Prior to foundingValsurity, Don had an extensive background in the Health Care and Health IT fields. After Graduate school in Psychology, he earned the Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) credential and worked in different hospitals in critical care roles. After leaving hospital in-patient care, he founded Respiratory Therapy Home Care company providing in-home respiratory care where he also became involved in Home Medical Equipment software sales, installations, training and project management. The training aspect really appealed to him and he developed and delivered training for a variety of clients. Don also worked as a business architect and Project Manager and spent 5 years as a Global Functional Business Analyst for a fortune 500 company.

Jim is the CTO of The Dinocrates Group, a Maryland-based boutique strategy and advisory firm, and the founder of the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology. He is a senior professional with over 25 years combined experience in risk management, technology and cyber security for numerous organizations in various industries, emphasizing healthcare and public sectors.

As CTO, Jim leads the Dinocrates Transformational Technology Services to assist public and private sector clients understand and adopt the latest advances in technology and processes such as Blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA) and cyber risk.

Given the dramatic changes in technology and healthcare delivery, Jim recently founded the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the healthcare value chain to reduce costs and streamline access and delivery of healthcare. IHFT builds on the innovations of financial, insurance and healthcare technology, especially in such concepts as distributed ledgers, blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Jim is also the chair for the Healthcare Committee for the Government Blockchain Association, and co-lead of the HIMSS Healthcare Blockchain Working Group. He is an Advisory Board member to Grapevine, a Healthcare Blockchain start-up, and guest lectures on Blockchain and technology at Universities and Industry.

Previously, Jim has worked with large and small companies focusing on Agile development and project management, cyber security and healthcare information technology. Prior to that, Jim was Senior Director for Interoperability at HIMSS, a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

Delivers multi-million dollar opportunities business consider essential to success. Business execution expertise. Adds senior level bench strength and a working knowledge of the delivery of care and health,

Launched an innovative $200 million multi-facility outreach strategy and collaborative health information initiative for $4 billion, 11 hospital, regional healthcare system. National provider experience includes Tenet Health, Mariner Post Acute Care, Health Images, Inc.

Sustainable start-up business experience includes advising healthcare blockchain business delivery, telehealth, precision medicine, genomic data supply management and ambulatory care business models,

Industry advocate. Technology pivots promoted innovation in point-of-care, personal wellness data and mobile health. Directed global healthcare at Polycom, Inc. and served as a charter member at Washington D.C. based change agent The Center for Health Transformation.

Career accomplishments reflect a passion for innovative business approaches that transform the patient and the way wellness and care are delivered: MedProGO; Inc. the first peer reviewed, point-of-care physician EMR app; PlexiaCare; stroke intervention using telemedicine; and Neotonus-Wellness for Seniors, Inc., a VC backed medical device start-up,tackling incontinence as on-site outpatient urological rehab service.

Thileepan is the member of foundation council, Patientory Stiftung. He is also Co-founder & CTO of Maax Market, an all-in-one marketing automation platform using Artificial Intelligence. He graduated with Honors from Sastra University where he founded companies that primarily offered SaaS products to for the global consumer. Previously he worked at Virtusa Software as a Consultant, and prior as a Technical Manager at the Vembu Technologies.

Dr. Alonzo Sexton believes that information is the new asset class and that healthcare organizations are uniquely situated to manage through technologies such as blockchain. Dr. Sexton is a board certified Orthopedic Surgeon with over 10 years of clinical experience.

Dr. Sexton has a fascination and working knowledge of blockchain technologies and believes that this technology in addition to machine learning and IoT hold great potential to transform the healthcare industry. His experience utilizing multiple EMR systems and various healthcare applications qualify him to evaluate the strengths and weakness of many different project types. He can provide both the physician perspective to developers as well as speak the language of physicians when explaining complex technical ideas. Having experienced clinicians involved in projects provides insight in terms of how particular applications can work in the real world and how they might affect workflows in the clinical setting. Dr. Sexton’s passion for new technology, clinical experience and knowledge base regarding blockchain technologies make him uniquely qualified to function in this capacity as an ambassador.

Dr Suhail Chughtai FRCS

• Orthopaedic Surgeon
• Medico Legal Examiner
• Microsoft Certified Specialist
• Tele-Health Services Expert
• Creative Medical Software Designer

As an Orthopaedic Surgeon

• Fellow of Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow, UK since 1993
• Higher Specialist Training in Orthopaedics & Trauma in UK (1989-1995)
• Orthopaedic Surgeon (20 years consultant level experience in UK, Pak, Saudi Arabia)
• Former Assistant Professor in Orthopaedics & Trauma, FJMC Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan
• Consultant Medico-legal Examiner for Orthopaedic Injuries in UK since 2006

As a Medical IT Expert – Founder Director: Medical City Online

• Microsoft Certified Specialist since 2001
• Designed 20+ Medical Software Projects including Doctors247 Online range of Tele-health Services currently being used by client firms in multiple countries
• Instructed 60+ Medical Computing Courses/lectures since 2000 (UK, UAE, KSA, Pak)
• Medical I.T. Instructor at Health Asia Conferences from 2001-2004
• Regular Speaker at International Tele-health and Patient Experience Conferences with Instructional workshops on several occasions (UK, UAE, Pakistan)
• Speaking engagements throughout 2018 in UK, UAE, USA & Pakistan over Tele-Health Innovations, Clinical adaptation of Telemedicine, Telehealth based Healthcare solutions etc
• Currently leading a team of 15 Web Developers working on multiple Tele-health projects of Medical City Online

Founder of various businesses in UK as an Entrepreneur  

• Medico-legal Firm (M L Professionals) in 2008 which won the business award of the year for Innovation in UK due to it’s industry revolutionizing Medical Reporting Software
• Video Broadcasting and Filming Company (Apex Video Professionals) in 2014
• Online Live Video Broadcasting Firm (Web Broadcasting Services) in 2016
• Wide experience of managing Medical Projects and Businesses setting up a cohesive operating ground for various teams assigned on one project

Ángel Rabines graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the National University of San Marcos, Peru. Upon graduation, he began his professional activities in primary care and health management in a Non-Governmental Organization. Subsequently, he focused on health insurance issues, accumulating experience in both health providers and payers.

After previous experience, he came to occupy the position of Consultant in health insurance and medical audit in an important Peruvian Consulting firm, was the nexus between clients, providers and health payers, ensuring the realization of the best health practices in a cost-effective and sustainable manners for all stakeholders. He decided to move to Spain, where he ventured into other care areas such as emergency medicine and nuclear medicine through an official specialization program, maintaining contact with patients and their needs. Simultaneously, he obtained the master’s degree in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics, which allowed him to develop and publish studies on economic evaluation.

Currently, he has decided to use the experiences acquired at different levels of healthcare and link it to his passion: the information and communication technologies (ICTs). For this, he has started the process of creation of his first startup in health tech. Ángel is convinced that the new ICTs must be an instrument in the achievement of true universal health, focused on the needs of people and their environment, without losing the scientific, academic, economic, social and ethical perspectives.

Extensive Business & Sales Management Experience in a variety of industries with special focus on IT & Telecom Industries in the Middle East/North Africa Region. Worked for Industry leaders including NCR Corporation, IBM, Glenayre & Movius. Spent the last 18 years selling variety of Telecom Solutions to Mobile Operators across the MEA Region. Entrepreneurial, Startups Founder, Out of box Thinker, Leader.

Specialties: Extensive Telecom Market Knowledge of the Middle East/North Africa Region. High Level Contacts across the leading Operators. Strong Leader of small to medium size teams to success. Strategizing regional business. Full ownership of P&L. Wide range of capabilities from Greenfield Start Ups to Creating new business opportunities, Penetrating into new markets/customers and grow revenues from existing customer base

Tom is a healthcare-technology crusader, clinical orthodontist and business strategist with a combined experience of over 12 years spread over Dubai, India and New Zealand. Since 2016, Tom has been on a personal mission to engage conversation and breakdown preconceived notions surrounding technology and its applications in healthcare. Tom is the founder of the HealthTech Symposium Series and co-founder of Fortitude Advisory in Auckland. The first module of the Symposium Series was held in Auckland in September 2018 and featured pre-eminent speakers from the blockchain industry in New Zealand. Having left his orthodontic background behind, Tom now works within the healthcare technology industry in Auckland, New Zealand.

“Technological solutions are no longer merely an afterthought. They underpin the future. The world as we know is evolving at a tremendous pace. New innovations are strident in their presence. Disruption of the status quo is the order of the day.“, he says. Medical devices, quantified self, digital health, precision medicine, genome sequencing, transhumanism and regenerative medicine are some of the areas of healthcare that Tom believes will be impacted by technology in the years to come. A self-confessed futurist, he is also a strong advocate for DLT and envisions that Blockchain, AI, Robotics and VR will revolutionise our economy in a way very similar to the internet revolution several decades ago. “We are moving from the internet of information to the internet of value and blockchain is driving this second-generation digital revolution.”

Dr Mazin Gadir is a Senior Consultant and an Advisor at the Executive Office for Organizational Transformation in Dubai Health Authority since June 2016. He is an Expert in Strategy development/implementation and Organizational Transformation. Dr Mazin also was a Senior Manager in the Healthcare Technology Consulting Practice at PwC Middle East in Dubai for 2 years from 2014 to 2016 overseeing and leading projects across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and the Middle East. Dr, Mazin has over 18+ years of Digital Health Innovation, Health Informatics workflow optimization, eHealth Regulatory Framework and Compliance, Health Information Systems/Health Information Exchange, Digital Maturity and Accreditation according to International Standards, Project and Change Management experience in Healthcare IT Transformation Programs in the UK, France, Australia, UAE and the Middle East.

Dr Mazin worked for Cerner UK and Cerner Middle East from 2006 to 2012, leading and assuming different roles such as Cerner Millennium Project Manager, Integration Architect and Implementation Support consultant, Healthcare IT Transformation and Change Management practice manager across the UK, UAE, KSA, Qatar, Australia and France.

Dr Mazin has deep and wide experience in Organizational Development and Strategy Consultancy, stakeholder engagement and knowledge management & skills in the areas of: Strategy Development, Organizational Development & Design, Corporate Policy Development, Human Capital Development, Business Process Re0engineering, change enablement and Organizational Excellence whereby one can add value & make a real difference through consultancy, operational engagement and hands-on involvement.