Brent Gendleman
President and CEO
Brent Gendleman brings a diverse background to 5AM. With 15 years of experience serving customers by listening to and articulating their needs in the software development industry, including the last 10 serving the biomedical community, he has focused on providing a range of services that enable secure, web-based collaboration across a global network of users and systems. He has managed large software development teams executing across all phases of the software life cycle and consistently has been able to tie business objectives into useful and used software applications. His passion is finding the opportunities where software can effectively decrease the information gap between life science discovery and the practical impact on human health. His mission is to drive 5AM's growth, value, capabilities and delivery of technology that meet the business needs of the life science market and efficiently improve its results.
Prior to forming 5AM, Brent was a Practice Manager for Number Six Software (Reston, VA), where he built and led a software development team that produced 6-10 production-quality web systems each year. He served life science clients such as the National Cancer Institute, the Hospital for Special Surgery (NYC), and the Children's National Medical Center (DC), in addition to significant contracts with the U.S. Air Force and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Prior to Number Six, he spent two years performing international aid work in Germany and Yugoslavia, was a consultant with a subsidiary of SRA developing web solutions for the Environmental Protection Agency, and holds five years of publishing experience at the standard for weekly scientific publishing, Science Magazine.
Brent earned a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University in Television, Radio and Film Writing and a Web Development Certificate from George Washington University.
Susan Mason
Chief Operations Officer
Susan Mason has more than 16 years of experience in the information technology industry, including more than 11 years of Finance and Contracts experience. She has been working within the Federal Government arena for more than 18 years. Her strong finance, contracts, customer support, and information technology background helps her to work effectively with our clients.
Prior to joining 5AM, Susan spent nearly nine years with Number Six Software most recently as the Vice President of Finance and Administration. She was the primary point of contact for contracts totaling more than $13 million annually in sales. Having participated in the growth of a company whose annual revenue was less than $1 million in sales when she started with the company in 1994, Susan knows what it takes to make a company successful. Susan also spent 8 years at EDS as a Business Manager working on, among other things, winning proposals worth more than $200 million.
Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with a minor concentration in Economics from Trinity College as well as a Masters Certificate in Government Contracts from George Washington University and ESI International.
Ginger Price
VP of Business Development
Ginger Price has over 25 years of experience working with clinicians and patients to build and implement technology solutions that are integrated into the delivery of health care and preventive services. Ginger has a passion to see information technology transform the way that health and wellness services are given and received. She believes that when policy, education, usability, content, and technology are addressed holistically, IT solutions will deliver on the promise and become used and useful in a transformational way.
While at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ms. Price was instrumental in the concept, design, development and implementation of the My HealtheVet program, VA's personal health record for veterans. The vision was to transform the way VA cares for veterans and VA employees by providing capabilities for them to become informed and active partners in managing their own health. Beginning as pilot at nine VA medical centers, My HealtheVet grew into a federal benefit with over 650,000 users nationwide and abroad, and was honored as one of the top five 2007 excellence.gov award winners for leveraging technology to enhance collaboration.
In August 2008, Ms. Price accepted a position as the Program Director for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). She transitioned the NHIN from the Trial Implementation / demonstration phase into the first limited production pilot, where the Social Security Administration began to receive live information from MedVirginia. This evolution involved recasting processes for defining and instantiating interoperability specifications, automating conformance and interoperability testing, and assisting Federal and private health information exchange organizations to agree on principles and data use agreements for the nationwide exchange of health information.
Greg Gurley
VP of Client Services
Greg Gurley has more than 22 years of software engineering experience leading the successful development of a variety of web-based applications for government IT systems and medical research. Greg works to understand customer needs, to articulate plans to meet those needs, and to be innovative when it comes to applying best practices, methodologies and technology. He has extensive experience applying object oriented technologies, use-case modeling and user stories, and agile software development. His industry certifications include PMP and ScrumMaster. As VP of Client Services, Greg ensures the successful delivery of 5AM services to our clients as well as the efficiency and consistency of 5AM delivery teams.
Prior to joining 5AM, Greg spent 12 years as a Senior Consultant with Number Six Software, leading customer accounts and teams to successful delivery of services. Key clients included the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Air Force, Hospital of Special Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of NIH.
Greg holds a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Virginia.
William FitzHugh
Chief Science Officer
William FitzHugh has over 20 years of experience crafting software solutions to interesting problems, especially in the field of molecular biology. As Chief Science Officer at 5AM, he prides himself on being able to bridge the worlds of software development, statistics, and molecular biology in a way that focuses on solving scientific problems pragmatically. He is skilled in statistical analysis and visualization of biological data so that clients can make the most of their experimental work. He is a skilled mentor for software developers in the area of genomics and bioinformatics.
Prior to joining 5AM, Will worked for 15 years at such biomedical research pioneers as Celera Genomics, the MIT/Whitehead Center for Genome Research (now the Broad Institute), and the Institute for Genomic Research (now the Venter Institute). He has worked on scientific projects such as whole-genome sequencing and annotation, proteomics-based drug target discovery, genetic association studies, and diagnostic biomarker discovery and analysis. He is a co-author on papers describing the draft sequence of the human genome, the first complete bacterial genome ever sequenced, Haemophilus influenzae, and the first large collection of human cDNA sequences. He has experience producing software for laboratory information management, genome visualization and annotation, proteomics data visualization and analysis, and integrative cancer research.
Will has a Master of Science in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Cornell University.
Leslie Power
Chief Communication Officer
Leslie Power brings 15 years of experience in project management, software architecture, usability and interface design, and object-oriented analysis, design, and programming to her role as lead engineer communicating the company's message. An experienced web application developer certified in the RUP, Scrum, and as a PMP, she is comfortable in most roles within the software development process, combining her technical and communicative abilities with curiosity, persistence, open ears, humor, and excellent project and people management skills.
A serial entrepreneur, Leslie worked at Digital Addiction, serving as Vice President for the start up internet gaming company and a lead web developer for their flagship product, Sanctum, an online collectible card game, as well as Dream Deck Baseball 2001, built for Electronic Arts. An avocational fiction writer, she also was the Director of Marketing for the National Center for Nonprofit Boards (now Boardsource).
Since 2000, Leslie has worked exclusively in the life sciences because she is committed to the idea that software can enable progress in research and patient treatment, and transform data into knowledge. Leslie holds a Bachelor of Arts from Haverford College and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Todd Parnell
Chief Technology Officer
Todd Parnell has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry. As 5AM's CTO, Todd is responsible for all aspects of the technical direction – from developing and communicating the technical vision to ensuring that 5AM has the technology knowledge and resources to realize the visionary goals. Focusing on continually expanding 5AM's technological advantages, Todd works with his team to deliver current and cutting edge technological solutions that benefit existing customers and expand market opportunities. Todd has broad engineering and software development experience in the areas of clinical informatics, agile methodologies, and enterprise architecture.
Prior to joining 5AM, Todd was a product architect at Vecna Technologies, Inc., where he oversaw the Quality Care (QC) clinical product line for infection control surveillance, patient safety, RFID infection control, and patient self-service solutions. He served as the external technical liaison for all partners and significant professional organizations, particularly HL7. His functional responsibilities included maximizing long term ROI of all QC products; securing and managing product R&D funding, and leading development of strategic products.
Parnell holds Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of IEEE and HL7.org.
Bill Mason
Vice President of Products
Bill Mason has more than 20 years of software engineering experience, specializing in the design and development of web based applications. A Rational certified instructor for Object Oriented Analysis and design, with in-depth knowledge of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Bill has the proven background to guide customers and development teams to achieve superior results. Bill recently worked with Duke University to design and develop a translational research application which brings together disparate cancer databases through the use of web services technology. This application, which will be used by thousands of physicians,will bring the science of cancer research to local physicians to help better predict patient outcomes.
Prior to joining 5AM, Bill spent eight years with Number Six Software. His excellent leadership and commitment to quality was a significant contributor to growing the company from six to over 70 employees. Bill's collaboration with clients and mentoring of colleagues leads to project success and client satisfaction.
Bill holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Georgia State University.
Dan Kokotov
Director of Research & Development
Dan Kokotov brings over eight years of experience in software development and a proven track record of success throughout his career as a technical leader and innovator to his role as director of R&D. In this role, Dan leads adoption of new technologies and ensures 5AM stays at the cutting edge of science and technology.
Prior to joining 5AM, Dan served as the Director of Software Engineering at Vecna Technologies, Inc., overseeing the company's development processes and cross-product design. Dan also led many successful project and product teams, and as architect of the QC Kiosk suite of self-service solutions, managed the companies transition from services to products. Dan was the primary investigator for an SBIR research project focused on applying RFID technology to infection control software, designing innovative algorithms and visualizations for representing location tracking information and correlating it to infection data from hospital lab systems. A staunch supporter of open source technology, Dan is the primary author of the XSnapshot open source project.
Dan holds a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT, where his graduate work involved research in lightweight formal methods and distributed computing. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Kappa Nu Honor Societies.
Steve Matyas
Chief Information Officer
Steve Matyas brings a variety of applied software engineering experience with both commercial and government clients. He is a co-author of a Addison-Wesley Professional series text, the Jolt Award-winning Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk, a contributing author of UML 2 Toolkit a J. Wiley & Sons publication and an instructor of Java Web Development.
Steve was a lead engineer on the team that built the initial release of the Microarray Enterprise Manager. Much of his professional hands-on experience has been in the Java/JavaEE custom software development and services industry with a specialization in methodologies, object technology, and process improvement, including the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and especially Agile development.
Prior to 5AM, Steve performed a wide variety of roles from business analyst, project manager to developer, designer, and architect. He has served such varied clients as Time Warner/AOL, the National Cancer Institute, EDS, U.S. Department of Defense, and Children’s National Medical Center (DC). Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) and holds a variety of professional certifications in object-oriented, process and Java technology.
