Management Team - Core Solutions, Inc

Ravi Ganesan
President & CEO

Ravi Ganesan is the founder and CEO of Core Solutions, where he leads the revolution in behavioral health through artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies. With over 25 years of dedication, Ravi has addressed the unique challenges of the health and human services industry by developing innovative EHR technology, significantly improving treatment outcomes. His deep expertise in healthcare and technology, combined with a strong commitment to customer satisfaction, has established Core Solutions as a leading software provider nationwide.

As CEO, Ravi has successfully established partnerships with large providers, government agencies, and leading management consulting firms to improve treatment for behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disability services. Ravi is an active speaker on AI and data-driven decision-making.

Ravi received his M.B.A. from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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Rachna Bagdi
COO

As Chief Operating Officer of Core Solutions, Rachna Bagdi oversees business and solutions architecture across all levels of the company, including process design, redesign and modeling and design of systems solutions and enhancements for behavioral health and human services organizations across the country.

Before joining Core Solutions, Rachna gained extensive programming, consulting and financial analysis experience from some of the top organizations in the healthcare and technology industries. As Team Lead at Siemens Medical Systems (USA), she developed key modules for an application designed to help hospital systems with retrospective analysis of critical patient, clinical and financial data. Prior to her work with Siemens, Rachna was a financial analyst for Temple University Health System (TUHS), where she managed the financial and strategic planning systems for the organization, which has grown into one of the most reputable systems in the region. While there, she was involved in numerous milestone projects, including analysis and development of the Children’s Hospital at TUHS, key involvement with the mergers and acquisition due diligence team and establishment of the Liver, Pancreas & Small Bowel Transplant Unit.

Rachna holds both an M.S. and M.B.A. from Temple University, Philadelphia, and a B.S. from Bombay University, India.

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Jeff Branagh
CTO

Jeff Branagh serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Core, where he leads the company's technology strategies, infrastructure, and commercial customer implementations. With over 25 years of experience as a healthcare technology executive, Jeff has a proven track record of building and delivering innovative solutions across the industry. He oversees daily technology operations and customer delivery, driving growth, performance, and customer success.

For the past nine years, Jeff has focused on strategy, technology leadership, and product launches within the Behavioral Health sector. Before joining Core Solutions, he was the founding partner of a consulting firm that provided fractional CTO/CPO services to digital health organizations specializing in mental health and recovery solutions. His earlier career includes 11 years at McKesson Health Solutions, where he held various leadership roles in product management, sales, and client delivery. Jeff's extensive background in healthcare strategy and product development has enabled him to work with healthcare organizations across the U.S., contributing to advancements in the field.

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Jon Trigg
SVP, Sales and Marketing

As Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Jon focuses on expanding and advancing Core's solutions to best serve the growing customer base and their clients.

Jon has an extensive background in health IT and information services having worked for successful organizations like DuPont, SMS, Siemens, and ECRI. He is a recognized digital health expert speaking at events nationwide and on Capitol Hill.

Jon received his B.S. from the University of Michigan and M.B.A. from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School.

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David Hellhake
SVP, Implementations

David Hellhake leads all of Core’s enterprise implementations. He has over 25 years of experience assessing and mitigating risk and managing the contractual relationship with major clients, large (18,000+ users) and small. Serving as the primary contact for client-related project matters, he works to ensure contract compliance and completion of all deliverables with successful service delivery.

In addition, he collaboratively drives implementations forward by interfacing with multiple work streams, including stakeholders, product owners, IT staff, development, and other teams.

David received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in Political Science and Business Administration.

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Ned Moore has been active in the health care industry for more than 10 years, working closely to help health care payers apply technology in ways that help them realize efficiencies and maximize their investments.

Moore was a key visionary behind the Portico Platform. He served as chairman, chief executive officer, and cofounder of Portico Systems before its acquisition by McKesson in 2011. Post acquisition, Moore is vice president of network performance management at McKesson. Prior to founding Portico Systems, he helped companies in the information technology, real estate, and distribution industries to leverage and build customer relationships and achieve financial and operational excellence.

Moore is a member of the board of directors of the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale, where he also serves as the chairman of the Robert G. Hamilton Endowment Fund. He has been recognized by the Eastern Technology Council as the 2008 Technology CEO of the Year, was a recipient of the 2007 Philadelphia Business Journal Forty under Forty award, and was named a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2009 Greater Philadelphia.

Charles Curie has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the mental health and substance abuse arena. He has earned national recognition through his core commitment to provide people with addictive and mental disorders the opportunity to realize the dream of full participation in American society.

He is the principal and founder of The Curie Group, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in supporting leaders in the mental health and substance use treatment and prevention areas. In 2001, he was appointed as administrator of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). From 2001-2006, he led the $3.4 billion federal agency, which is charged with improving accountability, capacity, and effectiveness of the nation’s substance abuse prevention, addictions treatment, and mental health services.

Previously, Curie served as deputy secretary for mental health and substance abuse services for the Department of Public Welfare of the State of Pennsylvania. During his tenure there, he implemented a nationally recognized mental health and drug and alcohol Medicaid managed care program.

Bruce Luehrs is a partner with Emerald Stage2 Ventures, a Pennsylvania-based early stage venture fund focused on capital efficient information technology companies primarily in the technology-enabled services area. He has been a banker, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist for the past 25 years and is well known in the Philadelphia area, having served as a past Chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group (now the MAC Alliance) and as an active member of the Mid Atlantic Venture Conference Steering Committee and the Association for Corporate Growth.

Previously General Partner of the Edison Venture Fund, he championed numerous investments in the Mid-Atlantic region including Gain Capital, Virtual Edge (recently sold to ADP), Fiberlink and Innaphase (successfully sold to Thermo Electron in 2004). Over the past 8 years, Bruce has championed investments in 14 companies totaling over $60 million.

Bruce was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force in 1975. He received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University following graduation from Duke University with a BA in Economics, summa cum laude.

Frank Lordi has been advising and helping to build start-up and emerging businesses for over fifteen years, and is a managing partner of Trestle Ventures, a company he co-founded to share his experience with other business owners and help them bring their visions to life. He serves as a member of its Board of Managers and Investment Committee.

Frank also founded AC Lordi Consulting and has helped grow the firm from a one-person start-up into a leading provider of accounting, internal audit and business advisory services with offices across the country. He was instrumental in engineering an investment of $25 million from a group of venture capital firms to expand the company, and continues to directly manage the firm. He has served as part-time CFO, strategic advisor, and Board member to numerous early stage and growing companies.

He began his career in public accounting with KPMG and Arthur Andersen’s emerging growth practice. Frank holds a BS in accounting from Pennsylvania State University.

Herbert White is the Associate Vice President of Finance at Temple University Health System, an integrated academic based health system with over $1.0 billion in revenue that includes a 120 bed acute psychiatric facility and crisis response center treating 10,000 clients annually. Herbert has twenty-five years experience in healthcare finance and is a Fellow in the Healthcare Financial Managers Association.

He has a B.S. in Accounting, MBA in Finance, and is an adjunct instructor at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. Herbert sits on the Finance Committees of Philadelphia International Medicine and Health Partners of Philadelphia.

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