Today I'd like to introduce Rob Coppedge, CFA, iMedExchange's new Director of Corporate Development. Rob is a great addition to our team. You'll get to know him as he blogs in the near future. In the meantime, here is his bio:

Robert M. Coppedge, CFA
Director of Corporate Development

Mr. Coppedge joined iMedExchange as Director of Corporate Development in September 2008. He is the founder of Faultline Ventures, a firm focused on supporting disruptive innovations in health care services and a former Senior Vice President and Principal at Capitol Health, a venture capital firm specializing in early stage health services investing.

Mr. Coppedge worked at Capitol Health from 1997-2008. His responsibilities included monitoring of portfolio company operations, sourcing new investment opportunities, and building strategic relationships for the firm. In addition, he played an active role in the firm's fundraising activities.

In 2004, Mr. Coppedge served on a special panel of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services which reviewed applications for the Chronic Care Improvement Program, now called Medicare Health Support.

Mr. Coppedge is a founder and Director of the Nashville, Tennessee-based Leadership Health Care and was named its first Volunteer of the Year in 2004.He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He is a former member of the development committee of the Phillips Collection's Board of Trust and the Phillips Collection Contemporaries Steering Committee. He served as this group's chair from 2001-2003.

Mr. Coppedge is a former member of the Board of Advisors to National Foundation of Teaching Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Coppedge is a 1997 graduate of Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences where he was twice named Georgetown's Outstanding Student in Community Service.