Executive Team
Gale Wilson-Steele
CareSeek Founder and CEO
(MedSeek CEO, 1996-2006)
gws@careseek.com
Widely regarded as a pioneer in e-health technology solutions, Gale Wilson-Steele, founded MedSeek, Inc. in 1996. MedSeek initially offered a national Internet directory of 275,000 physicians and webpage publishing services as a dot.com replacement for yellow pages advertisement. Today MedSeek specializes in online healthcare solutions that empower patients, physicians, employees and consumers to securely exchange knowledge, interact with healthcare organizations and access medical records online.
Under the strategic direction of Gale, MedSeek reached profitability in 2000 and with a total investment of $2.7 million in private investor financing yielded a 5 year CAGR of 23.15%. In March 2006 Gale orchestrated a strategic merger and engaged the incoming CEO to replace herself as MedSeek’s Chief Executive. Today, MedSeek has 150 employees, supports 600 hospital clients and operates out of three offices in Solvang, California, Birmingham, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi.
The mission of 12 years ago is the same for CareSeek, but in this decade it drives a new paradigm in healthcare for which the time has come: “To use the social change agents of the Internet to give patients and others a forum for freely exchanging information in today’s provider-and- payer-centric healthcare system.” As Wilson-Steele was quoted in the July 2006 issue of Healthcare IT News, “Healthcare is about to have a revolution, and the forces are the patients themselves.”
Gale also is the founder and Executive Director of X2HN, a not-for-profit membership organization where top-level women executives in healthcare share insights, tools and contacts to accelerate the pace of healthcare quality improvement. She has been recognized as Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year, and received Congressional recognition for providing a Family-Friendly work environment. A graduate of Stanford University, Gale is married and has four children.
Sunit Gala, PhD
Senior Vice-President of Product Development
sunit.gala@careseek.com
Sunit Gala is engaged at Computer Sciences (CSC) where he is the Practice Head for SOA and Web 3.0 initiatives for the India Business Unit. He is also responsible for the North American Business Enablement team. Prior to that he was at Oracle responsible for Pre-sales Management and Solutioning for Business Intelligence in the North American Sales organization. Sunit was also at SAS Institute, building up a high-tech sales practice. He has held technical and management positions at Oracle, Sybase and UniSQL.
Sunit has published over 20 academic articles on object-relational, distributed and semantic database systems. Sunit earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. His hobbies are work and family (not necessarily in that order), and the occasional book or a quiet scotch.
Thomas Laux, MBA
Senior Vice President of Business Development
tom.laux@careseek.com
Thomas Laux has over 20 years experience in high tech businesses ranging from software to semiconductors with executive and company officer roles for both high tech startups and publicly traded companies. With extensive international and US domestic sales & marketing experience Tom has created multiple successful businesses by using a management style of setting goals, soliciting customer requirements, setting expectations inside and outside the company, aligning with critical parties and driving to success.
Tom earned his BME at the University of Wisconsin and holds an MBA/MIM from Marquette University and American Graduate School of International Management.