NearMed Management Team

Tom Bailey, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
Tom is the president, COO and co-founder of NearMed. His primary goal is to define, communicate and manage the company vision, while ensuring successful delivery of value-based solutions to the healthcare market. 

Prior to NearMed, Tom was the vice president of product development for Baker Hill where he was responsible for product strategy, product development and enterprise delivery. He led the development of an ASP-based credit origination solution used by over 300 financial institutions and over 15,000 users. For more than six years, Tom was a member of the executive team that generated 25% year over year growth during that period.  

Prior to Baker Hill, Tom was the vice president of consulting services for Profound Consulting, a company focused on delivering custom software development projects. During his seven years with Profound, he grew the consulting staff from 15 to over 65 software engineers. Prior to Profound Consulting, Tom spent 7 years at General Motors as an Automation Engineer and 2 years at General Electric as a manufacturing engineer.  Tom has an Industrial Engineering degree and a Business degree from the University of Cincinnati.

Brad Bostic, co-founder and Managing Director
Brad is the Managing Director and co-founder of NearMed. In 1997, Brad founded Bostech Corporation as a custom software development and consulting company. In 2001, he transformed Bostech into an enterprise integration software provider through a strategic acquisition of technology installed in more than 2,000 companies around the globe.  Bostech’s technology has since become one of the most widely embedded integration engines in the retail, healthcare and energy markets.

Brad is also the founder of NearSource, an Information Technology outsourcing business that provides services to world-class companies including Dell, Fair Isaac and GE Capital.  NearSource builds on over a decade of expertise in both small and large scale software development initiatives with a specific focus on web-enabled application development and dynamic, data-driven content publishing solutions. Brad is a graduate of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Shyam Desigan, co-founder and Chief Financial Officer
Shyam is the CFO and co-founder of NearMed. He has extensive project finance, strategic planning and business development experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining NearMed, Shyam successfully raised $10 million from a group of physicians and arranged a $30 million real estate fund for the development of a new physician owned community hospital.

From 2002 to 2005, Shyam was the CFO for 8 Pain Centers where he restructured financial practices and operations to become highly profitable. Prior to that, he led a team in establishing a market presence for an Indian-based pharmaceutical company in a new market throughout Eastern Europe. Shyam has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Alan Bialek, Vice President Business Development
Alan is the Vice President of Business Development for NearMed.  Alan’s primary responsibility is developing new business partnerships with radiology departments and imaging centers.

Alan began his career at Cook Incorporated, where he spent almost twenty years. During his tenure at Cook he held positions of District Manager, Regional Manager and National Accounts Manager.  Alan was part of the management team that was responsible for the market introduction for the first FDA approved coronary stent.

Before coming to NearMed , Alan was Director of Sales and Marketing for Promex Technologies where he was responsible for all sales and marketing activities.  Alan’s primary focus was the development of a sales department for Promex’s first direct sales division, Dextera Surgical.

Prior to Promex Technologies Alan was Vice President of Sales for Alsius Corporation.  At Alsius, Alan was very successful in developing international sales channels for Alsius’s pioneering intravascular temperature control technology.

Alan has a clinical degree in Radiology Technology from UCLA. 

Jeremy Hough, Director, Technical Services
Jeremy is the Director of Technical Services for NearMed.  His primary role includes the integration of existing hospital networks with the NearMed network.  Jeremy is also responsible for the setup of the NearMed solutions as well as the training of staff and physicians for those solutions.

Previous to employment at NearMed, Jeremy worked for six years as the Chief Information Officer for a large radiology group in the Indianapolis area.  He played an integral part in growing that practice by implementing systems and infrastructure which allowed the radiologists to be more efficient.

Jeremy received his bachelor’s degree in Public Health from Indiana University in Bloomington.  He also received a master’s degree in Health Administration from Indiana University, Indianapolis and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Indianapolis.

Chris Warren Director, Strategic Alliances
Chris is responsible for identifying, developing and managing key strategic alliances for NearMed.  His primary task is to build business value for NearMed and its strategic partners.

Prior to joining NearMed, Chris spent 6 years managing sales, marketing and alliances for Ramsay Business Solutions.  He also created a network services division and was responsible for establishing industry alliances with several large information technology corporations.

During his tenure with Ramsay Business Solutions, Chris created and directed a custom web development company.  Webaxis was one of the first companies to develop technology that allowed novice individuals to customize and change web content through a graphical user interface.

Chris graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelors Degree in Public Financial Management.