About YPrime

Jim Corrigan, CEO

As CEO, Jim Corrigan provides strategic leadership and direction for YPrime. Jim is a seasoned business leader with decades of experience in the technology, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

A 25-year GE veteran, Jim joined the company upon graduation from Central Connecticut State University. He simultaneously completed the Information Systems Management Program and attained his M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in ’93. Jim worked globally for the next four years as a member of the Corporate Audit Staff. He then created a fee for services for GE Engine Services, which enabled customers to focus on safety, satisfaction & efficiency. In ’99, Jim assumed the Chief Financial/Operating Officer role for Latin American Operations in Brazil.

Jim joined GE Healthcare in ’01 as the GM of Computer Tomography (CT) Detection, introducing product innovations that increased examination speed, image resolution & effective dose. Jim then led the global materials/sourcing organization to enhance customer fulfillment, lean inventory accuracy, product quality, delivery and productivity for the $10B in GEHC spend.

In 2005, Jim lead the integration of IDX & GE Healthcare IT (HCIT), a $1.4B segment dedicated to delivering IT solutions that enable high-quality & cost-effective care for physician offices through IDN’s creating a culture committed to making a difference in healthcare. In ’06, he assumed the role of Senior Vice President for the clinical & admin solutions. In 2011, Jim was promoted to Senior Vice President of HCIT Americas.

In 2013, Jim became the President & Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare Surgery. A $500M global business that offers market-leading minimally invasive imaging products.

In 2014 became the President and Chief Executive Officer of ERT a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials so that customers can move ahead with confidence.

In 2020 became the President and Chief Executive Officer of ConnectiveRx which simplifies how people get and stay on medications by providing affordability and patient and provider engagement services. Connecting patients, prescribers and pharmacists to power the connective medication journey.

Mark Maietta, President

As President, Mark Maietta provides executive leadership and directs the company’s commercial strategy. With oversight of sales, marketing and business development functions, he is responsible for ensuring the company’s commercial objectives and service delivery align and evolve with customer needs.

Mark brings more than 20 years of focused leadership experience within life sciences and technology sectors. Most recently, Mark served as Chief Commercial Officer for Clariness, a provider of digital patient recruitment and engagement solutions. There, he built and led global commercial infrastructure to drive revenue and position the company as a global leader. Prior to Clariness, Mark was Chief Business Officer at AdviseClinical, a clinical strategic advisory and staffing organization.

During his tenure as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for CRF Health, Mark re-designed business development and marketing practices to increase productivity and improve sales results. Early career positions with OPTUMInsight (now part of United Health Group), Pfizer and Novartis Pharmaceuticals included sales management and field sales positions.

Mark earned a master of business administration degree from Binghamton University. He received a bachelor of science degree in marketing from Ithaca College.

Jaime Cook, Executive Vice President

Jaime Cook is Vice President of Technical Delivery. In this role, he leads YPrime’s design and configuration teams, to ensure system architecture aligns with client requirements. Jaime brings extensive knowledge of clinical systems, cloud-based technology and programming languages. Since co-founding YPrime in 2006, Jaime has held a number of leadership roles, shaping the company’s business consulting and customer care functions.

Earlier, Jaime worked as a technical consultant and systems analyst for Cephalon, Merck and Perceptive Informatics. Throughout his earlier career, Jaime led development efforts for enterprise and purpose-built applications that integrated and displayed clinical data across organizations. The impact of these implementations resulted in faster deployments, detection of trends and decision-making support for a range of investigational products.

He began his career as a systems analyst at Dupont Pharmaceuticals (now part of Bristol-Myers Squibb).

Mohan Ganesan, Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer, Mohan provides financial and strategic guidance to the company and partners with our investors and executive team to drive investments appropriately. With responsibility for Finance, Accounting, Business Operations and Human Resources functions, Mohan provides financial oversight and also leads the development of standardized business metrics.

Mohan brings more than 20 years of broad finance leadership expertise in the life sciences industry, with diverse experience at pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies. Most recently, Mohan served as CFO of Amplity Health, a leading contract commercial services provider to Pharmaceutical and Biotech companies. At Amplity, he led the carve-out from Publicis Groupe and built the infrastructure of an independent private healthcare company. Prior to that, Mohan served as CFO of Publicis Healthcare Solutions (PHS), a division of Publicis Groupe. At PHS, he diversified the customer base, integrated two critical acquisitions to drive growth and led the sale of the company to private equity.

Previously, Mohan served as Vice President, Finance at the healthcare information technology company, Epocrates, where he built the financial analysis team and played an integral role in the acquisition and post-merger integration of Epocrates by Athenahealth. His earlier healthcare experience includes stints at Amicus Therapeutics, a rare disease Biotech and at Pfizer, Inc. in a broad range of finance roles of increasing responsibility. Mohan started his career as an engineer in the chemical industry before transitioning to healthcare finance.

Mohan has an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MS in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech, and a BS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Alison O’Neill, Chief Operating Officer

As Chief Operating Officer, Alison O’Neill oversees the departments responsible for project management and quality delivery of YPrime’s products and services. Alison joined YPrime in early 2022 and brings 35 years of clinical research experience to her role. She has held executive roles in global organizations providing technology solutions to clinical research teams and sites, both large and small CROs, and has led an Operations Quality team for a large CRO. Alison began her career in the pharmaceutical industry as a bench chemist in the UK researching novel antibacterials.

Steve Begley, Chief Compliance Officer

Steve Begley serves as Chief Compliance Officer at YPrime. Steve holds responsibility for corporate privacy strategy and policy and leads efforts to ensure company-wide privacy and data protection standards and compliance. Additionally, he oversees the company’s global quality function, including quality control and assurance, regulatory compliance, process improvement, software development and delivery, and quality management systems. Steve provides the foundation and stability to deliver quality systems and products in a timely and effective manner across the entire organization.

Prior to joining YPrime in 2013, Steve managed global quality, compliance, and quality systems for Cenduit, ePharma Solutions, and Clarix/Phase Forward (now Oracle Corporation). He began his clinical trial career in data management, supporting studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Steve received his undergraduate education from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mike Hughes, Chief Product Officer

As Chief Product Officer, Mike Hughes leads engineering, development and product management functions for YPrime’s products and services.

For more than a decade, Mike has been actively involved in the evolution of mobile health solutions for clinical outcome assessments. Prior to joining YPrime in 2015, he served in multiple positions of increasing responsibility at CRF Health. Mike began as an application specialist in 2006, served in project management functions. As Director of Project Delivery, he oversaw the company’s project management and software implementation functions.

Mike began his career as an application developer for Exact Software, a provider of manufacturing resource planning software for the apparel industry.

Shawn Blackburn, President, YPrime Labs

As President of YPrime Labs, Shawn Blackburn leads the company’s efforts on future technology solutions in the eClinical space. With a background in systems architecture and information management, Shawn has built a reputation for helping companies discover insights about future opportunities by bringing together siloed information in meaningful context to support strategic decision making.

Since co-founding YPrime in 2006, Shawn has lead the company growth from a two-person consulting firm to a global organization that focuses on evolving technologies to help accelerate development timelines, simplify process complexity, and improve data quality across the clinical development continuum.

Prior to YPrime, Shawn had a long career as a technology consultant for Cephalon and Parexel. While at Cephalon, he was instrumental in the company’s development of applications to improve clinical trial workflow and provide deeper visibility into clinical trial performance.