Entrepreneur Challenge 2018

Judges of the Virginia Tech Entrepreneur Challenge

Dr. Steve Morgan attended medical school at the University of Virginia and completed his family practice residency at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in 1989. After being in private practice for seven years, he joined Carilion Clinic in 1996. He served as a regional medical director in the department of Family and Community Medicine from 1996 until 2011. Since 1999 he has been working with Carilion’s IT department as a physician champion, believing that technology had the potential to not only improve physician efficiency, but also directly affect and improve the delivery of quality patient care. Starting in 2007, he transitioned from full time family medicine to a more active role within information technology and was appointed to the role of Chief Medical Information Officer of Carilion Clinic in 2010. Dr. Morgan has also been involved in Carilion Clinic’s Integration and clinical transformation work serving on multiple committees including the Accountable Care Transformation Committee and the board of directors for Doctors Connected, Carilion’s ACO. He has given multiple presentations and participated in round-table discussions on the topics of health analytics, reporting, research support, and informatics for organizations such as Becker’s Healthcare, The Advisory Board Company, and The Millennium Alliance. He currently serves as Senior Vice President for Information Technology and data analytics, as well as CMIO for Carilion Clinic. Carlos Otal is a Managing Partner in Grant Thornton’s Global Public Sector. He has over 25 years of experience spanning the full range of financial management advisory and assurance services — from internal and financial statement auditing to organizational and process improvement to the assessment and implementation of enterprise systems, including programmanagement, strategy, acquisition and business model development for clients installing enterprise solutions, implementing large-scale commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, or migrating to a shared service provider. Since joining Grant Thornton in 2005, he has led a successful array of financial management and systems engagements for a wide variety of clients, including but not limited to the U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Energy and Defense, as well as the U.S. Social Security Administration, U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the State of California. Sonu Singh is President and CEO at 1901 Group. Recognizing that the delivery of information is currently undergoing a dramatic transformation, Sonu started 1901 Group to close the cost-to-value gap on IT infrastructure by applying proven manufacturing principles to the next generation of IT service management. Having built and sold two IT services companies within the past 10 years, Sonu is utilizing industry practices and principles to execute 1901 Group’s corporate vision of building service operations centers or IT service factories in rural communities with strong university systems. Thanks to a childhood in Blacksburg, Virginia, and a degree from Virginia Tech, Sonu’s personal passion and professional goal is creating sustainable, high-quality technology jobs in rural America. Raymond D. “Ray” Zinn is an inventor, entrepreneur, and the longest serving CEO of a publicly traded company in Silicon Valley. Zinn is known best for conceptualizing and in effect inventing the Wafer Stepper, and for co- founding semiconductor company Micrel (acquired by Microchip in 2015), which provides essential components for smartphones, consumer electronics and enterprise networks. He has served as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of its Board of Directors and President since the Company’s inception in 1978. Zinn has led Micrel profitably through eight major downturns in global chip markets, an impressive achievement. Many chip companies weren’t able to make it through one downturn and very few have survived through all the major downturns. Micrel has been profitable from its very first year, aside from one year during the dot-com implosion. Ray Zinn holds over 20 patents for semiconductor design. He has been mentioned in several books, including Jim Fixx’s The Complete Book of Running and Essentialism by Greg McKeown.

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