Meet our
Board
Antonio J. Viana
Non-Executive Director
Antonio J. Viana is a 30+ yr veteran in the tech industry. In addition to serving on the board of Parsley, Mr. Viana is also the Chairman of BrainChip, an Australian and US based neuro-morphic AI Processor company.
Since 2015, Mr. Viana has also sat on the board of Arteris, the market leading Network-on-Chip company who successfully IPOed in 2021. At Arteris, Mr. Viana currently chairs the Renumeration and Governance Committee while sitting on the Audit and Compensation committees.
From 2016-2021, Mr. Viana served as the Executive Chairman of QuantalRF, an emerging Swiss RF semiconductor company.
In 1999, Mr. Viana joined ARM Holdings, the global leader in semiconductor IP, serving in a number of leadership positions, most notably as the President of Commercial and Global Development. At ARM, he helped scale the company's commercial operation from a multi-million dollar entity to a the multi-billion dollar IP market leader it is today. He was appointed to the ARM executive team as Executive VP of worldwide sales in 2007. At the beginning of 2013, his executive duties were expanded to include all of commercial and global development.
Prior to ARM, Mr. Viana has also worked for Hughes Aircraft, Silicon Graphics, Encore Industries and was Senior VP of worldwide sales at Tensilica Inc. Mr. Viana is graduate of California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Jaye Connolly
Non-Executive Director
Jaye Connolly serves as chairman and chief executive officer of RippleNami, Inc., a global technology company with a keen focus on Africa. RippleNami has redefined traceability and transparency with a simple-to-use technology platform leveraging artificial intelligence, blockchain, and data visualization. Leveraging RippleNami’s technology, we are expanding Africa’s presence in the Climate Economy. RippleNami is dedicated to expanding the middle incomes and connecting the unconnected.
Connolly had a vision of connecting 5 billion unconnected people with an easy-to-use technology solution that leverages the mass adoption of the cell phone. Why not start in Africa?
Connolly brings more than 40 years of leadership experience to her role, which she garnered from various positions held in the finance, technology, audit, oil, gas, mining, healthcare, mergers, and acquisitions areas, as well as in key C-level roles she served in at both private and publicly traded corporations. In her leadership role with RippleNami, she is responsible for the development and execution of the Company’s long-term strategy with an emphasis on creating a difference for the unconnected population.
Connolly is experienced in leading publicly traded as well as privately held companies and startups. Her public company experience spans key roles at six publicly traded corporations. Over the course of her career, she led 18 accretive acquisitions, adding over $2 billion to revenue. Connolly-LaBelle also possesses significant IPO experience.
RippleNami is an internationally recognized award-winning company. Since 2015, RippleNami received over fifty awards from a top organizations such as Entreprenur Magazine for America’s Best Company, Thomson Reuters for Africa Startup Challenge, International Business Awards for Data Visualization, and Fast Company for Best Developing World Technology.
In addition to sitting on Parsley's board, Connolly also sits on the following boards:
Previously, Connolly served at the following companies listed below.
Ken Kaufman
Advisor
Ken Kaufman serves as an advisor/board member for private equity and venture-backed companies looking to leverage his experience in developing and growing companies. Ken has 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, specializing in healthcare Information Technology (IT), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Population Health (PH).
Ken most recently co-founded PureWellness, a health and wellness Software as a Service (SaaS) company he profitably grew to over a hundred employees and 15 million registered users. PureWellness was a first mover in the health and wellness space, working with large employers, insurers and consumer health portals to deliver personalized tools for improving and managing health at the individual level. Notable clients included LinkedIn, BlackRock Financial, BCBS Massachusetts, Cambia Health, Geisinger Health, Providence Health, Microsoft’s HealthVault, Self Magazine and MSN health. As CEO of PureWellness Ken and his partner were able to bootstrap its tremendous success and growth without any outside funding, loans or assistance.
In early 2013 PureWellness was sold to Cerner corporation. After the acquisition Mr. Kaufman joined Cerner as its Vice President and General Manager of Population Health where he served on its population health board and helped design, manage and grow that initiative for two years.
Prior to his experiences at PureWellness, Ken spent more than 20 years as a healthcare executive at numerous well-known healthcare companies. At McKesson the $200 billion healthcare IT and pharmaceutical distribution company, he served in several executive positions, most notably as Vice President of International Customer Operations, responsible for all international IT sales and services spanning many countries.
Prior to McKesson, Ken served as Chief Operation Officer for A-Life Medical a leading NLP and AI healthcare services company. A-Life used its proprietary NLP and AI technology to ingest dictated medical reports in the cloud and extract meaningful and discrete data to codify and assess large and diverse patient populations. A-Life was acquired by Ingenix in 2010.
Ken spent the early part of his career at IDX Systems Corporation where he held several executive roles including leading development, marketing and sales. IDX sold their EMR product to Allscripts in July 2000, Ken briefly managed EMR sales at Allscripts.
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