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Bruce J. Tarzy, M.D.
Director
bruce.tarzy@medikeeper.com
Bruce Tarzy, M.D. practiced obstetrics and gynecology for over 25 years until retiring
in 2002. Originally from New Jersey, Dr. Tarzy has been a resident of San Diego
County since 1972. He has been active within both the medical and local communities,
and twice served as Mayor of Poway, California.
Dr. Tarzy received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University, and graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his residency
at the University of California, San Diego Hospital in Obstetrics and Gynecology,
where he served as President of the Interns and Residents Association.
While maintaining an active clinical practice, Dr. Tarzy served in numerous positions
of leadership and responsibility. He spent two and one-half years on the Board of
Directors of Palomar/Pomerado Health System and later eight years on the Poway City
Council. Dr. Tarzy has also served on the Boards of Directors for several medical
corporations where his area of expertise included finance and contract negotiations.
He has served on the Board of a corporation that had a successful public offering
with a present day value of $100M. Additionally, Dr. Tarzy served as general partner
for two major commercial construction projects.
Dr. Tarzy retired from clinical practice in May 2002. He also consulted as a medical
expert for several large medical-legal firms.
In April 2003, Dr. Tarzy was asked to join the Audit and Investigation Division
of the California Department of Health Services in the Medical Review Branch. He
served with distinction in this role until June 2004 and continues to serve as a
consultant.
In May 2003, Dr. Tarzy joined with George Schwartzman to co-found MediKeeper, Inc.,
and originally served the company as its Executive Vice President and Medical Director.
In February 2006, Dr. Tarzy assumed duties as CEO and Chief Medical Officer.
Dr. Tarzy and his wife Beth are the parents of one adult son and reside in Poway,
California. He is avid connoisseur of wine and passionate Padres fan.
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Ryan C. Tarzy
Director
ryan.tarzy@medikeeper.com
Ryan Tarzy has distinguished himself as a specialist in business operations, healthcare
information technology, web-based technologies, and the development of new ventures.
Mr. Tarzy graduated cum laude from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
in 1998 with degrees in both Economics and Applied Mathematics. He also graduated
from Northwestern's Honors program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences,
during which he specialized in academic subjects such as game theory, deterministic
optimization, and econometrics. Also during his college years, Mr. Tarzy served
in numerous leadership positions and received several honors for his scholarship
and leadership including being awarded as one of the 20 most influential members
of his class.
Mr. Tarzy began his career with Ernst & Young Management Consulting where he first
honed his technical skills working for a major commercial products client. Subsequently,
Mr. Tarzy worked with Mercer Management Consulting, and later with the leading strategy
consulting firm Bain & Company. During his tenure with Bain, he worked on a variety
of projects involving a broad range of clients--from internet start-ups to world
leading Fortune 50 companies--and across many industries. Mr. Tarzy also had the
opportunity to work in a diverse set of business problems including business plan
creation, procurement strategy, corporate strategy, and merger integration.
In November 2001, Mr. Tarzy decided to apply his diverse business and technical
expertise by returning to San Diego and founding Sedona Management Consulting. The
firm specialized in providing business technology consulting to medium-sized healthcare
and non-profit organizations. Ultimately, his firm expanded and began to build web-based
custom applications for health care firms. In July, 2003, Sedona Management Consulting
contracted with MediKeeper, Inc. to build the MediKeeper website and web application.
In September of 2004, Mr. Tarzy brought in a partner to take over the day-to-day
operations of the firm. The firm has been reformed as Sedona Ventures, and now focuses
on the development of web-based ventures.
In August 2003, Mr. Tarzy agreed to join in the establishment of MediKeeper, Inc.,
and previously served as Director of Operations and Senior Vice President of Operations.
In February 2006, he was promoted to Chief Operations Officer.
Ryan Tarzy is a wine connoisseur and is pursuing a certificate in The Business of
Wine at San Diego State University. He is also a sports enthusiast who enjoys skiing
and golf and an avid baseball fan. Mr. Tarzy is single, and resides in San Diego.
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Mark Steinberg
Director
Mark Steinberg graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of
Mechanical Engineering degree (B.M.E.) in 1968. Immediately afterwards, he attended
U.C.L.A. in Los Angeles taking graduate courses in business. He then continued his
education in business, including real estate, at U.C.S.D. and U.S.I.U. in San Diego
After college Mark Steinberg was employed by ITT Gilfillan in Los Angeles, from
1968 to 1969, as a structural design engineer to work on the ANTPQ Counter Mortar
Radar System. In 1969 he moved to San Diego to work for Convair Division of General
Dynamics in its Materials & Specifications Department. During his employment there,
from 1969 to 1974, he was involved in the McDonald Douglas DC-10 airliner, Atlas
Centaur Missile and U.S. Air Force's F-111 jet fighter programs.
While attending U.C.S.D. and employed at Convair Mark was attracted to the area
of financial and estate planning for individuals and decided to started a "personal
financial planning" business. At the same time, 1975 - 1976, he developed a computerized
personal financial plan which was selected by Chase Manhattan Bank to be one of
the finalists in its entry into area of financial planning. In 1974 he became one
of the initial members of the International Association of Financial Planners (IAFP)
and received its designation CFP (Certified Financial Planner). He remained as a
consultant until 1981.
In 1972 he became involved in his family's real estate business on a part time basis.
From 1975 to 1977 he was Vice President of Brumark Corp., a privately owned oil
and gas exploration company. His primary role was capital formation and syndication.
In 1981 Mark Steinberg decided to make real estate development his sole activity
and continued this until 1995. The primary emphasis of development was medical office
buildings. Projects were done in the Seattle - Tacoma, Salt Lake City and Southern
California areas. Development activities involved partnership syndication, property
acquisition, design, construction, leasing and property management. Since then his
primary activity has been the management of family owned real estate. His management
activities of these properties are the ongoing lease negotiations, property management
and renovations. He is also an active investor in oil and gas exploration with Trumax
Exploration in Oklahoma.
Mark Steinberg has been actively involved in the Boys and Girls of San Diego for
over thirty years, 1974 to present. During his first ten years he served as a Board
Member of the Wm. J. Oakes Branch; since then, he been on the organization's Board
of Directors. During the period on the Board of Directors, he was a past president,
on its Executive Committee and Building Committee and was chairman of its GAAD Committee.
Other community involvement has been on the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Home
of San Diego from1982 to 1990. Recently, 1994 to present, he became involved as
a Board member in the same organization (new name - Seacrest Village) and is co-chairman
of its Building Committee.
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Dew-Anne Langcaon
Director
dewanne.langcaon@medikeeper.com
Dew-Anne Langcaon has over 20 years of financial and business experience with over
a decade in finance, operations and strategic business development in the healthcare
industry. Dew-Anne also previously worked as a Certified Public Accountant with
Deloitte and Touche. Dew-Anne joined PacifiCap in February of 2006 and she leads
the overall financial organization, and portfolio company monitoring, as well as
managing deal flow and due diligence for PacifiCap’s healthcare related investments.
Dew-Anne also brings to PacifiCap a depth of experience in being an entrepreneur
herself as a co-founder of Ho’okele Personal Health Planners, LLC a Hawaii based
patient advocacy and care management services firm.
Prior to joining PacifiCap, Dew-Anne was the Executive Vice President and Chief
Strategic Officer for Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH), the state’s largest health care
provider. In her role, she provided senior executive leadership for system-wide
strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture activities, organizational
risk management, research, quality and risk management, captive insurance company
operations and academic affiliations.
Before entering the healthcare industry, Dew-Anne spent six years as a CPA with
Deloitte & Touche in Honolulu, leaving the firm in 1993 as an Audit Manager. Her
areas of specialty were in healthcare, real estate, mergers and acquisitions and
automotive dealerships.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Dew-Anne graduated from St. Andrew’s Priory as well as
the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she earned a Bachelors degree in Business
Administration and a Masters degree in Accounting. Dew-Anne maintains a strong commitment
to the community and volunteers her time and leadership skills to many Boards in
the community including: St. Andrew’s Priory School; the American Red Cross, Hawaii
Chapter; Aloha United Way; YWCA; the Foundation for Research and Medical Education;
the Hawaii Science and Technology Council; and Enterprise Honolulu.
Dew-Anne is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Hawaii
Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of CPAs and is a
Fellow with the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
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Stanley J. Pappelbaum, M.D., M.B.A.
Chairman
Dr. Pappelbaum has extensive experience in healthcare financing, organization and
delivery. He spent the first 17 years of his career in the healthcare provider space
as an academic and private practice pediatric cardiologist in Southern California.
His principal affiliations were with the University of California San Diego School
of Medicine and the San Diego Children's Hospital and Health Center, where he was
chief of pediatric cardiology. During this period, Dr. Pappelbaum acquired an interest
in health policy, management, financing, and organization. He assumed leadership
positions within organized medicine at the local, state, and national levels, especially
with the American Academy of Pediatrics, where he chaired the national committee
on child health financing and the national council on pediatric practice.
At mid-career, he decided to pursue the business and policy side of medicine. He
received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship to study at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Sloan School of Management, where he earned a Master of Science in Management
degree. Subsequently he returned to Southern California and began what is now an
additional 20 year career in healthcare consulting and executive management. His
consulting group has worked with large complex healthcare institutions in over two
dozen states, focusing on the relationships between and among physicians, hospitals,
and health plans. The multiple consulting projects sometimes focused on the strategic,
other times on the tactical, and at all times on business vehicles that could ameliorate
the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare delivery system.
From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Pappelbaum was an executive with ScrippsHealth in San Diego,
California. ScrippsHealth is a five hospital not-for-profit system with 2,500 affiliated
physicians. During his tenure, ScrippsHealth had annual revenues approaching $1
billion and employed 9,000 San Diegans. Dr. Pappelbaum joined Scripps as Chief Transformational
Officer in charge of creating and implementing Scripps' strategic vision of its
future. Subsequently he was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer and then to President and Chief Executive Officer. He resigned to return
to consulting in June 2000.
Dr. Pappelbaum was a trustee of Scrippshealth, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps
Foundation of Medicine and Science and Catholic Healthcare West. He was a member
of the Health Care Systems Governing Council of the American Hospital Association.
He was a board member of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.
He currently sits on several healthcare and community boards at the local, state,
and national levels. These include San Diego based Medi-Keeper, Inc., St. Louis
based Advanced ICU Care, Inc., the New York City based private equity Dellacourte
Group, Minnesota based Spectra Science, Inc., and the advisory Board for the Graduate
School of Public Health at San Diego State University. Dr. Pappelbaum is also a
member of the San Diego based Chairmen's Roundtable; Southern California based Tech
Coast Angels, and the San Diego Social Venture Partners.
Dr. Pappelbaum completed his undergraduate work at McGill University, Montreal and
received his medical degree from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine,
in Vancouver. He is Board Certified by the American Boards of Pediatrics and Pediatric
Cardiology. He is a certified Physician Executive of the American College of Physician
Executives. He is a member of the American Medical Association and an affiliate
of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He holds faculty appointments
at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, and the San Diego
State University, Graduate School of Public Health.
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George Schwartzman
Vice-Chairman
george.schwartzman@medikeeper.com
George Schwartzman is a medical entrepreneur who has lived in California since 1970.
Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, he graduated from the University of Kentucky
in 1967, and began his career in medical-related activities with Westinghouse's
x-ray division in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. In 1970, Mr. Schwartzman joined Picker
Corporation, a major diagnostic imaging company, in Southern California. During
his eleven year tenure with Picker Corporation, Mr. Schwartzman enjoyed a very successful
career in sales and sales management, and was the recipient of numerous awards for
outstanding sales performance. Mr. Schwartzman was the visionary often sought by
Picker Corporation for new ideas, many of which became very successful profit centers
for the company.
In 1981, Mr. Schwartzman identified the need for an alternative marketing opportunity
for diagnostic imaging equipment. Mr. Schwartzman resigned from Picker Corporation
and established Imaging Systems, Inc., a company that distributed excess inventories
of new diagnostic imaging equipment from major manufacturers. Mr. Schwartzman enjoyed
outstanding success for many years operating Imaging Systems, Inc.
In 1996, George Schwartzman co-founded Urology Services, Inc., an innovative and
successful service provider dedicated to the treatment of kidney stone disease.
Subsequently in 1999, Mr. Schwartzman additionally founded Prostate Solutions, Inc.,
a company that focuses on the diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of benign
enlarged prostate disease.
In 2003, Mr. Schwartzman identified the need for a consumer-oriented, computer-based,
individualized medical history system, and with Bruce Tarzy, M.D. formed MediKeeper,
Inc. He served as President and CEO from June 2003 to February 2006.
George Schwartzman currently serves as CEO of Gourmet Promotions, the international
licensee of the Diner's Deck.
George Schwartzman not only is a visionary, but an excellent and experienced implementer.
Well respected by his business colleagues of many years, Mr. Schwartzman prides
himself on his commitment to quality and integrity.
Mr. Schwartzman has always had a strong interest in government and politics. In
October, 2003, Mr. Schwartzman finished in 9th place out of the 135 ballot listed
candidates in the 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall Election. He has gained extensive
national and international recognition for his outstanding election results, as
well as his campaign interest in health care and senior citizen issues.
Mr. Schwartzman enjoys outdoor activities, and is an avid baseball enthusiast. The
father of two adult children, and four grandchildren, Mr. Schwartzman resides in
Indian Wells, California.
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