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The requirement is for a Chief Technology Officer for a fast growth Healthcare IT company that will revolutionize healthcare by transforming data into information to improve patient care (not just another “healthcare” company expediting insurance reimbursements).  SaaS software is already operational with many customers and there is a lot of development ahead. The company has excellent financials and expects exponential revenue growth next year. This is a terrific and very empowered environment with a very experienced and accomplished CEO.

The team is small (under 20 people) but the role is senior & responsibilities span

  1. Sitting at the table and helping steer strategic direction and evaluate options.
  2. Traditional Product Development
  3. Architecture for the product and the product portfolio
  4. Operations: infrastructure management, information security, data center management, networking, hosting, and customer support as needed by the Services & Support team. 

Requirements for the role include:

  1. Functional Experience: Hands on Engineering Management
  • Experience managing engineering teams  (at least 20-30 people. We will consider executives that are very hands on and have managed more people). This is a senior role in spite of the smaller span of control. Must have a track record of on-time, on budget, on performance and quality delivery.
  1. Functional Experience: Architecture
  • Ability to lead major architectural decisions and assist/counsel the CEO in valuating alternatives.
  • Managing a secure SaaS environment and operations is a major plus.
  • Experience with scaling a business from early stage to a significant size.
  • Experience “sitting at the table” i.e. business leadership ability
  1. Functional Experience: Operations (nice to have)
  1. Domain Experience: SaaS  and/or Internet experience
  2. Domain Experience: Strong data background and understanding of managing unstructured data
  3. Scaling / Leadership Experience:
  1. Location: Boston-based. This company is located on Route 128.

If you have an interest in learning more or know anyone who may be intrigued please contact Dal Coger at 781-395-2981 or reply to this email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Thank you very much for your attention and consideration.

Dora Vell

Dora Vell

Dora Vell is the Managing Partner of Vell Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm in Boston focused on recruiting technology executives and board members. Vell has successfully completed numerous board member and C-level executive searches, including CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and Vice Presidents - at both public and private companies.

Prior to founding the firm in 2005, Vell was a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles' Technology practice for seven years.  Before her career in executive search, she worked at IBM for 11 years, managing software engineering organizations of 100 people and software sales organizations with revenues of $150 million. She has also served as an executive assistant to the CEO of IBM Canada for one year.

Vell holds seven worldwide software patents. She has published several Business of Leadership reports on governance and leadership and has been quoted in numerous articles including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Fortune, Agenda Week, MSNBC, Mass High Tech, the OPUS for the World Economic Forum, Boston Business Journal, The Globe & Mail, CIO Magazine, and IEEE. She also has been a featured speaker on leadership at numerous conferences and at Columbia University's MBA program.

Vell is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Boston CEO Roundtable. She has served on the boards of Framingham State, Entrepreneur's Organization, Goodwill, Mary Centre for developmentally handicapped adults, garage.ca, and RBC Capital Partners.

She has received an MBA from the University of Toronto, a Master in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Carleton. She has also completed the MIT Entrepreneurial Master’s program.

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