Who We Are
We are a team of high-performance executive leaders with unique career experiences and special talents that believe and know transformation can happen. We work collaboratively with our clients to design and execute a highly efficient, laser-focused business reinvention plan that achieves what our clients consider valuable.
Our history includes executive leadership of myriad high-equity brands and Fortune 100 companies during times of rapid growth, industry pivots, new market entrants, and/or enterprise restructuring. Through these experiences we have researched, practiced and honed unique methodologies and proven practices that we now apply only to healthcare clients. Our experiences show that healthcare may benefit from lessons learned and applied in commercial settings and that the parallels rapidly guide our clients through transcending the inevitable and complex gap between corporate aspirations and operational execution and achievement.
Our Founder — Ted DellaVecchia
CEO and Managing Partner, Symbotix
Ted DellaVecchia
Ted is Chief Executive of Symbotix, a unique firm that has a vast track record of building and advancing innovation ecosystems in healthcare. Ted and his executive team have reinvented enterprise capabilities and IT-enabled new business operating models for several large academic medical centers and other significant players in the healthcare value chain. He is acclaimed for his leadership of IT-enabled business transformations at several Fortune 100 enterprises across multiple industries. Examples include delivering global elements of a corporate turnaround at IBM Corporation, advancing world-wide supply-chains and earnings growth for Starbucks Coffee Company, and restructuring IT divisions and transforming enterprise business strategies for three multi-billion dollar BlueCross BlueShield Health Insurance Companies. He also serves as Board Director for companies transcending successful Initial Public Offerings and pioneering the use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) methodologies in healthcare.
Ted is the founding chairman of the Healthcare Industry Transformation Project (HITP), an innovation ecosystem of advanced healthcare organizations that is collaborating to invoke true transformation of the healthcare industry through new and IT-enabled business models that simultaneously and rapidly fuel growth and dramatic corporate pivots. Ted is currently engaged as a trusted advisor to leading c-suite healthcare executives across the value chain. He and his partners inform and execute advanced strategies on business imperatives such as: IT-enabled business transformation, innovation ecosystems, integrated/agile healthcare operating models, and complex event driven analytics that influence clinical outcomes and promote consumerism in healthcare. As Chief Healthcare Strategist for TIBCO Software he launched a successful vertical business by designing an information management platform that eliminates interoperability challenges in the healthcare value chain.
He has served as sponsor and advising board member of the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT Sloan School of Management, has performed as guest lecturer at MIT and frequently speaks at Health Care industry events on the topic of Healthcare Industry Transformation. Ted has twice been acknowledged as a member of CIO Magazine’s “Top 100 CIO’s”, awarded “Top Business Innovator - Customer Relationships” by CXO Media Inc., and twice recognized as an “Information Week 500 Top IT Innovators”
Ted holds a Certificate of distinction in Strategy and Innovation and an Executive Degree in Technology, Operations, and Supply Chain Management, both from MIT Sloan School of Management. He has also participated in the Executive General Management Program of the International Institute of Management Development (IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland).
Our Team
We believe that experts deliver the best results.
Our team is comprised of executive leaders across many disciplines.
Jamie Banwell
Symbotix Chief Operations Officer
James Banwell
James (Jamie) G. Banwell, Jr. is President of James G. Banwell Jr., LLC and is Chief Operating Officer at Symbotix. At Symbotix, Jamie is responsible for leading strategic planning, business analytics execution and customer relationship and engagement.
Wendy Caputo
Chief Administration Officer, Symbotix
Wendy Caputo
Wendy is the President/Owner of Casleigh Consulting and leads a highly successful small, minority/woman-owned consulting business. She is actively involved in the day to day operations and success of the business with primary responsibilities for managing …
