Ken Accardi

Ken Accardi began working with the iGetBetter project in 2011 as a technical consultant, and is the CTO of iGetBetter, Inc. He oversees the design and implementation of the iGetBetter software products and manages the HIPAA compliance program. Ken is a serial entrepreneur in the Healthcare IT space. He founded and served as CEO of Ankota LLC a health care software company, serving the home care market and serves as CIO in Residence at the incubator company MedNest LLC. Ken focuses on helping young entrepreneurs as a mentor for the MassChallenge accelerator and as an adjunct professor at Babson College and UMass. He has also lectured at Harvard, MIT and Bentley College. Ken held vice president roles in Tele Atlas (sold for $4B in 2008) and at ViryaNet (IPO in 2000 and sold to Verisae). Ken grew up in his career at GE Healthcare where he was global CIO of the GE Healthcare Services division. Ken brings 20 years of experience in health care and mobile work force optimization technologies with an MBA from Babson College, a MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and a BS in Engineering from Bucknell University.