Executive Team

Diane Zuckerman, RPh, Chief Executive Officer

Diane Zuckerman, RPh, is a visionary and entrepreneur who has founded six (6) healthcare education and technology companies over the past 25 years. Her passion is embedded in transforming data into action, resulting in meaning and value. She focuses on the biopsychosoical model and patient-centered cognitive support. She regards process measures (what was done) equivalent to outcome measures (results of care) in addressing behavioral change. She always puts the patient first and promotes her mantra ‘doctors treat patients, not diseases’. She creates solutions that provide high-value healthcare with a profound emphasis on wellness and early/correct diagnosis.

Her most recent venture is a patient-clinician collaborative with a focus on OTCs, women’s products, nutritional supplements and all products that promote wellness and personalized life enhancement. Diane likes to innovate and provide novel strategies that provide value. The mainstay for all her strategic imperatives are entrenched in trust, integrity, generosity, and value. She has created opportunities for connecting patients and clinicians via technology tools based on sharing and collaborating. Her vast global experience envisions the BRIC nations as the new opportunity for taking this concordance concept forward for OTC product optimization..

Most recently Diane was selected by Springboard Enterprises to be part of Springboard Trust. In 2009 she was chosen as one of 30 women in the US with the potential to be building a $Billion business in life sciences/healthcare, Evidence-Based Solutions, Inc. This is a mission-based, data-driven company that is collecting, structuring and codifying evidence-based information to make it actionable. Evidence-Based Solutions develops cognitive-support tools for engaging patients and healthcare providers to assist in shared diagnostic and treatment decision making, resulting in improved patient care and safety.

Diane has a pharmacy degree from Purdue University. She started her career in sales and marketing at big pharma and subsequently launched several products for Vicom FCB before starting her first business, PROmedica Communications, Inc. She currently has been speaking on Social Media and Health Information Technology (HIT), in particular, PHRs and EHRs.

Leonard M. Fromer, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Business Development

As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Fromer is responsible for building relationships with the healthcare organization community, specifically medical and quality assurance directors. Dr. Fromer will be the Executive Editor of the Collaborative Evidence-Based Medicine Database and oversee the experts, specialists and vetting process He will also liaise with potential partners and potential clients for supporting, testing, and validating Aviator.

Dr. Fromer is Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, UCLA and is also Executive Medical Director for Group Practice Forum and Board of Managers at TransforMED. Dr. Fromer is past president of the California Academy of Family Physicians and a member of its board of directors.

Dr. Fromer has been the Chair of the Commission on Health Care Services for the American Academy of Family Physicians and serves as a consultant to the American Medical Informatics Association, California Department of Health Services, and World Foundation for Studies of Female Health. He currently is a member of the AAFP Commission on Quality. In the past, Dr. Fromer served as a consultant to the American Medical Association. Additionally, he was a nominee to the National Committee on Vital Health Statistics (NCVHS) of the US Department of Health and Human Services. He is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine and at the Western University of Health Sciences. Dr. Fromer has contributed numerous research articles and currently is a member of the advisory board of the state of California IMAP (Integrating Medicine and Public Health) Program on Allergy and Asthma. He also chairs the Medical Leadership Council on Cultural Proficiency in Health Care.

Dr. Fromer has served as a health systems quality improvement consultant for many years.

After graduating magna cum laude from State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, New York, he received his MD, also magna cum laude, at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and completed his residency at the University of California Irvine/Long Beach Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Fromer is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Frédéric Pothier, Chief Financial Officer

Fréderic Pothier will oversee fiscal controls, fiscal strategy, and relationships with investors and financial institutions. Mr. Pothier will manage all Company physical and intellectual assets, coordinate and maintain all financial reporting, as well as oversee payroll, insurance, 401K, taxes and contracts.

Mr. Pothier will be responsible for investor relations including preparing for investors quarterly income and balance statements and for discussing any significant variations to plan.

Mr. Pothier founded August France SAS (France), a luxury gourmet brand wholesaler whose clients included France's top distributors, restaurants, and catering companies, and served as its CFO.

Previously, Mr. Pothier was CEO of Group Electrogeloz SA, a nationally recognized printing company based in Paris, France, where he introduced and fully integrated its digital workflow management system and its digital printing plant.

Mr. Pothier was also the Executive Director of CAD Pass SA where he contributed to the transfer of French State confidential paper documents into raster- and vector-based digital document files, including the transfer of France's main railway infrastructure (subway and train), French military equipment (fighter planes, submarines, and aircraft carriers).

Mr. Pothier graduated from Ecole Superieur de Commerce (Paris, France) with a major in financial mathematics, and attended the California Institute of International Business (CIIB) in Berkeley, California with a major in Finance.

Operations

Brian Canning, Chief Technology Officer

With over 20 years of experience in the fields of IT and software engineering, eight years spent working for Apple Inc, Brian has spent the last twelve years of his career in startup companies.  Brian's latest role was as CTO of TRA Inc, a media research company consolidating massive databases of anonymized consumer behavior and delivering online media planning and ROI measurement tools to advertisers. Prior to joining TRA, Brian held the role of CTO at PhotoTLC Inc, which provided fulfillment, distribution and eCommerce services to the retail photo industry. Previously he was the CTO of an online education startup company (Teacher Universe) which was acquired by Riverdeep Inc in 2002. Brian's first startup company experience was as an IT Director with Ridge Technologies in 1998. Ridge was focused on building inexpensive SAN technology and was acquired by Adaptec Inc in 1999. Over the last five years Brian has also been the CTO of The Patient Safety Group, a Massachusetts-based LLC whose mission is to encourage a culture of safety by providing tools that give health care organizations the ability to communicate, collaborate, improve processes and share information.

David Draper, PhD

Dr. Draper, Statistician Consultant, is Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz. Much of Dr. Draper’s work has been in parametric, semi-parametric and non-parametric Bayesian modeling. He is advising Evidence-Based Solutions on making our data more actionable and applicable to several business sectors, e.g., government, insurance industry and for population analysis. He will advise us on global statistical issues as well. He is the author of hundreds of papers and continues to lecture throughout the world on Bayesian Theory. Previously, David lived in Limpley Stoke, a nice village on the river Avon near Bath with his wife a Senior Lecturer in Gerontolgy and Health Policy Analysis in Social Sciences and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Southampton.

Paula Segal, Director of IT Implementation

Paula Segal has worked for Ms. Zuckerman since 2007 at several of her healthcare education and technology companies. She served as the Web Producer for The Foundation of Better Health Care and The Women's Healthcare Forum, where she authored content for mskreport.com, womenshf.com, womenshealthcareforum.com, fbhc.org, and weekly e-newsletters. She also worked on updating the user interface on those sites in response to usability testing.

At Evidence-Based Solutions (EBS), Paula serves as the Director of Implementation, working as a liaison between the CEO, the CTO, the Engineer, and our developers. Having joined the company shortly after its founding, she has been highly involved in the entire process of developing our healthcare IT solutions, from their visionary beginnings, through their development, and into production. Paula leads cross-functional teams to evaluate, plan, invent, implement, support and manage deployment of all EBS applications.

Paula holds a B.S. from New York University and an M.A. from Columbia University.

Cheuk Liu, Systems Analyst

Mr. Liu is responsible for providing advanced computer hardware, software, and network support and reports to the CTO. He ensures the performance, security and integrity of network connectivity and communication through the wired and wireless infrastructure. He also focuses on incorporating emerging technology into the company’s business activities. Mr. Liu earned a B.S in Computer Science from Brooklyn College, and achieved the CompTIA’s A+ and Network+ certification. He is also fluent in Cantonese.

IT Consultants: Oakland University

Dr. Mohan Tanniru

Dr. Mohan Tanniru is the Dean of the School of Business Administration and Professor of MIS at Oakland University. He received Ph.D. in MIS from Northwestern University and taught at University of WI-Madison, Syracuse University, Oakland University, and U of Arizona, prior to re-joining Oakland University.

Dr. Tanniru coordinated over 300 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral projects with companies such as Intel, Honeywell, GM, DaimlerChrysler, EDS, Lear, Comerica, Compuware, Carrier-UTC, Bristly Myers Squibb, and MONY over the last 20 years.

Dr. Tanniru has published over 90 refereed journal articles in various journals, books and conference proceedings, and has presented at various national and international conferences. He is a member of ACM and AIS organizations.

Dr. Vijayan Sugumaran

Dr. Vijayan Sugumaran is Professor of MIS in the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. His research interests are in the areas of ontologies and semantic web, pervasive computing, intelligent agent and multi-agent systems, component based software development, knowledge-based systems, and data and information modeling. Dr. Sugumaran has published in several journals and publications and has presented and chaired various national and international conferences.