Spok CEO and leadership

As a leader in the communications industry for more than 30 years, I serve as the president, CEO, and director of Spok, a market leader in healthcare communications. I became a director, president, and CEO of USA Mobility, Inc. (now Spok) in November 2004 when the company was formed through the merger of Metrocall, Inc. and Arch Wireless, Inc., focusing on narrowband PCS paging services. I held various roles at Metrocall including chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and executive vice president. In 2011, we completed the acquisition of Amcom software, rebranded from USA Mobility to Spok in 2014 and executed a multi-year pivot for USA Mobility, now Spok into clinical communications solutions which include both paging and software solutions, including our new cloud native clinical communications platform, Spok Go. I also serve as the president, CEO, and director for all of the Spok subsidiaries, except for GTES, LLC, an indirect wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, of which I am a director. At Spok we deliver clinical information to care teams when and where it matters most to improve patient outcomes. I am passionate about our solutions, which ultimately enable smarter, faster clinical communication.

Dr. Mesnik brings extensive experience in health information technology. He is an emergency physician and former emergency department and urgent care medical director. He is also an accomplished healthcare executive with a reputation for bringing innovative solutions to market, leveraging technology, developing strategic partnerships, practice management, and leadership. Over the past several years he has been an independent consultant to medical device and health IT companies. More recently, he was the CMO of a health IT company that developed the first evidenced-based, objective and quantifiable diagnostic tests for depression and other mental illnesses. Prior to that, Dr. Mesnik was the Chief Medical Officer of CVS-MinuteClinic, the originator of retail healthcare. During his time there, the organization grew from 80 clinics in 9 states to more than 650 clinics in 27 states, with 3,500 nurse practitioners and 350 physicians and more than 10 million annual patient visits. He also helped to develop its EMR. Dr. Mesnik is the co-founder of Sanso Health, a medical device company focused on improving care for COPD patients. His interest in health IT began in the early 1990s when he helped develop the clinical content of the first voice recognition dictation system for emergency medicine. Later he collaborated with Allscripts on its medication dispensing system for Urgent Care and later, as a physician advisor, on Allscripts’ first EMR. Dr. Mesnik went on to become the CMO of Aprima Medical Software, an EHR company, which has been rated the No. 1 ambulatory EMR by KLAS over the past two years and was recently acquired by eMDs.

Tim Tindle is a Chief Information Officer at SPOK HOLDINGS, INC. He has experience at Compaq Computer Corp and has worked as Pres/CEO at ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, President at Agility Asset Management, and Exec VP/CIO at Harris County Hospital Distric.

Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Medical Devices, Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare, ISO 13485, and Product Development. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Science (BS) focused in Physics from University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Kristen Lalowski joined Spok as chief product officer in 2020. Lalowski is a passionate entrepreneurial leader with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and healthcare IT. Her most recent experience was as chief product officer at MDLIVE, a telemedicine company, where she managed a portfolio of urgent care, behavioral health, and dermatologic products. During her tenure there she added primary care and employee assistance program solutions to MDLIVE’s portfolio.

Lalowski served as vice president of strategy at N-of-One, a precision medicine company, where she managed product, engineering, sales, and marketing. Prior to that, she was vice president product management, Cross Product Solutions at Allscripts. She also served as vice president of product management at Optum Health and has held product leadership and sales roles at Picis and Ibex in the emergency department EMR space.

Lalowski served as an emergency department nurse for 10 years prior to making the career change to healthcare IT. She has a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Loyola University of Chicago and completed several leadership and finance courses from University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago.

As a leader in the communications industry for more than 30 years, I serve as the president, CEO, and director of Spok, a market leader in healthcare communications. I became a director, president, and CEO of USA Mobility, Inc. (now Spok) in November 2004 when the company was formed through the merger of Metrocall, Inc. and Arch Wireless, Inc., focusing on narrowband PCS paging services. I held various roles at Metrocall including chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and executive vice president. In 2011, we completed the acquisition of Amcom software, rebranded from USA Mobility to Spok in 2014 and executed a multi-year pivot for USA Mobility, now Spok into clinical communications solutions which include both paging and software solutions, including our new cloud native clinical communications platform, Spok Go. I also serve as the president, CEO, and director for all of the Spok subsidiaries, except for GTES, LLC, an indirect wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, of which I am a director. At Spok we deliver clinical information to care teams when and where it matters most to improve patient outcomes. I am passionate about our solutions, which ultimately enable smarter, faster clinical communication.