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Friday, October 3, 2008

Paul Bleicher departs PhaseForward

I was interested to hear that Paul Bleicher has stepped down from the Chair of PF to focus on a new venture in Healthcare Informatics.   I wonder if this is in any way is related to the (potentially scurrilous) gossip that they were looking at procuring ClickFind from Datatrak

Probably not, but the timing though is interesting.  Just when senior management must be looking at the core technology to determine if it has it in it to go after the SaaS or PaaS market.

Dr Bleicher's departure means that the originals at PF - Richard Dale, Paul Bleicher, Jeff Klofft and Gilbert Benghiat have all now moved on.  Richard and Jeff in my view were the original technical visionaries that were supported by some good initial developers led by Gil.  Bleicher gave the company that initial credibility with this CRO and Medical background - in some ways he was the 'expert' user, and clearly has a good head for entrepreneurial business. 

Anyway - good luck to Dr Bleicher!

Interesting times...

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