Management Team
Peter White | Thomas White | Scott R. Segell
Peter White
Co-Founder and CEO
Peter has played a key role in developing business, consumer, and infrastructure products for the Internet dating back to his first start-up in 1993. The same level of excitement he had in the early days of the Internet, he now brings to creating new solutions for the voice-enabled world. As CEO, his primary focus is overall product strategy, management leadership, strategic planning and building the culture for Vocada.
With experience in running both private and public companies, Peter understands what it takes to build and grow businesses in dynamic, competitive markets. Prior to founding Vocada, Peter served as President and Director of Wavo Corporation (NASDAQ:WAVO), a streaming media and communications company.
Peter came to Wavo through the acquisition of his previous company, Paracel Online Systems, which provided high-end business intelligence products to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Paracel Online Systems, he was the co-founder and CEO of Carthage International, where he launched the first personalized information service on the Internet in 1994 in partnership with Ziff-Davis. Paracel, a leading informatics company, acquired Carthage in 1995. His experience has put him at the center of efforts to utilize the Internet to enhance the way digital media (news and information, music, video, etc.) reaches businesses and consumers. He brings this collective experience to building next generation services for the voice-enabled world. Peter has extensive experience in building senior management teams, raising institutional money (over $35 Million), developing relationships on Wall Street, and growing businesses from start-up stage to commercial success.
Thomas White
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing
Thomas leads Vocada's Sales and Marketing teams. He has an accomplished history of building and leading successful teams and organizations. Prior to his involvement with Vocada, Thomas was the co-founder, president and CEO of Relate Media, Inc. Relate Media developed an electronic-publishing platform for the financial services industry. When Mr. White left Relate Media, it was the industry leader with 130 financial service clients nationwide.
Before launching Relate Media, Mr. White was co-founder and Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Newscast, Inc part of Paracel, Inc (purchased by Celera Genomics) and Carthage International (purchased by Paracel) (1993-1999). He led a large multinational sales and marketing force generating $20,000,000 in revenue and was responsible for establishing national and international channels with leading technology partners. When Mr. White departed Newscast, it had over 180 corporate clients including Cisco, Hitachi, Microsoft, Chase, Bankers Trust, E&Y and KPMG.
Mr. White was educated at Austin College and received an MBA degree at Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management).
Scott Segell
Vice President – Client Services
Scott joined Vocada in October 2005. As leader of Vocada's Professional Services division, Scott has assisted literally scores of hospitals across the country – hospitals of all shapes and sizes – in implementing Critical Test Result Management. His mission is to ensure that Veriphy customers receive best-in-class implementation support and employ Best Practices for the communication of Critical Test Results. Scott and his team also develop methodologies for continuous improvement at Veriphy sites.
Scott speaks frequently to hospital and physician audiences about the value of CTRM as a strategic pathway to enhanced patient safety, better patient outcomes and increased staff productivity. He points out that until just a few years ago, CTRM technology did not exist. Now that a proven solution is available, he says, hospitals and physicians cannot afford to ignore the problem. He also has found that the process of implementing CTRM forces hospitals to re-examine their policies and practices and in some cases re-engineer their systems to make them more efficient and better for patient care.
Scott also plays a key role in developing Vocada's strategic alliances. In this area, he is involved in establishing contact, defining the partnership agreement, and integrating the technologies.
Before joining Vocada, Scott was a Managing Director for Hunt Ventures, LP. His responsibilities included sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, along with acting as liaison for certain domestic fund investments. Scott led investments in and represented Hunt as an observer on the boards of Antenna Software and Softricity. He was Hunt's representative for its investments in Boston-based Polaris Venture Partners Fund III and IV and Dallas-based STARTech Early Ventures.
Scott also held a wide range of positions in information technology; most recently as a Director with Gen3 Partners. Prior to Gen3, Scott was the National Director of Application Management for Cambridge Technology Partners. In addition, he consulted with Diamond Technology Partners, was the Data Center Manager for Boston Chicken and a Project Manager for BSG. He began his career with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting).
Scott earned a BBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and pursued advanced studies in Entrepreneurial Management from Southern Methodist University's Caruth Institute. While at Texas, Scott also was an Executive Council Member of the Silver Spurs Honorary Service Organization.