The inaugural ReadySetRaise! for Health™ Venture Forum will feature definitive speakers on the cutting edge of consumer directed health care.

Keynote:

		Esther Dyson Editor, Release 1.0, CNET Networks
Panelists:
		Bradford C. Burkett Managing Director, Co-Head Healthcare And Technology Group, Scott-Macon, Ltd.
		Richard Forman Managing Partner, Health Venture Group
		Katy Henrickson Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
		Kerry Hicks President and CEO, HealthGrades
		David J. Lenihan Chairman and CEO, CareGain, Inc.
		Chris McFadden Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
		Paul Sheils President and CEO, Aetna Health Information Solutions
		West Shell III Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Healthline Networks Inc.

Esther Dyson
Editor at Large, CNET Networks
Esther Dyson is editor at large at CNET Networks, where she is editor of its newsletter Release 1.0 and host of many of its events, including PC Forum, the high-tech market's leading annual executive conference. As editor at large, she also contributes insight and content to CNET Networks' other properties. She sold her business, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in early 2004. Previously, she had co-owned EDventure and written/edited Release 1.0 since 1983.

Last September 30, Dyson led Release 1.0's Personal Health Information workshop in New York City, highlighting the rise of consumer-oriented online health information services, and the opportunities and challenges they present.

At Release 1.0 and in her private investment activities, Dyson focuses on emerging technologies, emerging companies and emerging markets. Among the topics she has covered for Release 1.0 recently is the (potential) impact of IT on health care, in a monograph entitled, "Health and Identity: No Patient Left Behind?" Her angel investments include Medstory, a start-up search company for medical information, and Ovusoft, a user-centric fertility software service; previously, she was an investor in and sat on the board of Medscape.

By 1994, Dyson had already explored the impact of the Net on intellectual property (among other things, why many software products are now turning into online services). In 1997, she wrote a book on the impact of the Net on individuals' lives, "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age." It includes a number of chapters about today's hot topics such as security, privacy, anonymity and intellectual property.

Dyson is also an active player in discussions and policy-making concerning the Internet and society, and is a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. From 1998 to 2000, she was founding chairman of ICANN (the organization responsible for overseeing the Domain Name System). A variety of government officials worldwide turn to her for advice on Internet policy issues.

In addition, she donates time and money as a trustee to emerging organizations (Bridges.org, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Eurasia Foundation). For several years in the '90s she was chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

After graduating from Harvard in economics, Dyson began her serious career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977 she joined New Court Securities as "the research department," following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, renaming it EDventure Holdings. The daughter of an English physicist and a Swiss mathematician, Dyson started traveling in Eastern Europe in 1989 and eventually helped to fill the small but vital vacuum at the intersection of Eastern Europe, high-tech and venture capital, even as she remains active in the US and Western Europe.

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Bradford C. Burkett
Managing Director, Co-Head Healthcare And Technology Group, Scott-Macon, Ltd.

Brad Burkett joined Scott-Mason in 2005 as Co-head of its Healthcare and Technology Group, where he specializes in mergers and acquisitions, advisory services and capital raising in the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on HIT and services including CDH. Prior to joining Scott-Macon, Mr. Burkett served as CEO of three venture backed healthcare services and technology companies, while directing business development for two others. He began he career as an M&A attorney at a Wall Street firm. This diverse background allows Mr. Burkett to provide clients a well-rounded perspective on starting, financing and growing businesses in the healthcare and technology spaces.

Mr. Burkett received his J.D. from Rutgers University of Law in New Jersey, where he served on the Rutgers Law Journal, and received a BA from Rutgers College.

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Richard Forman
Managing Partner, Health Venture Group

Richard D. Forman is the managing member of Health Venture Group, LLC. He also serves as a board member of the New York Angels (newyorkangels.com) , a member led and managed investment group focused primarily on technology based ventures in the Northeast United States. Previously, Mr. Forman was President and CEO of Register.com, Inc. (NASDAQ-RCOM) through June of 2003. During his tenure as CEO of Register.com, Inc., Mr. Forman led the Company through explosive growth and change including:

• Grew the employee base from 9 to over 500 employees
• Increased annual revenue from under $1mm to over $115mm
• Successfully completed three (3) acquisitions, including one cross-border EU based acquisition
• Received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Winner in 2002 and a Finalist in 2000)
• Raised over $150mm through a series of private and public (IPO) offerings of preferred and common stock
• Generated $100mm in cumulative operating cash flows and achieved 12 quarters of positive operating cash flow

From August 1987 to October 1990, Mr. Forman was a consultant with Booz Alien & Hamilton, Inc., where he helped implement numerous business development and technology strategies. Mr. Forman is a 1987 Cum Laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Management and Technology Program, and earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. He also obtained a Masters Degree from New York University's Real Estate Institute in 1995. Currently, he sits on the Board of Overseers of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania and is the Chairman of the Deanís New York Advisory Council.

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Katy Henrickson
Senior Analyst, Forrester Research

Katy is a senior analyst on Forrester's Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Her research focuses on technologies and solutions that support core health plan functions, especially claims administration, provider network management, and consumer-directed products. She also covers business-to-business interactions across the healthcare industry with a focus on how health plans interact electronically with providers, banks, and other business partners.

Prior to joining Forrester, Katy was a strategy and operations consultant for Deloitte Consulting, where she advised health plan, provider, and life sciences clients. She led teams in a broad variety of engagements, conducting technology assessments, evaluating competitive strategies, and developing business cases.

Katy holds a B.A. in sociology from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Kerry R. Hicks
Chairman/CEO, Health Grades, Inc.

Kerry R. Hicks has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Health Grades, Inc. since 1999, working to re-orient the healthcare industry and consumers to make more decisions based on quality.

In the news media and at conferences, Hicks is one of the industryís leading -- and most fearless -- spokespeople on physician quality, hospital quality, and tidal wave of consumerism that is now changing the way America is delivering healthcare.

For HealthGrades, Hicks is responsible for setting the strategic direction and overseeing all areas of the company. Hicksí leadership has turned HealthGrades into the leading destination for consumers seeking information on doctors, hospitals and nursing homes. More than two million people each month visit HealthGrades.com, more than 125 major corporations such as Best Buy and Honeywell provide HealthGradesí information to their employees, and more than 250 hospitals are advised by HealthGrades on maintaining or raising their quality of care. All together, HealthGradesí information on health care quality reaches tens of millions of people each year.

Hicks built HealthGrades ‚ now one of the largest public companies in Colorado ‚ out of a predecessor company, Specialty Care Network, at which he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1995 to 1999. From 1985 to 1995 he served as Senior Vice President of LBA Healthcare Management (LBA).

Mr. Hicks received a Bachelorís in Business and a Masterís in Information Systems from Colorado State University, where he also was the recipient of the 2001 College of Business Distinguished Alumni Award and was selected by the College of Business as the Spring 2001 Commencement speaker. In 2000, Hicks was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the e-business category for the Rocky Mountain Region. Hicksí has contributed expert content to numerous business publications, and is routinely quoted in the news media, including The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBCís Today Show, Forbes and Business Week.

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David J. Lenihan
Chairman and CEO, CareGain, Inc.

Mr. Lenihan is a Founder and CEO of CareGain, a technology company based in East Windsor, N.J. He has led the company from inception in 2001 until its sale to Fiserv Health (nasdaq: FISV) in January 2006. CareGain provides enterprise software solutions to health plans and third party administrators enabling them to enter the Consumer Directed Health marketplace quickly and efficiently for both plan design and administration of these new products. CareGainís platform is powering the CDH products of CIGNA, among others, and is the CDH Solution Partner of Americaís Health Insurance Plans.

Prior to being a Co-founder of CareGain, Mr. Lenihan was responsible for Business Development at NeuVis, Inc. which is now owned by IBM. He has had a 33 year business career in investment and commercial banking, financial asset management, healthcare/healthcare information technology and government/diplomacy, where he held a Top Secret clearance. He is an expert on the Middle East. He is married with 6 children and lives in Princeton, N.J.

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Christopher McFadden
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Chris is a senior equity analyst responsible for the Firm's U.S. healthcare services research coverage. He serves as a member of the Global Investment Research (GIR) Sounding Board. Chris joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as a vice president in equity research. Chris became a managing director in 2004, and is currently Deputy Business Unit Leader for the US Healthcare Group.

Prior to joining the firm, Chris worked as a senior research analyst at Wheat First Securities (today Wachovia Securities). Prior to that, Chris held marketing and management positions at Xerox Corporation.

Chris serves as chairman of the advisory board for the Philip Coltoff Center of Children's Aid Society. In addition, he serves as a board member of the Rutgers University School of Business.

Chris earned a BA in political science from the University of Richmond and is a candidate for a MA in Economics from Virginia Commonwealth University. Chris became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) in 1999. He and his wife, Mary, have three children and live in New York City.

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Paul T. Sheils
President and CEO, Aetna Health Information Solutions

Paul T. Sheils is Head of the new eHealth & Information Business unit of Aetna Inc.

Mr. Sheils is a seasoned healthcare and information publishing executive with both Fortune 500 and start- up company experience.

Most recently, Mr. Sheils was Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of InterCure, Inc., an innovative medical information and technology start-up with offices in Israel and Princeton, where he secured FDA approval for InterCureís groundbreaking hypertension treatment device. Prior to InterCure, Mr. Sheils was CEO of Mayo Health Ventures, the venture capital division of The Mayo Foundation, and of MayoClinic.com.

From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Sheils was Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of Medscape, Inc., one of the nationís leading e-Health companies, where he helped grow Medscape.com and CBSHealthwatch.com by Medscape. Medscape's sites won numerous 'Best of Web' awards from Fortune, Forbes, Money, Yahoo! and eHealthcare World. Mr. Sheils was ranked #15 in Silicon Alley Reporter's 1999 Top 100 Executives, and has made numerous appearances on CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV and CBS TV. Mr. Sheils led Medscapeís successful IPO in 1999 and sold the company to MedicaLogic, Inc., a leading supplier of electronic medical records, in 2000. Mr. Sheils served as co- Chairman of the combined public company, MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc.

Prior to Medscape, Mr. Sheils was Vice President of Dow Jones Interactive Publishing from 1994 to 1998, and was Executive Director from 1993 to 1994. In these roles, Mr. Sheils was responsible for all of Dow Jones' corporate and consumer online businesses, including Dow Jones Interactive, the award-winning online business intelligence and research service. Mr. Sheils led the team that launched The Wall Street Journal Online in 1996 which has over 700,000 subscribers and is among the most successful subscription-based publications on the Web.

Before his business career, Mr. Sheils was a corporate attorney, having been General Counsel of Dow Jones Interactive Services and an associate attorney at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler in New York. He holds a BA from Williams College and a JD from Fordham Law School.

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West Shell III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Healthline Networks Inc.

In April 2005, West Shell III joined the Board of Directors and assumed the role of chairman and CEO of Healthline Networks. Prior to joining Healthline, West served as CEO and President of Sapias, a leading provider of mobile workforce management solutions for large enterprise customers such as Time Warner, ServiceMaster, and Hudson News. From 1997 to 2001, as chairman and CEO of Netcentives, West created one of the most powerful e-commerce companies, managing over 50 million consumer relationships on behalf of more than 200 blue chip customers in 10 countries. Within three years the company was generating over $70M in revenues. West successfully led an IPO and, during his tenure, raised more than $150 million in private and public funds from leading investors and strategic partners such as American Express, Citibank, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Integral Capital Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, RRE Ventures, and Starwood Hotels. West earlier co-founded and served as managing partner of Pacific Marketing Group, one of the largest independent marketing agencies on the West coast, which he sold to D'arcy, Masius, Benton and Bowles and was renamed Highway One Communications. West has also held various product management and marketing positions at Atari, Coopervision, Grey Advertising (P&G) and Johnson & Johnson. He currently serves on the boards of California Canoe and Kayak and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.

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