Deanna is a serial entrepreneur with a record of turning startups into success stories. A three-time seed-stage CFO/COO, Deanna has navigated capitalization and company growth resulting in two successful exits and a third to a $1B valuation. As Co-Founder and CFO/COO at Health eCareers, she helped associations navigate the print to digital revolution providing new business strategies and supporting data models to succeed. As CFO of Dizzion, Deanna led the remote work enablement platform through multiple funding rounds supporting growth from customer #1 to four-time Inc. 5,000 Award Recipient and a successful exit to Private Equity. Deanna became CFO of a small Community Development Financial Institution dedicated to providing economic opportunities and progressive growth for underserved urban and rural small businesses. Over the subsequent three years, Lendistry has evolved into a leading hyper-growth FinTech originating loans and grants of $8B on behalf of nearly 500k small businesses. Deanna builds enduring companies with operational discipline and mission-based cultures.

Bryan has been a pioneer in the healthcare recruiting space for over 30 years. As Founder and CEO of Health eCareers, he built the first digital healthcare job board in 1993. In 1995, through a partnership with the American College of Cardiology, he helped launch the first medical association career site. As CEO and Managing Director of both public and PE-backed entities, Bryan has experience managing digital recruiting platforms across all business models in the market today. Bryan’s ability to understand business challenges and help association leaders explore strategic solutions has enabled hundreds of medical societies to capitalize on recruitment-related opportunities, and in the process, led to many of the career center innovations accepted today as standard operating procedures. Bryan brings a fresh new approach to career services that reestablishes the association’s leadership position, improves revenue and prioritizes the delivery of real value
to members.

Jarod got his career started in marketing with Pikes Peak International Raceway but quickly found his calling in 2006 within the healthcare recruitment advertising industry and has become a key leader in the space. At Health eCareers, he managed relationships with many of the nation’s largest hospital systems and recruitment firms helping them generate thousands of hires across the country. Later he ran the Partner Relations Team generating millions of dollars of non-dues revenue annually for medical associations while developing new resources like career networking events to connect association members with employers. He later joined Jackson Physician Search to streamline and optimize their recruitment advertising adding a valuable new perspective. Jarod has spent his career building deep, mutually beneficial relationships with medical associations and has a passion for helping medical providers find where they belong.

Brian has led software development projects and teams for nearly 30 years. He has led teams producing online learning platforms (eCollege), educational content delivery (Pearson and Macmillan Learning), and online career services for the healthcare industry (Health eCareers). Brian’s expertise is in building strong development teams that are motivated to meet business needs as well as learning and applying the right technology under the covers. He has managed single teams all the way up to entire departments of more than 150 developers. Finding the best technical solution for a given need is one of Brian’s passions and he loves learning new technologies, languages, frameworks, and processes along the way.

Kristen comes to the MedGeo team with over 14 years of experience in the healthcare and technology space. With a background in sales, marketing and product management, she offers a unique perspective on how to keep partners engaged while moving the business forward. While holding leadership positions at DHI and HealtheCareers, Kristen took on challenges that allowed her and the team to grow past comfort zones and innovate beyond what competitors are doing in the industry. She is passionate about developing strong relationships and building successful products that help solve everyday problems.

Jonathan was hooked on software development when he wrote his first "hello world" application, and for over 20 years he has been designing and developing solutions in a variety of spaces. His experience includes writing add-on modules for accounting software for use by non-profit organizations, designing software for call center compliance with "do not call" regulations, enterprise microservice architectures, SEO, and implementing cloud computing solutions in Azure and AWS. Jonathan aspires to bring an excitement for technology along with a focus on building quality solutions to every project.