Tech Titans
Technology Titan Sustaining Members
State of TN Department of Economic & Community Development
An effective strategy for informed economic development planning for multi-county areas of the state must start with keen insight into regions’ existing economic structure, the resources that they offer, and the differences that exist across them.
Non-Profit Organization
Katherine Yager
www.state.tn.us/ecd
615-253-1949
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.
Legal Services
Janet Summey
www.ba-boult.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
CIBER, Inc.
CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) is a pure-play international system integration consultancy and outsourcing provider with superior value-priced services and reliable delivery for both private and government sector clients. CIBER’s services are offered globally on a project- or strategic-staffing basis, in both custom and enterprise resource planning (ERP) package environments, and across all technology platforms, operating systems and infrastructures. Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo., CIBER now serves client businesses from over 60 U.S. offices, 25 European offices and 7 offices in Asia/Pacific.
Operating in 18 countries, with more than 8,500 employees and annual revenue approximately $1.2 billion, CIBER and its IT specialists continuously build and upgrade clients’ systems to “competitive advantage status.” CIBER is included in the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P Small Cap 600 Index. CIBER, the Reliable Global IT Services Partner. www.ciber.com.
IT Consulting
John Wood
www.ciber.com
615-832-8175
ComFrame Software Corporation
ComFrame Software Corporation is one of the fastest growing software engineering companies in the Southeastern United States, delivering Elegant Enterprise EnablementTM solutions for customers in banking and finance, construction, energy and utilities, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, software development and other industries. Our precision practice domains include strategic business and brand management, business process and performance management, corporate planning and performance management, enterprise project and portfolio management and information integration and collaboration management, augmented by precision architecture and application engineering teams based in Nashville, Birmingham and Beijing. ComFrame embraces technologies from IBM, Microsoft and other industry leaders as key components of our core platform for enterprise elegance enablement.
IT Services
Mike Duncan
www.comframe.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 Business Services
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
Emids Technologies
eMids Technologies Inc. is a leading offshore and onshore outsourcing solutions company to Fortune 2000 companies. Based in Nashville, Tenn., with support offices in Bangalore, India, eMids is an SEI CMMi Level 3 Company with a proven global delivery model. eMids offers its customers world-class information technology and business process outsourcing services, including application development and maintenance, package support, independent testing, quality assurance, health-care claims adjudication, and revenue cycle management.
eMids has built an impressive track record supporting customers in various fields, including health care, insurance, digital media, utilities, manufacturing, and e-commerce. eMids’ experienced, expert team manages the entire application life-cycle, including definition, prototype, design, development, testing, quality assurance, and deployment and maintenance. For more information, please e-mail info@emids.com, or call (615) 332-7701.
Software Vendor / Developer & IT Consulting Services
Michael Hollis
www.emids.com
615-300-3186
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
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
Electronic Data Systems Corporation*
EDS, an HP company, is a leading global technology services provider, delivering business solutions to its customers. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 46 years ago. Today, as an HP business group, EDS delivers one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of information technology and business process outsourcing services to customers in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries, and to governments around the world.
We differentiate ourselves in the IT marketplace by providing outstanding service, innovation and industry thought leadership. To monitor our progress and encourage candid collaboration with our clients, we established the Service Excellence program. It is instrumental to our success in cultivating and maintaining long-term business relationships.
IT Services
Chris Beck
www.eds.com
615-945-7051
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
Lattimore, Black, Morgan & Cain, P.C.
LBMC is the largest regional accounting and financial services family of companies based in Tennessee. In addition to being a solutions leader in accounting, tax, audit, consulting, human resources, staffing, and technology, LBMC has been among the fastest growing professional services organizations in Tennessee for the past several years. We attribute this growth to our commitment to client service, to the application of creative and practical approaches in meeting our clients’ needs, and to the enthusiastic support our clients have given to our “one-stop shop” concept.
As a member of the LBMC family, LBMC Technologies helps small and midsize businesses improve their operations and increase their productivity by making technology more affordable and convenient. As a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner and a Hyland OnBase Diamond Support Partner, we offer numerous products and services for the Healthcare, Manufacturing, Medical Practices, and Professional Services industries. For more information, please visit www.lbmctech.com.
Financial, Human Resources, and Technology Servicess
Shelley Madison
www.lbmctech.com
615-377-4650
*Founding Sponsor
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
Nexus Group
THE NEXUS GROUP is a trusted provider and safe haven for business applications, technology infrastructure, security and high QoS connectivity. At the heart of NEXUS: A secure modern datacenter delivering the Confidentially, Integrity and Availability your customers, employees and business partners demand, 24/7/365 — all building on the 10-year legacy of the Nashville company formerly known as ISDN-Net.
Internet, Communications & Enterprise-Technology Provider
Frank Platt
www.nxs.net
615-221-4200
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
Ron Styers
www.peak10.com
615-263-6402
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
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
Brian Law
www.xo.com
(615) 777-7777
Zycron is an international information technology services and solutions firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Since 1991, Zycron has offered IT solutions to a broad client base, and today is the primary provider for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
A proven global strategy and dedication to quality services, products and relationships have created success for Zycron in several major U.S. cities, as well as Bangalore, India. Zycron provides client-specific solutions across all industries – healthcare, financial services, transportation and logistics, utilities, telecommunications, automotive and retail.
IT Consulting & Staffing Services
Darrell Freeman
www.zycron.com
Zycron, Inc.
