About Us & Leadership
Pioneering Global Standardization for Patient Safety
BlueCloudX® was born from a simple yet revolutionary vision: every patient deserves consistent, standardized care regardless of where they receive treatment. After witnessing firsthand the inefficiencies and safety risks created by fragmented training systems, our founders set out to create the world's first integrated platform for rater training and certification compliance.
Our Impact
Transforming Clinical Research and Healthcare Delivery
With over 2.6+ million healthcare professionals and 70,000+ organizations in our network, BlueCloudX® has become the global standard for:
- Standardized rater training and certification
- Compliance monitoring and audit readiness
- Data integrity and patient safety protocols
- Regulatory adherence across FDA, EMEA, and GDPR requirements
Leadership Team
Visionary Leaders Driving Industry Transformation
Al O. Pacino, II
General Manager, Co-Founder
Al is a United States Army veteran and senior executive and with over 35 years in healthcare and clinical research. Actively involved as an innovator in the industry. As a 16-year cancer survivor with a passion to give back in making a difference in the industry, Mr. Pacino along with patients and patient survivors, co-founded the innovative BlueCloud® Network now saving healthcare and clinical research millions of dollars. Current Global Member base includes over 2 million healthcare professionals, 150 Sponsors, 45 CROs and over 200,000 healthcare and clinical research sites.
John Hill
Chief Technology Officer,
Co-Founder
John is co-founder and system architect of the global BlueCloud Quality Management System. When he is not building BlueCloud directories or talking APIs with clients, he enjoys spending time with friends, good conversation and any chance to be walked by his American Staffordshire terrier, Lucy. John lost family to cancer at a young age.
Tina Posey, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
Tina has had leadership roles with F500 companies as well as key roles within startups. Role expertise spans executive leadership, strategy, product development, operationalization, program management with P&L experience up to 10M USD. She has managed teams up to 50, both in the US and internationally, and understands operational scaling.
Her goal is to drive HealthcarePoint business units to optimal profitability via the intersection of doing well by doing good. Innovation, optimization, digital, health and wellness are her watch words.
Sheri Campbell Midkiff
Chief Operations Officer -
Operations & Contracts
Sheri has more than 35 years of in-depth experience in company start-ups, operations and implementation of managed care plans, practice management, clinical research and innovative, global networking technology. She enjoys the challenge and privilege of building healthcare and research company start-ups–from business development to implementation, operations and training/education. Sheri is passionate and driven to make a difference in the healthcare and research industries, as well as the lives of others. She lost her father to cancer.
Corrie Palm
Chief Relationship Officer -
Marketing & Business Development
Corrie has nearly 20 years in the clinical research industry as a business development/marketing executive and possesses in-depth experience in the areas of patient recruiting and retention, investigative sites and global networking technology. Currently, she works with sponsors, CROs and investigator sites all over the globe to improve patients’ lives. She appreciates the opportunity to blend her creative aptitude and business sense to define strategies and implement plans that get results. Corrie enjoys participating in nationwide and global clinical trials, implementing innovations to improve clinical research and, ultimately, improving patient’s lives. Corrie’s family is fighting leukemia and prostate cancer.
Dr. Ryan Clemons
Chief Scientific Officer -
Business & Science Innovations
A registered pharmacist with a doctorate in pharmacy, Ryan is always searching for better ways to improve healthcare. He has experience in both clinical research and clinical trial review and is responsible for scientific review and counsel on BlueCloud initiatives. He currently works as a pharmacist in a large national pharmacy chain and is always looking to bring new and innovative processes to standardize and streamline the healthcare process. Ryan lost family to stroke and cancer.
Kenny Schnell, BA, LP
MindMe President
Kenny is the Director of MindMe business unit for HealthCarePoint.com. Over the last 6+ years, he has served in a senior leadership role working for a software and data company, bringing experience through collaboration across, customer and technical support, sales, marketing, engineering, and finance. Scaling business through 12+ acquisitions, 10x growth, connecting and collaborating with customers in the industries, global technical/customer support, managing team of 80+ serving EMS, Fire & hospitals, and implementing AI strategies to better serve customers all over the world.
In addition, he has 30 years of experience in Public Safety with operations, clinical, and administration from serving as Paramedic, Flight Medic and as Director of Emergency Medical Service for his last 8 years before retiring. His experience was in a system that provided service to a large county and 15 cities while also serving as chair on the following boards: Capital Area Trauma Regional Advisory Council (CATRAC), the Austin Community College Paramedic Program EMS Advisory Council and the Williamson County Systems of Care.
Aim is to introduce and establish MindMe across industries so mental health well-being will be the vanguard for all.
Yonnie Otieno
BlueCloud Africa Manager
Yonnie is a medical scientist with vast skills, including regional Africa CROs and global research trials network expertise. In addition to managing multi-site project operations, he has created scientific reports, developed regional diseases mapping tools, managed resource utilization and scale-ups, and advanced research using innovation for purpose. Over the last 10 years, Yonnie has worked in Phase I-IV drug and vaccine studies, regulatory design, research business development management, corporate CRO strategic alignment, CRO sustainable business operations and quality systems oversight, site-compliance management, risk assessment, and business continuity and workflow. Yonnie’s family continuously fights tropical and rare diseases in Africa.
Shannon Wolfson
BlueCloudTV Global Media Director
Shannon worked as a television news anchor, investigative reporter and producer for more than 15 years. She began her career in student television at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her degree in Journalism. Shannon loved telling stories as a weekend reporter in small-town Texas, as an investigative reporter whose stories helped to change both state and federal laws and as the evening news anchor in Austin, Texas, where she earned a Lone Star Emmy Award for News Anchoring. She retired from TV news in 2017, but remains a dedicated storyteller and advocate through her freelance writing and voiceover work. She also enjoys helping others navigate the often complicated worlds of media and journalism.
Shannon’s family has been touched by cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Brentone Alistar
BlueCloud Mobile App
Dept Manager
An experienced software Engineer in Artificial Intelligence and mobile applications development.
Alexander Blockley
Director Sites & HelpDesk
Alex oversees the data protection and compliance for HealthCarePoint.com DBA: BlueCloud. His work history and experience from the government sector of the United Kingdom brings 17 years’ experience in Law enforcement and 15 years within the Fire and Rescue department. Alex brings a wealth of knowledge and skills from the European Data Protection sector and is skilled in Risk management, accessing and implementing strategic plans. Alex helps BlueCloud navigate the forever changing world of data protection challenges now eminent from an international perspective. Father had cancer of the Esophagus.
Michael Thompson
Director Web Services
A practicing artist for more 35 years with a master’s in visual arts, Michael is an experienced college lecturer with media psychology expertise. He has worked in digital media and web-based interfaces for the past 18 years and provides technical and practical support to the BlueCloud team regarding all areas of media. He is also experienced in the needs of the healthcare industry and pharmaceutical research clients. Michael’s family is fighting diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases.
Advisory Board
World-Class Clinical and Regulatory Expertise
Craig Lipset is a recognized leader at the forefront of innovation in clinical research and medicine development. He is the founder of Clinical Innovation Partners, working with pharma, tech and venture capital to bring vision and driving action at the intersection of research, digital solutions, and patient engagement. Craig was the Head of Clinical Innovation and Venture Partner at Pfizer, on the founding Operations Committee for TransCelerate Biopharma, and on the founding management teams for two successful startup ventures.
Craig is Adjunct Assistant Professor in Health Informatics at Rutgers University. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research and the MedStar Health Research Institute, as well as on the Editorial Board for Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science.
Craig has been listed among the PharmaVOICE most inspiring people in the life sciences (Red Jacket hall-of-fame), Pharmaceutical Executive’s Emerging Leaders, CenterWatch Top 20 Innovators in Clinical Trials, and the AlleyWatch Who’s Who in eHealth.
“Craig is a patient with pulmonary sarcoidosis, which has catalyzed his commitment to empowering patients with their data to advance research (the basis of his TED talk)”
Craig Lipset
Founder, Clinical Innovation Partners, LLC / Cofounder DTRA - Decentralized Trials Research Alliance
John Farinacci
Advisor/Executive Coach/Mentor
Mr. Farinacci is the founder of ResearchPoint Global. He served as executive vice president of Quintiles Transnational Corporation, where he provided key leadership in acquisitions and integrations, helping Quintiles to become the CRO industry’s market leader. He also served as president and chief operating officer and held other senior executive positions at Pharmaco (currently PPD). During his tenure there, he played a pivotal role in moving Pharmaco to the second largest CRO in the industry. He also worked with Sterling Drug earlier on in his career. He received the PharmaVoice 100 most inspirational leaders award in the health and science industry in July 2009.
Linda Coleman, JD
Associate Vice Provost Research Privacy & Integrity
Prior to joining Yale in April 2016, Ms. Coleman held several positions at Quorum Review, an independent IRB and consulting company that serves institutional, independent, and international sites. From January 2016 until March 2016, Ms. Coleman served as Quorum’s vice president of regulatory and legal affairs of Kinetiq, a division of Quorum. Prior to 2016, she served as Quorum’s director of regulatory affairs and general counsel from 2011 until 2015, and its director of regulatory affairs from 2007 until 2010.
From 2011 to the present, Ms. Coleman has been a member of the Industry Pharmacogenomics Education Task Force, a subcommittee of the Industry Pharmacogenomics Working Group (I-PWG). Ms. Coleman is also the team lead for the Mobile Clinical Trials working group of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, and actively participates on other committees related to research, health law, and education.
Ms. Coleman was an attorney at Bennett, Bigelow & Leedom where her practice focused on regulatory compliance, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, healthcare litigation, business/transactional, behavioral health, employment law and general patient care delivery matters. In addition to her law degree, Ms. Coleman holds the following certifications: CHC (Certified in Healthcare Compliance), CHRC (Certified in Healthcare Research Compliance), CCEP-I (Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional – International), and CIP (Certified IRB Professional).
“Collaboration is essential in order to solve the complex problems that face our healthcare and research industry. BlueCloud has created the perfect collaborative mechanism to help modernize the healthcare and research industry because it provides solutions regarding issues and shared interests that cannot be addressed by any single individual or organization. Stakeholders with a shared interest and vision must therefore work together to develop solutions to the problems that plague our industry.”
Isaac R. Rodriguez-Chavez, Ph.D., M.H.S., M.S.
Innovator, Strategist
Dr. Isaac R. Rodriguez-Chavez is a biomedical and regulatory leader with expertise in Infectious Diseases, Viral Immunology, Viral Oncology (Infectious Diseases), and Vaccinology. Currently, he is an independent consultant for Scientific, Clinical and Regulatory affairs. Past positions in the last 30+ years include: Senior Vice President for Scientific, Clinical Affairs, leading the Strategy of the Global Center of Excellence for Decentralized Clinical Trials at PRA Health Sciences and ICON plc; FDA, CDER Senior Officer for Clinical Research Methodology, Regulatory Compliance and Policy Development modernizing clinical research through Real World Evidence and Decentralized Clinical Trials enabled by Digital Health Technologies and electronic Clinical Outcome Assessments (eCOAs); CEO and Founder, 4Biosolutions Biomedical Consulting Firm; Vice President, Research, Texas Biomedical Research Institute; Director of HIV Clinical Research Programs at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH); Senior Clinical Scientist, Schering Plough Corp. – Merck & Corp.; Scientist, Columbia University; Scientist, Polar Biotechnology Company and Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). He has a PhD in Virology and Immunology; a MS in Microbiology; a MHS in Clinical Research and Health Sciences; and a B.S. in Biology. He also has 5 years of postdoctoral specialty experience in Clinical Research (phases 1 & 2 trials) linked to in AIDS Malignancies, Immuno-Oncology and Viral Immunology (Infectious Diseases) done at the U.S. NIA and NCI, NIH.
Dr. Rodriguez-Chavez is a Founding Board Member of the Digital Medical Society (DiME). He is also a co-chair of the DiME’s Research Committee, driving digital medicine globally. He is a regulatory Advisor and Vice-Chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fostering industry standards on DCTs and DHTs. He is a former Leadership Council Board Member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA). He is a Board Member of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCMA) and a Health Equity Board Council Member for equity, diversity and inclusion in rare diseases at the Global Genes. He is a global content editor for regulatory science and an Editorial Board Member of the DIA Global Forum Magazine. He is also an active member of sixteen professional associations, including the Infectious Disease Society of America, American Federation for Medical Research, American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Virology, American Society of Microbiology, Society of Quality Assurance, Association of Clinical Research Professionals, New York Academy of Sciences, International AIDS Society, International Association for Dental Research, American Association for Dental Research, and Regulatory Affairs Professional Society.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacrc/
Heike Schoen
Managing Director and Co-Founder - Lumis International GmbH
Ms. Schoen is Senior Manager for Lumis International GmbH with more than 25 years of experience in leadership positions in international clinical research and drug development. She has profound knowledge of the clinical drug development processes and regulatory requirements from first-in-human to market access. Ms. Schoen develops strategies and concepts for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies covering clinical operations, clinical research, outsourcing, vendor management and oversight management. She as experience working in small, midsized and global companies within the CRO, consulting and biotech industry. Her expertise covers a broad spectrum of indications with a focus on oncology, CNS, HIV and medical devices and is regularly invited as a speaker regarding outsourcing, oversight management. Ms. Schoen was president of the Global Board of Trustees of ACRP from 2009 until 2011.
Ms. Schoen’s specialties include optimizing and/or creating efficient processes and structures, solution-oriented problem solving, clinical trials in numerous indications, project management, cross-cultural training, coaching and mentoring.
Philippe Guglielmetti
Global Entrepreneur Stroke Survivor
Mr. Guglielmetti founded his first company at 19 and is one of the pioneers of the Internet in Europe. In 1999, at the age of 34, he IPO’d the unicorn Integra, an internet company founded three years earlier, and sold it two years later (with more than 1,100 employees) to Genuity, a subsidiary of Verizon. Integra was the leading company in Europe for managed and e-commerce web site hosting, with operations in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. Mr. Guglielmetti co-founded I-base, one of the first companies in Europe specialized in marketing databases and sold to Publicis in 2006 and incorporated Zeepro – a company designing and making 3D printers – in San Francisco in fall 2013.
On May 9, 2015 – at the age of 50 – Mr. Guglielmetti suffered a hemorrhagic pontine stroke. He survived and is since affected on both sides of the body because of the central location of the stroke (extremely rare). He recovered his independence for basic routines and considers himself very fortunate because the death rate for the type of stroke he had is close to 70% and most survivors remain in a severely disabled state.
Mr. Guglielmetti always enjoyed communicating and exchanging ideas and participated in numerous conferences, such as TedX as an entrepreneur before the stroke.
He is living his rehabilitation as a new adventure.
Our Commitment
Advancing Tomorrow's Cures Through Standardization
We believe that breakthrough medical discoveries require uncompromising standards. Every certification, every training module, and every compliance protocol we develop is designed with one goal: accelerating the delivery of life-saving treatments to patients worldwide.