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Dennis R. Byerly has over 20 years of executive level experience providing financial management services to healthcare providers, with a focus on revenue cycle improvement. He began his business career as a Certified Public Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. where he served clients in the banking and the financial services industries. He later served as chief financial officer and executive vice president of BEI Holdings, Ltd., a publicly traded financial services firm. From 1987 until 1996, Byerly served as president and chief operating officer of ARTRAC Corporation, Medaphis Hospital Corporation, and Medaphis Services Corporation, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Medaphis Corporation (a publicly traded healthcare information technology company, subsequently known as Per-se Technologies, Inc., acquired by McKesson in 2007 for $1.8 billion), which provided technology and business management services to approximately 20,000 physicians and 2,000 hospitals. From 1997 to 1999, Byerly was president and chief operating officer of MRC Group, Inc., one of the largest medical transcription service companies in the world, leading it through a strategic sale to a competitor public company just prior to consummation of an IPO. From 1999 through 2005, he was co-founder and chief executive officer of Third Millennium Healthcare Systems, Inc., a leading healthcare technology and revenue cycle management company. In September 2005, Third Millennium Healthcare merged with Caremedic Systems, Inc., to form one of the largest revenue cycle management companies in the healthcare industry. For six months after the merger, he served as president of Caremedic Systems, where he was instrumental in providing leadership for the integration of the two organizations, developing new offerings, and delivering superior revenue cycle solutions that continuously exceed client expectations. Byerly serves on several corporate Boards of Directors as well as civic and community boards. He was a Naval Aviator in the U.S. Navy and retired with a rank of Captain. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Professional Accountancy degree from Georgia State University. | 