Notable Systems' unwavering commitment to its mission — liberating human potential through automated document processing — has propelled us to the forefront of our industry. Our adaptable "best-of-breed" multi-algorithm strategy is meticulously crafted to fuel continuous innovation, driving superior outcomes. By staying attuned to the dynamic landscape of global demands and consistently exceeding customer expectations, Notable Systems stands poised to remain indispensable to businesses and organizations worldwide.
Steve Johnson
CEO, Co-Founder
Steve Johnson is a seasoned executive with a track record of building innovative technologies into successful enterprises. Steve started his career by founding Johnson-Grace Company, which developed a patented compression technology that made fast, easy distribution of images, sound and video a reality for millions of consumers. AOL purchased Johnson-Grace and made Steve Vice President of its Software and Technology Development division where he brought leading-edge media, telephony and broadcast products to market. Subsequently, he founded ChoiceStream to help consumers navigate through this new era of easy access to virtually infinite choices.
David Lippke
CTO, Co-Founder
David was the architect and senior leader of most of the software development efforts related to networking, scale, performance, and reliability of the core AOL online service and AIM (instant messenger) during its highest growth period. He managed 700 engineers plus related staff.
Samantha Jacobson
Chief Client Officer
Sam brings over two decades of senior leadership from the DME industry, spearheading transformative initiatives for large organizations which include Hanger, DJO Global, and most recently Omega Healthcare. Her deep understanding of healthcare operations, combined with her expertise in leveraging technology, enables her to drive meaningful change and deliver measurable results for clients. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Sam is driven by a genuine commitment to making a positive impact in healthcare delivery. She believes in forging strong partnerships with clients, understanding their needs intimately, and collaboratively developing solutions that drive lasting value.
Rachel Tornheim
Vice President of Operations
Rachel is a healthcare operations and strategy leader with experience across three healthtech start-ups, two health systems, and one payer. She specializes in building scalable, efficient processes, fostering collaboration among disparate departments, and supporting a positive company culture. Rachel holds an MBA and Masters of Engineering Management from Northwestern University and a BA in Computer Science from Wellesley College.
Ruben Johnson
Senior Director, Business Development
Ruben brings a unique flavor to Notable Systems. After studying film at USC and working for years in documentary film and television, his first exposure to tech was a stint running social media marketing for a sports media startup. He then transitioned to the food and beverage industry, spending a decade as a brand ambassador and account executive in the craft spirits industry (becoming a sommelier along the way). He has run business development at Notable Systems since 2021, achieving remarkable growth in that time. Ruben is currently working towards his MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Yameen Sarwar
Vice President of Finance
Yameen Sarwar is a seasoned finance executive with over 13 years of experience in managing global financial operations for multimillion-dollar enterprises in the healthcare, food & beverage, life science, and professional services sectors. Holding an MBA in Corporate Finance from Pace University and a BBA in Accounting from Baruch College, Yameen excels in strategic financial planning, system modernization, and risk management. His expertise includes leading finance transformations, optimizing performance, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Yameen has a proven track record of collaborating with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive financial efficiency and accuracy, exemplified by his successful roles in companies like Whisps, Axovant Sciences Limited, Vice Media and many more.
Kevin Brandon
Vice President of Engineering
Kevin has more than a decade of signal processing and visualization software experience. In his previous position at a small business he brought to life cutting edge radar technology, providing customers with new ways to see and interact with their data. Kevin enjoys writing software that works closely with hardware systems. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with an emphasis in Computer Graphics and Visualization from the University of California, Irvine.
Sarah Denton
Senior Software Engineer & Customer Success Manager
Sarah joined Notable Systems as a Software Engineer in 2015 after receiving her Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Cal State, Long Beach. Sarah is an incredibly skilled engineer as well as a dedicated customer success manager for Notable Systems and has directly contributed to onboarding each of our enterprise customers over the years and developing groundbreaking new solutions for the DME market.
Jason Johnson
Senior Sales Director
Jason brings over 20 years of experience in DME and revenue cycle management to Notable Systems. Throughout his career, he has excelled in sales, operations, billing, and leadership roles with companies like Ancillary Advantage, Enovis, and Kinex Medical, where he most recently served as VP of Sales. A proud West Virginia native and WVU graduate with a bachelor's in health and sports medicine, Jason also holds a master's from LSU.
Kate Hackett
Director of Annotation and Transcription Services
Kate has worked for Notable Systems for 7 years as a self-motivated and results-driven operations leader with a strong technological background and impressive ability to work collaboratively in high-stress environments. A detail-oriented, strategic thinking professional with a proven track record of providing seamless business operation support and creating an atmosphere of exceptional employee morale. Dedicated to maintaining a reputation built on quality, service, and uncompromising ethics.
Barry Appleman
Technology Advisor, Co-Founder
Barry Appelman is recognized as being the father of the "buddy list" and AOL instant messenger (AIM), which at its peak served over 53 million users worldwide. Appelman joined AOL in 1993 to head up all of AOL server and host development efforts. He has authored many innovations and over 75 patents.
Linda Avery
AI Innovator & Founder, LiveFire AI
Linda is founder and principal of LiveFire AI, an AI strategy startup in stealth mode. Linda has extensive experience in the integration of AI to drive business transformation with large returns, bringing a strong track record in building successful organizations, creating and driving enterprise technology and data & analytics strategies, and building transformational business partnerships leading to commercial results.
James T. Caillouette, M.D.
James T. Caillouette, M.D. is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and a founder of both Newport Orthopedic Institute and the Hoag Orthopedic Institute, where he serves as Chairman. He has developed, patented and commercialized multiple orthopedic devices and instruments over the past 28 years and is currently consulting worldwide for DePuy/Johnson and Johnson. He is a passionate leader in healthcare economics and reform, and in the design of next generation hip and knee implants.
Steve Fredrick
Steve’s career spans engineering, company building and early-stage investing. Prior to Grotech, he was a General Partner with Novak Biddle Venture Partners investing in early-stage software and communications equipment companies. Steve began his career in research and development with IBM and then joined a venture-funded software company in the document imaging space called Vantage Solutions, which was acquired in 1994. Steve subsequently co-founded software development firm MartinScott before moving to venture capital in 1997.
Maggie Pax
Life Sciences Executive & Board Director
Maggie Pax is a life sciences leader with 30 years of experience helping life sciences companies grow to their full potential.
Formerly the Vice President, Strategy and Innovation for Thermo Fisher Scientific, Maggie currently serves on the board of BioPorto, Inc, a diagnostics company and Jellagen, a developer of novel clinical biomaterials. She also advises both early-stage healthcare innovators and Fortune 500 companies on corporate partnerships, new product strategy and commercial execution.
Maggie earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves as a Board director of the Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association.
Charles Sargeant
Charles is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in the durable medical equipment industry. He has served in a variety of roles leading all functional areas of the organization to include sales, customer service, delivery & logistics, prior authorization, payer relations, billing & collections, and information technology. Most recently he served as the Chief Revenue Cycle Officer at National Seating & Mobility. Charles is a process driven leader that embraces technology to improve the organizations he serves.
Christoph Wald, MD, PhD, MBA, FACR
Dr. Wald chairs the Department of Radiology at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC) since 2015. Since 2018 he also chairs the Robert E.Wise Institute, which is the LHMC endowment fund for research and education. After undergraduate medical training at Bonn University, Germany, and Aberdeen Medical School in Scotland, he continued postgraduate training in Switzerland, Scotland, Germany, moving to the US full time in 1998. He completed radiology residency and fellowship at Lahey in 2003 and stayed on staff. In 2015, he graduated from the F.W.Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in Boston with an MBA. Institutional leadership roles included a decade as Vice Chair of the Medical Education
department and the Graduate Medical Education Committee, 9 years on the LHMC Board of Governors, and many years in various Lahey medical staff officer roles, including medical staff
president for LHMC from 2016-2018.
John Huggins
President, Co-Founder
John J. Huggins is an active angel/venture capital investor in technology and other startup companies. He also serves as a real estate development and financial advisor to businesses and non-profit organizations seeking public participation in community and economic development projects. He co-founded and was CFO of Johnson-Grace Company. John has long been involved in civic activities, including national, state and local political campaigns for candidates and issues. He has raised millions of dollars for a variety of civic causes and organizations. John holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Steve Johnson
CEO, Co-Founder
Steve Johnson is a seasoned executive with a track record of building innovative technologies into successful enterprises. Steve started his career by founding Johnson-Grace Company, which developed a patented compression technology that made fast, easy distribution of images, sound and video a reality for millions of consumers. AOL purchased Johnson-Grace and made Steve Vice President of its Software and Technology Development division where he brought leading-edge media, telephony and broadcast products to market. Subsequently, he founded ChoiceStream to help consumers navigate through this new era of easy access to virtually infinite choices.
J. Christopher Grace
Director
Christopher Grace, an angel investor, was the co-CEO and co-founder of Johnson-Grace Company (Irvine, CA), which pioneered data compression and streaming Internet technology. The company was acquired by AOL in 1996. Prior to founding Johnson-Grace, Mr. Grace was the head of economic development for St. Louis and a senior development official in Boston. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia (B.S., Finance), Stanford University (J.D.), and Harvard University (M.P.P.).
Ilana Fischer
Director
Ilana is an experienced business leader and a successful entrepreneur. Ilana developed, launched and managed a new snack business, Whisps. Under her leadership, Whisps grew into a $40MM brand in less than 3 years, at which point Ilana quarterbacked the sale of the business to Kainos Capital in 2019. As CEO of the new company, Ilana oversaw the carve-out of the business from Schuman in less than 6 months, built a completely new team, and more than doubled the size of the business, securing new distribution in grocery, club, convenience and mass channels. She also won Comparably’s “Best CEO” award, and Whisps was recognized for “Best Company Culture,” both based on anonymous employee feedback.
