Our Leadership Team
Working together to solve shared problems for the long-term and senior care community.
Bill Flanagan
Co-Founder and CEO
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Bill Flanagan is the Co-Founder and CEO of CareWork. With more than 30 years of experience in software development and product architecture, Bill plays a vital role in both the development and long-term vision of the CareWork platform.
Prior to co-founding CareWork, Bill founded and served as President of a time and labor-management software solution that grew to serve long-term and post-acute care organizations. Bill recognized the unique labor challenges in long-term and senior care and developed one of the first fully managed Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) solutions to help operators more easily address the mandatory CMS reporting requirements.
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In 2020, Bill co-founded CareWork with Jackie Ramieri to expand on his passion for long-term care labor efficiencies and deliver a holistic operational experience through digital transformation, workflow automation, and business intelligence to the industry.
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Jackie Ramieri
Co-Founder and Board Product Advisor
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Jackie Ramieri is the Co-Founder of CareWork. Jackie has worked in complex IT environments as a Solution Architect and CIO for more than 15 years. Since 2017, Jackie has worked to help skilled nursing and senior living operators navigate IT, security, and compliance requirements, improve IT operations, and become more efficient through the use of technology.
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In 2020, Jackie recognized common problems her clients needed to solve. Teams were spending too much time duplicating work between multiple systems and paper, and too much time manually compiling and calculating information. Regional and community leadership teams were frustrated. Determined to solve these problems, Jackie reviewed software solutions on the market and found that there were a lot of systems that could do pieces of what was needed, but there wasn’t a system that solved everything as a single solution.
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Jackie founded CareWork in 2020 to give owners, operators, and community leadership teams a way to unify operations, automate workflows, and eliminate duplicate work without the need to hire in-house IT experts. With help from SNF, AL, IL, and CCRC clients she designed CareWork with the LTPAC community in mind. Jackie remains focused on problem-solving in the LTPAC community.
Maria Angelos
VP Sales & Business Development
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Maria is a seasoned sales leader with broad business experience across Sales, Marketing and Operations.
She started her career by spending over a decade with The Ford Motor Company and the Legal & Regulatory Group of Thomson Reuters, before pursuing her passion of working with early stage start-ups.
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Over the past ten years, Maria has been involved in helping health care organizations develop their sales strategy and go-to-market messaging for national product launches. Her focus is promoting technology that provides access to business analytics that drive workflow process improvement, revenue optimization and increased patient outcomes.
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Maria holds a B.S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business. She lives in Lake Forest, IL with her husband and three children and enjoys all things outdoors.
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Maria Angelos
VP Sales & Business Development
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Maria is a seasoned sales leader with broad business experience across Sales, Marketing and Operations. She started her career by spending over a decade with The Ford Motor Company and the Legal & Regulatory Group of Thomson Reuters, before pursuing her passion of working with early stage start-ups.
Over the past ten years, Maria has been involved in helping health care organizations develop their sales strategy and go-to-market messaging for national product launches. Her focus is promoting technology that provides access to business analytics that drive workflow process improvement, revenue optimization and increased patient outcomes.
Maria holds a B.S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business. She lives in Lake Forest, IL with her husband and three children and enjoys all things outdoors.
Gary Peat
Board Member & Advisor
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Gary has 25 years experience investing in cloud-based software in the Southeast with 19 years as a general partner and seed-stage VC investor.
Starting with Council Capital's debut fund in 2000, Gary was a General Partner for 3 funds at Council Capital focused on seed and early-stage cloud software serving health care. Gary's referencable track record includes leading 38 investments at the seed stage in the Southeast, achieving impressive returns. Prior to Council Capital, Gary was Principal at Stonehenge Growth Equity for four years. There he made his first seed stage investment, SecureTax.com, which is Intuit's Web Turbo Tax today.
Gary's experience as a seed stage & early stage investor began in 2000. Gary's track record includes > 2 dozen seed & early stage investments in Valor's target region, including 14 in Atlanta. In 2014, Gary left Council Capital to focus active seed-stage investing personally, and joined Valor first as an investor and operating partner before joining the general partnership.
Ralph Labrata
Board Member & Advisor
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