Ting Shih, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

As the founder of ClickMedix, Ting relied on her decade of experience in designing and launching technology services, along with associated business strategies for major US government, pharmaceutical and global education companies and organizations. Her areas of expertise include strategy, lean/Six Sigma process improvement, operations management, organization change management, and business development.

She spent three years as a founder of Click Diagnostics, a social enterprise born out of the MIT Media Lab, conducting mobile health projects and pilots in over ten countries in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and North America. She was integral to designing mobile health systems that can withstand unreliable or intermittent mobile network, while satisfying the varied needs of healthcare in underserved communities. She founded ClickMedix to build upon the success and learning from the three-year pilot of creating a highly reliable, secure, and user-friendly, HIPAA-compliant telehealth system that can be deployed quickly to health practitioners and connect patients with medical experts worldwide. Ting leads the design, development, and deployment efforts for ClickMedix’s affordable mobile health and education system.

Ting is Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards Laureate of 2012 for North America. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and MS in Systems Engineering from MIT, as an MIT Leaders for Global Operations Fellow and Public Service Fellow.  In addition, she holds a BS in Computer Science and MS in Software Design and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jake Morrison, Chief Technology Officer

Jake has more than twenty years of experience in architecting, implementing and deploying large-scale e-commerce, supply chain, and telecommunications systems worldwide. He is at the forefront of mobile application development, with strong emphasize on secure and reliable architecture for mobile-web network service application systems. Prior to joining ClickMedix, Jake spearheaded a number of technology and telecommunication ventures delivering IP telephony and video conferencing solutions, as well as large system integration efforts in supply-chain systems. His areas of expertise include networking and telecommunication, embedded systems, enterprise application integration and management of international and dispersed project teams. Jake provides overall technical leadership and is specifically responsible for architecture and implementation of the ClickMedix next-generation mobile-web telehealth and education system. Jake holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Southern California.

 

Caroline Chia, Chief Operating Officer

Caroline is a marketing and operations expert in technology, telecommunications and media publishing industries. She has more than 20 years of experience as founder and senior executive manager of multiple start-ups as well as Fortune 500 corporations. She co-founded a telecommunications VoIP product-based company and successfully raised its first multi-million round and then expanded the company’s operations internationally with a team of 50 staff members to establish sales and distribution channels worldwide. In media publishing, she successfully launched the first US-based news publication to be printed in Taiwan (Asian Wall Street Journal & Forbes Magazine) through innovations in sales, marketing, PR, branding and product packaging, resulting in an unprecedented growth of 25-35% during her tenure through a new product offering. Her passion for music led her to become an internationally renowned talent manager, event producer and Asian market expert. She consults for many governmental agencies, NGOs and professional associations on international business development. Caroline spearheads marketing and business development efforts for ClickMedix worldwide.

 

Dr. Philip Miller, Board Member

Dr. Miller was co-founder and Executive Vice President of iCarnegie Inc., the Internet educational spin-off from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science that brought a high quality software development curriculum to partnering universities worldwide. At iCarnegie Dr. Miller had primary responsibility for sales and customer relations, additionally supervising curriculum development and mentoring partner university faculty members. Earlier Dr. Miller was CEO of Fox Hollow Associates which developed pioneering technology systems for higher education and broadcast television. At Carnegie Mellon University, he directed computer-programming courses for two decades, launched the Genie programming environments, created the Center for Art and Technology and was a board member of the Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology. Dr. Miller also served at the Software Engineering Institute, participating in the development and promulgation of standards for high quality, secure software. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Community College of Allegheny County and held various appointments with the College Board in their computer science and mathematics offerings.

Dr. Miller pursues his long-standing commitment to helping the underserved find their way out of poverty by organizing parishes, schools and seminarians of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh in support of work that each summer takes him to Guatemalan and other Latin American mission schools, hospitals and orphanages. Dr. Miller has technical expertise, entrepreneurial experience and real passion for the mission of ClickMedix. Dr. Miller holds baccalaureate and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University.

Jodi Lyons, Advisor – Geriatric Healthcare Expert

With more than 20 years’ experience in the nonprofit healthcare arena, Jodi has been a leader in a wide variety of national and international organizations representing healthcare and long-term care service providers. In this capacity, she has worked with the NIH, CDC, Health and Human Services, White House Conference on Aging, and Congress to develop policy on health care issues and public health education programs.  She also has been a member of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, the only national coalition of government agencies and nonprofits solely concerned with the well-being of America’s seniors and representing their interests in the policy-making arena. Most recently, Jodi was President/CEO of AJAS, an international organization that represented Jewish sponsored long-term care organizations. Currently, she is President and CEO of Continuum of Care Consultants. Jodi is on the Executive Committee of the Alzheimer’s Association, National Capital Area.  Jodi has written a book on eldercare options to teach consumers to make educated decisions about their long-term care choices – scheduled to be published by Keith Publications in 2012. Jodi graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA and is a former President of the Washington DC area alumni association.