Management Team &
Members of Board of Directors
We provide best practices and simple tools to the healthcare industry.
We have two missions:
- to keep MRN Managertm the leading tool suite for managing Medicare and insurance denials. MRN Manager will save you time and money!
- to keep Med Flashtm the best product and service for creating and managing portable medical records. MedFlash puts your medical record in your pocket.
Ronn Schuman, President, CEO & Board Member
Mr. Schuman, CEO for CTC, has an extensive background in healthcare business administration and executive strategic planning. He has served as Vice President of Business Development/Operations for Liberty Medical from 1997 to 1999, a $100M medical supply company, (PLMD) and was their Compliance Officer for two years. Mr. Schuman has owned and operated numerous HME companies over the last 25+years. He is a registered and licensed respiratory clinician and has a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Phoenix, AZ.
In 1987 Mr. Schuman created ACT, Accessible Care Together and ACT Software, which were the beginning models for one call seamless healthcare networks. The companies had over 50 subscribers throughout the NY - TRI State area. Some of Mr. Schuman's other areas of expertise are, team facilitation, medical billing, call center development, mail order fulfillment and management - process consulting.
Jon Pevzner, Executive VP, CIO & Board Member
Mr. Pevzner, CIO, was the owner and managing partner of Cyberdyne Systems, Inc, a computer networking and web design firm located in Port St. Lucie, Florida from 1997 to 2003. His expertise ranged from company operations to design and implementation of dynamic e-commerce web sites. He also analyzed, designed and implemented networking technologies, diagnosed and repaired software, hardware, configurations, and compatibility and security issues. In 1996, Mr. Pevzner was the operations manager for Eastern Micro Systems, Inc., a computer consulting and retail sales firm located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Pevzner has additional experience as a systems engineer/consultant and was responsible for analyzing existing computer systems and advising clients regarding upgrades, maintenance and computer remanufacturing.
Al Forcella, Director of Operations
Mr. Forcella has been CEO, General Manager and Independent Consultant with a successful history of growth and turnaround management for a number of health care companies.
Mr. Forcella holds his BA from Temple University with a Major in Marketing. He completed the Harriman program in Advanced Marketing Management at Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin's Marketing Management program and the Advanced Finance for Executives program at Wharton School of Business.
Mr. Forcella served three years as Captain in the U.S. Army, receiving the Army Commendation Medal.
Jim Mattecheck, VP of Sales
Jim Mattecheck has over 28 years software and technology experience across multiple industries. Jim has a long history of improving the performance and sales of enterprise and retail software companies.
Jim has been a SVP and General Manager for SAP retail focused on the North American market and He was instrumental in helping SAP drive into the retail market while working closer with many retailers in the go-live projects on the SAP platform. He was executive vice president at SupplyChainge, an emerging technology company focused on providing an optimization engine that dramatically reduces lead times associated with short life cycle products. This solution was leading edge and primarily designed for the Footwear and Apparel industries.
The majority of Jim's career has been focused on the retail and the CPG applications market, holding leadership positions at Oracle, Retek, Tomax, and CommerceHub. All of these companies are leading providers of solutions for the retail market. Jim provides deep business development and channels experience and he has a unique perspective on the retail industry.
Mr. Mattecheck holds an MBA from Notre Dame and Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Portland.
Michael Robbins, VP of Information Systems
Michael has led a variety of strategic business initiatives during 25 years as an independent consultant to start-ups, private companies and public institutions including The Fortune 500 and small to mid-size companies along with a public utility and a state university. His experience prepares him well to manage the development of our core products and their enabling technologies.
Mr. Robbins holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and was once a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics. He also holds a BA from the University of Vermont and has studied at Georgetown University. He taught over a thousand students during eight years as an adjunct professor at the Harriman School of Business Administration at Stony Brook University.
About half of Michael’s engagements have been in healthcare provider organizations. As a leader of strategic change, he has worked onsite for Qwest Communications, Continental Airlines, NCR Corporation, Stony Brook University Hospital, Liberty Medical Supply, ADR Home Healthcare, Washington Mutual Savings and Loan, and Fujitsu Corporation.
His specialization is development of web-based products and services.
Jeff Frankel, Board Member
Mr. Frankel, Director, is a co-founder of Star Advisor's, LLC currently serving as a Partner for this full service business strategy and funding consulting firm. Prior to Star Advisor's LLC, Mr. Frankel co-founded WebCMN, Inc. in 2000 and through acquisition later served as President and CEO from 2001 to 2006 for Trac Medical Solution's, Inc., a Division of Authentidate Holding Corporation, [NASDAQ: ADAT].
His primary responsibilities included directing Trac Medical's daily operations as well as supporting the strategic alliance with the United States Postal Service Electronic Postmark Initiative (EPM). From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Frankel served as Chief Operating Officer for Health Focus of N.Y., LLC, a full service Home Medical Equipment provider with annualized revenues of $12.5mil. Mr. Frankel boasts 20 years of healthcare industry experience, including 5 years of management consulting experience with Ernst & Young, as well as extensive work with Occupational Medicine and Medicare Part B. Mr. Frankel is a board member with Seton's Healthcare Foundation. Mr. Frankel holds an MBA from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. in Health Systems Administration.
Jay Regan, Board Member
Jay brings over 30 years of sales, marketing and financial experience to the Connectyx board, including an early career in finance with Chemical Bank and later with J.P. Morgan Chase. Jay has been immersed in commercial lending and corporate finance and has even served as a municipal bond underwriter.
In the last 15 years Jay has contributed to the rise of a number of start ups, such as META Group, Affinova and Knowledge Networks, largely by serving as Vice President of Sales for these companies. Jay is currently Vice President of Client Development for DME, one of the more highly regarded and progressive direct marketing companies in the country.
Jay graduated from Brown University with a BA in Economics and has completed the entire MBA curricula at the Stern School of Business at NYU.