilbert

Health care consumes about 14% of the GDP of the US, an number almost too big to understand. Yet huge portions of our population are underserved. It seems that things are going to have to change. What is the future going to be like? What are the opportunities going forward? What is the reason for the impass?

Come and listen to a lively panel discussion on the topic and meet others interested in this area. CCAN events have become widely recognized for their eccletic topics, stellar panelists, good food and networking. There are amazing things going on in the world today and CCAN is among the best places to hear the people that are making things happen tell you what they are doing. CCAN takes the big view with quarterly meetings on globalization and outside-of-the-box topics. Entrepreneurs, investors and people interested in the future all get something out of CCAN events.

This month's panelists so far are:

Matthew C. Weisman, JD, MBA:

Matt is Chair of the Healthcare/Life Sciences Committee of the Keiretsu Forum, a large bay area private equity investment group, a member of the national board of directors of the Harvard Business School Health Industry Alumni Association, and a coach at the Womens Technology Cluster-San Francisco.

He has served on private company boards and two public companies- Serologicals Inc., a biotechnology and biologicals company and Thermedics Detection, Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed gas chromatography and advanced technology sensors for healthcare, science, and industry.

Matt has a MBA from Harvard and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard Business School, where he taught Entrepreneurial Management, and at Boston University School of Medicine, where he was a participant in the Hartford Foundation Program for Excellence in Medicine.

Robert (Bob) Skok - Computer Science Corporation:

A partner with CSC Consulting-dealing in the Healthcare Tecnology area.

Phillip Phipippides - LoyalTree:

Specialty areas include customer relationship management strategy and process, the integration of e-commerce customer strategies with call center strategies and customer contact related technologies. Prior to joining LoyalTree, Mr. Philippides was president of a CRM consultancy, and a practice leader for a leading healthcare consulting firm.

Francoise Gilbert:

Ms Gilbert is a recognized expert and respected leader in technology law, privacy and information security, telemedicine, e-health and medical informatics, Ms. Gilbert has advised lawmakers on policy and regulatory issues, including the Western Governors Association and U.S. Senator Conrad. She has held also leadership positions with the American Bar Association Science & Technology Section, and the Chicago Bar Association. With over twenty years of experience as a lawyer, working closely with in-house counsel of Fortune 500 corporations or with company management in emerging technology companies, Francoise Gilbert has an appreciation of the need for legal counsel to focus on facilitating the development and sale of new products or services and finding creative solutions to structure long-lasting win-win relationships.

In addition to her legal practice, for over ten years, Ms. Gilbert has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus, where she teaches technology and privacy law in the Graduate School of Health Information Science. Her academic career - including appointments as Co-Chair of the PLI Privacy Law Institute - and her speaking and publications to the law community and business entrepreneurs have honed her skills at communicating evolving legal concepts to lawyers and non-lawyers.

Victor Vurpillat:

Dr. Vurpillat, a co-founder of BioMarker, has been involved with biotech companies for nearly a decade, serving as CEO of Transgenic Technologies, Inc. a startup in genetic research. He was a founder, officer or director of sixteen early-stage companies including Novell, Telerate, Optogenetics, LV Computer Systems, Compucom, Spear Information Systems, InCell, IDR-Reuters and Spanworks Inc. Dr. Vurpillat holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Newport University, an MBA from Pepperdine University and a B.S. in Math from California Polytechnic University.

Don Steiny - Organizer and Moderator

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