Meet The Healthcare Digital Transformation Experts
Your partner in digital transformation and health IT growth
Damo Consulting is a digital transformation and strategic growth advisory firm serving healthcare enterprises and the technology companies that support them. We specialize in digital and growth strategy, actionable healthcare market intelligence, and branded thought leadership for our clients.
Board of Advisors
Edward Marx
Edward Marx has served as Chief Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic, a $10 billion medical system where he was responsible for the development and execution of IT strategic planning and governance, driving optimal resource utilization, and team development and organizational support. He was also responsible for developing leaders and leveraging digital healthcare technologies to enable superior business and clinical outcomes.
Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Edward served as Senior Vice President/ CIO of Texas Health Resources. In 2015, he spent over two years as Executive Vice President of the Advisory Board, providing IT leadership and strategy for New York City Health & Hospital.
Edward began his healthcare service as a janitor while in high school where his commitment to patient care began. He later served as an anesthesia technician before transitioning to the information technology field. Concurrent with his healthcare career, Edward served as an Army combat medic before becoming a combat engineer officer.
Harry D. Fox
Harry has broad experience with information systems and over thirty years working in IT leadership roles. He has a strong background and a focus on cybersecurity, healthcare systems, and strategic architecture. He has extensive experience in eCommerce, large scale systems development, data warehousing and business analytics. Experience in emerging strategy for cloud, blockchain and big data.
Harry was the Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer & Shared Services Executive at CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield from 2011 to mid-2018. CareFirst is a $9.0 billion not-for-profit health care company offering a comprehensive portfolio of health insurance products and administrative services to 3.2 million individuals and groups in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Northern Virginia.
From mid-2008-2011, Harry was the regional CIO for Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic Region. Harry had overall accountability for all IT products and services delivered to the Mid-Atlantic region, including KP’s Electronic Medical Record System (EMR), EPIC.
From 1999 to Mid 2008, Harry was a VP of Information Technology at Coventry Health Care (now Aetna), a national managed health care company. His responsibilities included: all Internet, e-Commerce, EDI, Information Management, Data Warehousing and Business Reporting initiatives from strategy through implementation.
John Glaser
John Glaser Ph.D was the founding chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Past-President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Since 2015, John has been a senior executive with Cerner. He joined Cerner as a part of the Siemens Health Services acquisition, where he was Chief Executive Officer. John is focused on advancing Cerner’s strategies and thought leadership position in the industry.
Prior to Siemens, John was Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Partners HealthCare. He also previously served as Vice President of information systems at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has been a Senior Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). He is the former Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, World Economic Forum.
John is currently a member of the boards of InTouch Health, the American Telemedicine Association, the eHealth Initiative, PatientPing and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
Shantanu Nigam
Shantanu is a veteran entrepreneur with a passion for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and patient wellness. His drive is fueled by a unique background that spans healthcare and the transformative AI technology that has changed the way complex problems are understood and solved today.
Shantanu is the Managing Partner of SeedToB, a venture capital and private equity firm focused on healthcare AI startups. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of Jvion, a leading healthcare AI company that offers a range of clinical AI applications that prevent avoidable harm, optimize utilization, and improve health outcomes. Founded on top of a unique eigen vector based clustering math, Jvion was instrumental in defining Prescriptive Analytics market segment in clinical space. Jvion was rated by KLAS as the #1 Clinical AI company in the country both in terms of number of clients served as well as revenue.
Shantanu’s career path started in the late 90s when he founded an AI company that was shifting search algorithms from keyword-based to intent driven through the use of Eigenspace. Shantanu moved into Accenture’s Healthcare practice where he helped bring to market some of Accenture’s most innovative and leading-edge offerings. Shantanu earned his Bachelor of Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in India.
Marc Probst
Marc Probst is the former CIO of Intermountain Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Marc has been involved with information technology and healthcare services for over 35 years. Prior to Intermountain, he was a partner with two large professional service organizations and served 7 years on the Federal Healthcare Information Technology Policy Committee assisting in developing HIT Policy for the U.S. Government.
In early 2020, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) jointly recognized Probst as ‘CIO of the Year’. Marc has also been a board member of numerous healthcare information technology organizations and served as the board chair for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. He currently serves on several HIT company boards and is a board member of Nemours Children’s Hospitals.
The Team
Providing Strategic Consulting Across the Digital Health Landscape
The Founder
Paddy Padmanabhan (1963 - 2023) was an award-winning business leader and trusted C-suite Advisor with a proven history of success in guiding key strategies across the healthcare and technology sectors. He was the co-author of the best-selling book Healthcare Digital Transformation - How Consumerism, technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future. He was the Founder & CEO of Damo Consulting, a digital transformation advisory firm focused on health systems, and DamoIntel Health, a pioneering digital health intelligence platform.
A respected and credible voice in healthcare technology, Paddy was widely considered a thought leader and expert practitioner in digital transformation and healthcare technology markets. He worked closely with C-suite leaders in healthcare organizations to drive digital strategies, organizational efficiencies, and patient outcomes. Prior to founding Damo in 2014, Paddy worked at globally recognized firms such as Accenture, GE, and Wipro. He had also been in Silicon Valley start-ups that went through successful exits. He was also the author of a previous book The Big Unlock – Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-Based Care Era, and hosted a widely acclaimed podcast featuring C-suite executives from healthcare and technology. Paddy was a sought-after speaker on healthcare digital transformation and was widely published and quoted in industry media on digital health technology trends.
Paddy was a graduate of the executive management program of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He held an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He was CPHIMSS certified and held additional certifications from the Harvard Medical School.
Paddy lived in Chicago with his wife and two cats. He was also a professional singer/ guitar player and performed as a solo artist and with a classic rock and blues band.
Since 2012, Damo Consulting has been working with leading healthcare enterprises on technology strategy and digital transformation. We have also worked with some of the leading technology firms and emerging health IT companies to transform their brands and accelerate growth.
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MEET THE MANAGING PARTNER AND CEO
Rohit Mahajan is an entrepreneur and a leader in the information technology and software industry. His focus lies in the field of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. He has also written a book on Quantum Care, A Deep Dive into AI for Health Delivery and Research that has been published and has been trending #1 in several categories on Amazon.
Rohit is skilled in business and IT strategy, M&A, Sales & Marketing and Global Delivery. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, is a Wharton School Fellow and a graduate from the Harvard Business School.
Rohit is the CEO of Damo, Managing Partner and CEO of BigRio, the President at Citadel Discovery, Advisor at CarTwin, Managing Partner at C2R Tech, and Founder at BetterLungs. He has completed executive education programs in AI in Business and Healthcare from MIT Sloan, MIT CSAIL and Harvard School of Public Health. He has completed the Global Healthcare Leaders Program from Harvard Medical School.
Since 2012, Damo Consulting has been working with leading healthcare enterprises on technology strategy and digital transformation. We have also worked with some of the leading technology firms and emerging health IT companies to transform their brands and accelerate growth.
Explore our clients stories across the digital health landscape
Our Vision
We envision digitally-enabled health systems and technology partners collaborating to deliver a superior care experience and promote better health outcomes for healthcare consumers around the world.
Our Mission
As a preferred advisory partner and expert in digital transformation strategies, we are committed to supporting healthcare enterprises with digital health innovation while helping technology providers seize the opportunity for growth through the right market strategies.
The Team
The Damo Consulting Team: Real-World Experience in Health IT + Recognized Thought Leadership in Healthcare
Ritu M Uberoy
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Ritu has over twenty-five years of experience in the software and information technology industry in the United States and in India. She established Saviance Technologies in India and has been involved in the delivery of several successful software projects and products to clients in various industry segments.
Ritu completed AI for Health Care: Concepts and Applications from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation from MIT Professional Education. She has successfully taught Gen AI concepts in a classroom setting in Houston and in workshop settings to C-Suite leaders in Boston and Cleveland. She attended HIMSS in March 2024 at Orlando and the Imagination in Action AI Summit at MIT in April 2024. She is also responsible for the GenAI Center of Excellence at BigRio and DigiMTM Digital Maturity Model and Assessment at Damo.
Ritu earned her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Delhi Institute of Technology (now NSIT) and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Santa Clara University in California. She has participated in the Fellow’s program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Corey Thompson
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Corey has over 15 years of executive experience in the conception, management, and delivery of technology to some of the most demanding locations on earth.
Corey has spent over a decade successfully implementing technology solutions for manufacturing, construction, engineering, supply chain, maintenance, maritime, and the military.
Corey’s career includes 10 years with CB&I as VP of Global Supply Chain and SVP of Technology and CIO. Prior to that he spent 23 years in the US Submarine Force culminating as the Resource Sponsor of the Submarine Tomahawk Cruise Missile program and the MK48 ADCAP torpedo program in Washington DC.
Corey is a graduate of the Stanford “Innovative CIO” course as well as the “Disruptive Innovation Strategy” course from Harvard University.
He is a retired Naval Officer and board certified Naval Nuclear Engineer. He also holds a bachelor’s in Mathematics from the University of Idaho and a master’s in Financial Management from the Naval Postgraduate School where he graduated with distinction as a Conrad Scholar.
Darrel Schmucker, CPDHTS
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Darrel has over thirty-five years of healthcare IT leadership experience working with standalone medical groups, integrated delivery systems and rural hospitals. He has led several large transformation projects including practice management system replacements, managed care system implementation, EHR implementation, data warehouse creation, contact center consolidation and application rationalization. He is Vice President, Digital Transformation, Provider at Damo Consulting.
Darrel’s career includes nearly 30 years of IT leadership roles for Sutter Health and Common Spirit affiliates in the Sacramento region. He has focused on improving the patient and clinician experience of healthcare through implementing innovative technology solutions.
Darrel earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a double major in Accounting and Management Information Systems from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. During his career he has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Colorado and a Certified Medical Practice Executive (CMPE) through the American College of Medical Practice Executives. He recently completed all requirements to be a HIMSS Certified Professional in Digital Health Transformation Strategy (CPDHTS).
Arpita Bose Das
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Arpita is a marketing professional with over twelve years of experience in content marketing, research, marketing communication, and corporate communication.
At Damo consulting she manages the company’s end-to-end marketing communication, internal communications, business and brand messaging, social media, media relations, and brand and marketing strategy. She is the brand custodian for brand Damo Consulting and The Big Unlock. Arpita has a knack for finding solutions and templatizing processes that helps Damo Consulting increase its brand impact with limited resources. Arpita has contributed to setting up the company’s collaboration platforms that enable everyone to work effectively across time zones.
Arpita is good at managing and organizing projects and events. She works closely with CXOs and marketing teams to plan and execute key brand and organizational initiatives. She has worked with several organizations in the technology space and brings with her the experience of working with stakeholders across the marketing value chain.
Arpita is a graduate of Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University. She has a Master’s in English and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Communications.
Amanda Havard
Product and Design Strategist
Amanda specializes in translating an organization’s needs and visions into a usable, human-centered technology or process. She helps founders and executives bring innovative ideas to life by effectively collaborating across business, policy, strategy, technical, data, and design teams. Through extensive work in the public health space, she collaborated with health plan and health system leadership, and state and federal officials to build an enterprise SaaS platform that transformed assessment processes for Medicaid patients and community health workers into smoother workflows that ultimately saved money, time, and expedited care authorization and delivery. In this role, she dove deeply into health policy, health data privacy, and has become an advocate for patient civil rights.
Amanda Havard is a former startup founder, tech strategist, and entrepreneurially-minded executive who lives to bring usable software to the areas that lack it. Leveraging her background in cognitive development from her time as a research fellow at the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University, she applies what we understand about how people think to design technology people can use and processes that help people thrive.
From digital media to public policy, from digital therapeutics to enterprise work tools, she insists that the world we live in and the businesses we build can be better if we invest in better experiences and better technology.
Arpita Bose Das
Brand transformation & marketing operations
Arpita is a marketing professional with over twelve years of experience in content marketing, research, marketing communication, and corporate communication.
At Damo consulting she manages the company’s end-to-end marketing communication, internal communications, business and brand messaging, social media, media relations, and brand and marketing strategy. She is the brand custodian for brand Damo Consulting and The Big Unlock. Arpita has a knack for finding solutions and templatizing processes that helps Damo Consulting increase its brand impact with limited resources. Arpita has contributed to setting up the company’s collaboration platforms that enable everyone to work effectively across time zones.
Arpita is good at managing and organizing projects and events. She works closely with CXOs and marketing teams to plan and execute key brand and organizational initiatives. She has worked with several organizations in the technology space and brings with her the experience of working with stakeholders across the marketing value chain.
Arpita is a graduate of Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University. She has a Master’s in English and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Communications.
Blaine Anderson
Digital Health Product Innovator
Blaine Anderson is an experienced entrepreneur, executive, growth strategist, operator with over 25 years of experience accelerating innovative product development in Healthcare through Design Thinking and User Centered Design.
Blaine specializes in human-centered design to create digital products that deliver sustainable, profitable growth for business. He has worked with large companies and startups across a broad spectrum of the healthcare vertical, using a human-centered design approach to uncover and turn insights into innovative products based on real customer needs, new technical possibilities, and business viability.
Blaine is currently CEO of OtherLeft, a strategic design and innovation consultancy that leverages human-centered design to create digital products that deliver sustainable, profitable growth for clients in digital health. He is one of the founders of a leading healthcare-focused digital strategy, design and development agency, PointClear, and currently serves on the Board of Directors. Before beginning his entrepreneurial journey in 2006, Blaine spent over 15 years at NASA, specializing in the testing large space structures in the Space Station and Shuttle program
Bhawna Mishra
Digital Marketing
Bhawna has over seven years of experience in the marketing communication industry, including content marketing, social media marketing, and public relations. She creates, maintains, and manages content for company’s social media channels. She assists in designing digital marketing strategies by planning and executing digital marketing campaigns to increase brand awareness and monitors company’s social media presence. Bhawna is also responsible for assisting media relations for the company and manages the end-to-end production of The Big Unlock Podcast.
Prior to Damo, she has worked with several public relations companies and have handled clients across industry verticals. Bhawna holds a Post-Graduation degree in M.S. in Communication from Garden City College, Bangalore.
Dominick Grillas
Technology Strategy and Sourcing
Dominick is a subject matter expert in global sourcing, IT service Management, strategy and process optimization with over 25 years of experience around the world.
He held leadership positions in Europe and the USA with Cap Gemini, Keane and Wipro, driving technology and process outsourcing and reengineering, organizational design, strategy execution and IT redeployment for leading Fortune 500 clients.
Author of numerous articles, white papers and methodology manuals, Dominick is a regular speaker at events and conferences, including topics blending technology and business such as Risk Management and Strategic Agility.
Dominick is a graduate of Bordeaux University (France) with multiple BAs and a Pocket MBA by Boston University / Questrom School of Business, in addition to numerous technology certifications.
Fred Pennic
Digital Strategy and Patient Engagement
Josh Rothman
Digital Health Product Innovator
Josh specializes in strategic design and innovation that leverages human-centered design to create digital products that deliver sustainable, profitable growth for clients in digital health. He has developed his product and design expertise over two decades of hands-on project work and leadership. He knows what it takes to create world-class solutions, from the smallest detail to the big ideas that shape workflows and outcomes.
Josh specializes in design thinking to ensure the right problems are solved at the right time. By using a user-centered design approach, he understands the behaviors, pain points, goals, environments, and skillsets of his users. He is a strong advocate for “simplifying the complex”.
He is a partner at OtherLeft, a design consultancy, and was previously the Director of UX at a leading healthcare-focused digital strategy, design and development agency. Other endeavors include Vice President of Product for a bundled payments services company and Director of UX for a leading EHR product company where he was a member of the senior leadership team and led a nationwide physician advisory board.
Joyoti Goswami
Healthcare Technology
Joyoti is a physician with varied experience in clinical practice, pharma consulting and Healthcare information technology. She has worked with several EMRs including Allscripts, AthenaHealth, GE Perioperative and Nextgen. Her core areas of interest are clinical informatics, EMR content development, Interoperability & Integration and Health data analytics. She has a post-graduation in Bioinformatics.
Kaushik Dutta
Market Intelligence and Research
Kaushik is the head of research operations at Damo Consulting. He leads research initiatives of the company including DamoIntelTM platform, which is a comprehensive database of digital health programs and technology initiatives across healthcare.
With a decade of research and advisory experience, he has led many projects in the area of market/ competitive intelligence, GTM, vendor assessment, M&A partner assessment, for client organizations such as health systems, digital start-ups, and IT service providers. He supports the enterprise healthcare organizations’ in their pursuit for building digital health strategies with tailored data and insights.
Kaushik holds an MBA degree, with several certifications in areas such as healthcare IT, and data analytics.
Ramesh Raghavan
Digital Strategy
Ramesh Raghavan is a healthcare digital transformation leader and mentor facilitating the ongoing journey to digitize healthcare organizations. In this role he mentors business and technology leaders to strategically align the digital journey with the organizational mission and goals. He brings a strong understanding of healthcare mandates, patient journey across care management and payment for the same as well as technology that will enable seamless transitions. His skills in risk analysis and mitigation to future proof business initiatives is enabled by his choice of appropriate technology that optimize the cost and performance of the solutions.
Sanjith kumar
Technology and Design
Sanjith is a web and graphic designer with six years of experience in working with Adobe products and WordPress. At Damo Consulting, he is involved in designing, maintaining, and up-keeping of the Damo Consulting and Big Unlock websites. He is responsible for designing all content assets for Damo Consulting and keeping the brand of the company intact. He has hands on experience in developing front-end (HTML,CSS,Javascript) and back-end (VB,C#,PHP/Mysql) programming languages.
Sanjith is a Graduate in Information Technology under the faculty of Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University and holds a MBA in Information Systems.
Scott Frederick, RN BSN MSHI
Advisor Healthcare Delivery Strategist
Scott Frederick is an experienced clinician, executive, healthcare technologist with over 20 years of experience designing, developing and implementing innovative clinical delivery models and technologies.
Scott specializes in working with healthcare stakeholders, user experience designers and developers to improve patient and provider workflows while achieving optimal health and business outcomes. He has advised numerous startup, as well as industry leaders with launching new products and refactoring existing platforms.
Scott is currently an advisor to OtherLeft, a strategic design and innovation consultancy and is also the founder of RPM Advisory Group, a remote patient monitoring and telehealth consulting company focused on helping wearable technology companies with commercialization strategies. Prior to founding RPM, Scott spent over 16 years as a critical nurse and healthcare informaticist.
