About Us
Our mission is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery by facilitating communication through user friendly IT-based solutions.
Accelereach was born out of the postgraduate Program in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (PRIME) at Brown University, where Adam Emrich and Hamzah Ansari conceptualized the service. They located their first pilot site, the Vila Serena Clinics in Brazil, and then contacted the University's Computer Science Department to develop a prototype of the service. Working closely with the clinics, Nate Webb led the team which created the software for SMS communication between the clinics' counselors and outpatients. In June 2009, Nate, Adam, and Hamzah brought on Nick Drohan and enrolled in Betaspring, a Providence based start-up accelerator.
Accelereach was founded in fall 2009 and has since connected thousands of people with their health and wellness programs through the power of text messaging.
The Accelereach Team
Adam K. Emrich, Chief Executive Officer
Adam received an Sc.B. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University, as well as an Sc.M. in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship. He places a particular emphasis on understanding Accelereach's market, and welcomes any opportunity to learn more about the needs of potential users. Keenly interested in the potential of new technology, he was a member of the Brown team which received a Gold Medal in the 2007 international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition.
Hamzah A. Ansari, VP Business Development and Finance
Hamzah has a B.Eng. degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Nottingham, an M.A. degree in Digital Technology from King's College, London, and an Sc.M. in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship from Brown University. At Accelereach, Hamzah is in charge of strategy formulation, business development, and finance. He has worked with the Interglobe Group of Pakistan, a diversified business conglomerate with approximately seven hundred employees. At Interglobe, he initiated a strategic re-consolidation of group activities, assisted in raising debt capital, and led a team which successfully reduced redundancies and minimized idle times in the group's complex supply-chain.
Nate D. Webb, VP Technology
Nate received his Sc.B in Computer Science from Brown University and spent a year studying Computer Science at the University of Barcelona. He has developed software at Simpletuition, a web startup in Boston, and has over 10 years of experience building technology used by the world's leading university, government, and corporate research laboratories at the R. D. Webb Company. At Accelereach Nate is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the core technologies of the company.
Nicholas T. Drohan, Head of Sales and Marketing, software development
Nick has an Sc.B in Computer Science from the Watson School of Engineering at Binghamton University. He has experience developing software on multiple platforms and has interned with his father, a lifetime entrepreneur, assisting with business development. In 2009 his research team at Binghamton University received first place in the Federal Aviation Administration Annual National Design Competition.
Donald L. Stanford, Advisor
Don Stanford is the former Chief Technology Officer of GTECH Holdings and 23-year veteran of the lottery industry. Over 22 years, he held every technical leadership position at GTECH. Don guided the growth of GTECH's technology organization from a software staff of four in 1979 to its current worldwide deployment of over 800 IT professionals. In September of 2008 he was asked by GTECH rejoin the organization as its Acting CTO. Don also serves as an adjunct professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at Brown University and on the board of the R.I. Business Innovation Factory. He works in the area of promoting IT education for Rhode Island's high school population.