Notable’s steadfast adherence to a mission – liberating human potential with automated document processing – has made us a leader in this field. Our extensible “best-of-breed” multi-algorithm approach is designed to ensure the company’s ongoing innovation keeps improving our results. By adapting to the world’s evolving needs and meeting our customers’ demands, Notable will remain essential 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.
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.
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.
Barry Appelman
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.
Kevin Brandon
Senior Director 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.
Ruben Johnson
Senior Director, Business Development
Ruben brings a unique flavor to Notable. 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 since 2021, achieving remarkable growth in that time. Ruben is currently working towards his MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Matt Olsson
Senior Director, Partnerships
Matt Olsson is a partnerships and go-to-market strategy professional with over a decade of experience in the technology industry. His track record includes successfully bringing novel, business-focused solutions to market as a partnerships leader at Google. He has also advised global technology industry leaders on growth strategy, corporate development, and sales transformation initiatives as a management consultant. Matt holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from UCLA.
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.
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.
