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Location:
Powell, OH, 43065
Posted:
March 09, 2010

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DAVID BLAUER

** *** **** **** ************, MASSACHUSETTS 02675 MOBILE PHONE

614-***-**** E-MAIL abnlqp@r.postjobfree.com

Dear Recipient,

I have been an award-winning software executive for 15 years and was a leader at two start-ups for

which I collectively raised $37 million from angel and venture capital investors. I founded my last company,

an enterprise software venture called Click4Care, in 1999. As CEO for 10 years, I grew Click4Care from a

small company for which I conceived strategy and designed every feature in its market-leading decision

support and workflow automation software to one with roughly 100 employees, national and international

healthcare customers that cover over 30 million lives, and a $100+ million valuation. To date, Click4Care has

provided its founding investors a 37% IRR; most of which was realized in cash via a partial recapitalization in

2007. My first start-up, where I was EVP of Industry Ventures, completed a successful IPO in 1999.

I have received numerous awards for my work (for example, I was an Ernst & Young Software

Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007) and Click4Care has been counted among the United States’ fastest growing

companies by organizations such as Red Herring, Healthcare IT News, and Inc. Earlier in my career, I was

with AT&T, The Limited, and GE Capital Corporation. At GE Capital Corporation, I worked at funding

large leveraged buyouts in myriad industries ranging from healthcare to telecommunications. I am a proud

alumnus of Phillips Exeter and hold a B.A. in applied mathematics from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A.

in finance from the University of Chicago. My wife and I have four children and reside in Columbus, OH

and Yarmouthport, MA.

I am an expert regarding nearly every aspect of running a business-to-business or consumer software

company (e.g. enterprise and consumer software design, development, and quality assurance; pricing, sales

and marketing; implementation and hosting; product maintenance and customer support; partnering and

venturing; capital-raising, finance, and administration) and am considered healthcare’s foremost authority

regarding wellness and medical management software (though I am interested in applying myself and can be

successful in any interesting vertical market). I have extensive international experience and have done

business in Argentina, Brazil, China, Denmark, Hungary, India, Italy, New Zealand, Russia (Moscow and

Siberia), Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. The following positions are most

interesting to me:

I am most comfortable with being a CEO but can be very successful as a member of a high-growth

software or internet-based company’s leadership (in any market including healthcare).

C-level or influential executive with an established software or internet-based company

C-level executive (e.g. CEO, CIO, COO, Chief Strategic Officer) at a healthcare organization (health

insurer, pharmaceutical company, health system/provider company)

Partnership with a world-class strategic consultancy (e.g. Bain, BCG, Deloitte, McKinsey)

Partnership with a world-class technical or digital economy consultancy

Partnership or Entrepreneur in Residence with a venture capital firm

Executive at an investment bank (in M&A, Corporate Finance, etc.)

I would be delighted to talk about positions such as those above, but will consider other positions for

which you believe my skills and experience are particularly well-suited.

Kindest regards,

David Blauer

CONFIDENTIAL

DAVID BLAUER

24 OLD SALT LANE YARMOUTHPORT, MASSACHUSETTS 02675 MOBILE

PHONE 614-***-**** E-MAIL abnlqp@r.postjobfree.com

P ROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

3/99 – 6/09 Click4Care, Inc. Columbus, OH

C hief E xecutive Officer & Founder

Click4Care (“C4C”) is an enterprise software company. Its flagship software is

medical management decision support and workflow automation software that reduces

healthcare payers’ (i.e. health insurance companies’, domestic and international

governmental health plans’, at-risk providers’, and self-insured employers’) enormous

medical and administrative costs by identifying patients who drive most medical costs

and providing them and their care teams (families, social supporters, nurses, physicians

and other providers) with evidence-based clinical pathways, collaborative workflow

automation and connectivity tools that increase productivity and reduce use of

expensive health services and facilities.

Personal Achievements at Click4Care

Invented, wrote, and marketed business plan to raise $23 million to fund operations.

Over 18 months, invented and designed every process flow, function and user

interface for C4C’s flagship enterprise software system, called ThinkHealth. Created

documentation including 400 use cases, 250 UI documents, and thousands of test

cases. According to Forrester Research, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner Group and others,

ThinkHealth is healthcare’s best designed medical management software system.

Sequentially managed a 65-person team in Mumbai, India and a 50-person team in

Budapest, Hungary that developed three versions of ThinkHealth over six years and

600,000 man hours. Effort resulted in industry’s best medical management platform

underpinned by 5 million lines of clean code and an N-tier architecture that leverages

Oracle 10g and BEA’s WebLogic to deliver state of the art functionality. C4C

announced ThinkHealth Version 3.0’s general availability in October 2006.

Initiated and closed acquisition of a 23-person company that had successfully

developed and deployed software for data mining medical and pharmacy claims and

lab data. Successfully incorporated target company’s software in ThinkHealth.

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DAVID BLAUER (CONTINUED)

Built C4C’s in-house software development and maintenance teams in 2006 and

successfully transitioned all outsourced software development and maintenance from

Hungary to C4C in 2007.

While a one-employee company (I was C4C’s only employee for first eight months),

via cold calling, sold a long-term, $12.5 million agreement to Regence (Blue Cross &

Blue Shield of Washington, Utah, Oregon, and Idaho/3.3 million members) to provide

C4C’s solution. Beat 26 companies (including McKesson HBOC) competing for the

right to provide Regence a turnkey e-business solution and medical management

application.

Thereafter, initiated and closed 15 customers (e.g. CIGNA, CVS Caremark, Humana,

Italy’s federal health system, Pfizer, Principal Financial Group, Regence Group,

UnitedHealth Group, United Kingdom’s National Health Service, and Tufts Health

Plan) covering more than 30 million lives to generate nearly $75 million in revenues.

Received nomination for and won Ernst & Young’s 2006 Regional Entrepreneur of

the Year award in the software & technology category. Received one of only a few

nominations for Ernst & Young’s 2006 National Entrepreneur of the Year award in

software & technology. Past winners include Dell founder and CEO, Michael Dell;

Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos; Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page;

and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Drove company to achieve and exceed budgeted revenues and EBITDA in each of the

last four years. Managed company to a 35% EBITDA in last full fiscal year.

As CEO for 10 years, grew Click4Care from a small company to one with institutional

investors, roughly 100 employees, national and international healthcare customers, and

a $100+ million valuation. To date, Click4Care has provided its founding investors a

37% IRR; most of which was realized in cash via a partial recapitalization/liquidity

event in 2007.

Prior to C4C, developed healthcare supply-chain expertise from earlier work

experience at U.S. Interactive (see below) and by executing deep primary and

secondary supply-chain/industry research during past three years. Used understanding

of industry drivers, competitor market positioning, and leading edge converging

technologies to create Click4Care concept.

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DAVID BLAUER (CONTINUED)

1997 – 1999 Digital Evolution, Inc. Los Angeles, CA

E xecutive Vice President, Industry Ventures

Prior to its merger with U.S. Interactive, Digital Evolution was a leading digital

technologies think tank and Web application developer financed by Paul Allen’s

Vulcan Ventures and Trident Capital.

Responsible for conceiving, planning, negotiating, and implementing e-business joint

ventures with industry leading companies.

Conceived Web-based merchandise testing concept for large retailers and consumer

goods manufacturers and successfully formed a joint venture called Hamlet, LLC in

which AT&T, Digital Evolution, and Custom Research Incorporated shared equity

ownership. Became Chief Executive Officer of Hamlet and lead its 40-person effort.

Consulted in Hong Kong and New Zealand with COO of largest Pacific Rim

supermarket chain, Dairy Farm, regarding building Pan-Asian on-line grocery business.

1995 – 1997 AT&T Solutions, Inc. Washington, DC

Director, Worldwide Consulting Group

AT&T Solutions Consulting Group consulted with Presidents and CEOs of large

companies interested in redefining their supply chains via electronic / digital

commerce.

Responsible for practice development, oversight of major client engagements and

continual development of the Retail/Wholesale Consulting Group’s strategic plan.

Created electronic commerce strategies for a national retailer, one of the largest US

utilities (Southern Company), and a large, complementary telecom provider.

Managed large project teams comprising 20 to 100 people.

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DAVID BLAUER (CONTINUED)

1990 – 1995 The Limited, Inc. Columbus, OH

Director, Strateg ic Planning and Financial Analysis

Reported to Vice Chairman during most of employment with The Limited, Inc., which,

at over $10 billion in annual revenues, was the largest US specialty apparel retailer.

Responsible for business development, in-house investment banking and operational

analysis. Spent 50% of time on operational analysis.

Detailed, accurate due diligence, modeling, valuation work and deal / capital

structuring provided base for over $250 million in successful business and property

acquisitions. Uncovered, proposed and pursued joint venture partners. Presented

candidates orally to Vice Chairman and in writing to Les Wexner, Chairman, CEO and

Founder.

Led valuation and due diligence team and was working liaison between The Limited

and Lazard Freres & Co. during Limited’s sale of Brylane, a $400 million niche catalog

business.

Reviewed and critiqued all Limited, Inc. divisional budgets semi-annually and

communicated findings to divisional presidents orally and in writing. The Limited had

21 divisions, most generating more than $1 billion in revenues annually.

1988 – 1990 GE Capital LBO Group/Kidder Peabody New York, NY

Associate

Analyzed, structured and proposed investments in and lending to highly leveraged,

large transactions ($100 million - $4 billion deals). Participated in all levels of due

diligence, negotiation and security documentation and helped lead deals through GE

Capital’s internal approval system.

Involved in 48 potential transactions, four transaction approvals and two transaction

fundings. Experience with LBO financing across disparate industries and financing

vehicles including private market senior and subordinated debt and preferred and

common stock investments.

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DAVID BLAUER (CONTINUED)

E DUCATION

MBA/Finance University of Chicago Chicago, IL

BA/Mathematics Wesleyan University Middletown, CT

Preparatory Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, NH

I NTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

Mr. Blauer’s primary interest outside of work is his family. He and his wife have four

children: Ross; Julia; Kate; and Elizabeth. Some of Mr. Blauer's past achievements outside

of work include acceptance by the United States Navy’s Aviation Officer Candidate School

in Pensacola, FL, and participation as an award winning collegiate athlete in two sports. He

is a voracious reader and world traveler, enjoys participating in foreign cultures, and is

passionate about software and other digital technologies and the novel business models,

products, and cultures to which they can lead.

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