eScription Management Team

CEO and Chairman:
Paul Egerman
Mr. Egerman brings to the company extensive experience and industry leadership in electronic medical records and health care systems. Formerly, Paul was the COO of IDX, a worldwide supplier of administrative and financial solutions for health care organizations. Paul founded IDX and grew the company from a start-up to a publicly held corporation with over 2,000 employees and more than $250 million in sales. In 1991, he received Inc. Magazine's "Entrepreneur of the Year" award, and currently serves as chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

CEO and Chairman:
Ben Chigier
Mr. Chigier brings to the company more than 20 years of experience in speech recognition technology. Ben served as CEO and Chairman of PureSpeech, which he also founded, a pioneer in speech recognition for the telecommunications market. PureSpeech sold more than one million copies of its award winning software through a variety of distribution channels prior to being acquired by Voice Control Systems in 1998. Previously, Ben developed speech recognition systems for NYNEX and the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Mathematics, and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sales:
Peter Dolphin
As Vice President of Sales, Mr. Dolphin manages the national sales team at eScription. He has nearly 20 years of demonstrated sales leadership in medical information systems. Prior to joining eScription, Mr. Dolphin worked at IDX in a variety of sales and management positions, where he focused on opening new markets for IDX systems and was consistently recognized as one of the company's top performers. In account management roles, he working closely with major hospitals and large medical groups nationwide to introduce the organizations to new technology and help them use it successfully. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Providence College.

Marketing:
Lauren Richman
Lauren Richman directs corporate communications and strategic marketing programs for the company. She has more than 20 years of experience marketing information services and technology solutions. Lauren was director of corporate marketing at SpeechWorks, a $40 million speech recognition company (acquired by ScanSoft, Inc. in 2003) where she directed the company's lead generation, advertising and public relations programs and supported its IPO in 2000. Previously, she worked at Vicorp, a provider of telecommunications software and at Citibank in New York City and Hong Kong. She has an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

Product Development:
Edward Brody
Mr. Brody is responsible for the team that develops and maintains eScription products. He was a member of the original engineering team that designed and built the initial system and many of its components. Prior to joining eScription, Ed was the chief engineer and director of product development at Voice Control Systems/Philips Speech Technologies, responsible for implementation and integration of its speech recognition products. Previously, he managed the embedded systems development group at Voice Processing Corporation after spending ten years in its R & D group. He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Physics.

Automatic Speech Recognition:
Dr. George Zavaliagkos
Dr. Zavaliagkos leads the Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing group at eScription. George is a key contributor to the field of speech recognition and language understanding since 1990. He has more than 50 publications in journals, referred conferences proceedings and book chapters. As a Senior Scientist at BBN technologies, he led several government funded projects to improve state-of-the-art of speech recognition. His BBN team was judged to be the best in four consecutive annual technology evaluations sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies. As a Distinguished Scientist at L&H he was a key contributor to its desktop dictation offering; he subsequently led the efforts to integrate technologies of various companies acquired by L&H, including Dragon Systems. George holds a Ph.D. from Northeastern University and Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens.

Chief Architect:
Jim Boucher
Jim Boucher has over twenty years of software engineering experience in a variety of application areas. He began his career in the word processing development group at Wang Laboratories building multi-lingual spelling and grammar checkers and on-line reference works. He spent nine years at Symmetrix, Inc. developing workflow applications and schedulers for the manufacturing, financial services and health care industries, and brings this important process-oriented perspective and experience to the design of the architecture behind eScription's solution. He has been a key member of the eScription development team virtually since inception. Jim graduated from Dartmouth College and holds a Ph.D. from Brown University.

Installation Services:
Maurya Meenan
Maurya oversees the eScription Installation Group, which is responsible for implementing eScription products for new and existing customers, and for providing account management services to customers who have completed the implementation process. Maurya has an extensive background in health care information technology. Prior to joining eScription, Maurya was with IDX for 19 years, where her responsibilities included management of technical installation and support staff, project management, and implementation process redesign. She has a B.A. from Princeton University.