Our executive team has the proven experience in developing and delivering the solutions providers and healthcare IT companies need in today’s challenging environment.
Dave Ellett currently serves as chief executive officer for RemitDATA. He is responsible for the vision, strategy and day-to-day operations of the company.
Ellett has held senior positions in several Internet-focused businesses. He most recently served as president and general manager of Belo Interactive Media, the digital business arm of both Belo Corp. and A.H. Belo. Prior to Belo, Ellett served as chief executive officer and chairman of Powered, an industry leader in building social media websites for major brands and publishers. Before joining Powered, Ellett served as chief executive officer at Docent Inc., a leader in enterprise e-learning and business performance management, taking the company from the "A" round of funding through a successful IPO.
Ellett has held several other senior management positions with early stage online ventures. Prior to his work with smaller, stand-alone Internet companies, he held positions with Oracle and EDS. He was corporate vice president of worldwide education for Oracle and spent 13 years with EDS in a number of key management roles, including president of the performance services group. In addition, Ellett serves as treasurer on the Board of Trustees of KIPP Dallas Fort-Worth and chairs the school’s Strategy and Growth Committee.
Ellett holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is married and has three daughters.
Michael Sanderson brings a wealth of healthcare experience and success in ensuring the ongoing growth of RemitDATA. He leads the company in managing and expanding the current client base, in addition to developing new markets and partners.
Before joining RemitDATA, Sanderson was executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer for ChartONE, which recently sold to Healthport, one of the top 25 largest healthcare IT companies.
Sanderson and three other executives were the drivers for the successful spin-off of ChartONE from Quadramed, which formed an $80 million, privately held company that focuses on the management of medical records. Prior to his work at ChartONE, Sanderson served as executive vice president and officer of QuadraMed - a then $300 million plus, publicly traded healthcare information services company.
Sanderson has held a variety of other sales and marketing positions for healthcare vanguards such as Baxter Hospital Supply (now part of Cardinal Health), Steris Corporation (AMSCO) and National Data Corporation (NDC Health), now owned by Per-Se Technologies/McKesson Corporation.
Sanderson has served on several boards in the past, including director for Mediconnect Global, a leading medical record retrieval company, and currently serves as a trustee for Christianworks for Children, an adoption agency in Dallas.
Sanderson received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He currently resides in Dallas with his wife and two young boys.
Joel Wood joined RemitDATA in 2007 as chief financial officer. Prior to RemitDATA, he was a partner at Delta Capital Management, a venture capital firm, where he managed several healthcare investments. Before joining Delta, Wood was a vice president in the medical technologies investment banking group of Dain Rauscher Wessels (now RBC Capital Markets), concentrating on healthcare information technology and medical device companies.
During his investment banking career, Wood advised numerous companies on financial and strategic initiatives, including private equity, public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Dain, Wood was a vice president with Stephens Inc. where he focused on technology and healthcare companies. Wood was also with the investment banking group of Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. as a generalist.
Wood began his career in finance with the U.S. corporate group of Wachovia Bank, working on large corporate credit transactions.
Wood received a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree with high honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Wood is married with three sons and lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
Brian Fugere currently serves as chief marketing officer for RemitDATA. He is responsible for all marketing activities as well as the product strategy for the company. Since arriving at RemitDATA, Fugere has led the shift from direct to channel marketing as well as developed and implemented a new product management methodology.
Fugere has held senior marketing and product development positions in several software and Internet-focused businesses. Most recently, he served as vice president of product marketing and strategy for Belo Interactive Media, the digital business arm of both Belo Corp and A.H. Belo Corp. He drove all marketing and strategy initiatives across 16 vertical lines of business and led the creation and implementation of new business opportunities for the company. Prior to Belo Interactive Media, Fugere served as the director of research and product development for Stryker Imaging, a Division of Stryker Corp. There, he led all product management and software development efforts for the market-leading orthopedic workflow software company.
Fugere held several other marketing, product, and sales-related positions during the previous 15 years at America Online, Delfin Systems, Kenan Systems and American Power Conversion. Fugere proudly served in the United States Air Force during Operation Southern Watch.
Fugere received his Master of Business Administration degree from George Mason University and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He resides in Flower Mound, Texas, with his wife, daughter and son.
Tim White currently serves as Vice President of Strategic Partner Development for RemitDATA. He is responsible for developing, implementing and managing the channel sales program for the company.
White has held senior channel sales and marketing positions in several software and Internet-focused businesses. He served as Senior Director of Regional Marketing for LexisNexis, a global provider of comprehensive information, marketing and business solutions to professionals in the legal industry. His responsibilities included managing all regional marketing, event marketing and indirect sales operations for the $500 million U.S. Small Law Division. His marketing and indirect sales programs consistently generated over $44 million in annual revenues.
White has held several other channel sales, marketing and operational senior positions during the previous 12 years at Target Corporation, Belo Interactive, Mirror Image Internet, Clearway Technologies and Deloitte & Touche, LLP. White proudly served in the United States Army, with extensive overseas operations in Somalia, Kuwait, Germany and Bosnia. As a Company Commander, he received the J.P. Holland Award for the best Military Police Company in the United States Army.
White holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa and lives in Rockwall, Texas, with his wife and four daughters.
Helen Bardo-Levins currently serves as Vice President of Client Services for RemitDATA. She is responsible for client support, implementation, training, client retention and inside sales. Bardo-Levins brings over 25 years of customer service management, conflict resolution and operations management experience in healthcare and call center settings.
Most recently, Bardo-Levins served as the Customer Service Manager with Lakeview Medical Center, a 50-doctor multi-specialty practice in Virginia Beach, VA, where she recruited, trained and supervised a 20+ customer service team and opened an in-house collection agency for past-due medical bills. Prior to Lakeview, Bardo-Levins held various positions where she successfully managed inbound and outbound call centers including managing a team of 700 customer service representatives.
Bardo-Levins resides in Lakeland, TN with her husband.