[September 27, 2010]

Alok Gupta, PhD, Joins ikaSystems as Chief Technology Officer

Noted healthcare technology innovator Alok Gupta, PhD, has joined ikaSystems, the nation's premier provider of enterprise-level cloud computing solutions to commercial, Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans. Dr. Gupta will work closely with other senior ikaSystems leaders to set and guide the strategic direction of development, infrastructure, and research and development (R&D) organizations.

"Alok has the rare combination that I always look for in members of our leadership team, which is the ability to think clearly and act strategically while simultaneously ensuring that no detail gets overlooked," said Ravi Ika, chief executive officer of ikaSystems. "This combination is what has helped ikaSystems earn its reputation for innovation, process excellence and proven results."

Alok Gupta, PhD, has an extensive track record of innovation, general management experience, product and business development success, global research and development (R&D) leadership, high-performance team-building and business execution. Before joining ikaSystems, he was senior vice president and chief information officer at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the largest private health insurer serving Maryland, Washington DC and northern Virginia. There, he co-led th organization's multi-year, $600 million technology-driven business transformation initiative designed to decrease administrative costs, improve the efficiency and quality of care through better provider/patient engagement, and respond to the changing requirements of healthcare reform.

Before CareFirst, Dr. Gupta held multiple senior leadership positions over seventeen years at Siemens (News - Alert). For Siemens Healthcare, he spent six years as vice president and global business head, where he led strategy, operations, profit and loss, and global business for computer-aided diagnosis and knowledge solutions, an entrepreneurial start-up charted with developing clinical decision support products. For the Imaging and Visualization Division of Siemens Corporate Research, he served in roles including general manager, in which he spearheaded image processing, computer vision and 3D visualization and had worldwide responsibility for conducting innovative and applied R&D for Siemens' healthcare, automation, power generation and automotive businesses.

Dr. Gupta has been awarded twelve patents, with six patent applications pending, and he has published numerous journal articles and refereed conference papers. He earned a BTech degree in computer science and engineering with honors from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur; an MSE degree in computer and information science as well as a PhD degree in computer and information science, specializing in artificial intelligence and computer vision, from the University of Pennsylvania; and an MBA degree from the Wharton School.

About ikaSystems Corp.

ikaSystems is healthcare payers' premier provider of enterprise-level cloud computing technologies for commercial, Medicare and Medicaid lines of business. ikaEnterprise, the company's flagship product, automates all key processes in the payer business cycle - from marketing and sales through claims administration and customer service to care and quality management - all on a single integrated platform. Using our agile, modular technology, organizations can proactively move to lower administrative and medical care expenses and thrive in even the most challenging environments. To learn more, please visit www.ikasystems.com.

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