Christian Mayaud

Current

MANAGING DIRECTOR | PRINCIPAL at The Verticom Group [cmayaud@theverticomgroup.com]

Past

CHAIRMAN | CEO | FOUNDER at vPORT
CHAIRMAN | CEO | FOUNDER | DIRECTOR at Physicians' Online
DIRECTOR | FOUNDER at Advanced Health

CHAIRMAN | FOUNDER at Med-E-Systems

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Education

Hahnemann University
Columbia University
Tufts University

Franklin & Marshall College

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Christian Mayaud’s Summary

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Chris has extensive healthcare, technology, and operating experience managing companies from their start-up through their growth phases. Chris has a track record as an aggressive company builder and market entry strategist. In the late 1980's, Chris combined his proficiency and commitment to medicine with his background in engineering to develop clinical communication tools dedicated to empowering physicians in the practice of medicine. Chris founded several physician-centric healthcare companies headquartered in Westchester, NY (including Physicians’ Online, Inc., Med-E-Systems Corporation, Advanced Health Corporation, and vPORT). Chris founded The Verticom Group in 1996 and works closely with numerous healthcare and non-healthcare portfolio companies. A board-certified internist, bioengineer, and physicist, Chris received his clinical training at Columbia, Hahnemann, Mt. Sinai, and Lenox Hill hospitals. He currently lives in Bronxville, NY with his wife, Hillary Burnett, and their three children. Chris is also an active early stage private equity investor and charter member of the New York Angel Investors group (www.newyorkangels.com).

TVG Portfolio Includes - Physicians' Online, Med-E-Systems, Advanced Health, BioSurgical, BioInterventional, MicroDisc Technologies, CardioVention, CareSoft, DDS Partners, Patient Interactive, eminent Research, IndiVideo, DIVA Systems, BioMerix, AlphaGene, ARYx, See Centers, Serus, Tavolo, eCal, ExpertCommerce, Zenku, UrbanRide, PriCap, vPORT, ...

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Christian Mayaud’s Experience

MANAGING DIRECTOR | PRINCIPAL

The Verticom Group [cmayaud@theverticomgroup.com]

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 1997 — Present (11 years 2 months)

The Verticom Group is a Corporate Development & Venture Capital firm which specializes in building Scaleable Platform Companies positioned to become Market Leaders through –

Strategic Use of Enabling Technologies,
Aggressive Market Entry & Growth Strategies,
Agile Stage-Appropriate Management Teams,
Aggressive Revenue Growth Engines, and
Target Market Momentum.

Industry Strengths include –

Healthcare Services | Medical Technology | Medical Devices | BioTech | Pharmaceuticals | e-Health | Information Technology | Business Services | Network Services | Communications | Broadband Services | New Media

We are Full Service Investors who believe in providing Equal Partnership & Superior Service to all of our Client Portfolio Companies by providing the necessary Intellectual & Financial Capital required to bridge the gap between Concept & Execution.
CHAIRMAN | CEO | FOUNDER

vPORT

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1997 — December 2002 (5 years 4 months)

vPORT provides enhanced communication services to healthcare providers and other professionals. vPORT developed a proprietary IP-based communications platform enabling physicians anywhere to be served by a network of distributed live-operator call centers, integrated with advanced call automation, and seamlessly unified by a common database. The vPORT network supports “Live Operator” Telephone Answering Services (“TAS”) integrated with enhanced service offerings (e.g., automated call processing, wireless devices, unified and web-based messaging). vPORT is initially focused on consolidating the $1.8b Telephone Answering Service industry under two main retail brands – Physicians’ Telecom (healthcare), and ExpressCall (non-healthcare) – and a variety of reseller brands through a network of partnerships and reseller relationships.
CHAIRMAN | CEO | FOUNDER | DIRECTOR

Physicians' Online

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

September 1991 — September 1999 (8 years 1 month)

Physicians’ Online (POL) is a private professional online network dedicated to providing physicians with comprehensive clinical information & communications tools. As the private professional “portal” (extranet) for physicians, POL allows physicians to exchange confidential electronic communications with each other as well as provide a secure common pathway to confidential clinical databases in affiliated healthcare organizations. POL has the largest client software installed-base in healthcare, has the largest IP dial-up coverage in the US, and is the largest aggregator of physician email services. POL is the first online service to successfully demonstrate a full-sponsorship revenue model, has the highest target market penetration, and is the only IT solution widely used by physicians (170,000). POL has received several interactive services industry awards, including “Best Professional Online Service” in 1995 by the Information Industry Association (IIA).
DIRECTOR | FOUNDER

Advanced Health

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Medical Practice industry)

June 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Advanced Health Corporation (AHC) is dedicated to empowering physicians by organizing them into physician-centric healthcare networks to effectively compete in the new managed care environment. AHC helps physicians meet these new challenges through effective management and strategic use of information technologies in three key areas -- clinical management, practice operations management, and network/payor management.
CHAIRMAN | FOUNDER

Med-E-Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1993 — March 1996 (3 years 1 month)

Med-E-Systems Corporation is dedicated to developing clinical decision-support tools designed to help physicians make more informed clinical choices at the point-of-care. Using small digital communications devices (PDAs) that run over wireless networks, Med-E-Systems applications link physicians at the point-of-care to multiple remote clinical data stores containing critical patient data, outcomes studies, clinical guidelines, and other practice management tools. Med-E-Systems applications are designed to flexibly integrate into each physicians individual workflow. Patented the first Internet-based Prescription Management System for use with both portable wireless & wireline devices.

Christian Mayaud’s Education

Hahnemann University

MD, Medicine, 1982 — 1986
Columbia University

MS, BioEngineering, September 1977 — June 1986
Tufts University

PhD, Physics, September 1975 — June 1976
Franklin & Marshall College

AB, Physics | Math | Economics, 1971 — 1975

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