About Apex

Mr. Matton began his career on Capitol Hill, serving as a senior staff member on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. In this role, Mr. Matton had primary staff oversight responsibility for the VA’s health care system as well as budget oversight for the VA’s health care programs. During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Mr. Matton was a key participant in a wide spectrum of health policy initiatives, including serving on the White House Health Care Reform Task Force. Mr. Matton also worked at The Pentagon, Office of the Secretary of Defense, as a Senior Health Policy Advisor advising on the transition of the DOD’s CHAMPUS program to a managed care model under TriCare. Since leaving federal employment, Mr. Matton has had a distinguished career in the field of Mergers & Acquisition and Private Equity, including founding and managing several successful IT companies.

Mr. Calco is a seasoned enterprise architect and a proven software innovator with over 20 years of financial services, retail, and healthcare industry experience. Mr. Calco is a certified expert in multiple programming languages, having worked productively in over a dozen programming environments and platforms as diverse as C++, Delphi, Ada, Java, .NET (C#, VB), JavaScript, LISP, Clojure, Scala, Smalltalk, Ruby and others. He excels at designing and implementing hybrid solutions, because of his extensive experience and talent with languages have given him a strong sense of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various mainstream and esoteric platforms in use today. Mr. Calco was the primary visionary and architect for the VistA.js Platform within the VA, including its current utilization of open source technologies to fulfill specific platform functions and capabilities.

Dr. Shorr joined Apex in February, 2013 as its CMIO. Dr. Shorr has over 40 years of experience using, developing and implementing electronic medical record (EMR) systems. He is a nationally recognized expert on ambulatory care information systems and applied medical informatics. In 1971, Dr. Shorr began his career as a United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Medical Officer in the Indian Health Service (IHS). He served as Clinical Director of the Sells Indian Hospital and San Xavier Indian Health Center in southern Arizona and was also assigned to the IHS Office of Research and Development in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Shorr was on the founding development team of the IHS’ comprehensive health information system, now known as, the Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS). He was also lead developer for the Query Manager (QMan) and PCC­Plus packages still utilized by IHS today. Dr. Shorr was a recipient of the IHS Leadership Award and USPHS Meritorious Service Medal. Dr. Shorr retired from IHS in 1992 holding the rank of Captain (O­6). Dr. Shorr is a service­disabled veteran and receives all of his care from the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, NM.

Ms. Carlton was a founder of Defense Technologies Systems, Inc., a D oD government contractor primarily focused on the development of unmanned vehicle control software solutions. Ms. Carlton successfully managed the financial and human resources functions of the $7 million, 50 Employee Company for 13 years. Ms. Carlton worked extensively with DCAA and DCMA to ensure compliance with federal regulations, developed budgets and pricing for projects, negotiated and established various financing agreements and managed all outside service providers. Ms. Carlton obtained her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting (BBA) from Bryant University in Smithfield, RI in 1989 and obtained a Certified Public Accountants certificate in 1995 from the state of Virginia. Ms. Carlton has over 25 years of progressive accounting and human resource experience and has worked with government entities for over 20 years.

As Managing Counsel, Ms. Pinto oversees legal, compliance and contract matters on behalf of the company. Prior to joining Apex, Ms. Pinto served as managing counsel by providing legal support to the Healthcare Solutions and Cyber Solutions business operations and contract function at Harris Corporation. Prior to joining Harris, she served as associate general counsel to Market America, a product brokerage company. Ms. Pinto earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in French and Psychology from the University of North Carolina, a law degree from Mercer University, and a MBA with high honors from the University of Miami. She is admitted to practice in Georgia, North Carolina and Florida. Ms. Pinto is a member of the Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina Bar Associations, the American Bar Association, and the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Mr. Cristobal is a highly skilled and creative software development leader with over 20 years of Information Technology experience, focused on Business Intelligence and Medical Informatics during the past 15 years. Mr. Cristobal previously worked with commercial health plans by designing and building operational and clinical data warehouses to support analytics and enable automation of business processes. His prior projects include the expansion of the largest Informatics database in the world that collects data for over 100 million members. Mr. Cristobal also has extensive experience in building and maintaining clinical rules engines, groupers, custom analytics, clinical decision support tools, and even led the development of a proprietary business intelligence platform that includes a columnar database engine and visualization user interfaces. Mr. Cristobal holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He started his programming career with assembly language for microcontrollers, then shifted focus onto commercial software and developed numerous applications that include inventory control systems, contact management, complex decision support systems, and even social networking applications.

As Director Portfolio Management & Open Source Initiatives he is responsible for leadership and guidance in executing product delivery projects and contracts, and for the development and execution of strategies for Apex's open source products. Mr. Esten comes to Apex from the VA, where he spent his first two years in the VA as Deputy and then Director of OIT’s Access to Care Major Initiative. Most recently he led the enterprise wide VistA Standardization program and established the VistA Intake Program for VistA enhancements. After retiring as a Naval Aviator, Mr. Esten spent a decade in the private sector building and managing healthcare IT program offices as well as serving a four year term as Commandant of Florida Air Academy. Mr. Esten has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech, a Master of Science in Information Systems Management from Naval Post Graduate School, Monterrey. He also has various private sector, Federal Program, Project Manager and Federal Acquisition certifications. His in service experiences include a tour as Operations Officer, Polar Mission Commander in support of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Program, and the CIO role at the National Defense University.

In January 2015, Mr. Thomas joined the Apex team as their Global DevOps Manager. In this role Simon manages and supports a team of global developers and is responsible for assuring Apex’s DevOps infrastructure and services are delivered to meet the needs of business and clients. Mr. Thomas is an experienced management professional with more than 15 years working for large government, commercial and independent organizations in senior change management, strategic & operational roles. With a strong background in IT strategy, operational improvement and project management, Mr. Thomas has successfully designed and delivered large transformational change strategies with a focus on innovation, new and established technologies, and implementing change in meaningful and productive ways. Mr. Thomas worked in senior technical management roles in Welsh Public Sector organizations where he led and delivered many sector leading Open Source developments and innovative large scale infrastructure projects. In 2010, Mr. Thomas led program & project management, strategic planning, thought leadership, transformational change & IT operational improvement consultancy commissions in Europe and EMEA. The commission's delivered transformational change projects and subject knowledge specialist for Global companies such as Apple, Google and Samsung.

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Mr. Morris joined Apex Data Solutions as the Director of Communications in November 2015. In this role he is charged with the Company’s external communications and federal affairs efforts.

Prior to joining Apex, Mr. Morris served as the Director of Communications and External Affairs for the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS). As director, his public affairs and communications strategies led to key partnerships and coordinative efforts with federal agencies as well as substantial increases in recognition and awareness throughout the country. His state legislative efforts led to the successful inclusion of ABPS in numerous state laws. Mr. Morris has built strong relationships with leading media outlets such as: CNN, Fox News, Medical Economics and Medscape just to name a few.

Mr. Morris earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Florida and a Juris Doctor from Barry University School of Law.