Nashville Technology Council

Technology Titan Sustaining Members

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C.*

Baker Donelson’s lawyers assist clients with the many wide-ranging issues of business technology law. With 150 years of cumulative experience, our tech attorneys have dealt with most types of business transactions involving technology products and services and information security. In fact, our Technology Law group was ranked third in the nation by Best Lawyers, based on the number of attorneys who appeared on the list. A key strength is our experience with both vendors and purchasers of technology. We understand the business drivers on both sides and use this knowledge to achieve the most favorable outcomes. We also help educate client employees in technology law, providing education materials and extranet resources and creating forms and manuals for legal staff and procurement executives.

Legal Services
Bruce Doeg
www.bakerdonelson.com
615-726-5600

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP*
Bradley Arant is a leading, technologically advanced law firm with more than 100 attorneys who serve clients throughout the United States. The firm has an active practice in the area of eCommerce & Technology and provides representation to companies on a broad range of online legal and business issues — from setting up a business and raising capital to the protection of intellectual property. Firm clients in this area include start-up companies at the earliest stages of development, as well as more traditional businesses in their transition to digital commerce, marketing and publishing.

Leslie Starr
Marketing Director
www.babc.com
615-244-2582

C3 Consulting LLC
C3 Consulting provides management and Information Technology consulting services for cross-industry mid-size to large companies headquartered in Middle Tennessee, including business process analysis, facilitation, strategic planning, project management, quality assurance/ testing, and project outsourcing.

Consulting Services
Beth Chase
www.c3-consult.com
615-371-8612

 

NWN Corporation
NWN Corporation provides clients with a complete range of networking services and solutions. We bring our clients the premier products in the industry, tailored to their specific needs and situations. These include technologies from Cisco, Microsoft, HP, EMC, and many others. Our clients include private and public sector organizations in almost every line of work. We provide solutions to major banks, universities,
manufacturers, hospitals, and state and local government agencies. Our clients operate locally, nationally, and internationally.
The NWN approach is simple. We take the time to understand a client’s needs, then use our deep technology expertise and broad experience to offer the best IT solutions. We don’t just implement technologies for our clients — we take on day-to-day accountability for managing and maintaining them as well. As a result, we take an owner’s perspective in everything we do.

Debra Hayes
www.nwnit.com
615-255-6225

Community Health Systems
Community Health Systems is the largest publicly-traded hospital company in the United States and a leading operator of general acute care hospitals in non-urban and mid-size markets throughout the country. Through its subsidiaries, the Company currently owns, leases or operates 116 hospitals in 28 states. Its hospitals offer a broad range of inpatient and surgical services, outpatient treatment and skilled nursing care.

Healthcare Technology
Gary Seay
www.chs.net
615-465-7245

DELL
Dell offers custom configuration of personal computers, portables and servers. Build your own PC–get the best value with latest technology–order online.

Information Technology Services
Ken Bissell
www.dell.com
615-795-9523

Deloitte
Accounting, audit, tax, and consulting services provided out of our Nashville office. In addition, there are more than 1,200 professionals and technicians in our internal data and information center in Hermitage, TN.

Accounting Services
Larry Quinlan
www.us.deloitte.com

Emdeon
Emdeon provides services that help physicians, consumers, providers, and health plans navigate the complexity of the healthcare system. Emdeon’s products and services streamline administrative and clinical processes, promote efficiency and reduce costs by facilitating information exchange, communication and electronic transactions between healthcare participants. Emdeon is the leading provider of electronic data interchange services for healthcare providers and commercial health plans.

Healthcare Technology
Damien Creavin
www.emdeon.com
615-886-9000

Healthcare Management Systems, Inc

Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.® (HMS) is a Nashville-based healthcare company that develops, sells and supports integrated clinical and financial hospital information systems and services designed to increase efficiency while improving patient safety. Founded in 1984, HMS currently serves nearly 650 community hospitals; behavioral, rehabilitation and long-term acute care facilities and multi-entity healthcare organizations nationwide. Our products and services help our customers improve care and deliver value by connecting hospitals, physicians and the community. We help hospitals address their toughest challenges and deliver care seamlessly and safely. For more information, please http://www.hmstn.com or call 800.383.3317.

HealthSpring*
HealthSpring is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and is one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing coordinated care plans whose primary focus is the Medicare Advantage market. HealthSpring currently owns and operates Medicare Advantage plans in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. We also offer a national stand-alone Medicare prescription drug plan.

HealthSpring is passionate about helping members get more from Medicare and more from life. We do this by offering affordable, well-coordinated quality care through strong partnerships with physicians and other healthcare providers. Our plan benefits are focused on preventive care, wellness, and better management of diseases to help our members stay healthy and active.

Healthcare
Andy Flatt
www.healthspring.com
615-565-8110

Healthways
We are the largest, most experienced health and care support company in the industry, providing services to more than three million people and the physicians who care for them. We offer consumers a broad spectrum of personalized health services including health coaching, fitness networks, online communities of interest in addition to our current offerings of telephonic lifestyle management, disease management, high risk care management and end of life support.

Healthcare Technology
Scott Blanchette
www.healthways.com
615-665-1122

HCA
Based in Nashville, Tenn., today HCA remains the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services. Our patients consistently give us very high satisfaction scores, with over 90% of our inpatients telling us that they would return to one of our hospitals if they needed to be hospitalized again. HCA is composed of locally managed facilities that include approximately 191 hospitals and 82 outpatient surgery centers in 23 states, England and Switzerland.

Healthcare Technology
Marty Paslick
www.hcahealthcare.com
615-344-9551

IBM
IBM is the world’s largest information technology company with more than 90 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, financing, solutions and technologies that enable clients of all sizes to take full advantage of the on demand era. IBM is proud to be a part of the Nashville business community since 1933.

For more information on how IBM is making it easier than ever for mid-sized businesses to find the help they need to solve their toughest business problems please visit: www.ibm.com/expressadvantage

Information Technology Services
Greg Huddleston
www.ibm.com

KPMG, LLP
International Audit, Tax, Advisory Firm. One of the Big 4

Accounting Services
Jeremy Holland
www.kpmg.com
601.244.1602

Level (3)

At the core of an increasingly networked world, Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is a premier international provider of long haul communications services combined with widespread metro network assets.
Level 3 meets Enterprise customer needs by providing a better quality service experience, at a competitive price, and by leveraging next generation technology platforms such as VoIP and
Ethernet.
Level 3 has a history of providing exceptional service to some of the most demanding customers in technology – customers whose network is their business. We craft a service experience for the Enterprise market, providing consistency and quality – from ordering to installation to trouble resolution to billing.
With a focused team of thousands vs. hundreds of thousands, we offer a responsiveness and agility business enterprise needs. Level 3 combines our more responsive approach with broad network reach, a solid product portfolio and a proven track record in delivering on the most demanding network needs. Learn more: www.level3.com

Tom Bailey, General Manager
tom.bailey@level3.com
(615) 263-1111

Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software — any time, any place and on any device.

Software Vendor / Developer
Bob Grohovsky
www.microsoft.com
615-778-2464

Nissan
Nissan is made up of a richly diverse group of people, as reflected in the company’s leadership team and the numerous corporate outreach programs in which we participate in the community. Together, we have what it takes to build cars and trucks with the power to change both the way you view the world and the way you move in it.

Automotive Manufacturer
Pryor Manning
www.nissanusa.com

Peak 10
Peak 10 is a local hosting provider of mission critical applications, data and web services. Our services include server collocation, dedicated servers, web hosting, Internet access, wide area network monitoring, and disaster recovery through real-time off-site data storage.

Data Center Services
Drew Fassett
www.peak10.com
615-263-6400

Press Ganey Associates, Inc.

Recognized as a leader in performance improvement for 25 years, Press Ganey partners with more than 10,000 health care organizations to create and sustain high-performing organizations, and, ultimately, improve the overall health care experience. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to help clients operate efficiently, improve quality, increase market share and optimize reimbursement. Press Ganey works with clients from across the continuum of care – hospitals, medical practices, home health agencies and other providers – including 50% of all U.S. hospitals.

James Goins

615-232-8337

jgoins@pressganey.com

Teknetex
BE HELPFUL. That is the mission statement at teknetex. It is how we add value to the companies that allow us to serve them and to the professionals who trust us with their careers.

We understand that businesses are looking for a talent acquisition partner who does more than just matches acronyms on resumes to job requirements. Our clients need a talent acquisition partner who understands their business, and, as a result, can provide them with the unique and customized solutions they demand.
For us to be successful, it is critical that we learn about our client’s corporate structure, their products, their history, and their future. After all, the human capital solutions we provide will be a part of that history, and we have to get it right. It is not merely an exercise in resume volume to see what sticks, but rather a precisely targeted human capital solution that directly impacts our clients’ business.

Success also means that we understand all we can about the professionals who trust us with their careers. Beyond the requisite functional and technical aptitude, we always know what our candidates want to do – not just what they can do. This can occasionally be a fine line, but it is always a clear line – one that sets us apart.
teknetex is about people. The right fit, the first time.

IT Staffing
John Kepley
www.teknetex.com
615-750-3425

 

TW Telecom

tw telecom, headquartered in Littleton, CO, is a leading provider of managed networking solutions to a wide array of businesses and organizations in 75 markets spanning 30 states and D.C. As one of the country’s premier competitive service providers, tw telecom integrates data, dedicated Internet access, and local and long distance voice services for long distance carriers, wireless communications companies, incumbent local exchange carriers, and enterprise organizations in healthcare, finance, higher education, manufacturing, and hospitality industries, as well as for military, state and local government.

We began our business in 1993 as a joint venture with Time Warner Cable (now a unit of Time Warner Inc.). Since 1997, we focused on delivering services to business customers, including carriers and governmental entities, and on expanding from dedicated services into Voice Services, Internet and data.

In July 1998, we became a separate entity apart from Time Warner Cable and were reorganized into Time Warner Telecom LLC. In May 1999, we issued an IPO and became Time Warner Telecom Inc.  In July 2008, Time Warner Telecom became tw telecom. Read the detail here.

Steve Yazell
www.twtelecom.com
(615) 627-3000

 

 

XO Communications
XO Communications is one of the nation’s largest communications service providers focused exclusively on businesses, government, and carrier and wholesale service providers nationwide.

Telecommunication
Karen Farrar
www.xo.com
(615) 777-1600

 

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