Executive
Terrence Ryan
Chief Executive Officer
Before founding LaunchPoint, Terrence was the Director of the Worldwide Information Management Services practice for Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for building HP's global business intelligence and information management presence. Terrence joined HP in late 2006 when it acquired Knightsbridge Solutions, a leading business intelligence consultancy that he co-founded. At Knightsbridge, Terrence served as CIO as well as Operations leader, which included strategy, portfolio development, methodology, resource management, delivery, and infrastructure. Prior to Knightsbridge, Terrence held various senior leadership roles at Lante, Technology Solutions Company, and American Management Systems. Terrence’s consultative management background, significant domestic and international leadership experience, and executive oversight in many capacities have directly impacted the year-over-year growth and success of the companies he has served.
John Bair
Chief Technology Officer
John has decades of experience building complex information management systems and is an inventor on six data management patents. Before joining LaunchPoint, John worked as the lead technologist of the Worldwide Information Management (IM) Services practice for Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for defining HP's technology strategy, reference architectures, and methodologies for business intelligence and information management services. John previously worked as CTO for Knightsbridge Solutions, a leading BI consultancy, which HP acquired in 2006. There he served as chief architect on enterprise data integration, data warehousing, and business intelligence implementations for Fortune 200 financial services, healthcare, retail, and high tech industries. Previously he served as Principal Engineer and Data Warehouse Architect at Amazon.com, where he created high-performance scalable e-commerce business intelligence systems including Amazon's enterprise data warehouse and analytic services. In 1995, John co-founded Leep Technology, a developer of data mining, customer relationship management, and data warehouse software that was acquired by Amazon.com in 1999. John is a frequent presenter at business intelligence and data warehousing conferences.
Diann Bilderback
Chief Marketing Officer
Diann brings to LaunchPoint 25+ years of experience in technology marketing, primarily in fast-growth entrepreneurial businesses. Most recently she was Director of BI Services Marketing within Hewlett-Packard's newly formed Worldwide Information Management Services practice and its successor organization, the Worldwide Business Intelligence Solutions team. At HP, Diann led the global marketing launch of multiple new service offerings and managed an integrated program to establish HP's BI consulting credentials. Prior to HP, Diann was Director of Marketing of Knightsbridge Solutions, a leading business intelligence consultancy. At Knightsbridge, Diann built a powerful and durable brand and established the company as a thought leader in the BI space, earning Knightsbridge more than a dozen industry awards for leadership and best practices. Prior to Knightsbridge, Diann held executive marketing roles at Technology Solutions Company and Advanced System Applications, served as a marketing consultant to early stage technology firms, and published a magazine targeted to the interests of students planning careers in technology.
Tracy Cather
Vice President of Consulting Operations
Before joining LaunchPoint, Tracy led the effort to integrate Hewlett-Packard’s newly established business intelligence services into its portfolio of hardware, software and services offerings in his role within HP's Worldwide Information Management Services practice. Tracy joined HP from Knightsbridge Solutions, a leading BI consultancy that HP acquired in 2006. There he led the effort to establish efficient delivery methods to help clients maximize their BI investment. This included creating BI Centers of Excellence to establish BI standards and ensure consistent delivery of quality BI solutions and implementing global delivery models. Tracy also led the development of the Knightsbridge master data management (MDM), metadata repository, and information management strategy offerings. Additionally, Tracy spent several years serving as the Delivery Manager for one of the world’s largest energy companies. In this role, he established the client’s supply and trading information management strategy, implemented an integrated IM architecture to address their enterprise data warehouse and MDM needs, and managed a global delivery team of 75+ members across the United States, United Kingdom and Asia.
Peter Gifford
Vice President of Business Operations
Before founding LaunchPoint, Peter served as IT Integration Manager at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the company’s IT integration of Knightsbridge Solutions by unifying the companies’ IT infrastructures, applications, teams and processes for HP’s new Worldwide Information Management Services practice. Prior to HP, Peter served in a variety of capacities at Knightsbridge Solutions during his 10-year tenure. As Director of IT, he led and grew the team responsible for scaling IT infrastructure and multiple application implementations to improve operational efficiency of critical ERP, finance, HR, and legal functions. As a Principal Consultant, Peter advised leading financial services, high technology and pharmaceutical companies on their data warehousing initiatives, building and managing projects that delivered significant business efficiencies, cost savings, and more intuitive information management.
David Grice
Vice President of Sales
David brings significant sales leadership experience from leading companies including HP, Knightsbridge, and Ernst & Young, where he successfully built high growth, profitable, and well-operating teams. At HP, David’s sales leadership resulted in his appointment to lead the HP Global Healthcare BI Solutions Practice. David joined HP from Knightsbridge, where he distinguished himself as the highest producer in company history. David worked to diversify Knightsbridge’s practice focus to include all aspects of the healthcare value chain including provider, payer, pharmaceutical, medical products, and health services enterprises. He also was a key player in expanding the practice’s functional experience into key business areas, including clinical management, supply chain management, sales and marketing improvement, and R&D. Before then, David specialized in healthcare emerging technologies and provider data integration at Ernst & Young, where he also served as the regional expert for the firm’s hospital data integration practice.
Paul Vosters
Healthcare Chief Operating Officer
Prior to founding LaunchPoint, Paul led HP’s Information Management Services practice for Health & Life Sciences. In this capacity, he provided leadership oversight for the strategic and technical solutions for healthcare payers, providers, biopharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturers, and health services companies, leading to double-digit growth for the practice. His teams were known for applying innovative solutions to client problems, winning awards for excellence and business impact. Prior to HP, Paul led the Health & Life Sciences practice at Knightsbridge Solutions, where he built the practice to become the company’s largest revenue and profit contributor. Successful client initiatives include reducing operational costs by 40% for a healthcare decision support solution provider, and leading the charge to develop the nation’s first statewide surveillance system to detect bioterrorism and infectious outbreaks for the State of North Carolina. Before then, Paul held key business and technology posts at Baxter Healthcare. His varied roles included leading the company’s global data warehousing initiative as Global Architect; consolidating 128 data centers into a single location in Europe; and running Baxter’s global supply chain, decreasing inventory by 10% while tripling churn. His 20+ years of leadership and project management includes ERP implementations, data management architecture, and global data warehousing solutions with windows to supply chain, manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, finance, and customer service. Paul also worked for international companies in the manufacturing and retail industries while living in Belgium, Norway, Spain and Germany.
