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Leading the Charge to Make Next-Level Healthcare Accessible for All

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Marcus Perez

President, Altera Digital Health

As President of Altera Digital Health, Marcus Perez currently oversees all facets of a global healthcare IT software company that provides solutions for hospitals and health systems, as well as large physician practices. Marcus leads Altera Digital Health with a vision to make digital healthcare better every day by focusing on the Harris Core Values, driving to build an enduring organization. Ensuring Client Success, delivering flawless projects, and building products that drive stakeholder value, are the main priorities across Altera.

Marcus joined Harris in 2012 and has held numerous leadership roles within the Public Sector and Healthcare Groups. Prior to assuming the role at Altera, Marcus was an SEVP/Portfolio Leader within the Harris Healthcare Group, overseeing several business units serving hospitals in the OR, Critical Care, data analytics, maternity, and cost center areas, along with the LTPAC space. Marcus has been an EVP for multiple businesses with a track record of improvement post-acquisition, as well as serving in sales leadership.

Marcus is a 1989 graduate of West Point and a Veteran, having spent more than a decade in the military as a helicopter pilot and instructor. He is an avid basketball coach and holds a Master’s Degree in Education, along with an MBA.

Business Unit Leaders

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Jay Adams

Group Leader, Altera Digital Health

Jay Adams is a business and technology executive with 18 years of experience across sales, professional services, technical support, and customer success in healthcare IT. As Group Leader, Jay oversees a global portfolio of software businesses spanning North America, APAC, and EMEA, providing strategic and operational leadership to the Executive Vice Presidents running each business. Jay previously led Altera’s Sunrise Large Market EHR business, where he grew annual revenue, turned around the professional services division’s profitability, and drove an AI transformation initiative that delivered significant cost savings. Before that, he ran Altera’s Managed Services division, scaling it into one of the company’s largest businesses. Earlier in his career, Jay held an EVP role at Harris Affinity and rose through multiple roles over more than a decade at Picis Clinical Solutions, starting as a Technical Analyst. A U.S. Navy veteran, Jay holds a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Science in Information Technology, and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Management Systems (CPHIMS).

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Elliott Bryant

Group Leader, Managed Services and Ventus

Elliott Bryant is Group Leader for Managed Services and Ventus at Altera Digital Health, a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions.  Elliott held similar leadership roles at Allscripts and McKesson prior to the acquisition by Constellation Software.   Elliott also enjoyed a distinguished career at AT&T.

John Mayr

Group Leader for Altera Cloud, Paragon, TouchWorks EHR and CareInMotion

An accomplished high-energy leader with a proven ability to execute successful global business growth, organizational transformation and business transformation IT programs, John has been with Altera for more than 10 years. His special expertise in leadership, operations, supply chain design, change management, vendor contract implementation and employee engagement has enabled him to execute a consistent record of energizing and inspiring teams, and improving both profitability and service levels. A collaborative executive with excellent communication and negotiation skills, as well as leadership acumen, John is drives a culture of accountability and ownership to improve employee engagement, as well as client and business outcomes.

Mark Bennett

Portfolio Leader, Altera Digital Health

Mark Bennett is Altera’s first Portfolio Leader, with primary responsibility for capital deployment and oversight of select operating businesses, including CareInMotion. His experience in capital deployment began after selling Mitchell & McCormick to Harris in 2015, following 33 years with the company. He subsequently served as an Executive Vice President at Harris for a decade, and he joined Altera as EVP in 2024. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Georgia State University.

Mark Bruno

Executive Vice President, Paragon®

With more than 16 years in the healthcare IT space, Mark has extensive experience working with providers and hospital executives on strategic growth initiatives. He leads the Paragon business unit with oversight of R&D, product management, services, support and sales. Having traveled to more than 100 hospitals across the country, Mark is keenly aware of the community healthcare environment and the pressures that independent hospitals face. He firmly believes that enabling excellent patient care should be the central drive of healthcare technology, and that hospitals can achieve their clinical outcomes while still maintaining fiscal responsibility. Mark enjoys the opportunity in his role to constantly learn and evolve, and to utilize that growth to help advance our solutions to improve outcomes for Altera clients.

Shanna DeLeo

Executive Vice President, Sunrise

With more than 15 years of experience in healthcare technology, Shanna DeLeo brings a strong focus on people, innovation and operational discipline to her leadership of Sunrise, serving midsize hospitals and health systems globally. Shanna engages with Sunrise’s global client base, industry partners and healthcare leaders to align business and technology strategy with the needs of healthcare organizations, clinicians and their patients. Throughout her career, she has led teams through transformation and growth, with expertise in modernizing operations, strengthening accountability and building high-performing teams. Previously, as Chief Technology Officer for Sunrise, Shanna reimagined R&D operations end to end, spanning product visioning, customer engagement, release management and execution. Her leadership and focus on continuous improvement earned her Altera’s 2025 Operational Excellence Award along with recognition from Becker’s Healthcare on its 2026 list of women in health IT to know. Shanna holds a master’s degree in educational and instructional technology from the University of Central Florida.

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Kevin Ritter

Executive Vice President, CareInMotion

As an experienced digital health leader with more than 20 years of experience spanning electronic health records, population health management, consumer health and data analytics throughout the healthcare industry, Kevin leads the CareInMotion team. Utilizing technology in the healthcare setting and in business development opportunities, Kevin’s expertise is in operationalizing technology and services for large, complex, Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems. He has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Lawrence University and a Master of Business Administration from Babson College. He is married with three children and enjoys running, golfing and chasing his kids around the ski mountain.

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John Sage

Executive Vice President, Touchworks® EHR

Leading TouchWorks EHR with more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare information technology industry, John first joined Altera (formerly Allscripts Hospital and Large Physician Practice business unit) in April, 1999 as a Client Executive in the company’s New England territory. Since that time, he has assumed positions of increasing responsibility within the sales organization. John began his career at Versyss Inc. where he was responsible for selling practice management solutions to hospital-based clinics and physician-based practices. He then joined Datex-Ohmeda (now GE) where he was responsible for selling anesthesia information solutions to hospitals. John holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Ben Scharfe

Executive Vice President, AI Initiatives

A seasoned leader in the healthcare technology sector, Ben has dedicated more than ten years to fostering growth and innovation at Harris and Altera. His expertise spans financial leadership, client support and executive management, contributing to Harris’ robust expansion, including the successful acquisition and integration of numerous entities. Currently leading AI initiatives, Ben champions the adoption of AI and innovation with the purpose of enhancing patient-provider interactions and patient outcomes. Ben strives to be consistently grounded in humility and willingness to listen and learn, in deep alignment with Harris’ core values.

Sean Sykes

Executive Vice President, Ventus

Sean is an accomplished enterprise technology leader with more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and Gov Tech customer information and billing systems. Currently, he serves as Executive Vice President for Ventus, Altera Digital Health’s integrated revenue cycle and administrative solutions portfolio. He is focused on expanding Ventus to help care organizations optimize financial performance and operational efficiency while adapting to evolving market demands. Sean joins Altera from the Harris Operating Group, most recently as SVP of Sales and Customer Success at Advanced Utility Solutions, and previously as VP of Sales and Marketing at NorthStar.

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Cristina Ortenzi

SVP of Client Success Operations and Marketing

Cristina Ortenzi is SVP of Client Success Operations and Marketing at Altera Digital Health, where she combines client success, marketing strategy, and leadership development to help healthcare organizations maximize the value of their technology investments. With more than a decade of leadership experience at Harris, she is known for building trusted client partnerships, aligning customer engagement with business objectives, and developing high-performing teams. Cristina leverages strategic marketing principles, data-driven decision-making, and outcome-focused leadership to drive adoption, transformation, and long-term client success. Passionate about the impact of Health IT, she is committed to improving operational performance, clinician engagement, and patient outcomes through technology-enabled innovation.

International Leaders

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Mark Hutchinson

Executive Vice President, UK and EMEA

Mark Hutchinson is a Top 100 CIO, and has more than 20 years of experience in NHS IT. During his time in the NHS, he enabled some of the most impactful and successful digital transformation projects. This includes deploying an EPR in only five months at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and delivering the UK’s first telemedicine service in 2007 at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. Mark led the Sunrise™ EPR implementation at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in 2013, which became the most digitally mature trust in the country in 2015 and then achieved Global Digital Exemplar status. Throughout his career, Mark has championed taking an alternative approach to digital transformation by taking a faster, flexible and more efficient route to EPR deployments with modular approaches, which are often less disruptive and generate faster benefits for both patients and clinicians. His approach ensures a focus on patient care is the first step in successful EPR implementation.  In his role as Executive Vice President at Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA), Mark guides trusts to take similar approaches that are cost-effective and deliver rapid benefits to patient care.

Todd Haebich

Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific (APAC)

Over the years, Todd has held various senior positions in multinational healthcare IT companies over the world, overseeing Asia Pacific, including focused efforts in the Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and South Korean markets. He holds an MBA and a Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Applied Science, Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation. Over Todd’s career, his strength in enterprise healthcare IT and business management has enabled him to spearhead sales, marketing, solutions and implementation teams to achieve multimillion-dollar revenues, which has led to high levels of customer satisfaction, company growth and expansion and increased company performance. Since joining Altera Digital Health, Todd’s focus has been in Australia and New Zealand and is instrumental in supporting clients’ digital health journeys with active Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution deployments across both South Australia and Victoria, Australia.

John Lee-Bartlett

Executive Vice President, Canada

Originally from the UK, John has a 20-year growing passion for healthcare transformation. Having worked for many years in the NHS and then for leading healthcare IT companies, he provides a clear and passionate approach to improving the ways healthcare IT can enable clinical transformation. For the last several years, John has worked in Canada providing leadership across the Altera business for existing clients and growing the business to provide innovative solutions to organizations and patients.

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