GTESS Appoints James P. Bradley as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Company Board Member Was Former United HealthCare, McKesson Technology Executive

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTESS Corporation, a provider of software-as-a-service technology for the healthcare industry, today announced the appointment of James P. Bradley as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Bradley began his affiliation with the Company in January of 2006, when he joined the Company’s Board of Directors. He assumes his new duties effective immediately.

“We are confident that Jim’s track record of creating value through system and technology innovation in healthcare will serve the Company’s current and future customers well. We are also thankful to our past CEO, Ms. Deborah Gage, under whose leadership the Company grew significantly. We wish Deb well.”

A long-time healthcare technology strategist, Mr. Bradley has served in many of healthcare’s most progressive organizations, including United Healthcare Corporation. As United Healthcare’s CIO, he and his team pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare technology. Mr. Bradley later founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Abaton.com Inc., a developer of web-based physician’s office connectivity services and applications, which was purchased by McKesson. He then joined iMcKesson, the internet technology division of McKesson Corporation, as Chief Technology Strategy Officer.

Mr. Bradley was the founding CEO of RxHub, LLC, a nationwide electronic prescription drug information exchange. Mr. Bradley also serves on the Board of Trustees for the University of Minnesota Medical Center - Fairview, and is the Chairman of the Board of Prematics, Inc., a Bethesda, MD-based startup in the e-prescribing field. He was formerly on the Board of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), an organization he Chaired from 2002-2005. He is a former co-Chair of WEDI, the Workgroup for EDI, served on the Board of the eHealth Initiative, and working as a partner with Northrop Grumman Corporation, served as the Program Director of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“The board members are thrilled to have a successful, serial entrepreneur like Jim Bradley take the helm of GTESS,” said John Simon, managing director of General Catalyst Partners and a GTESS board member. “We are confident that Jim’s track record of creating value through system and technology innovation in healthcare will serve the Company’s current and future customers well. We are also thankful to our past CEO, Ms. Deborah Gage, under whose leadership the Company grew significantly. We wish Deb well.”

About GTESS Corporation

GTESS is a Dallas, Texas-based provider of software as a service technology for advancing the efficiency, accuracy and speed of healthcare transactions. We provide technology that allows our clients to achieve their goals for increased automation, speed and lower costs of claims processing. GTESS only serves health plans, benefit administrators and networks, and our team of healthcare-experienced professionals delivers industry-leading service levels and guaranteed high-quality results every day. GTESS (www.GTESS.com) is headquartered in Richardson, Texas with technical operations facilities located in Dallas and Atlanta, Georgia.