We don’t do wild goose chases.

Clinical provider recruiting is outdated and antiquated.

Healthcare organizations have too much at stake to rely on the usual recruiting tactics that are slow, costly, and often ineffective.

It’s high time for a revolution.

We developed Winnow to empower recruiters. Our AI platform helps you efficiently navigate so that you can focus on what you do best: recruiting.

Winnow was founded by SwitchPoint Ventures, an AI venture studio that partners with business leaders across industries to drive rapid technological innovation. Our team’s decadelong experience working together is its core strength. Together, we’ve built hundreds of AI solutions across industries and successfully managed and exited our legacy AI-powered healthcare company. With a brain trust that includes award-winning data scientists and leaders in strategy and operations, SwitchPoint achieves industry breakthroughs and delivers bottom-line impact.

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Meet Our Team

Paul Vernich

Chief Executive Officer

Ray Guzman

Strategy

Damian Mingle

Data Science

Ben Allen

Customer Success

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Nolan Rhem

Operations

Andre Louie

Head of Product

Walton Denton

Legal

Shanna Belott

Marketing

Chief Executive Officer

Paul Vernich

Paul Vernich, CEO, guides the company on a day-to-day basis. Paul’s business experience spans over 14 years across the financial services, health care and real estate industries. Most recently, he experienced significant success with GE Healthcare, turning around two struggling territories and transforming them into distinguished regions with one becoming the best performing nationwide and the other hosting the largest transaction nationwide. His main responsibilities include operations management, financial management, platform development, and business development. Paul earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and his MBA from Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management.

Strategy

Ray Guzman

Ray is founding CEO of SwitchPoint Ventures and is responsible for all aspects of the business and overseeing SwitchPoint’s interests in its portfolio companies. Prior to SwitchPoint, Ray was the SVP of Analytics at Intermedix/R1 where he led a large, globally distributed analytics business unit. Previously, Ray served as SVP of Strategy for the company. Before joining Intermedix, Ray was Chairman and CEO of WPC Healthcare where he executed a successful turnaround that led to WPC’s sale to Intermedix. Ray’s career has also included positions of increasing responsibility with Microsoft, Freeliant, Venture Technologies, Dialogic Communications, and the U.S. Army. Ray’s leadership, business acumen, and technical and industry expertise have led to notable recognitions including a gubernatorial appointment, a “40 under 40” award, a Healthcare Hero award, and being named a Nashville Healthcare Council Fellow. Ray currently serves on the Boards of The Nashville Healthcare Council, The Community Foundation, Center for Nonprofit Management, Ascend Federal Credit Union, Entoto Gear, and Ordinary Hero Foundation.

Marketing Strategy

Shanna Belott

Shanna Belott, Marketing, supports Winnow’s growth through strategic marketing. A practitioner of content marketing since the dawn of the internet, Shanna leverages her experience as a writer, producer, and marketer to elevate the visibility of leaders, companies, and ideas. Her focus on creating compelling content has helped clients organically increase brand awareness, lead generation, and customer conversions. Shanna brings to Winnow more than 20 years of marketing and production experience in technology, digital media, venture capital, social impact, healthcare, and TV and film. Guided by research, Shanna collaborates with leaders to shape their thoughts into the stories that no one else is telling about their industries and the world.

Legal

Walton Denton

Walton joined SwitchPoint Ventures shortly after its inception. With a background in management, finance,` and law, Walton leads business development activities for the company. Prior to SwitchPoint, Walton was a senior manager of Jimmy Sanders Inc., a third generation family-owned farm supply and distribution business with over 100 locations across the Mid-South. In addition to managing firmwide marketing strategy, Walton led the company’s precision agriculture / big data unit and evaluated new technologies for firmwide integration. Previously, Walton worked in private equity investment banking with Banc of America Securities in New York, and in corporate law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York and London. Walton holds an MBA with distinction from Columbia Business School, a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from The College of Law, London, and an MA (Hons) in Economics & Law from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Operations

Nolan Rhem

Nolan is founding COO of SwitchPoint Ventures and is responsible for defining AI solutions, overseeing their development, and ensuring their successful implementation. Prior to SwitchPoint, Nolan was Vice President of Operations at Intermedix/R1 where he was responsible for operationalizing analytics products. Before joining Intermedix, Nolan was COO of WPC Healthcare, where he was responsible for machine learning solution implementations. Nolan has 25 years of experience in technology implementation and operations, as well as project management experience with companies like McKesson, Virgin Mobile, Hilton Hotels, and Asurion. Nolan holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Memphis. Nolan also received a certification in Systems Analysis and Design from the University of California at Berkeley.

Data Science

Damian Mingle

Damian is founding Chief Data Scientist of SwitchPoint Ventures and is responsible for architecting database designs, conceiving and developing AI solutions, and ensuring those solutions satisfy practicable business objectives. Prior to SwitchPoint, Damian was Chief Data Scientist at Intermedix/R1, where he led the data science team and oversaw the company’s machine learning strategy. Before joining Intermedix, Damian was Chief Data Scientist of WPC Healthcare, where he developed machine learning solutions. Damian has 20 years of experience in finance, healthcare, and technology, working across a diverse set of industries with Morgan Stanley, HCA, and Aetna. Damian is formerly an adjunct professor at Lipscomb University, where he teaches data science. A former NTC Data Scientist of the Year, Damian is ranked in the top one percent of data scientists internationally (Kaggle). Damian is a frequent author and speaker on artificial intelligence.

Customer Success

Ben Allen

Ben Allen, VP of Customer Success, manages operations of the Winnow platform for customers. Ben has seen sustained success in the physician recruitment space for a wide range of telemedicine and contract management organizations serving major health systems across the country. His main responsibilities include providing value to Winnow’s customers through advocacy and adoption, driving product development for continued improvement in the platform, and strategic channel management. Ben earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee: Knoxville and his MBA from Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.

Head of Product

Andre Louie

Andre is Head of Product at Winnow and is responsible for product management, strategy and platform development. Prior to Winnow, Andre was a Technical Product Leader at Change Healthcare where he was responsible for shepherding their analytics platform that powered core products across the enterprise. Before his Product Leader role at Change Healthcare, he graduated from their Accelerated Executive program where he worked on challenging corporate problems and led teams to implement solutions. Andre earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from John Carroll University and his Master’s degree in Data Science from Lipscomb University.

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Clinical provider recruiting is outdated and antiquated.

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