A-Life's Management Team

Management

• Jaye Connolly, CEO & President

  

  Jaye Connolly joined A-Life Medical as chief financial officer in February 2005.  In 2009, Connolly was promoted to the additional post of chief operating officer, managing all activities of A-Life Medical.  In April 2010, Connolly was promoted to CEO & President of A-Life Medical and its wholly owned subsidiary A-Life Hospital, LLC. In addition to this role, Connolly serves on the A-Life Medical and A-Life Hospital Board of Directors.

  Connolly possesses extensive finance and acquisition experience having served in key roles at six publicly traded corporations as well as at start-up entities.  Throughout this time she also garnered significant IPO experience.  During her career, she led 18 accretive acquisitions adding more than $1.0 billion to revenue.  For more than 25 years, Connolly demonstrated leadership across a variety of roles spanning the healthcare sector including those in diagnostic imaging, clinical laboratory, physician practice management and hospital services.  Before joining A-Life Medical, Connolly served as vice president of business development/mergers and acquisitions at InSight Health Corp. and director of internal audit at Laboratory Corp. of America, where she successfully implemented the corporate wide compliance, audit and ethics program.    

  In 2009, she was named CFO of the Year in the private company category by the San Diego Business Journal. 

  Connolly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Texas Tech University. 

• Mark Morsch, Vice President, Technology

  Mark L. Morsch joined A-Life Medical in 1996 and serves as vice president of NLP and software engineering.  In this position, Morsch is responsible for directing the company’s linguists and overseeing its software engineers in the continuing advancement of A-Life Medical’s state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. He has published several papers on NLP clinical abstraction, text mining and computer-assisted coding. 

  Prior to joining A-Life Medical, Morsch served on the technology staff of the Raytheon/Pennsylvania State University Center for Intelligent Information Processing. 

  He holds both Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering (with honors) from Clarkson University. 

• David Byrd, Vice President, Business Development

  David Byrd brings more than 17 years of healthcare-related and business development experience to A-Life Medical. 

  Previously, Byrd spent 18 months as senior vice president of sales and marketing at Language & Computing (L&C) Inc., a European-based Natural Language Understanding company.  Prior, he had served as vice president of sales and marketing at A-Life Medical for seven years, where he established the company’s sales, marketing, strategic partnerships, product management and sales support infrastructures and processes.  Byrd originally joined A-Life after serving in various management positions for Computer Sciences Corporation and Reynolds and Reynolds.  He returned to A-Life to serve as vice president, business development in 2009.

  Byrd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from Rocky Mountain College.

• Spencer Wood, Vice President, Client Services

  Spencer K. Wood joined A-Life Medical in 2007 as director of client services with 20 years of experience in software services, support and development. In 2010, Wood was promoted to vice president of client services and is responsible for professional services, project management & implementations, quality assurance, software implementation, technical support and coding services.

  Prior to joining A-Life Medical Wood held a number of management positions with Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of software solutions, and was most recently senior director of professional services responsible for technical and programming services.

  A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Wood received his Masters of Science in Software Engineering from National University.