Kathi has 25+ years of business experience working for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. She has held various roles ranging from Sales to CEO and Chairman. Kathi started her career as a “hunter” for a Fortune 50 company and became nationally recognized for her performance as a Sales Representative, Sales Manager and Branch Manager. She was one of the top 10 performers nationwide. Kathi was originally retained by Reuters Health as a consultant and shortly thereafter joined the team as a Business Development Executive. She became a healthcare domain expert and helped to launch emerging technologies liked Electronic Script Writing and Medical Records. Along with three partners, Kathi went on to co-found two startup companies. In 1998 as the VP of Sales, Kathi helped to launch a new technology that displayed content based on the user’s entitlement. At the time, it was a patent-pending idea that is commonly used by social media sites today. The company was sold to a global life sciences company based in the UK. In 2001 Kathi co-found Peminic who offered a platform technology that allowed clients to customize an application without the need for a programmer. Peminic was one of 10 companies that received a Series A round of venture investment and assumed the role of CEO & Chairman. As an ISV, Kathi outsourced her software development to an offshore entity who helped to build a disruptive technology that propelled Peminic to become an industry leader in patient safety, medical error tracking and claims management for the healthcare industry. In 2008 Kathi assumed the role of President for the US medical device start-up, HealthPia. The company was the first entity to use convergence technology by combining a blood glucose meter built into a cell phone. It was the first device of its type to receive FDA approval and test with Tier 1 carrier platforms. Kathi was asked to join Rice Cohen International in 2009. As the Vice President, Senior Vice President and now as a Managing Partner, she has helped to build and manages the firm’s Technology Practice.