Bjorn E. Harvold
Bjorn is the founder and lead architect of Health XCEL Inc. In 2004, Bjorn recognized a market niche, the lack of a comprehensive, user-friendly, interoperable eHealth system. With over a decade of experience in computer programming he started working on a solution. With Health XCEL Inc., Bjorn has built a state-of-the-art application aimed at revolutionizing the health care industry on a global scale.
Bjorn is a seasoned software architect and a career entrepreneur. Moving to the U.S. from Oslo, Norway, at the age of 18, he graduated magna cum laude from Fordham University with a dual degree in Economics and Computer Science. Bjorn has honed his skills while consulting at Conde Naste, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Sun Microsystems, Chase Manhattan, and most recently Adobe Systems Inc.. At the same time he worked on various of his own projects, creating companies in the entertainment sector, stock photography, mobile payment solutions and co-founding a software architecture firm.
Paul T. Fisher
Paul first started working with technology at the age of 7 when he tried rigging up his Commodore 64 to make prank calls around the neighborhood. Despite being a writing major in college, he was pulled back into the fray of technology at Johns Hopkins University, where he spent several years developing a distance learning application for neuroscience, while completing graduate school there. Soon thereafter, he co-founded SmartPants Media, Inc., a software development company which has created interactive software, kiosks, and games for organizations such as the IMF, Smithsonian Institution, and TrafficLand.com. Recently, Mr. Fisher formed another company, Dial M for Mercury, Inc., which develops telephony applications using VOIP and Java. Initially designed for government alerting and traffic solutions, Dial M for Mercury aspires to bridge disparate communication media and channels to help information move faster and more effectively between people and groups. Paul is currently Manager of Technology at Wired.com.
Paul holds a Masters in Digital Media from John Hopkin's University.
Benjamin G. Taylor
Ben is a career entrepreneur and consultant with extensive knowledge in the application of technology to new business models. His strengths are in the areas of technology visioning, software development methodologies, business operations, software architecture and development. He has over 12 years of experience and has worked with senior management at clients such as AT&T, MBNA, UPS, Nokia, Hallmark, Telstra and PacBell.Ben’s last venture was as founder of Enpresence, a social networking site focused on connecting people via GPS and Bluetooth-based services.
Ben began his career at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) in Boston where he quickly took on practice management and project leadership roles. After CTP Ben co-founded NerveWire, a Boston based e-business consultancy now part of Wipro, and E5 Systems, an offshore application development and maintenance firm with operations in China and India.
Ben holds a BA in Art and Semiotics from Brown University.