Colleen Edwards

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING

Bio

Colleen joined Nextgen Healthcare as senior vice president of marketing in September 2018. With three decades of strategic B2B marketing experience, and a keen focus on speed and quality of execution, she has led a major transformation of the Marketing organization, enabling record growth in marketing pipeline and share of voice. She also leads M&A communications and marketing integration of acquired companies, applying her deep career experience of 15 integrations to date.

Prior to joining the Company, Colleen held various senior level marketing positions with enterprise tech leaders including Fiserv, FileNet (IBM) and Kofax. At Foundstone, a George Kurtz start-up, her work as vice president of Marketing helped bolster brand awareness and valuation prior to acquisition by McAfee. Colleen founded and was president of a multimillion-dollar technology marketing and public relations firm, The PowerMark Group, which served B2B software leaders including Symantec, CoreLogic and IBM, in addition to an array of tech start-ups.

In 2021, Colleen completed Stanford’s Business Leadership Series. Previously, she earned her MBA from Pepperdine University and her bachelor of science degree in business administration/marketing from San Diego State University. Active in her community, she co-founded an organization dedicated to preserving open space in the historic town where she lives. She also shared her expertise by teaching both undergraduate and graduate marketing courses at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for four years.

David Sides

Chief Executive Officer

Bio

David was appointed as Chief Executive Officer for NextGen Healthcare, effective September 22, 2021. He brings a breadth of global commercial and operations experience leading premier healthcare technology companies to the role.

He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at Teladoc Health, the global leader in virtual care, where he led the Company’s worldwide commercial and operations teams. During his tenure, Teladoc’s revenues doubled in 2020 and are currently on track to exceed $2 billion in 2021. Previously, he served as CEO of Streamline Health, which offers revenue cycle management solutions for healthcare providers. David led the full-scale turnaround of Streamline Health, growing revenue, EBITDA and cash flow organically. Prior to that, he was recruited by TPG to serve as CEO of iMDsoft, an Israeli headquartered provider of clinical information systems and electronic medical records for critical, perioperative and acute care organizations. Under David’s leadership, iMDsoft delivered a more than 30% increase in revenue while investing in new systems and processes.

Earlier in his career, David worked for Cerner Corporation, a leading supplier of health information technology services, devices and hardware, from 1995-2012. Among other roles, he served as Senior Vice President, World Wide Consulting, where he led Cerner’s professional services in 24 countries and owned global P&L and functional responsibilities from sales through implementation for the business. At Cerner, he created new methodologies for deployment, new service lines and development plans for 3,500 associates, growing the consulting business from $643 million in 2008 to $1.031 billion in 2012.

David is a former director at EMIS Group, a major provider of healthcare software, information technology and related services in the UK, and at Streamline Health. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

David holds a bachelor’s degree in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA and MHA from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

David Slazyk

CHIEF INFORMATION & SECURITY OFFICER

Bio

David joined NextGen Healthcare as data privacy, security, and risk officer in November 2013 and he was named chief information and security officer in 2020. He leads the information systems department at NextGen Healthcare, including enterprise applications, infrastructure and operations, and data privacy, security, and risk. His team creates and delivers IT solutions and services across NextGen Healthcare's global footprint in both the United States and India.

David leads the strategic planning of business operations into enterprise applications, including composite hardware, software, and network resources and services required for the company’s enterprise IT environment. He’s also responsible for the confidentiality and integrity of all company data, plus compliance with all privacy laws.

After serving in the U.S. Navy, David worked in many IT and IT security roles throughout his civilian IT career including senior director, security officer & network architect at Mirth LLC. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration and management from California State University, Fullerton.