Leadership Team
Brad Bostic
Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board
Brad Bostic is an entrepreneurial leader who has founded and led multiple high-growth technology companies serving in the capacities of CEO and President. Brad has built successful companies in the mobile, SaaS, and enterprise software markets. Brad has been recognized for his achievements in business including being named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list recognizing the state’s top business leaders under the age of forty.
Brad co-founded ChaCha, a mobile and online answers service, in January 2006 and served as President through February 2009. Under his leadership, ChaCha became the world’s fastest growing text (SMS) search service winning a number of awards including AT&T Fast Pitch, Fierce 15 Most Influential Mobile Companies, and Frost & Sullivan’s Most Innovative Mobile Search product. Brad graduated from Indiana University where he majored in business with an emphasis on Information Systems.
Chris Brown
Chief Operating Officer
In addition to leading the daily operations of hc1.com, Chris oversees the software development, finance and legal teams. Chris is a veteran of the software and telecommunications industries and spent the last 5 years as President and CFO of ChaCha. At ChaCha Chris launched the mobile products and guided the company's growth to the #1 answers service worldwide, answering over 2 Billion questions since its launch in 2008.
Prior to ChaCha Chris spent 20 years in the wireless sector where he held a variety of leadership roles in sales operations, finance, customer care, and strategic planning for Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications. At Nextel Chris led the customer lifecycle improvements that led to Nextel achieving the #1 rank from JD Powers in wireless customer satisfaction. Chris helped Nextel grow from $300M to over $15B in annual revenue during his tenure there. In 2005-2006 he led the planning and implementation of the Sprint - Nextel merger, one of the largest U.S. mergers in history. Chris started his career as a senior accountant at Deloitte Haskins and Sells and is a CPA. He has a B.A. from Moravian College and a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Business Leadership from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Tom Arena
Chief Product Officer
As Chief Product Officer, Tom leads hc1.com's overall product strategy while also overseeing partnerships. A veteran of the healthcare industry, Tom's most recent role prior to hc1.com was serving as Vice President of Business Development for aLabs, a strategic lab management firm backed by Accretive, LLC aimed at improving the laboratory operations of health systems. In this capacity, he specialized in implementation of new market growth initiatives, quality improvement, and cost reduction.
Prior to his role with aLabs, he served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Solstas Lab Partners, formed through the merger of hospital-based Carilion Labs and Spectrum Labs in 2010. Charged with building and growing a sales team from the ground up, he played a key role in executing the M&A strategy – including integration of a 100-person sales and marketing staff spanning multiple states – while holding full top-line and P&L accountability for sales and marketing budgets. In addition to his executive roles with aLabs and Solstas, Tom previously held various sales positions at Motorola (formerly Quantum Bridge Communications), Riverstone Networks, and Qwest Communications. He is a graduate of West Virginia University.
Eric Lu
VP of Research and Development
Eric has an extensive background in developing scalable enterprise-class applications. He is responsible for managing hc1.com’s software development including design, development and overall product architecture. Eric manages the activities of hc1.com’s product architecture and core platform development team in the US and makes frequent trips to the company's R&D center in Beijing, China to lead hc1.com engineers who are based there.
Prior to joining hc1.com, Eric was responsible for leading the development of Cloverleaf, the most popular interfacing engine technology in the North American hospital market with more than 33% market share, and he held technical senior management positions at HUBLink, Quovadx, Inc. (now a division of Lawson Software called HealthVision), and JP Morgan Chase. Eric has a B.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in Nanjing, China and a Masters in Computer Science from Wright State University.
Esther Friend
VP of Client Success
As VP of Client Success, Esther is responsible for driving great client experiences, overseeing client activation, support, and training. An engaging, award-winning leader, Esther has more than 13 years’ experience in business operations and service excellence. At ChaCha Search Inc., Esther spearheaded the creation and management of the community of 120,000, supporting 25 million monthly unique users and more than 2 billion questions and answers. Esther previously worked at WellPoint in National Accounts, driving process improvements to enhance service delivery.
As an International expatriate with RCI, Esther leveraged best practices to grow successful operations in Mexico City, Ireland, and Singapore. Esther graduated from Hanover College with a B.A. in Spanish and studied at the Universidad de Sevilla, becoming fluent in Spanish.
Brian Owens
VP of Engineering
As VP of Engineering, Brian is responsible for all aspects of hc1.com’s product development activities. Prior to hc1.com, Brian served as Product Development Director for Vision Solutions (formerly Double Take Software), where he spent sixteen years of his career. At Vision Solutions, Brian was responsible for all of development, including the maintenance and support team. Brian joined Double Take when it was approximately 50 employees and during his tenure there the company achieved significant growth, reaching 650 employees and culminating in a successful IPO and subsequently an acquisition by Vision Solutions.
Prior to Double Take, Brian was with the Naval Avionics Center as an Engineer for twelve years. Brian holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Evansville.
Todd Melioris
VP of Sales
Todd has a proven track record of success leading sales for high growth technology companies and has already driven new sales wins for Bostech within his first eight weeks in this position. Todd was a co-founder of Client Server Solutions which he grew from startup to $200M in revenue over a four year period from 1996 – 1999 resulting in a successful IPO of the company’s stock. Todd has also served in VP of Marketing and Sales positions at Datastream Systems, McKesson Corporation, and United ERP. Todd also served as CEO of the National Healthcare Council.
Todd graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics concentrated in Computer Science from the State University of New York College at Cortland. Todd also received a Masters degree in Computer Science and Finance from Georgia State University.
Mark Preston
VP of Architecture
As VP of Architecture, Mark's responsibilities include the full life cycle of product development, but primarily focuses on design and architecture to guarantee solutions are fast and scalable. Mark has been with hc1.com since 2004 and was instrumental in the creation of Chainbuilder Connect as well as assisting with many customer specific solutions. Mark has experience in product development from his time at Quovadx as well as delivering customer specific solutions while he worked at AGT International.
When not building new solutions, Mark enjoys working on home improvement projects and hanging out with his dog, Samantha.
Alison Sales Roach
VP of Marketing
As VP of Marketing, Ali is responsible for demand generation and both online and offline marketing initiatives. Prior to hc1.com, Ali co-founded Compendium, a provider of B-to-B blogging solutions, serving as President from January 2007 to February 2011. Under her leadership, the company scaled to 500+ clients in less than three years of product launch and was recognized as one of BusinessWeek’s most promising start-ups. In 2009, Ali was named an “IBJ 40 Under 40” recipient for her efforts at Compendium.
Prior to co-founding Compendium, Ali served in various marketing roles with ChaCha, RCI, and ExactTarget. She graduated from DePauw University as a Management Fellow.
