Medworxx Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE TEAM  |  BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Bernard Webber, Chairman of the Board
• Dan Matlow, President & CEO
• George Elliott, Director
• Sam Marafioti, Director
• Renah Persofsky, Director
• Barry Tissenbaum, Director
• Paul Collins, MBA, CHA, Director

Bernard Webber, Chairman of the Board

Bernard Webber is the Chairman of JAZZ.FM91

Between 1997 and 2001, Mr. Webber was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Information Centre of Canada (IICC). The IICC was a national technology and information organization whose member companies provided more than 95% of the private and public property and casualty insurance sold in Canada. From July 1994 to the fall of 1997, he was the President and CEO of the Facility Association (FA), Canada’s P&C which provides automobile insurance coverage for high risk drivers.

Bernie has been active in the Canadian technology industry at the most senior levels. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) and a member of the Minister’s Advisory Committee for the OECD Minister’s Conference in Ottawa in October 1998. He was a key participant in ITAC’s first-ever Trade Mission on Electronic Commerce, which went to Israel in February 1999. He was an official representative on “Team Canada” at the G8 Conference on Privacy & Security of Networks in Paris in May 2000.

Prior to the FA, Mr. Webber was the Deputy Commissioner of the Ontario Insurance Commission from March 1990. Over the span of 26 years he held a number of senior positions within the Ontario Public Service. Immediately before OIC he was Acting Deputy Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, and Assistant Deputy Minister of Business Practices with the same Ministry. During his time as Assistant Deputy Minister at Consumer and Commercial Relations, his organization developed the “Polaris” land registration system, which now forms the cornerstone of the Terranet Corporation.

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Dan Matlow, President & CEO

As president and CEO of Medworxx, Dan’s focus is on increasing new license sales and services revenues, and directing the overall operations of the business. Dan brings 20+ years of software vendor management experience to Medworxx, with extensive experience in software development, marketing, consulting, and sales.

Dan began his career at On-Line Software Inc. where he headed up the Canadian operation of a $150M software business. He then went on to found and led an Education Services organization, SDLC Technologies Inc. SDLC developed and marketed instructor-led IT education courses in the United States and Canada.

Prior to taking the leadership role at Medworxx, Dan led the sales function of Open Text’s healthcare division as Vice President of Sales. He earned his stripes and extensive insights into the healthcare information technology industry as SVP of Sales for Corechange, a Boston-based startup, where he led the sales team that grew both license and services revenues from less than USD$1M in 1997, to over $20M in 2001. Subsequently, Open Text, a globally recognized leader in the Enterprise Content Management technology sector, acquired Corechange in early 2003. Prior to Corechange, Dan served as President & CEO for an enterprise training and education company that delivered a broad range of instructor-led technical training to Fortune 1000 enterprises in the North America.

Dan holds a B.A. from York University in Toronto, Canada.

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George Elliott, Director

George Elliott has had a 35 year career with Canada’s largest law firms focusing on business development and relationship management. George left law to concentrate on providing new revenue opportunities together with long term financial strategies to growth based companies. George has been a director, executive or advisor to public companies ranging from large commercial printing, mortgage servicing, construction lending and research companies focusing on recoveries of lost oil and minerals from the oil sands.

George is currently a director of Gammon Gold (TSX NYSE) a Mexican gold producer and Esperenza Resources (TSX.V) an advanced exploration company.

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Sam Marafioti, Director

Sam Marafioti is the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development, CIO at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Sam is responsible for strategic visioning and long term planning to ensure that technology facilitates, enables and supports the timely achievement of corporate goals and aligns with a broader system vision for eHealth. He has been instrumental in creating a culture at Sunnybrook and increasingly in the broader hospital system where IT is valued as a key enabler to the success of an organization.

Sam leads the development and implementation of numerous initiatives including electronic health record, connectivity, network infrastructure, corporate technology standards, web services and telehealth, and oversees all major corporate technology acquisitions. Under his direction, Sunnybrook has established a solid foundation of clinical, business and decision support systems. These strategically position the organization to leverage successes and explore e-health opportunities on a greater scale over the next 5 years.

Sam was a member of the Ontario Hospital Association’s Information and Communications Technology Advisory Committee in 2000, which evolved into the Ontario Hospital e-Health Council in 2001. As Vice Chair of the Council, Sam brings leadership, a spirit of collaboration, and hospital insight to an emerging provincial eHealth strategy in partnership with government, physicians, other providers, and consumers.

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Renah Persofsky, Director

Renah Persofsky is currently Managing Partner at Strajectory, Inc., where she acts as a business strategist and finance leader. Strajectory customers recognize Renah as an extremely capable situation analyst – “larger than life” in the pursuit and attainment of goals. She is an industry-respected strategist, innovator, and catalyst for change knowledgeable in banking, technology, and larger business transactions, with a solid track record of creating and operating new organizations in the emerging economy.

Prior to Strajectory, Renah developed Ubequity Capital Partners, Inc.  from a start-up merchant bank to a successful and recognized boutique firm. She is also the founder, and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Dexit Incorporated (now HDX Inc), a Toronto-based company that brought an innovative, electronic payment service to the Canadian marketplace.

Prior to starting Dexit, Renah served as an officer of the Bank of Montreal and was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Cebra Inc., a wholly owned electronic commerce subsidiary of the bank. Before joining the bank, Renah held executive positions at Bryker Data Systems Limited and MSA/Dun & Bradstreet Software. She was a member of the Minister’s Advisory Committee on Electronic Commerce and led a Canada Electronic Commerce trade mission to Israel and represented the Canadian business community at the OECD Summit in Turku, Finland.

Renah was a governor of the Information Technology Association of Canada, a member of the Federal Government Committee for Electronic Commerce and Revenue, and sat on the Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT), which provides advice to the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Trade.

Renah is an avid Jazz fan and is Vice-Chairperson of Toronto’s Jazz FM Radio.  She is also on the Board as an Advisor at PharmaTrust.

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Barry Tissenbaum, Director

Barry Tissenbaum, CA is an independent consultant providing advisory services to numerous companies.  Barry is an accomplished advisor to senior management who has earned a reputation for taking an entrepreneurial approach to business. He is recognized for his keen grasp of business issues – both short and long-term – and has a track record of providing innovative, practical, and hands on implementation.

Barry is a former senior partner with Ernst & Young LLP in Toronto where he headed their Retail & Consumer Products division as well as working many years in the Entrepreneurial Services Group and served as the Toronto Mid-Town Managing Partner. Barry’s experience as an accountant and business advisor has seen him provide consulting services to senior management in the areas of strategy, profitability, finance, management, taxation, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He has facilitated and participated in numerous strategy focused sessions and served as strategic advisor to many entrepreneurial clients.

In addition to his exceptionally strong technical skills Barry is known as a team player and leader, capable of putting the right team together to get the job done. He is an experienced agent of change, dedicated to profitability, and known as a professional with passion and commitment.

Barry is recognized as a leader in the business community and serves on the boards of directors for Noranda Income Trust, a TSX listed company and Corel Corp.

Paul Collins, MBA, CHE, Director

Paul is President and CEO of the St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital, located in St. Thomas, Ontario south of London. Paul’s background is in quality and continuous improvement. He joined the hospital in the early 1990’s as leader of a team that researched and developed a new approach to managing patient flow and effectively using hospital bed capacity. This approach proved innovative and garnered national attention and uptake in hospitals across Canada. Previously Paul served in administrative capacities at St. Michael’ s Hospital in Toronto and began his health care career as a respiratory therapist at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital in Oakville, Ontario.

Paul is currently a member of the Board of the Ontario Hospital Association, Chair of the Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership, a network of hospitals in the London region, a member of the e -Health Council of the south west Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) and Chair of the LHIN’s Patient Flow and Access Committee. He is a Certified Healthcare Executive (CHE) with the Canadian College of Healthcare Leaders and obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario.

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