About Us

Prior to his role as Chief Executive Officer of Verge Health, Mark Crockett, MD, FACEP served as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Best Doctors, Inc. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Rise Health, Ibex Healthdata Systems, and as President of Emergency Care Division of Picis. He was Chief Medical Officer at OptumInsight’s Accountable Care Solutions, and his systems technology expertise helped drive product development at companies such as Ibex Healthdata Systems. He is a practicing Emergency Department physician at Advocate Healthcare in Chicago.

Chris is a health care executive with over 20 years of leadership experience and is one of Verge’s founding partners. Prior to his involvement with Verge, Chris served in a senior leadership role for a 745 bed academic medical center for nearly 15 years. At Verge he enjoys collaborating in the development of applications and internal policy designed for the efficient management of patient safety programs and the automation of related administrative tasks. Beyond the general oversight of Verge’s platform and operations, Chris directly manages the practitioner suite that includes a service division for the outsourced management of medical and professional staff credentialing and performance monitoring.

Shannon is a native South Carolinian and graduated Clemson University with BS in Accounting. After graduating, he went to work in public accounting receiving his CPA license. After 5.5 years in public accounting, he took the position as an accounting manager and then 5 years later a position as the Finance Director of an Urgent Care facility with multiple locations before joining the Verge team in 2012.

Connie Moser brings to this position more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare technology industry. Connie has distinctive leadership abilities around predictive analytics, strategic use of data, and delivering operational efficiencies with cloud-based software solutions. She also ran the credentialing business while with McKesson. She has presented on various healthcare topics at meetings sponsored by HIMSS, HFMA and NAHAM, and the HFMA Thought Leadership Conference in Washington DC.

James Lawson joins Verge with more than 20 years experience in the Healthcare Software Industry. Having worked both in the provider side as well as multiple leadership roles with healthcare software vendors James has a unique perspective on challenges hospitals face and their creative solutions. James has built a career on leading teams that design, create, and deliver high-quality integration and software systems.

Ingeborg “Inge” Garrison joined Verge Health in 2014. Prior to joining, Inge held a CNO leadership position in a large acute care health system. During her time on the nursing leadership team the organization earned initial and renewal system Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The designation is the nation’s highest form of recognition for nursing excellence and serves as a benchmark for quality of care.

Across the span of her career, Inge has served in a variety of nursing education and nursing management positions. She received a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from Queens College, and her MSN from Queens University of Charlotte. Inge is a member of the American Nurses Association, American Organization of Nurse Executives, and the American College of Healthcare Executives. Her nursing career has been dedicated to creating high quality, reliable systems of care, focused on communication and developing tools to assist the next generation of nurse leaders and health care professionals to lead in these ever-changing times.

Kevin Shaughnessy joined Verge Health in May 2016 with a focus on growing bookings by 100%. Kevin has 20+ years in healthcare information technology sales. Prior to Verge, Kevin spent 10+ years as a Sales leader with McKesson and 2 years with Premier, Inc. in enterprise sales.

Mike DeSimone brings to this position more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare technology and data analytics industry. Mike has lead data analytics, market strategy, client services, and product management divisions of McKesson and Best Doctors, as well as having built and optimized operational organizations with cloud-based technologies. Mike has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of New Hampshire.

Zach has 12 years of experience in the healthcare industry and joined Verge Solutions in 2015. His background in engineering, technical sales, operations, and business development are leveraged to continuously improve internal operations, as well as, develop and deliver innovative products and offerings for Verge’s customers. Prior to Verge, Zach spent 11 years with Stryker Corporation engaging with customers to develop novel products and custom business solutions.