Management Team

Ripple Systems was founded by experienced software industry leaders that cut their teeth providing products and consulting services to the Financial Services, Property & Casualty, Healthcare Payer, and Healthcare Provider industries for over 15 years.

Dirk Fromhein - President/CEO

• 16 years in the Software Industry
• Extensive consulting experience in Financial Services, P&C Insurance, Healthcare – Payer and Provider, and B2B Exchanges
• Founded Watershed Technologies the first commercial object/relational database mapping product
• Watershed Technologies
• Sold Watershed Technologies to IONA (NASDAQ: IONA) in 2000
• iPortal Server Product Director at IONA, brought sales from 0 to $8M in two Quarters
• Member of the Architectural Board at IONA
• Member of team that raised $38M of Venture for eHealthDirect, a Payer side ASP solution

David Rodger - VP Product Development

• 15 years in the Software Industry
• Product Manager/VP Engineering – Experience Inc, serving 40,000 employers and 3M online users
• Engineering Manager – Firefly (sold to Microsoft in 1996)
• Extensive experience in managing large scale projects that serve millions of users

Eileen Heffernan - Business Development

• Business Development in Life Sciences for 16 years
• Has run Phase I – III Clinical Trials

Douglas Koen - Lead Engineer

• Software architect 15 years experience. Has designed and delivered software in many industries
• MIT Media Lab Graduate