Vince Albanese

Partner | Technology Practice

About Vince Albanese

Vince is an innovator and successful entrepreneur whose skills span decades of success and cutting edge innovation.  He is currently focused on delivering enterprise-grade blockchain solutions to healthcare and finance entities.

 

Vinces background is primarily as an enterprise CIO however his roots lie in software engineering. Vince is a key contributor and maintainer to the core software framework powering several pioneering healthcare ventures.

Vince has many years’ experience in servicing hospitals and payers as a senior partner in owning, building and deploying the technology platform powering Amplefi which serviced over 100 health and insurance clients.

 

Vince is currently acting Chief Technology Officer for several international companies all driving innovative use cases for blockchain. He is passionate about driving trust frameworks that support critical thinking.

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

In his past experiences, Vince was CIO, ISFA/INVEST where he deployed 20,000 terminals to S&Ls on behalf of the RTC during the S&L crisis.  He was also Global Director, Technology for R. P. Scherer Corporation managing global pharmaceutical manufacturing for 21 plants in 13 countries.  He is a manufacturing ERP expert who founded, managed and eventually sold a national Oracle-based consulting company servicing a dozen Fortune 50 process manufacturing companies. Vince was the first technology hire for GratisCard Technologies and became the Chief Architect and CIO.  GratisCard became Revolution Money in partnership with Steve Case and was eventually sold to American Express as the Serve platform which powers Walmarts Bluebird card.

 

Vince is a strong believer and active participant in industry alliances. He was a founder of the Oracle Process Manufacturers Users Group (ERP), i2 Technologies Rhythm Users Group (ERP), and Discover Alliance (healthcare). Vince is a Board Member of DirectTrust, the organization chartered with the secure exchange of health information.  He leads the DirectTrust Standards Development Board, is Co-Chair of the Trusted Instant Messaging Consensus Body, and leads the Innovations Priorities Workgroup.

 

On a personal front, Vince was a co-founder for the Green Armada Foundation which was People Magazine’s Environmental Heroes of the Year in 2007.   As a seaplane-rated private pilot, Vince has helped form a new local chapter for the Experimental Aircraft Association in an effort to bring young people closer to aviation particularly as it pertains to our waterways.

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