Meet Our Leaders

Joe Boyd has more than thirty-five years of information technology experience. Joe began his IT career with Electronic Data Systems in the State and Local Government Healthcare Group. After leaving EDS, he worked in the healthcare practices of KPMG Peat Marwick and GTE before joining Perot Systems in 1990.

At Perot Systems, Joe progressed through a variety of positions and was named Vice President and General Manager for the Healthcare Industry practice in 1994. From 1994 – 1997, he grew the Healthcare business from $22 million to over $100 million in annual revenues. In 1997, Joe was promoted to Executive Vice President and General Manager for Perot Systems North American sales and operations, directing over 4,000 employees in a $600 million business that included seven industry verticals. Joe retired from Perot Systems in 2001 but has continued to be involved in the industry providing management consulting and executive coaching services through his own firm, Boyd Consulting.

Since leaving Perot Systems, Joe has served as the Chairman of three different successful companies. He was the Chairman of Healthlink Inc. from 2003 until it was sold to IBM in June 2005. He was the Chairman of Encore Health Resources – a fast-growing clinical consulting and Informatics Company based in Houston, TX from 2011 until it was sold to Quintiles Transnational in June 2014. He was also the Chairman of MedSynergies Inc. – a fast-growing Physician Alignment and RCM company based in Irving, TX from 2005 until it was sold to Optum in October 2014. Joe also served as a director at OnFocus|Healthcare from 2008 until it was sold to MedeAnalytics in November 2014 and was an advisor to 2M Biotech from 2014 until it was sold to UT Southwestern in January 2017.

Joe is also a former director and will be a life-long supporter of the Dallas-based non-profit, MediSend International.

Joe holds a B.A. in History and an M.B.A. from Mississippi State University.

Darin’s 29-year career has been spent entirely in the U.S. healthcare industry, with depth and breadth across multiple segments within the market. He has successfully led national and global technology and business process organizations, spanning Fortune 500 healthcare divisions to second-stage growth organizations and start- up software companies. He has also worked closely with various private equity firms on healthcare technology investing as an operating partner and advisor.

Capitalizing on the ever-changing healthcare market over the last 20 years, Darin has passionately driven growth in each phase of his career by addressing the clinical and financial needs of hospitals and other provider organizations, national and regional health plans, and pharmaceutical/life science organizations. This has been done through services, products, and consulting capabilities that help clients reduce cost, increase access, improve outcomes, and engage consumers.

Darin’s most recent leadership role took him back to the global, Fortune 500 world, as the North America leader for healthcare at Atos. During his short tenure there, Darin successfully organized the unit around payer, provider and pharma/life sciences sub-markets, re-built the senior leadership team, revamped the client delivery model, established a true go-to-market sales and marketing function, and established strong client relationships helping drive growth. In the first year, the division exceeded growth targets and established a go-forward revenue projection with greater than 20% growth for 2018. During this time, Darin and Atos also completed three acquisitions simultaneously, adding significant capability in the consulting areas of EHR implementation, optimization and adoption, as well as population health and financial services.

Darin launched his career at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in the late 1980s, focusing on the largest Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans across the country; this included managing large, multi-functional, complex projects, as well as full IT outsourcing contracts. The pinnacle of this period was the successful implementation of the largest IT outsourcing contract in the industry at that time, including a complete implementation of claims, membership and all ancillary applications in a nine-month period for BCBS Massachusetts.

Subsequent to EDS, Darin formed, built and managed the healthcare division at Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS). Taking over as the President of ACS Healthcare Solutions, and with a handful of clients, he successfully established a divisional infrastructure poised for growth in the payer, provider and pharma/life sciences industries. This included a new client services model, full sales and marketing capability, partnerships with multiple high-value companies to accelerate penetration in each sub-market, and the acquisition of multiple strategic assets, increasing market footprint and operational capability for the division.

Leaving the corporate world, Darin spent the next 14 years as the President and CEO of two private equity backed organizations, and one founder-owned entity, successfully growing each of these organizations exponentially. Each of these companies were ultimately sold to strategic buyers in their respective markets. The companies spanned most aspects of the healthcare ecosystem, including Xactimed, a commercial software solution focused on the revenue cycle needs of hospitals and other provider groups, Phoenix Health Systems, a full-scale IT outsourcing, consulting and EHR implementation company focused on hospitals and payers, and Aldera, a claims processing software solution focused on all lines of business for health plans and other risk-bearing entities.

J.R. Thomas is the President & Chief Executive Officer of REVELOHEALTH, LLC., a health information company based in Frisco, Texas, serving healthcare systems, large provider organizations, payers, and employers.  REVELOHEALTH converts healthcare data into information to reduce the high cost of collection and uses this information to improve people’s lives today in the communities where they live.

Since 2017, J.R. is the Co-Managing Partner of Thomas Marshall Group, LLC, a healthcare advisory firm based in Dallas, Texas, along with several of his associates from MedSynergies, Inc.  J.R. served as Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors of MedSynergies, Inc. for over 17 years and was a founding executive of the company in 1996.  MedSynergies served over 9,500 physicians in 29 states, processing over $30 million in medical payments daily through its domestic and global operations capacity.  MedSynergies was acquired by Optum, a division of United Health Group, Inc. where J.R. retired in 2017.

Currently, J.R. serves on the Board of Managers of the Park City Club, and the advisory boards of GuideIT, LLC, EXL Health, a division of EXL Services, LLC., and the Marketing Department of the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University.  J.R. is a native of Arkansas and holds a B.A. degree in Zoology from the University of Arkansas and an M.B.A. from the McCombs School at The University of Texas at Austin.  He and his wife Natalie make their home in Dallas, Texas, and have two adult daughters.

Shawn is the Chief Commercial Officer at XSELL Technologies.

Will has nearly 30 years of experience as an investment banker representing growth companies in a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions and public and private equity and debt transactions. After spending the first part of his career with the investment banking firms of J.C. Bradford & Co. and Jefferies, he established what is now Silvermark Partners in 2004 with the primary goal of serving as a trusted advisor to clients across the country that value candor and discretion. While he has experience across a broad range of industries, his practice focuses primarily on healthcare, business services and technology.

Kenny Springfield serves as a Portfolio Manager at Perot Petrus Asset Management.

In his current role, Kenny is responsible for screening and selecting private equity investment managers and oversees the firm's business development efforts. In this capacity, he sources, negotiates and structures investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Perot in 2008, he oversaw the Dallas office for GoldenTree Asset Management. Kenny is also an alumnus of GE Capital and has over 30 years of commercial finance experience.

Kenny graduated from the University of North Texas and holds an MBA in corporate finance.

Outside of work, Kenny likes to watch college football, read and play golf. He also loves spending time with his wife and three children.

Jamie Dye has more than 30 years’ experience in accelerating performance for healthcare services organizations. As the Chief Development Officer for Cedar Gate, a value-based care software and services performance management company, Jamie is responsible for strategic business development and marketing.

Prior to Cedar Gate, Jamie served as the Chief Development Officer for Global Healthcare Alliance (GHA), the bundled payment solutions provider acquired by Cedar Gate in late 2018. Prior to GHA, Jamie was Chief Development Officer for MedSynergies (now Optum360 Ambulatory Services), a for-profit ambulatory services company focused on improving physician enterprise performance. MedSynergies grew its business from a local to national healthcare services provider, resulting in the company’s strategic acquisition by Optum in 2014.

Jamie’s prior experience also includes a 20-year tenure with Perot Systems helping to build the organization into a multi-billion-dollar market leader in healthcare services. Jamie received his bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida and his master’s degree in health law from Nova Southeastern University.

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