DrFirst.com, Inc. CEO and leadership

Mr. Chen founded DrFirst and serves as the CEO and chairman. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong technology background and experience in starting and leading technology-related businesses. Mr. Chen successfully founded and served as the CEO of V-ONE Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed provider of virtual private networking (VPN) software that is used extensively in many industries, including government, financial services, healthcare, and automotive. Mr. Chen has been granted five U.S. patents on Internet security products. Prior to founding V-ONE, Mr. Chen worked for many years in increasingly senior positions at Intelsat and in the nuclear power industry. Mr. Chen received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and received his M.S. in Computer Science from George Washington University.

Colin Banas is a Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst.com and is based in Richmond, Virginia. He has worked as CMIO at VCU Health, Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and MD at VCU Health. Colin studied at Virginia Commonwealth University between 2005 and 2008, Eastern Virginia Medical School between 1998 and 2002, and University of Virginia between 1994 and 1998.

In his role as Chief Growth Officer, Andrew is charged with the strategic and commercial growth of DrFirst’s digital solutions. Over the past 20 years, Andrew’s leadership has resulted in more than tenfold annual revenue growth. Prior to joining DrFirst, Andrew held C-level positions at some of the industry’s most successful companies, including Epocrates, Sermo, and Gobiquity Mobile Health. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona - Eller College of Management, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from University of Western Ontario in Canada.

STRATEGIC ADVISOR / CHANGE AGENT / BOARD MEMBERDavid Samuels is an accomplished senior financial executive with more than 25 years of broad-based financial and business experience with publicly traded, venture-backed and privately held businesses, from pre-revenue to over $1B in annual revenue. He has successfully completed more than $550M of debt and equity financings, including initial capitalizations and public offerings, and has served as a change agent leading initiatives in M&A, business restructurings, complex financings and operational improvements. He has extensive experience with technology focused businesses, working with company founders and investors to create and protect shareholder value. Mr. Samuels currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of DrFirst, Inc., a national provider of software as a service (SaaS) solutions and electronic medication management platforms for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. During his tenure, he has secured more than $210M in debt and equity financings from top tier institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Sixth Street Partners) and he has structured several key acquisitions and partnerships to support the company’s continued growth. Completed tender offers during his tenure have returned 24x returns to the company's early investors. Mr. Samuels previously served as the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of a global provider of diagnostic imaging systems and services, which was acquired by a private equity company. Mr. Samuels has held CFO roles in a variety of publicly traded and privately held emerging growth technology-driven businesses during the past eighteen years. He held senior financial leadership positions with respected global services leader HMS Host, formerly Host Marriott Services Corporation (NYSE:HMS) over a ten year period. He began his career in the assurance practice of KPMG LLP.

Zilong Tang is a VP of Enterprise architecture at DrFirst.com and Chief Technology Officer at DrFirst.com and is based in Rockville, Maryland. He has worked as Senior software engineer at RN Solution and Chief Software Engineer at DrFirst.com. Zilong attended TIANJIN UNIVERSITY between 1986 and 1990, Towson University between 1999 and 2000, and Chinese Academy Of Science between 1993 and 1996.

Mr. Chen founded DrFirst and serves as the CEO and chairman. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong technology background and experience in starting and leading technology-related businesses. Mr. Chen successfully founded and served as the CEO of V-ONE Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed provider of virtual private networking (VPN) software that is used extensively in many industries, including government, financial services, healthcare, and automotive. Mr. Chen has been granted five U.S. patents on Internet security products. Prior to founding V-ONE, Mr. Chen worked for many years in increasingly senior positions at Intelsat and in the nuclear power industry. Mr. Chen received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and received his M.S. in Computer Science from George Washington University.

Mr. Chen founded DrFirst and serves as the CEO and chairman. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong technology background and experience in starting and leading technology-related businesses. Mr. Chen successfully founded and served as the CEO of V-ONE Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed provider of virtual private networking (VPN) software that is used extensively in many industries, including government, financial services, healthcare, and automotive. Mr. Chen has been granted five U.S. patents on Internet security products. Prior to founding V-ONE, Mr. Chen worked for many years in increasingly senior positions at Intelsat and in the nuclear power industry. Mr. Chen received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and received his M.S. in Computer Science from George Washington University.