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Executive Team
Tyson McDowell – CEO
Tyson McDowell, CEO and co-founder of Benchmark Revenue Management, is a repeat entrepreneur focused on leveraging the Internet for true interoperability, scalability, and rapid application development. Tyson founded his first company, 4th Dimension Graphics, at 14 years old, developing commercial websites for the newly emerging world of e-commerce. He devised ground-breaking approaches to enabling some of the first internet "shopping carts" and his websites won acclaim for their level of innovation. On graduating high school, Mr. McDowell became CTO and partner of CamZone Networks, an internet streaming video company. CamZone delivered high performance real-time streaming images of beaches for surfers, airports for pilots, including the most popular video stream of that time period, the San Diego Zoo Panda Cam.
Tyson's deep technical background and driven entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Benchmark in 2001 to bring the latest in web technologies to bear in healthcare administration. He is the architect and initial developer of Benchmark's generic technology platform designed to overlay and rapidly integrate with any hospital IS infrastructure. His experience with creating and implementing solutions with Benchmark's partner since 2004, Navigant Consulting (NYSE:NCI), has given Tyson unique insight into the realities of today's healthcare administration environment and the opportunity to truly match the cutting-edge of technology to the needs of healthcare.
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Olivier Witteveen – COO & CFO
Olivier has been instrumental in establishing Benchmark's initial partnerships with Navigant in the Healthcare market. He started his career in Corporate Finance at Citibank in Amsterdam and was recruited by a private investment firm to turn around one of their investments, a $100 million international trade firm employing over 100 staff. He came to the US in 1994 and became CEO of Interpreters Unlimited, the largest provider of language services to the medical industry in California. Olivier holds a Masters degree from Rotterdam School of Management and is a reserve officer in the Dutch Cavalry, having led a 40-man reconnaissance platoon.
Ted Barduson – EVP, Sales and Business Development
Ted is a seasoned healthcare veteran with over 22 years selling and implementing enterprise-level systems and services to the industry. He was most recently a Senior VP of sales at Alteer Corporation. Prior to that, Barduson held similar positions with Siemens and Edix. He was instrumental in the growth of Edix from a $10MM company to a $130MM leader in the highly competitive transcription market.
Lincoln Fish – VP, Marketing and Product Management
Lincoln is a successful entrepreneur with significant financial, customer service, and business development experience. He was the co-founder and ran Real Health Laboratories. The company had sales in 1994 of $11,000 and grew to $12MM in annual revenues before it was sold to a major industry player, Natural Alternatives, making it one of the fastest growing consumer products companies. Previously, he was a real estate software developer, a consultant, and the Marketing Director for an international technical society. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.
John York – VP, Product Development
John has over 20 years of hands-on experience in building enterprise-level computer-automated solutions for companies such as CardSystems, Simpact, Reuters, Dow Jones, and NASA. His efforts have increasingly been focused on managing the design and development of application systems that offer highly-effective processing capabilities, including imaging, workflow, neural networking, rules-based expert systems, and integrated web-based interfaces. John is an expert in combining emerging, state-of-the-art technologies, with improved business processes. John also served two combat tours with a US Air Force helicopter unit in Vietnam rescuing downed airmen.