Our Executive Team

Raman Kumar
Chairman & CEO

Raman Kumar, Group Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of CBay, founded the company in 1999. He is responsible for devising CBay's overall global business model, strategy and management. Under his leadership and guidance, the Company has had a meteoric rise to become the 3rd largest healthcare transcription technology and services company in the USA and the largest healthcare BPO Company in India. All this has happened in short span of six years, which speaks volumes of Raman's leadership and charisma. Some of his significant successes include the various business acquisitions in the US and India, launching of CBay's wide range of innovative solutions, creating greater operational efficiencies, managing a multinational and multicultural work force, and most importantly helping CBay to be ranked among the top technology companies in the US by Deloitte, Forbes.com, Healthcare Informatics and Inc magazines.

Raman has had a fulfilling academic career. He is a Bachelor of Arts. (Hons.) and Master of Arts from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi. He attended the School of Organization and Management at Yale University, graduating in 1988, with an MBA. Raman has an extensive career spanning 22 years, in managing public and private enterprises.

Christopher Foley
President, CBaySystems and Services Inc.

Christopher Foley is President of CBay Systems and Services Inc. and possesses 20 years of senior executive leadership experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining CBay Systems in 2003, Mr. Foley was Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Priam, LLC, a global resource and technology leveraged consolidator in the medical industry, he served as Chief Operating Officer of IR, Inc., a leading healthcare business process outsourcer. Prior to IR, he served as Vice President of publicly held MedQuist Inc., the largest provider of heath care documentation services. Founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of C. Foley & Associates, Inc., a communications consulting and technology provider, and he began his career in senior executive management at publicly traded Lanier Worldwide, a leading global office technologies company. Mr. Foley's education includes an MBA and B.S. in Marketing. Mr. Foley serves on the board of directors to CBay's technology partner, Arrendale Associates. Mr Foley also serves on the Gerson Lehrman Group Counsels as an expert consultant for business & investment leaders in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Dinesh Kumar
Director & COO, India Operations

As Director and COO of CBay's Indian operations, Dinesh Kumar oversees the strategy and lends direction to the central backend operations of the company. His drive and leadership are primarily instrumental for the smooth implementation of CBay India's policies and programs. Dinesh is the force behind the Company's exponential growth since inception. Prior to joining CBay, Dinesh, served as Joint General Manager, with the Essar Group and Associated Cement Companies.

Dinesh brings on board more than 18 years of experience in project management, finance and corporate relations and has a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Bangalore University and Master in Management Studies in finance from Bombay University.

Jason Kolinoski
Chief Operating Officer

Jason Kolinoski brings more than twelve years of medical transcription service related expertise to his position as COO. Prior to joining CBay, Mr. Kolinoski was responsible for all aspects of Operations in the Northeast and Canada for Lernout & Hauspie, a leading voice recognition technology company and the third largest transcription service provider in the United States. Mr. Kolinoski also directed Dictaphone's transcription sales effort in 25 states that make up the Eastern Region. He was responsible for transcription specific sales training, initiatives for branding and marketing, proposal and contractual negotiation, demonstrations/evaluations, and customer relations.

Unni Nambiar
Chief Technology Officer

Unni Nambiar joined CBay in 2004 as Chief Technology Officer and brings more than 15 years of experience in the IT software industry to his role. He possesses vast experienced in managing large software engineering projects and leading teams of software engineers and managers to deliver high quality products and services to worldwide customers. Mr. Nambiar previously served as Director of Engineering for the global telecom leader Avaya where he built and operated an offshore development center in India. Prior to this, he served as Engineering Manager at Legato Systems as well as spent more that eight years in various software engineering roles. He holds a B.E in Computer Engineering and is currently pursuing an MBA.

Michael Kimball
Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Michael Kimball joined CBay in 2003 as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and brings 22 years of sales and marketing management experience in the Healthcare/Information Technology market. Prior to CBay, Mr. Kimball was Vice President of Sales East, at Total eMed/EDiX. He was responsible for all sales and marketing efforts in the Eastern United States and also served as Vice President, National Accounts, and was responsible for maintenance and new business revenues from large multiple GPO's and IDN's. Previously, Mr. Kimball served as National Sales Manager for Progressive Technologies, a healthcare capital equipment company, and as Regional Vice President for Kinetic Concepts.  Mr. Kimball's education includes a B.A. in Business Management, with a minor in Economics.

Bhishm Khare
Vice President, Operations - India

Bhishm Khare has been associated with CBay since 2000 and has 8 years of extensive experience in the healthcare industry. As VP, Operations, he oversees all operational functions of Vendor Management, Routing, Account Management, Client Implementation & MIS with the front end operation team. He has been instrumental in training and building the operations team in India and he has also successfully transitioned all operational processes including routing, account management and client implementations from the front end to India. Mr. Khare is based out of the US office and will continue heading CBay’s India Operations

Bhishm Khare is a Post Graduate in English literature from Rewa University, India and holds an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, India.

David Strite
Vice President, Operations - US

David Strite joined CBay in 2007 as Vice President (U.S.) Operations and brings more than 15 years of operations experience. Mr. Strite has been in the medical transcription business for over 4 years. He was previously Regional Vice President of Operations for Spheris managing nearly 100 million dollars of medical transcription business and a team of 2500 medical transcriptionist. Previously, Mr. Strite managed call center operations for some of the largest companies in the United States including Sallie Mae and Home Shopping Network. He was responsible for over 1000 call center agents as well as budgeting, reporting and forecasting. David has an undergraduate degree in Personnel Administration from Kansas University.

Bhushan Parekh
Vice President, Operations - CBayScribe

Bhushan Parekh joined CBay in June 2001 and possesses over 9 years of industry experience. At CBay, he is primarily responsible for the overall operations of CBayScribe, the division that caters to the physician group practices and large clinics. Also, he is heading the development and launch of CBayPraxis: The unified platform that provides physicians with EMR, PMS, Billing and Transcriptions services all via one platform which is based on the breakthrough widget technology. Prior to joining CBay, Mr. Parekh was a Sr. Consultant with Arthur Andersen in their business consulting practice based out of Boston, MA and worked for some of their marquee accounts in New York, Connecticut and Seattle. Prior to joining Andersen, Mr. Parekh was a Project Manager for Tyco International in their security systems division where he managed implementations of security systems for office parks and malls. Mr. Parekh has a Masters in Engineering from University of Massachusetts and a Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Internet Management from Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Patricia Parr
Vice President, Quality Assurance - CBayScribe

Patricia Parr joined CBay in October 2002, and possesses 20 years experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining CBay, Ms. Parr managed the Transcription Department at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. She recruited and supervised remote transcriptionists and outsource companies.She was responsible for quality, turnaround time, and the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the dictation and transcription systems. Prior to joining Anne Arundel Medical Center, she was a Quality Analyst at Palmdale Hospital in Palmdale, California.