About Us
Improving well-being by identifying what works
Opeeka is a company committed to boosting the health of people from all walks of life. Whether for individuals who require periodic reminders of thankfulness or for those who battle with despair, addiction, homelessness, safety, and physical problems, Opeeka is devoted to enhancing the well-being of others.
Person-Centered Intelligence Solution (P-CIS), the company’s principal technology, is a patient outcomes platform that connects to care organizations’ existing technology to extend its capability to support value-based care. Payers, states, counties, and care providers use P-CIS to unify the continuum of care, reduce burden on staff, and improve patient outcomes. There is no other technology on the market like P-CIS. It is the only platform to symbiotically work within the ecosystem of care technology to improve workflow, outcomes, care coordination, and overall care system performance.
Opeeka’s solutions are person-centered, which means that they take each individual’s circumstances into account. The organization recognizes that what is advantageous to one individual may not be advantageous to another, which is why its solutions are designed to match the particular demands of each individual.
Customers of Opeeka include state agencies that oversee healthcare, behavioral health, or child welfare, private care payers and providers, community care providers, and individual care providers. The organization is dedicated to developing solutions that have a significant impact and enhance the lives of people worldwide.
Opeeka is a firm committed to promoting well-being and assisting individuals in leading healthier, happier lives. Opeeka’s entire array of efficiency solutions has a beneficial influence on the globe and enables care organizations to provide better care.
Leadership
Larry Bawden
Chief Executive Officer
Larry is a successful, innovative, and mission-driven chief executive officer and change catalyst scaling and modernizing organizations that bring services/products/emerging technologies to market. An Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, he has an extensive knowledge base in introducing and implementing strategies that lead to company growth and increases in market share while advancing various industries with unstoppable momentum. Additionally, he is named on 6 active or pending US patents and has assembled and led highly motivated teams to develop 65 cutting-edge, patented technologies.
Jake Romero
Chief Financial Officer
With over 20 years of experience of financial management at public and private companies, Jake has joined Opeeka as our CFO. While working at Symantec, Intel and Blue Shield of California he obtained extensive experience with SaaS products, creating advanced financial models, analysing pricing, and managing the overall finances of multi-million-dollar business units. In addition to large company experience, Jake co-founded a B2C service business which he led to a successful exit in 2017.
Ramona Marshall
Chief Operating Officer
A seasoned SaaS executive with an impressive 30-year career, Ms. Marshall brings with her a track record of delivering significant organizational transformations and impressive returns for investors. She has a stellar history of building successful teams and SaaS products, resulting in scalable growth and extraordinary financial performance. Ms. Marshall joins Opeeka from Frontline Education, where she served as Regional Vice President and was responsible for the overall regional success of their Educational Technology suite of SaaS products. Prior to Frontline, she held the position of President and COO at Escape Technology, leading a strategic turnaround that resulted in a 47% Total Addressable Market (TAM) share and a 95% RFP win rate.
Jacob Jorgensen, M.D.
CTO & Chief Medical Officer
As a licensed physician, Jacob has focused his medical career on the application of artificial intelligence, mathematics and probability theory to clinical decision making in medical laboratory testing and diagnosis. He is also an experienced technologist, having contributed inventions and new technologies through IEEE publications, 20+ US patents, and several VC-backed technology startups. His background includes 30 years of experience as CEO, CTO, COO, and VP Engineering in both start-ups and public companies. He has extensive experience leading teams in product development, creating intellectual property, and performing technology due diligence, with additional expertise in wireless and data communications technologies, cloud and big data analysis, software architecture and development. He is a graduate of M.I.T. (B.S. theoretical physics), Columbia University (M.D. Medicine and Surgery), and Stanford University (American Electronics Association “mini”-MBA).
Kevin McDonnell
SVP Business Growth
Kevin is a seasoned SaaS technology leader with over twenty years of leadership experience. Expert in process improvement and solution design. "Big idea" person with instinctive ability to formulate business plans and strategies and then execute them. Natural "change agent" skilled at motivating, encouraging, and inspiring others. Excellent creative writer, business development and marketing guru.
Robert Pierce
Director of Technology
With over 20 years of experience in IT and Software Development, Robert leads Opeeka’s technology and development team. A successful project leader and Fullstack Developer with extensive technical knowledge with complex data integration and automation in enterprise-level IT infrastructures. As a Senior Systems Developer for the world’s 5th largest bank, he led a team of developers to architect an enterprise-level fund management software that processes multi-billion-dollar global financial transactions. Robert’s goal is developing and perfecting new features for P-CIS and making data more meaningful for our customers. Data is at the core of everything he does, but when he is not dreaming about data, you might find him on the slopes in Tahoe or just enjoying time with his wife and two kids.
Laura Hosier
Director, Customer Support and Analytics
Laura Hosier is a Data Scientist for Opeeka. She has been serving children, youth, adults, and their families in the mental health and social welfare sphere since 2009, working to turn data points into meaningful tools for line staff and management alike, through research projects, outcomes and evaluation reporting, and continuous quality improvement initiatives. Laura oversees many of our evaluation and research projects, using software such as Microsoft Access, SAS, and Tableau to support the data analysis and data visualization goals of our clients.
Matt Payn
Director of Business Development
Matt is an experienced business development executive with over 20 years of experience building and nurturing relationships and partnerships. His roles have included driving relationship development that led to customer expansion, new sales, and channel partnerships, with extensive experience bridging the communication channels between the customer and transformation teams. He was one of the earliest external supporters before Opeeka began and is driven by the mission to help Opeeka achieve its maximum impact in the world.
Board of Directors
Dale Prouty
Tri Alpha Energy
Dale Prouty is a highly accomplished leader with a remarkable track record in driving early to development-stage companies to success. He is renowned for his strong commitment to innovation, which has allowed him to turn groundbreaking ideas into market-leading products and services. Dale has held critical roles as a CEO, investor, board member, and operating director for more than 25 entrepreneurial technology businesses. He is experienced in executing successful exits, including selling companies and taking businesses public through IPOs and mergers. His strategic foresight and leadership have seen his former companies collectively surpass $2 billion in market capital on the New York Stock Exchange.
Richard Knecht, M.S.
Integrated Human Services Group, LLC
Richard has more than 30 years of experience as a celebrated clinician, speaker, executive coach, facilitator and organizational engineer. Richard Knecht has delivered program operations, leadership, strategic planning and training services to public and private healthcare and human service systems. He is highly regarded in California for his work in designing, adapting and implementing integrated Systems of Care for public human service agencies.
Larry Bawden
Chief Executive Officer
Larry is a successful, innovative, and mission-driven chief executive officer and change catalyst scaling and modernizing organizations that bring services/products/emerging technologies to market. An Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, he has an extensive knowledge base in introducing and implementing strategies that lead to company growth and increases in market share while advancing various industries with unstoppable momentum. Additionally, he is named on 6 active or pending US patents and has assembled and led highly motivated teams to develop 65 cutting-edge, patented technologies.
Our Story
At the heart of Opeeka lies a compelling story of passion, experience, and innovation. Born from the lived experiences of its founding team, Opeeka embodies its collective vision for a more informed, person-centered approach to health and social care. Before the origin of Opeeka, the founding team crafted models for many institutions – from federal and state bodies to healthcare providers and community agencies. These models seamlessly transform behavioral health and social program data into actionable decisions, driving positive outcomes.
Created out of this work and insight and central to Opeeka’s offerings is the groundbreaking software, Person-Centered Intelligence Solution (P-CIS). This pioneering platform amalgamates data from electronic medical records (EMRs), electronic health records (EHRs), and case management systems. P-CIS is about data aggregation and crafting an integrated narrative for patient-centered treatment plans. With real-time insights into each individual’s progression, care providers are empowered to tailor treatments, ensuring that every person receives the care best suited to their journey towards betterment.
Opeeka is more than a company. It’s a movement, a vision, and a commitment to ensuring that every individual’s story is heard, understood, and nurtured.
