Venkat Sharma, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Sharma has founded three successful IT companies in the past 15 years. Most recently, Mr. Sharma was the founder of Acorn Information Services, Inc., a company that provided database marketing and technology solutions, primarily to the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Sharma sold Acorn Information Services to a larger company, Digital Lighthouse, and helped manage the combined entity through the IPO process. Prior to his entrepreneurial experience, Mr. Sharma worked for IBM as a consultant developing operating system software, and for 3M as a manager of online services for one of 3M’s subsidiaries in Connecticut.

Kevin Ross, Vice President
Mr. Ross has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. As a Vice President of Norcom Electronics Corporation, he was responsible for marketing, sales, and support of their dictation, transcription and speech recognition solutions. He co-invented the Norcom Voice Printer speech recognition system and shares a patent for the Norcom SRC-1 speech recognition coupler. He has been a guest speaker and panel member for various speech recognition discussions at the annual SpeechTek shows in New York.

Jeff Hopkins, Vice President of Engineering
Mr. Hopkins is Vice President of Engineering for iMedX.  He leads all development and QA initiatives at iMedX.  Prior to joining iMedX, Mr. Hopkins held senior positions at Nuance, Dictaphone, L&H, and Inso Corporation.

For approximately 25 years, Mr. Hopkins has worked in the field of natural language processing, working on technologies such as grammar checking, spell checking, information retrieval, machine translation, medical fact extraction, and speech recognition.  He holds a patent for work done in the field of automated grammar checking, and is named as inventor on several patent applications in the field of medical fact extraction technology.

Mr. Hopkins has held management positions for over 15 years, leading multi-site development groups in the development of core technologies and products.  He has significant experience managing offshore development.  Most recently, Mr. Hopkins worked at Nuance and Dictaphone, leading the development of enterprise-level medical transcription platforms incorporating speech recognition technology to improve transcriptionist productivity.

Mr. Hopkins earned his BA from the University of Rhode Island in the field of Computer Science.

Luther D. Runyon, Vice President of Production and Quality
Mr. Runyon has over 25 years of experience in the transcription and support services industry, including owning and operating a successful national medical and legal transcription service. Mr. Runyon also served his country in the United States Army as the Legal Administrator for The Judge Advocate General of the Army working in the Pentagon. He joined the iMedX team in his current position in December 2009. Well-versed in transcription services platforms and transcription/proofing team building, Mr. Runyon’s current responsibilities are to ensure that iMedX, Inc., provides world-class, secure, on-time transcription services to the full spectrum of iMedX, Inc., clients.

Pam Randall, Account Manager
Ms. Randall began her career in a medical records department of a major tertiary and nationally recognized hospital in North Carolina.  From that time, she became familiar with all aspects of medical records, including release of information, outpatient coding, inpatient coding and medical transcription. In medical transcription, she has earned the status of CMT.

Currently, Ms. Randall is the head of customer service for iMedX's transcription operations. She manages relationships with all customers and is the point of contact for any issues or concerns that our client's may have.