Team
Brett Johnson
President and Executive Editor
Brett is an experienced entrepreneur, having successfully launched numerous communications-related enterprises. He started with the Minnesota Collaborative a regional network that assists emerging companies and annually hosts one of the country’s largest venture capital conferences, where presenting companies have raised in excess of $2 billion since 1994. He was founder and editor-in-chief of Minnesota Ventures magazine, a regional business publication focusing on small and growing companies. He was also founder and publisher of Law & Politics magazine, a monthly published in Minnesota and Washington and whose SuperLawyers supplement is syndicated in 40 markets. His healthcare experience began in pharmacy, where he worked with the National Community Pharmacists Association NCPA and founded Cornerdrugstore.com. There, as CEO, he built an online network of almost 2,000 local drugstores throughout the U.S. He was also active in the financing and development of Health Integrated, a leading national disease management company. His non-profit background includes founding the Environmental Initiative in 1990 to address regional environmental issues by bringing together environmental groups, industry and government. The organization has become a model for other regional environmental initiatives. He received his degree in economics from Harvard University.
Herina Ayot
Sentinel Managing Editor
Herina Ayot joined OneMedPlace as the Managing Editor for OneMedSentinel, the news arm of OMP, and identifies groundbreaking technologies in the healthcare and life science industry as a means to highlight new investment opportunities. She maintains web content for the company blog and manages the weekly e-newsletter that is sent to over 6,000 CEOs and investors worldwide. Previously, she worked under Mayor Bloomberg at the National 9/11 Memorial Foundation where she researched prospective major donors and possible board members, and later as a Grantwriter for the New York City non-profit, Project Renewal. There she researched and edited grant requests to foundation, corporate, and government funders. Herina Ayot is a graduate of New York University with a B.A. in Psychology and minor in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Malini Chatterjee
Director of OneMedResearch
Malini Chatterjee, Ph.D. brings a decade of buy side healthcare investment on Wall Street with some of the most respected firms include SAC, where she has been responsible for a healthcare portfolio of $750 million mostly in biotechnology investments. She has an intimate understanding of what it takes to attract institutional investors. She also brings a strong network that is interested in promising biotech companies. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia in molecular oncology and has the distinction of having graduated no. #1 in her class for both her Bachelors of Science and Masters from the University of Bombay, one of India's best universities. Thereafter, she entered the healthcare consulting field on clinical trial drug development and approval, commercialization to top companies such as Genentech, Sanofi Aventis, Bristol Myers and Roche.
Amanda Jiang
Director of Marketing
Amanda Jiang serves the role of Director of Marketing at OneMedPlace; she coordinates with sponsors and assists with new product launches and works closely with CEO, Brett Johnson, in business development. Amanda also manages the conference website, trains new hires, organizes the OneMedDatabase and increases efficiency in search and list generation. Amanda Jiang graduated from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University as a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, which is the nation’s oldest Academic Honor Society. She majored in International Relations and Political Science, while minoring in Chinese Studies and Entrepreneurship.
Daniel Kremer
Director of OneMedTV
Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude from Philadelphia’s Temple University with a degree from their prestigious Film and Media Arts program. While residing in Philadelphia, he wrote and directed many films of both short and feature-length, and now contributes high-quality production and post-production skills to OneMedTV using a wide range of experience in media-related fields. His films have won numerous international awards, including five Best Documentary prizes and two awards for Best Feature Film. He has been with OneMedTV for two years, and has overseen the completion and delivery of hundreds of executive videos, sit-down interviews and conference-coverage trailers. Also, he is fluent in Hebrew, and is capable and most eager to help Israeli companies produce media for OneMedTV in the Hebrew language, if they should desire it.
Claudia Pinzon
Director Sales & Account Management
Claudia Pinzon steers and coordinates all key account activities for public and private companies in healthcare and medicine. Her main responsibilities include: New business development, sales support, client interaction, strategic analysis, compliance on client deliverables, continuos account service and market monitoring. She majored in Advertising at Pontifical Xavierian University and earned a Masters Degree in Media Management at The New School in New York. Prior experience includes: Reporting/Interviewing, Video Production and Editing, Corporate Communications, Marketing and PR for micro cap and emerging companies in healthcare, fitness and medicine.
J. Pascal Rawls-Philippe
Director of Administration and Finance
Pascal organizes the daily administrative tasks for efficiency along with daily and periodic finances. As Administrative Director he is responsible for designing and coordinating the registration systems and processes for the bi-annual conferences, organizing and utilizing email lists, developing uniform formats for data entry and training and quality control among current employees. As Finance Director, Pascal is responsible for all A/P and A/R, invoicing, budgeting, quarterly reporting and payroll. Pascal was previously the Head of North American Operations at Eurasi Enterprises, a furniture wholesaler based out of High Point , NC . Pascal is a graduate of Morehouse College with a degree in Business Administration and a concentration in Finance.
Chris Scrivo
Chief Information Officer
The Chief Technology Officer for OneMedPlace, Chris Scrivo, is an IT professional with over fifteen years of experience in articulating and delivering technology solutions to implement business strategies. He leads the OneMedPlace team in developing new applications and expanding our growing systems infrastructure. Certified SCSA systems administrator, including Systems Security and Administration, Development, Data Recovery, Operations Management and Risk Mitigation. Chris attended the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College with a specialisation in Finance and Economics.
Lisa Sher
Director of Business Development, Network News Correspondent
Lisa Sher has been an award-winning sales producer at pharmaceutical companies, Zeneca (now Astra-Zeneca) specializing in cardiovascular and type 2 Diabetes drugs, Endo (specializing in pain management therapies) and most recently Schering-Plough (now Merck) specializing in the asthma and allergy market. Her diverse background in these therapeutic areas allows her to be well-versed in many subjects. Lisa holds a BA with honors in International Relations from Boston University. Lisa has been promoted taking on an additional role as Network Correspondent, where she focuses on specific therapeutic areas and follows and reports on companies in that space. Some of these are diseases of the CNS, Personalized Medicine, Dermatology and Regenerative Medicine.