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Summary Sentence: Impact Presents: "Health IT Entrepreneurship: Engaging Curiosity and Avoiding Carpet Beetles"
Full Summary: Come join us for a talk,"Health IT Entrepreneurship: Engaging Curiosity and Avoiding Carpet Beetles," by Ryan Jones, Founder and CEO of Florence Healthcare.
ryan jonesCome join us for a talk, "Health IT Entrepreneurship: Engaging Curiosity and Avoiding Carpet Beetles," by Ryan Jones, CEO and Founder of Florence Healthcare!
Ryan is CEO of Florence Healthcare. Florence advances clinical research through software. The Florence eBinder Suite replaces paper investigator site files, trial master files and source binders with a shared platform between trial sites and sponsors.
Before joining Florence, Ryan was president of Pubget (acquired by the Copyright Clearance Center), a research platform serving clinicians at over 600 hospitals and research institutions worldwide.
Ryan joined Pubget from Microsoft’s SharePoint team, where he helped the web’s largest sites make information understandable and accessible with document management technology. Before Microsoft, Ryan analyzed enterprise software investments at Commonwealth Capital Ventures and built technology market strategies at the Yankee Group. A frequent speaker, he has been quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business School Press.
Ryan has an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from UC Berkeley, where he was a Price Fellow. He is an avid cyclist, pilot and a terrible golfer.
About the Impact Speaker Series:
Since 2002, the Impact Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership." The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders. The lecture series is sponsored by the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
The series is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required.
