Under the direction of our medical, technical, and business management teams, DTN is set to take a leadership position in delivering true holistic, on-demand, healthcare to "anyone, anytime, anywhere".

Kurt Grossman - CEO
Kurt has almost 20 years of experience in developing businesses with outstanding results and making the impossible happen. Using his entrepreneurial business skills and style Kurt has negotiated non-traditional private and government funding for a wide range of global commercial real estate projects, either as the owner of a real estate and loan company or as a consultant. He has also assisted more than 50 companies in repositioning their business goals to achieve maximum profitability by referring them to venture capitalists and redefining their market niches to better suit their products and services. It was while helping one such company, a surgical center, that Kurt became aware of the as yet embryonic development of telehealth - to connect physicians with patients in rural and remote locations. The opportunity finally presented itself in 2003 for Kurt to start the ambitious goal of fulfilling what was now his vision of providing the highest quality care at the lowest possible cost to everyone irrespective of location. DTN was founded in 2003, and after securing a $9.6M loan from the USDA, the company is now delivering on his vision - equipping hospitals, clinics, and physician groups with a cost-effective, turn-key telehealth solutions.

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John Faltys - CTO
John has more than 18 years of technology development, consulting and management experience, including hands-on roles at several startup software companies serving the telecommunications, banking, and manufacturing industries. Prior to joining DTN, John founded Primal Solutions in 1996, and grew the company providing mediation, rating and billing solutions to the telecommunications industry, to over $11M in annual revenue prior to its acquisition by Avery Communications. John was also Vice President of Development at GDI (recognized as one of the Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies in Inc. Magazine) where he led more than 150 developers and business analysts, building next generation, large-scale, mission critical applications for Fortune 1000 clients. John has served on the board of advisors for EPC International, a provider of supply chain software, and PersistentWorldZ, an online game services provider.

Earl W. Ferguson, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.P.M. - Medical Consultant
Earl brings more than 30 years of experience as a cardiologist, critical care, preventive medicine, and telemedicine specialist. Prior to joining DTN Earl had his own clinical cardiology practice, that actively used telecardiology and electronic medical records in a "paperless practice", as well as being CEO of Sun BioMedical Technologies, a biotech company doing research for the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. Earl was on the Board of Directors of the California Telemedicine and eHealth Center 1997-2004 (Chair, 2002-2004), Advisory Committee 2004-2005. He directed NASA's telemedicine and telecommunications applications to healthcare programs 1993-96, before leaving federal service to develop rural telemedicine applications. He was also the chief architect of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network and Clinical Director of the Loma Linda Telehealth Initiative. Other academic and leadership positions, include Chief of Cardiology and Cardiology Training Program Director at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas; Director of Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Commander, USAF Medical Center Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany); and Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Earl completed an M.D. and a Ph.D. in physiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1970, and a medicine residency, cardiology fellowship, and post-doctoral training in biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center in 1975.

Past Advisors

Marlene Woodworth - Healthcare Advisor
Marlene has a track record of over 25 years of successful hospital management. She has developed healthcare markets to market dominance, led the acquisition and consolidations of hospitals and medical groups. She is also known for leading a multiple hospital region to greater profitability through cost reduction, systems development and quality enhancement. As CEO, Marlene led the acquisition of a competing hospital and the subsequent hospital consolidation resulting in the formation of Corona Regional Medical Center, a $200M two-campus hospital. When consolidated, the hospital emerged from a $15M loss to a $1.5M profit in three years. As CEO of Circle City Hospital, she led the hospital to market dominance, positioning the hospital for a successful sale. She developed and led operational improvement plans for 13 hospitals as the Chief Operations Officer for the Pacific Southwest Region of AMI (Tenet) resulting in a 15% bottom line improvement. Previously, Marlene has served on thirteen hospital boards as the corporate member and on three hospital and medical group boards as the CEO. She has also been active on eight nonprofit boards including The American Heart Association, YMCA and the UC Riverside School of Management. She was a founding member of Congressman Ken Calvert’s Healthcare Task Force and has received awards such as Business Woman of the Year and the Splendid American Award for international service in Laos. Marlene has a nursing undergraduate education and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Jay Sanders, M.D., F.A.C.P. - Telemedicine Advisor
Dr. Jay H. Sanders is President and CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Immediate Past President of the American Telemedicine Association, Vice Chairman & Treasurer of the Rural Health Care Corporation, a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the FCC of the Universal Service Administrative Company, Professor of Medicine (Adjunct) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Visiting Professor, Yale University School of Medicine. He was formerly Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Telemedicine Program at the Medical College of Georgia, where he held the Eminent Scholar Chair in Telemedicine. He is a member of the Board of Directors and founding member of the American Telemedicine Association, Senior Advisor to NASA on Telemedicine, and directs the U.S. telemedicine initiatives to the G-7 nations. He serves on the Department of Defense Telemedicine Board of Directors, and is a consultant to WHO on Health Telematics. He previously served as a member of the FCC Telemedicine Advisory Committee, and member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Science Telemedicine Evaluation Committee.

John Rehfeld - Business Advisor
John's background includes 25 years of software, content and hardware experience in the PC, digital imaging, and multi-media industries. John is currently serving as a board member of five public and private technology companies, is a CEO coach, and teaches marketing and strategy in the Pepperdine executive MBA program. John has written a book about his management experiences at Toshiba and Seiko, "Alchemy of a Leader", as well as a number of articles for the Harvard Business Review, NY Times, the Pepperdine business review, and two different director magazines. While VP & General Manager of Toshiba’s laptop computer business he launched the first commercially successful laptop computer in 1986 and was subsequently named one of the top 25 computer executives by CRN magazine. He then became president of Seiko Instruments USA and subsequently CEO’s of three other technology companies. John has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Harvard University.

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