Executive Team

William Conlan founded HDM in 1992 and is responsible for conceiving, designing and developing the BenefitsAudit software that established HDM has a leading national provider of health plan analytics to self-insured employer groups. With over 18 years of extensive experience in medical billing, auditing services and data management and mining in the healthcare industry, Conlan is a well-accomplished entrepreneur with a variety of business experiences and skills. He is accomplished in developing and commercializing technology, strategic planning, and business management. It was Conlan's previous experience in the medical billing industry that helped him gain in-depth knowledge of the most common areas of billing mistakes and fraud, as well as an intimate knowledge of the billing procedures of the industry.

David McSweeney has over 30 years of experience as a financial and operations executive for a variety of well-known healthcare organizations. He has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and has extensive P/L experience in group health insurance, HMO's, PBMs, plan administrators, and all facets of employee benefits. McSweeney is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Prior to joining HDM, he served as Vice President for Blue Shield of New Jersey and New Jersey Delta Dental, Regional Vice President for United Healthcare, President and Chief Operating Officer for Alternative Dental Care Inc., President and Chief Executive Officer for Vienna Corporation, and Co-Founder and President of American Healthfund. McSweeney additionally served as President and COO of Claims Administration Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of CNA, where he led a $2.2 billion group healthcare and benefits enterprise.

Chester Spychalski, Jr., MBA, CPA, CLU, ChFC, RHU has a wealth of auditing and industry knowledge and expertise with over 40 years of experience in accounting, auditing services and risk management. For more than 20 years, Spychalski served in senior executive roles, managing finance, treasury, internal audit and business operations in the healthcare delivery industry. Prior to joining HDM, Spychalski held many valuable roles including Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Blue Shield of New Jersey; Senior Vice President of Finance of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Southwestern Virginia; Vice President of Operations, Senior Vice President of Health Programs and Executive Vice President/CFO for Hospital Corporation of America. He was also Vice President of Finance and CFO, Vice President and Corporate Controller, Executive Director and CFO for Anthem, Inc.; and Vice President of Operations, Federal Markets for the CNA Financial Corporation.

James Herrington has more than 30 years of experience in managed care and management consulting and is an accomplished senior executive with significant experience in sales management, business development, communications, advertising, product development, and marketing operations. He has a broad knowledge of health delivery systems, markets, and health economics. Prior to joining HDM, Herrington served as Chief Marketing Officer for Private Healthcare Systems, Chief Marketing Executive for National Account Service Company, LLC (NASCO), Vice President for Sales and Marketing for Peer Review Analysis, Inc., and Director of East Region Health and Welfare Practice for Ernst and Young, LLP. He also served with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts for 14 years in various marketing and account management roles.

John Meka, CPA, has over 25 years of progressive auditing and accounting experience with highly honed skills in regulatory compliance, risk assessment, continuous process improvement, internal controls and financial reporting in both the public and private sectors. Meka worked as Senior Manager for Deloitte and Touche, LLP, where he supervised multiple audit engagements, assisted clients in attaining the Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association, and earned the “Industry Specialist” title in government accounting and auditing. Meka spent 13 years with HealthNow New York, Inc., initially as Director of Internal Audit then as Director of Internal and Performance Audit prior to becoming Vice President for Corporate Audit and Compliance. He also served as Chairman of the Medicare Compliance Committee and oversaw compliance grievances filed with the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of New York State Insurance. Meka is a certified public accountant and a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Michele Gray has over 15 years of experience as an information technology professional with extensive expertise in business process improvement, system development life cycle, and enterprise data management. Gray began her career as a Programmer/Database Analyst for Walter B. Satterthwaite Associates. She next spent more than nine years with Managed Care Strategies (MCS), where she functioned in various roles, including Partner, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Information Technology, and Data Architect/Business Application Delivery Manager. While at MCS, Gray developed a strategy to uniquely identify providers across PPOs critical to future initiatives, and deployed a staging environment where adds/changes were identified and then published to the production tables. Additionally, she created SQL Server databases, wrote stored procedures, triggers and DTS packages and directed the conversion of the existing Visual Basic and ASP applications to Microsoft .NET.