The Management Team
Jon Coleman, President & CEO
Jon is an experienced General manager with a primary focus in running healthcare organizations. Throughout his 18 year career, he has held progressive leadership positions in the U.S. and international markets working for world-class companies including Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, and Bain & Company. Jon managed businesses while living in four continents: North America (U.S., Canada), South America (Brazil), Asia (Singapore), and Europe (U.K.). During this time, he had full P&L responsibility for businesses in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Asia with annual revenue up to US$300MM. During his time abroad, Jon led the turnaround of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare’s third-largest business unit, achieved double-digit top line growth for three consecutive years as head of Pfizer’s Asia region, and managed the start-up of their Consumer Healthcare business in Brazil
Jon earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992. Prior to his MBA, he worked as a consultant for Bain & Company in Boston. He completed his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University (BYU) in international relations. He graduated magna cum laude and valedictorian. In 1986, he was elected as BYU’s student body president.
Jon joined the organization in October 2007.
Richard S. Dick, Ph.D., Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Dick has a unique blend of education and experience that have brought him international recognition for advancing electronic health record technologies (EHR, EMR, PHR) from multiple standpoints: as a visionary, a designer/architect, and as an industry spokesperson. A veteran of both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM)—where he directed the landmark IOM Study that launched our present EMR-era and co-authored the often-quoted seminal work, The Computer-based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Healthcare (1991, 1997)—he led major research initiatives at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and supervised MEDLINE.
As the individual who conceived, designed, and led development of what may arguably be the largest pharmaceutical databases in the U.S. (five years of Rx data on over 200M Americans, updated and current every 24 hours), Dr. Dick has earned the characterization given him by Dr. Clayton M. Christensen, prominent author and professor at the Harvard Business School, as “one of our most disruptive innovators.” The holder of several patents as well as ones currently pending, Dr. Dick is a “serial entrepreneur” who has been successful in getting support for innovative ideas and successfully launching them into the marketplace.
Dr. Dick led and developed successful strategic plans—based on actual execution—for some of the largest and most prominent healthcare IT companies; designed and built the largest realtime master person indexes (MPI) in the U.S. (>100M people in just one of these MPIs); conceived and architected some of the most innovative designs for healthcare data-warehousing applications; and conceived, designed, and is now proving the value of the Composite Clinical Data Dictionary, or C2D2— the true missing link for achieving the fundamental but elusive goal of genuine semantic interoperability, and in every field, not just healthcare.
Dr. Dick received his Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics and Computing (under Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD) from the University of Utah’s world-class Medical Informatics M.D./PhD program (equates to a Ph.D. in CS + first 2 yrs Med School). He was the recipient of the 2006 Award for excellence, outstanding achievement, and special recognition in Applied Medical Informatics presented by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).
C. Stan Gray, Vice President of Development
Stan brings 25 years of computer application-development experience to YTC, as well as state-of-the-art web computing techniques in eCommerce development through leadership efforts and coding assignments. He has worked with the full range of operating systems, languages, databases, application servers, hardware platforms, and other essential tools and has worked to bring his expertise to the next generation of development leaders by teaching web technologies at local community colleges and business schools.
As Senior Applications Developer at NxLight, Stan worked closely with the java server team to integrate core product technologies into Web-deployable applications to service clients' application needs. The company’s core technology is centered on business transaction processing of documents that require authenticated, legal, and secure electronic signing via Web applications, and Stan was responsible for proof-of-concept prototyping of client proposals preparatory to formal definition and code design. He was responsible for the definition, design, and development of the client Web application being marketed to the Real Estate Industry for the processing of residential sales transaction documents, and in this role he worked closely with clients to ascertain business application needs and from these analyses create project definitions as well as coding specifications. He was also responsible for the integration of the company’s technology into the largest private student loan company in the country (FMER) and worked with internal technical staff, Experian, and Bank of America.
Over the past ten years, Stan has held positions as Senior Solutions Engineer at Next Page, Web Development Technical Lead and Senior Integrations Specialist at ILumin, Senior Web Architect at Nex2, and Senior Software Design Engineer at NuSkin International.
Stan’s ability to attract and manage top talent, comprehend and communicate with non-technical business leaders and colleagues, and contribute to the company’s business development efforts—on top of his first-rate development abilities—make him a rare find and an extremely valuable member of the YTC team.
Robert Keehan, Vice President of Business Development
Robert brings a long and distinguished career in technology innovation and adoption to YTC. Prior to his work in healthcare, Robert spent 15 years in various high-tech companies around the world working in business development, marketing, sales, operations, and product development. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Korea, opening offices and developing strategic partnerships with major international companies.
Robert’s healthcare experience has focused on bringing innovative technologies to the industry that dramatically improve the patient’s quality of care and the organization’s financial performance. He has worked closely with payers, providers, drug companies, and medical technology companies throughout the US to create new solutions and ensure optimal technology selection and adoption for their organizations. In addition to holding senior positions with a number of health-related solution providers, he has worked in the non-profit sector to build significant partnerships among them and with the technology industry. Recently he has leveraged his vast experience in building information networks to ensure the success of Health Information Exchange initiatives around the world, focusing special attention on privacy, security, and the patient’s rights.
Robert lives in San Francisco California. He has a BS in Finance from the University of Connecticut, an MBA from Duke University, and an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles.