Ali H. Zadeh
Chief Executive Officer
email: ali@webclaim.net

Kavian Maghzy
Chief Technical Officer, Treasurer
email: kavian@webclaim.net

Scott D. Wellwood
Chief Operating Officer
email: scott@webclaim.net

Alan Neal
Executive Vice President, Business Operations
email: alan@webclaim.net

Kevin Lewis
Executive Vice President, Technical Development
email: kevin@webclaim.net

Robert D. Gardner, Ph.D.
Vice President, Engineering
email: robert@webclaim.net

Thomas Mort
Director of Connectivity Services
email: tom@webclaim.net

Farhad Alaghband
Sr. Project Manager
email: farhad@webclaim.net

Before founding the EDI-Health Group, Mr. Zadeh was president and founder of Medident Systems, a practice management software company. During his eight-year stint, his responsibilities included managing the software development, customer support, consulting services, training, human resources, and administration. His company was responsible for providing software solutions to more than 500 dental customers but due to his full time involvement in the EDI venture, Medident System was sold to Data Team DDS, another reputable firm in the dental practice management business. In addition to his extensive dental management background, Mr. Zadeh served as a member of faculty in the California State University, Long Beach for 5 years. He has taught various courses in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering. He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Irvine in 1983 and his master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from Long Beach State University in 1985.

Graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Project Manager for various Data Warehouse and E-Commerce efforts utilizing Oracle, DB2, Java, ASP, and other Web based applications. Served as technical consultant in evaluating database engines, repository managers and query tools for Data Warehouse and E-Businesses efforts in many different environments. Configured and installed star and snowflake schemas, designed and implemented metadata repositories and worked with the multi-dimensional hypercube methodology for both Operational Data Stores and Data Warehousing projects within several corporate entities and governmental agencies using state-of-the-art decision support technologies. Have worked fifteen years developing complex data processing applications within the three-tiered client/server arena. Expertise in the DB2/CICS, IMS, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Java, COBOL II, CLIST, ISPF Dialog Manager, JCL, TCP/IP, REXX, WebLogic, PowerBuilder, Windows95/98-NT, AIX UNIX, Solaris, Business Objects, Information Advantage, FOCUS, DSS Agents, Oracle, Redbrick, Prism and Brownstone.

Co-founded Electronic Insurance Service, Inc. in 1989 to serve the claim processing needs of the dental market. Over the last 13 years, EIS has forged relationships with numerous practice management system vendors, clearinghouses and Payors. EIS is one of the most well respected clearinghouses in the country. Co-founded EDI-Health Group, Inc. in 1999 to integrate EIS core services with the emerging Internet market. Mr. Wellwood earned a degree in Business Management from California State University at Fullerton in 1982. He also served as Chairman of the Membership committee of the National Dental EDI Council (NDEDIC) and currently is a member of board the trustees for the same organization.

Mr. Neal co-founded Electronic Insurance Service, Inc. along with Mr. Wellwood in 1989. His vision was to establish a service-oriented company dedicated to addressing the needs of the dental industry in the area of practice efficiency by utilizing electronic claims. He has started, ran and sold several successful businesses in the retail industry since 1972. Mr. Neal oversees the day-to-day business operations of the company. His dental background and experience comes from his tenure as an office manager and dental technician for a large dental practice, while attending college. Mr. Neal received his Bachelor of Science in the Biological Sciences from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Served as Project Manager for multiple projects using OLTP, Data Mart, and Data Warehousing environments. Installed and maintained metadata repositories for use with Data Warehouse/ad-hoc query generation tools. Perform all aspects of database administration from loading data to modeling tables and related schema. Maintained 24/7 UNIX and Windows NT systems including operating system and various applications residing on the servers, such as, Weblogic and Websphere Application servers, Apache Web Server, and IIS. Expertise in the following technologies: Sun Solaris System/Windows NT/ Linux System/UNIX System Administration, Oracle /Microsoft SQL/Sybase DBA, Weblogic and Websphere Java Application Server Administration, Apache Web Server Administration, SQL Script/Query Generation, SQL Functions/Packages/Procedures, Database Modeling and Schema Generation, UNIX Shell Scripts, Java Application and Servlets. Mr. Lewis is a graduate of UCLA School of Computer Science and holds the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Engineer, Oracle Certified DBA, Novel Certified Engineer.

Dr. Gardner has been producing commercial computer software for over 20 years. His previous positions include Sr. Director of Application Development at America Online, Chief Architect at Lotus Development's cc:Mail division, and Manager of Macintosh Development at Borland International. Among his accomplishments, Dr. Gardner has received a MacUser Editors' Choice Award for cc:Mail, a MacWorld's Editors' Choice Award for the educational software package KidsTime, and a MacWorld Top 100 Award for the music software ConcertWare, which was deemed one of the 100 most influential software products for the Macintosh. Most recently, Dr. Gardner led the design, architecture, and development of Dental Connect's dentalxchange.com website, which includes online data entry, batch claim submission, and real-time transactions for dental insurance eligibility, claim status, and claim submission. He is an expert in object-oriented design and development and rapid software development processes and methodologies. He has been building leading-edge J2EE-based systems for over 5 years. Dr. Gardner received his Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987, both in Physics.

Tom is currently the Director of Connectivity Services at EDI-Health Group, Inc. in Irvine, California. His focus is in bringing all transaction between Dental Providers and Dental Payers into the electronic realm. As the project manager of the DentalXChange.com website, he implemented both batch and real-time transactions for eligibility, claim status and claim submission. While these transactions were varied in their format, transmission and security requirements, Tom pushed for a standard mechanism for web portals, practice management vendors and clearinghouses to connect to multiple payer systems. Tom is currently involved in creating a common standard to "raise the bar" on the quality and usefulness of the eligibility and benefit transactions.

Prior to joining EDI-Health Group, Mr. Alaghband served as a Project Manager for a national consulting firm and worked in various industries including healthcare, defense, and financial. He has worked on projects in database design, development and administration, e-commerce web design and development, systems analysis and design, client/server application development, and LAN design, implementation and administration. Mr. Alaghband has been involved with various cycles within the systems development life cycle and has been involved in the all phases of and different iterations within the Rational Unified Process. Mr. Alaghband’s technical skills include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, C#, Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSL/XSLT, VB Script, JavaScript, and HTML.

Mr. Alaghband graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Information Systems Management. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator.