Ken Accardi is co-founder and CTO of Ankota, Inc, a healthcare software company, deployed via SaaS and serving the home health care market. Ken brings 20 years of experience in health care and mobile work force optimization technologies. Ken also serves as CIO in Residence for the healthcare incubator Mednest LLC, where he shares his expertise in health care IT and software quality and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Ankota, Ken was Vice President of Global Process and Quality for the digital mapping and navigation company, Tele Atlas (sold to Tom Tom). Ken also served as Vice President of Business Solutions for the mobile workforce management software company ViryaNet. Ken grew up in his career at GE where he was CIO for the global service division of GE Healthcare. During this time, Ken became a six sigma practitioner. Ken earned an MBA from Babson College, a MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and a BS in Engineering from Bucknell University. He lives in the Boston area.