Sandeep is experienced entrepreneur with focus on healthcare technology. He gets the inspiration to mentor and volunteer at WHIT from his two beautiful daughters. Currently, he is CEO of 2 healthcare startups – DevCool Inc. and HiPaaS Inc. He is also investor and board member for few other startups. He has been featured on CNBC, Fox and Bloomberg network as a Healthcare innovation leader. He has been a speaker at various Healthcare technology conferences. Sandeep’s passion is to help make technology ideas real and has himself walked the steep climb. Linkedin Profile (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-startup-venture-key-lessons-i-learned-hard-way-sandeep-deokule/)
Rachel Spilo
As Founder and CEO of Catalyst Solutions, Rachel manages the strategic vision as well as day to day operations of Catalyst, making sure that Catalyst’s standards of quality are not only met but exceeded. In the past 20 years, Catalyst has grown from a local Colorado consulting firm to a large-scale national player in the payer marketplace. Rachel personally ensures that the company and its employees adhere to the core values of Catalyst set forth years ago and that the company maintains its original integrity.
Rachel has won numerous awards including Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Small Business Administration, as well as yearly recognition from INC Magazine and Colorado Business Magazine.
A native of Southern Missouri, Rachel currently resides in Denver, Colorado working out of the Catalyst headquarters. In her spare time, she enjoys boating, adventure travel, and spending time with her husband and three boys.
Angela Rivera, FHIMSS
Angela Rivera is a Partner at The Chartis Group, ranked Best in KLAS five years in a row for Healthcare Management Consulting, where she serves as Senior Partner in the Digital Transformation & Technology line of business and co-leader of Chartis’ Cybersecurity practice. With over 25 years of healthcare and technology experience, Ms. Rivera brings deep knowledge and experience leading impactful clinical, financial, and operational improvement initiatives enabled through information technology and process redesign. Since joining Chartis, she has led many complex IT initiatives, including many related to data & analytics, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. She serves as a thought leader for the firm where she has developed new solutions, published education pieces, served as a moderator at conferences, and has contributed as an industry expert to several healthcare publications.
Prior to joining The Chartis Group, Ms. Rivera served as Executive Vice President, Operations at CynergisTek, Inc., an information security, privacy and compliance consulting firm offering solutions that measure privacy and security programs against regulatory requirements and assists in developing risk management best practices. Prior to CynergisTek, Ms. Rivera spent 17 years at Computer Task Group, Inc., an international IT consulting firm where she served in several roles, most recently as Vice President of its Healthcare and Life Sciences division.
Ms. Rivera has a passion for service and has served on various boards and in other volunteer roles. She serves as a board member of the Association of Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS), holds a Fellow Status with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and was the President of the Southern California HIMSS Chapter. She has served as Board Member and Annual Conference Chair for the San Diego Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) where she still provides Information Technology training for the Board of Governors Exam workshops. She has been an advocate for the advancement of women in technology for many years and currently serves on the Board of Directors as Past President for Women in Healthcare Information Technology (WHIT) and was named “Women in Healthcare IT to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2018 and 2019. She also proudly volunteers outside of the healthcare technology industry as a Guardian Scholar Mentor supporting foster youth to achieve their educational and career goals.
Ms. Rivera received her MBA from Louisiana State University, Shreveport, a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, San Diego and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
Michelle Barker
Michelle is an experienced IT healthcare IT leader with over 20 years of technology experience. Michelle’s background is in the inpatient hospital world where she has worked for diverse hospitals including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Alameda Health Systems. She is currently the IT Director of Applications at Marin General Hospital where she specializes in strategic integration and transformation leadership. Michelle joined MGH in 2014 and is responsible for all aspects of the clinical, financial and enterprise application suites.