About us and what we value

Erkan Akyuz

President and CEO

Erkan Akyuz is the Chief Executive Officer of Lyniate. Erkan brings more than 20 years’ experience driving growth and innovation in market leading healthcare technology organizations. As CEO, Erkan is passionate about empowering people. Specifically, Erkan is committed to connecting the healthcare ecosystem so that communication becomes effortless improving access to and affordability of healthcare. Prior to joining Lyniate, Erkan served as EVP & President for McKesson Imaging, Workflow, and Care Solutions, a proven leader in connected healthcare workflows, achieving strong repeatable growth. Prior roles also include President and CEO, Healthcare IT at Toshiba Medical Systems, Executive VP, Product Strategy & Development at Vital Images, and Chief Technology Officer at Agfa Healthcare.

Drew Ivan

Chief Strategy Officer

Drew’s focus is on corporate strategy. His experience includes over 20 years in health IT, working with a wide spectrum of customers, including public HIEs, IDNs, payers, life sciences companies, and software vendors, with the goal of improving outcomes and reducing costs by aggregating and analyzing clinical, claims, and cost data.

Sonal Patel

Chief Customer Success Officer

Sonal leads the customer-facing, services divisions of the company which include support, implementations, training, and professional services for all products globally. She has nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare, with the latter 25 in the IT vendor space. Her background includes working as a Medical Technologist in the Baptist line of hospitals in Mississippi, followed by 10 years with a LIS vendor (Antrim/Sunquest/Misys). Sonal joined NeoTool/Corepoint Health in 2005 and was key to growing that company to the point of merging with Rhapsody and rebranding to Lyniate.

Scott Galbari

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Information Security Officer

As Chief Operating Officer for Lyniate, Scott leads the development and product management for all products and services. Scott has been in the healthcare IT domain for the past twenty years and has experience in developing and delivering imaging, workflow, nursing, interoperability, and patient flow solutions to customers in all geographies. He was most recently the General Manager for multiple businesses within McKesson and Change Healthcare and started his career as a software developer.

Mark Beucler

Chief Financial Officer

Mark joined Lyniate in 2020 as the Chief Financial Officer, responsible for the company’s financial operations globally. Mark brings more than 25 years of financial and general management experience in public and private equity owned high-growth companies within the healthcare technology industry, as well as a proven track record of value creation through strategic initiatives and merger and acquisition activities.

Michelle Blackmer

Chief Marketing Officer

Michelle is responsible for defining the go-to-market strategy and leading the marketing team. Her passion for empowering health innovators with complete connected data shapes the go-to-market messaging and helps grow mindshare. With 25 years of healthcare data management experience, Michelle thrives at the intersection of marketing, sales, product, and customers. Her curiosity and collaborative approach make Michelle a natural convener and trust builder — ensuring the voice of customer is heard. Prior to Lyniate, Michelle lead healthcare marketing at Verato, Initiate Systems/IBM, Informatica, and CareEvolution. Michelle lives in the great Pacific Northwest.

William Cavanaugh

Chief Revenue Officer

William Cavanaugh is the Chief Revenue Officer. William has over 20-years of experience across the entire spectrum of healthcare from medical device to life sciences, and across all different sizes of healthcare entities, from startups to the Global 100. He brings a collaborative and partner-centric approach to all of his interactions.

Merritt McGowan

Chief Legal Officer

As Chief Legal & Compliance Officer at Lyniate, Merritt manages all of the legal, compliance and corporate governance functions for the company’s Global business. Prior to joining Lyniate, Merritt held various in-house counsel positions at health care organizations including in government, public health, and health care IT. Merritt leverages her experience to build on the corporate global strategy while bringing a business-minded perspective to all legal negotiations.

Jessica Nisenbaum

Chief People Officer

Jessica joined Lyniate at its inception as the Chief People Officer, responsible for the company’s people strategy and HR operations globally. With more than 20 years of experience in bringing organizations through various stages of growth and transformation, including predominantly healthcare technology and medical device companies, she is an experienced business partner to executives in navigating change and driving business outcomes through focused talent acquisition, leadership and organizational development, and effective people engagement.