iReminder's Advisory Board

Debora Spar, Ph.D., President, Barnard College

  • Harvard Business School, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
  • Studies how firms compete in foreign markets and how government policies shape and constrain their options
  • Author of Ruling the Waves: Cycle of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet
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    o Study of business cycles, identifying the path of future innovations and the natural development from idea to market in a changing world

  • Author of The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception
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    o Analyzes how the "baby business" has developed and ways commerce, politics and technology are likely to interact in and affect this market

Simon Rosenstein, MD, Vice President of Analytics, Ingenix

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  • Board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Management
  • Chief physician of a large medical group and senior medical director with several health insurers
  • Expertise in managed care operations, strategic planning, hospital and health plan utilization management, and financial analysis
  • Established "Ask the Doctor" web presence for Physicians Health Services
  • Designed and taught Cardiac Disease Prevention Program and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Educational Program
    o Patient educational and risk factor reduction

Bruce F. Basarab, CEO, Basarab Consulting, LLC

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  • Consultant to publicly-held companies in start-up and turnaround situations
  • More than 25 years in the domestic and international pharmaceuticals market
  • Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Geneva Pharmaceuticals (a Novartis company)
    o Established a direct sales and marketing organization for this $500 million manufacturer and developer of generic products
    o Improved U.S. generic market share position from number 5 to number 2
  • Vice President of Sales, Pharmaceuticals Division, Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    o Developed launch plans for three new products: Vivelle, Voltaren XR and Tegretol XR
    o Established a separate contract sales organization to provide increased reach and frequency for selected strategically important products

Jay Friedman, Vice President Marketing, Audible Magic

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  • More than 25 years working in Internet and high tech markets
  • Founder SonicSwap
  • COO/SVP Sales & Marketing/General Manager, LiveWorld, Inc.
    o Built a powerful annuity-based business around social networks
    o Designed and launched new product offerings
  • SVP Operations, Prognostics, a research-based management consulting company
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    o Developed and implemented broad based customer feedback systems for Fortune 1000 companies
    o Worked with executive management teams on setting customer focused strategies

Key Shifts in Healthcare

  • Recognition that patients are the ultimate decision-makers, demanding more information in order to better manage their conditions
  • Patient monitoring is becoming decentralized
  • Medicine is becoming more personalized, targeting individual treatment but in a scalable way
  • Health literacy and each patient's motivations are the keys to success in adherence programs