Mark Emkjer

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Mr. Mark Emkjer serves as Board Member at mPulse. Mr. Emkjer serves as Senior Advisor at Providence Equity Partners. He served as Director at inContact. He served as Board Member at Provant Health. He has 35 years of experience in the healthcare technology industry and has served as the Chief Executive Officer of five public and private companies in the provider, health plan, and life sciences sectors. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of WebMD Health Services, where he led a turnaround of the business that included a rewrite of strategy, assembly of an executive team, and the execution of various operating tactics that led to significant growth and numerous high profile sales. Prior to WebMD, he served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of Accelrys, a scientific informatics software and services company for life sciences, chemical, and materials research and development, where he led the company's spinoff from Pharmacopeia. Prior to Accelrys, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sunquest, a leading provider of clinical data management, where he helped significantly bolster the company's profit and shareholder equity over the course of three years, culminating in the sale of the company to MISYS PLC for $404 million. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Pace Health Management Systems, a clinical decision support provider that was sold to 3M Corporation under his leadership, and HCC, a leading international provider of financial solutions to the healthcare industry. He served on the board of directors at Care Payment, The Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, and Anju Software Inc. - a PSG portfolio company. He was recently on the board of inContact, where he served on the committee that negotiated the sale of the company for over $1 billion, as well as the board of Hooper Holmes, which has now merged with Provant Health. He has also been a lecturer at the University of California's Rady School of Management addressing MBA candidates on various topics including turnarounds, leadership, and the healthcare industry. Mr. Emkjer received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Miami and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Florida Atlantic University. He also served as Board Member at Anju Software.