Board of Directors

Ronald Mitchell, CEO & Co-Founder

Andrea Rice, President & Co-Founder

E. John Rice, Senior Adviser & Co-Founder

Chris Schroeder

Chris is CEO and President of The Health Central Network, a collection of sites providing in depth and trusted information, personalized tools and resources, and connections to experts and patients looking to manage and improve their health.

Previously, Chris was CEO and Publisher of washingtonpost.newsweek interactive, which hosts washingtonpost.com and newsweek.msnbc.com among other sites. He also was Chief Executive of LEGI-SLATE, a leading online provider of information pertaining to federal and state legislation and regulation for organizations.

Chris was a co-founder and chairman of The Online Publishers Association (The OPA), the leading association of top quality online content publishers (The Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Dow Jones, ESPN, Conde Nast among many others). He served on the Board of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He is an active speaker on Internet issues and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Advertising Age, MediaPost and now has a monthly column in Media Magazine. He has won numerous awards in the interactive field.

Before the Internet took off, Chris worked extensively in private equity and investment banking, and served under President George HW Bush in the Department of State. Chris graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Glenn Laffel

Glenn has been in health care for nearly 30 years. He completed an internal medicine residency and cardiovascular disease fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, and also earned a PhD in Health Policy and Management from MIT.

His company, Clinical Solutions, was acquired in 2006 by CAS Services (UK) after creating algorithmic content for use by nurse triage call centers that were widely used around the world.

CCurrently, Glenn advises Dragonvest Partners, a Shanghai-based venture capital firm focusing on early stage IT and medical device companies. Glenn blogs about health care, entrepreneurship and other things at www.pizaazz.com. He also recently completed projects for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Abbott Laboratories.

Before starting Clinical Solutions, Glenn served as an attending physician in the heart transplantation program at the Brigham. He was also founding editor of a peer-reviewed journal, Quality Management in Health Care, and a consultant to providers in several countries on matters of organizational performance and the quality of care.

Glenn enjoys travel, photography, modern art and jazz. Most notably, he has survived for 28 years as a Yankee fan while living in enemy territory.