ABILITY Network Appoints Chief Financial Officer

John A. Gappa has been appointed Chief Financial Officer for ABILITY Network. (Photo: Business Wire)

MINNEAPOLIS--()--ABILITY Network, a leading healthcare information technology company, announced today that John A. Gappa has joined the organization as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

In this position Gappa will be responsible for leading corporate financial management and strategy, controllership and accounting, and other administrative functions.

“I’m very excited to welcome John to the ABILITY leadership team,” said Mark A. Pulido, Chairman and CEO of ABILITY Network. “He has built an impressive record throughout his career as a leader in finance and healthcare settings. John’s deep knowledge and operating experience in these key areas make him an extraordinarily good choice for ABILITY.”

Prior to joining ABILITY, Gappa served as the Senior Vice President and CFO for MOM Brands Company, and led the recent sale of the company to Post Holdings. Gappa also served four years as Senior Vice President and CFO of Universal Hospital Services (UHS), a leading nationwide provider of healthcare technology management and service solutions to the healthcare industry. While at UHS he led a public high yield offering and equity recapitalization of the company. Before that, Gappa served for nine years as SVP, CFO and General Manager of Red Line HealthCare Corporation, a specialty long-term care distribution company serving skilled nursing facilities and home health providers. While at Red Line, Gappa also held the position of General Manager of the company’s Medicare billing division. He also held progressive financial and accounting management positions with The Pillsbury Company over nine years.

In 2011, while at MOM Brands, Gappa was recognized as the Twin Cities CFO of the Year by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.

Gappa received a B.S. and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He is a Board Member and past Board Chair of the American Refugee Committee, and has served as a Minnesota Zoo Foundation trustee.

About ABILITY Network
ABILITY Network is a leading healthcare information technology company trusted by over 120,000 providers and payers across the continuum of care, providing a broad suite of innovative workflow services to help manage the administrative and clinical complexities of healthcare. ABILITY is headquartered in Minneapolis with principal offices in Boston, Parsippany and Tampa.

Contacts

ABILITY Network Inc
Audrey Anderson, 612-277-1481
Media Relations
mediarelations@ABILITYnetwork.com

Release Summary

ABILITY Network, a leading healthcare information technology company, announced today that John A. Gappa has joined the organization as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Contacts

ABILITY Network Inc
Audrey Anderson, 612-277-1481
Media Relations
mediarelations@ABILITYnetwork.com