VertitechIT is now Pixel Health
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As EVP of Design and Product Development at Pixel Health Labs, Jill McCormick serves as an accomplished researcher, product leader, designer, and innovator, offering more than 20 years in health-tech research and product development and 10 years in healthcare innovation experience. She engages with a wide range of health systems and tech companies to define and apply a research agenda, address key challenges, and enable healthcare transformation through human-centered design and productization.
Before co-founding Pixel Health Labs, Jill served as the Director of Design and Innovation at Baystate Health and its digital innovation center, TechSpring, where she led a team of experienced designers and product managers. Jill holds several patents and led the new product development and on-market improvements for point-of-care analyzers and diagnostic tests through her earlier work with IDEXX Laboratories.
Jill earned a BA degree in Chemistry from the University of Southern Maine and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. She is an instructor of Healthcare Delivery at UMASS-Chan Medical School.
Michael Catrini is the Chief Technology Officer of Pixel Health. Michael helps drive technology advancements, best practices, and consulting on technology infrastructure decisions for healthcare systems. Michael also applies his expertise performing HIMSS INFRAM assessments in healthcare systems across North America to implement actionable change across the continuum of care.
Michael first joined Pixel Health in 2020 and returned in 2024 after a brief stint with an engineering design firm to support their healthcare technology design approaches in major hospital systems. Before moving to consulting, Michael spent 20 years in various healthcare leadership roles, with his last 5 years as the CTO of UConn Health where he supported large-scale technical infrastructure upgrades across their enterprise.
Kim Tucker is a downstream marketing professional with more than 20 years’ experience in healthcare and HCIT start-up and Fortune 25 companies. She is passionate about leading teams to execute creative, metrics-driven approaches that drive brand awareness and revenue growth generating up to 40% of total sales pipeline and 25% net new bookings. Her expertise includes the implementation of direct and channel marketing programs including partnerships with Cisco, Apple, and CDW. She is thrilled to be joining the Pixel Health team!
Christian Lagier is President of Pixel Health Labs, and a member of the Pixel Health senior executive team and board. Christian is responsible for defining and executing the research agenda of the lab, and operating the lab as a Center of Excellence for product development and Human Centered Design. He also oversees Pixel’s Data and Engineering team, as well as the office of Pixel’s Chief Technology Officer.
Before co-founding Pixel Health Labs, Christian served as VP of Digital Innovation at Baystate Health developing and implementing digital strategy, and had operational responsibilities for select, digital front door, virtual care and RPM services. He also co-founded TechSpring, Baystate’s digital innovation center. In this “living lab,” his team structured and executed more than 70 innovation projects in collaboration with health systems and product development teams from leading technology innovators. Change is hard in healthcare, but Christian proved it can be done.
Christian is a Danish national and is proficient in six languages. He holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, with an academic specialization in Management of Technology.
Pixel Health co-founder Gregory Pellerin serves as the President of Technology services focusing on providing innovative solutions for healthcare organizations. As a senior healthcare operations and sales engineering executive, Pellerin leverages his 20+ years of experience to connect the client’s need to the most efficient solution.
Before teaming with Michael Feld in founding Pixel Health, Pellerin served as the Director of Commercial Sales for regional ISP Javanet, Director of Commercial Voice and Data Services for national broadband service provider RCN, and Director of Service Delivery for Connecticut Telephone, a Hartford Connecticut-based CLEC.
With a passion for community service and philanthropy, Pellerin serves as President for the Board of Directors of Montague Catholic Social Ministries.
Pellerin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from SUNY Geneseo.
Meet Gerry Gosselin, the Vice President of Data Management and Engineering at Pixel Health. With decades of experience in software development, IT infrastructure administration, and network monitoring, he is a seasoned professional in his field. In his role, he oversees all engineering and IT managed services work, ensuring that the company’s operations run smoothly and efficiently. His expertise in data management and engineering has been instrumental in driving Pixel Health’s success in the market.
EVP of Pixel Health, Mike Machulsky has over 25 years of information management experience, including 20+ years of proven leadership experience. Machulsky leads the partner initiatives at Pixel Health, focusing on finding and building relationships with best of breed companies solving for healthcare organizations’ largest technology pain points.
Previously, Mike was President and CEO of Software Logic. As a division Chief Information Officer at CGI, he led all information technology and application development initiatives. He has also held management positions at CIGNA, GE, and Penn State.
Mike received degrees in Electrical Engineering, with highest distinction, from the Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Scholars Program. He is a graduate of GE’s world-renowned Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP).
Pixel Health’s Vice President of Healthcare, Geoff Bakeman, brings over 25 years of experience in Healthcare IT. Known for innovative and impactful solutions to healthcare challenges, Geoff has worked with the world’s top healthcare vendors to combine best-of-breed products to create turnkey solutions that increase patient outcomes and lower expenses. His expertise spans hospital applications, digital transformation, AI, data center infrastructure solutions, MSP, healthcare mobility and life-cycle management.
Geoff has worked with both mid-size and enterprise healthcare organizations to deliver high-value technology solutions while maintaining healthy financial outcomes for the health system. With his in-depth knowledge of the healthcare space and his proficient problem-solving skills, Geoff has been successful developing winning strategies for healthcare where others have failed.
Bringing over 20 years of customer-focused and technical experience both in the Human Services and IT Managed Services Industry, Jennifer has a unique understanding of a client’s needs from the end user through the C-level staff. In addition to previously running her family-owned Managed Services company, she brings experience in coordinating an organization for growth while implementing the security needs of today’s IT environments.
Jennifer ensures that Pixel Health is focused on the needs of the staff and clients in a proactive manner. She is committed to ensuring that the core values of Pixel Health are in place at all times, which is healthcare technology from a human perspective.
Jennifer’s focus in addition to work, are her children, husband and extended family. Her favorite quote is “every day is mothers’ day.” Cooking and walking for the National Breast Cancer Foundation are near and dear to her heart. Jennifer is an FTC Robotics Mentor and a high school rec basketball coach.
Dr. Neil Kudler has served as Chief Medical Officer for Pixel Health since 2020. In this role, Dr. Kudler bridges the gap between clinicians and IT departments within healthcare organizations. He oversees Pixel Health’s clinical strategy, consulting with clients in the areas of diversified health system operations, population health, and data analytics.
Dr. Kudler is a nationally recognized physician who transferred his clinical experience into the many healthcare leadership roles he has held. Dr. Kudler is the former Chief Medical Information Officer for Baystate Health and the former Senior Healthcare Innovation Strategist for TechSpring (Baystate Health’s Technology Innovation Center).
Dr. Kudler received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University and Doctor of Medicine, MD from New York University School of Medicine.
As a Founder of the company, Michael has provided telecommunications leadership, IT consulting, and engineering support for healthcare providers, telecommunications carriers, as well as mid- and large-sized businesses for more than two decades. A recognized innovator in the field, he has managed the company’s meteoric growth and remained on the bleeding edge of technology innovation, while maintaining his unique “personal” touch to client relationships.
As interim CTO for University of Chicago Medicine, former CTO at Temple University Health System, and as Executive Consultant to Baystate Health and Lancaster General Health System, Michael has been central to the roll-out of modern, foundational technologies such as hyper-converged architecture, desktop virtualization, VoIP/unified communications, advanced storage, and the networking infrastructure needed to support EMR deployment. His significant IT and management experience outside the medical world has allowed clients to utilize proven and successful technologies and designs in a medical context, further increasing financial and operational efficiency, total systems availability and resilience, and overall improvements in clinical performance.
Having worked bedside as a nurse and in other clinical roles, Patrick Allen knows how important a digital strategy is to patients and clinicians. He knows how strategy, turned into action, can change patient outcomes and improve operational efficiency. Patrick is leading the effort to advise and enable clients to transform patient and clinician experiences by enhancing accessibility and affordability via technology and operational improvement.
Prior to his new role, Patrick started and led the healthcare consulting practice EPAM Continuum, a digital transformation and software development firm. There, he and his team helped payors, providers and technology clients reimagine their digital goals and then meet and oftentimes exceed them through EPAM’s engineering capabilities and Patrick’s leadership.
His experience in digital transformation reaches further back than EPAM. He was Vice President at Lumeris, where he was tasked with getting payors to embrace volume-to-value-based operating models – no small task. In this role, he helped initiate almost a dozen provider-sponsored Medicare Advantage plans. In addition, Patrick was instrumental in building and expanding North Highland’s change management consultancy and healthcare practice, acting as a clinical subject matter expert.
Jessica Ryder joined Pixel Health in 2010 and was named Director of Operations & Systems in January of 2023. In this role, she leads the Operations and Systems teams and is responsible for connecting the right tools and technology with the people and processes they support.
Ryder’s 20+ years of experience in the telecommunications and IT industry includes holding key support positions with RCN, Connecticut Telephone, and One Communications (Earthlink). Ryder is a formally trained educator, an active, amateur food blogger, a skilled project manager and business analyst.
Ryder holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History from Westfield State University.
Dave serves as Chief Financial Officer for Pixel Health. Dave has more than 20 years serving as CFO or founder in tech-enabled healthcare companies funded by private equity or venture capital organizations. Dave’s successful track record in building high growth, acquisitive organizations through his strategic and tactical approach has generated substantial exits.
Dave is particularly focused on the operational components of profit optimization, key requirements for a successful rapid growth strategy. He focuses on scaling financial systems and processes, creating effective teams through best practices in organizational design and technology adoption.
As President, Consulting Services, Barbara leads the consulting team to help solve healthcare organizations biggest challenges. Having played an integral role in shaping the worldwide healthcare strategy for Cisco and serving as a strategist and business adviser to healthcare, managed care, and Fortune 500 technology companies for two decades, she is adept at helping healthcare organizations transform to be the most efficient and effective they can be, driving better patient outcomes.
As the Global Healthcare Leader for Cisco, Barbara conceived of, built, and led the company’s healthcare focus into a multi-billion-dollar business. Prior to joining Cisco, she was charged with corporate strategic planning at HCA, Inc. where she facilitated the company’s broad Consumer and Patient Experience strategy and served as a consultative resource to the Central Group (55 hospitals in the Central US and 6 hospitals in London) and its divisions’ senior management teams.
Teresa Troyano leads the marketing team at Pixel Health and is passionate about creating content that helps drive healthcare organizations to advance patient centricity in their institutions. Her marketing leadership experience spans from the life sciences and healthcare technology industries to the banking sector.
As an accomplished marketer, Teresa led the account-based marketing (ABM) program at Covance and was recognized by Oracle as a CXHero for her innovation in ABM. At Medidata, she led the mid-market demand marketing team, executing on strategic programs to help pharmaceutical companies understand how technology could transform patient outcomes.
Troyano holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Master of Arts degree in Public and Corporate Communication from Monmouth University.
Brad Mondschein, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer, focuses on improving and simplifying the operational experience for Pixel Health clients, colleagues, partners, and other stakeholders. In addition to his duties within Pixel Health, Mondschein often consults with Pixel Health clients to achieve energy and sustainability goals as well as providing assistance with managing risks related to regulatory compliance issues.
Mondschein has 25+ years of experience practicing law in both private practice and in-house counsel positions. In private practice, he gained national reputation for negotiating complex IT and networking arrangements. His experience also includes 25 years in the Energy industry leading some of the largest alternative energy installations in New England.
Brad Mondschein has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Union College and a JD, Law from Western New England University School of Law.