Epocrates: PDA medical software

Rose Crane

Chief Executive Officer

Before joining Epocrates, Rose Crane spent over 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of leadership roles. Most recently, Rose was a Company Group Chairman at Johnson and Johnson, where she managed the OTC/Nutritional business worldwide. Her group's acquisition of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare resulted in Johnson & Johnson becoming the largest OTC company worldwide, with a well balanced portfolio of diverse brands. She also served as a Company Group Chairman for the consumer, specialty and nutritionals business during her tenure.

Prior to Johnson and Johnson, Rose was President of the U.S. Primary Care division for Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she was responsible for all sales, marketing, regulatory and compliance operations, managing a $6.5 billion budget. During her time at Bristol Myers Squibb, Rose also held a variety of marketing, sales and product management leadership positions.

Rose holds a B.A. from SUNY Oswego and an M.B.A. from Kent State University.

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Rick Van Hoesen

Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Rick brings to the Epocrates team extensive experience as a public and private company CFO, most recently at NetIQ Corporation, a $265 million revenue enterprise software company. At NetIQ, Rick oversaw the successful implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance processes and best-in-breed revenue recognition practices, as well as extensive systems improvement work. Prior to NetIQ, Rick was CFO at privately-held XACCT Technologies, where he was responsible for building a public company financial infrastructure and raising over $50 million in private equity. Earlier in his career, he was Chief Financial Officer at several other publicly-traded software companies, including Micro Focus and Wall Data and he held senior management positions at Sun Microsystems and Teradata. Rick holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Paul Banta

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Paul joined the Epocrates team with over 13 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Epocrates, Paul was Senior Vice President at PCS Health Systems with responsibility for strategic alliances with the pharmaceutical industry as well as overall management responsibility for PCS’ information business. Previously, Paul had been Assistant General Counsel at PCS for several years with broad responsibilities ranging from transactions to litigation and regulatory compliance. Before joining PCS in 1995, Paul served as General Counsel for Integrated Disease Management, Inc., a start-up disease management company, and spent 5 years at Eli Lilly and Company as legal counsel. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College and his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Columbia University.

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Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge

Chief Medical Officer, EVP of Product Development

Prior to joining Epocrates, Dr. Rutledge served as chief information officer at Wellsphere, a top online health site with more than seven million monthly visits. During his tenure at San Mateo Medical Center, Dr. Rutledge was responsible for the strategy and implementation of highly successful outpatient and emergency department clinical information system services. In senior management positions at First Consulting Group and WebMD, he helped direct the companies' visions and develop key initiatives. Dr. Rutledge has practiced clinical medicine for more than 25 years, is board certified in internal and emergency medicine and is a former faculty member of Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Robert Quinn

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Bob brings to the Epocrates team nearly 20 years of experience as an engineer and software development manager. Prior to joining Epocrates, Bob served as VP of Engineering for iDini Corporation, a wireless software startup, and was instrumental in the growth and acquisition of Inpart Design, an internet-based engineering services company that is now part of PTC. Previously, Bob held a variety of technical and engineering-management positions with IBM. He received his bachelor’s from Dartmouth College, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, and was a research fellow at Harvard University prior to joining IBM.

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Joe Kleine

Chief Commercial Officer

Joe Kleine's career spans more than 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. At Epocrates, Joe established the company's healthcare sales business and led the team to work with all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.

Prior to joining Epocrates, Joe led strategic planning and business development for a top 10 medical advertising agency within the Omnicom network. He began his career with Eli Lilly & Company where he held several sales and marketing leadership positions. Joe earned a bachelor's degree at Dickinson College, and an M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

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MaryAnn Capritti

Chief Marketing Officer

Prior to joining Epocrates, Capritti held a number of leadership positions in the healthcare industry. As chief executive officer for a division of Euro RSCG Life, she provided strategic marketing support for a portfolio of top-tier pharmaceutical clients. During her tenure at Bristol-Myers Squibb as vice president, cardiovascular and diabetes marketing, she oversaw the launches of a number of blockbuster drugs, including Pravachol, Glucophage, Avapro and Plavix. She also held the position of vice president, sales and marketing at Janssen Pharmaceuticals where she directed marketing activities for the key product franchises and managed the primary care sales force. MaryAnn is a graduate of the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania.

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