Fionet has global experience in partnerships with local distribution, service, and support organizations.
“Fionet Platform has been instrumental in advancing biosecurity defences which benefit passengers, airlines, airport workers and residential areas that neighbour Toronto Pearson.”
- Director of Safety & Security,
Toronto-Pearson Airport (Canada’s busiest)
“Partnering with Fionet serves as a big step in our efforts to provide safe, accessible, quality testing for Canadians.”
- President & CEO,
LifeLabs (Canada’s biggest lab company)
“Fionet Platform proved essential for performing rapid diagnostic tests in the field and monitoring from remote locations.”
- Chief, Digital Battlespace Management Division,
US Defense Threat Reduction Agency
“[This] electronic community health information system app is the latest example of how private sector expertise … can support patient-centered, digital health ecosystems that reach more people with lifesaving care.”
- The Global Fund,
posting about Fionet Platform
“The … Community Health Information System … is so efficient in decision making, reducing human error in data entry, but mostly helping in community disease surveillance and response.”
- Chief Digital Officer, Rwanda Ministry of Health,
posting about Fionet Platform
Fionet Origin
We are from Canada, yet when developing Fionet Suite we focused on Africa. We made a judgment that African partners would be more forward-looking for transformational use of mobile technologies, as Africans demonstrated in mobile currency, for example.
Our rationale has proven correct - when community healthcare rose to critical importance, during COVID for example, what we innovated in Africa was sought out in North America, Europe, and elsewhere. We have worked with Canada’s dominant lab company, France’s leading diagnostic technology company, and the US Department of Defense agencies such as DARPA and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. When they required a decentralized healthcare IT platform, they chose Fionet.
Why We’re Here
Cutting the performance gap between major medical centers and community healthcare — between where healthcare happens best and where it happens most — will change the world for patients, healthcare workers, healthcare providers, healthcare funders, and governments.
Forces have aligned as never before to make it possible. COVID has accelerated demand for community-based services. Technological innovation is supplying new tools with which to do it.
We’re committed to working with clients who are poised to take this transformative step.
Fionet Core Team
Team of nine comprises ensemble skills and operates with common purpose, mutual trust, and shared consciousness.
Dr Michael Greenberg and Shlomit Dekel
Fionet’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Business Development Officer, respectively
Michael and Shlomit, Fionet’s co-founders, have worked together for 30 years, building multiple health tech companies.
They previously built Toronto start-up ISG Technologies into global medical imaging software leader Cedara Software. Their technology was used for one billion procedures in MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, digital x-ray, image-guided surgery, hospital information systems. Clients: B. Braun, Cerner, GE, Hitachi, McKesson, Philips, Siemens, Toshiba, Zeiss, others. Established two joint ventures: surgical navigation with Carl Zeiss, world’s largest surgical microscope company; Asian sales with Mitsui & Co, Japan’s largest company. Set three world technology standards: 3D medical imaging; imaging middleware platform; image-guided surgery. Won Canada Award for Business Excellence in Innovation and Canada Export Award. Executed NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange public offerings at 10x share price paid by institutional investors. Achieved #1 performer on Toronto Stock Exchange.
Before co-founding Fio Corporation, Michael and Shlomit guided other start-ups from prototype stage to commercialization in several healthcare sectors: orthopaedic surgical implant planning software; cardiac imaging software; peritoneal dialysis device; chemical separator device for nuclear pharmaceuticals.
Michael has a medical degree from University of Pennsylvania; trained as a neurosurgery resident at University of Toronto; conducted neuroscience research as a US National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow.
Shlomit did her master’s work at Technion Israel Institute of Technology on human-machine interfaces in ICU devices (for Israel Ministry of Health) and, previously, in combat aircraft cockpits (for US DoD and NASA); attended executive business courses at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Kassahun (Kassy) Kebede
Fionet Africa Business Partner
Kassy has strong ties to African Development Bank, World Bank, Buffett Foundation, Gates Foundation, and governments. He is founder and Managing Partner of Cepheus Growth Capital Partners, an Ethiopia-focused private equity fund. Kassy is on the board of MedShare, which delivers free surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need in 29 countries in Africa. He was President and Chairman of Fistula Foundation for reducing incidence of obstetric fistula and restoring health and dignity to women injured in childbirth. Kassy was founder and Managing Partner of Panton Capital Group, a credit hedge fund; held senior leadership positions in Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch. Kassy has Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Marquette University and an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Vivek Akkineni
Fionet Manager of Client Services
Vivek has training in clinical pharmacy and project management experience in the Indian healthcare system. In addition to overseeing customer support, Vivek has contributed to Fionet’s product development and deployment. He has been instrumental in the success of Fionet On-Site’s high-throughput COVID-19 testing at several Canadian international airports. Vivek holds a doctorate in pharmacy.
Tom Bellman
Fionet Director of Project Management and Director of UX and Product Design
Tom is a human-computer interaction and user-experience expert with 25 years’ experience. He led the design, development, and deployment of Fionet’s community health and primary care solution from 2018-2020. Previously, Tom held product leadership roles at MDS Sciex, a leading manufacturer of mass spectrometers, and S&P Global’s financial analytics division. He has a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
Mike Chmura
Fionet Head of Software
Mike previously was VP Engineering, overseeing a team of 100 engineers, in a robotics AI company. Previously, he was CTO of Blue Dot, a firm that makes and manages an infectious disease outbreak intelligence platform, for which The Globe and Mail named Mike Executive of the Year in Canada in 2020. Prior to that, Mike was Senior Software Director for Fio Corporation, where he oversaw the genesis and development of Fionet Platform. He previously worked at Qualcomm and Cedara. He has a Bachelor’s of Engineering from AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland and did the Artificial Intelligence Professional Program at Stanford University School of Engineering.
Dr Santiago Ferro
Fionet Chief Medical Officer
Santiago previously led the first FDA approval of a malaria vaccine for PATH / Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, he led scientific and regulatory affairs in two multinational pharmaceutical companies, Sanofi, and Novartis. Before entering industry, he was Chief of Internal Medicine at Central Military Hospital of Bogota, Colombia. He received his medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and did his internal medicine residency at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. He completed two clinical fellowships, subspecializing in infectious diseases and clinical epidemiology, at University of Toronto.
Jessica Kuhn
Fionet Director of Operations
Jessica previously was: Director of Operations at Relay Medical (now Scryb AI); COO of Kangaroo Group, managing development projects for key clients; R&D Project Manager and clean-tech development leader at Sunwell Technologies. She was educated at the University of Toronto: MBA at Rotman School of Management; Master’s in Applied Science (MASc) in Mechanical Engineering; Bachelor’s in Applied Science (BASc) in Chemical Engineering.
Jeanne Musabimana
Fionet Business Analyst, East Africa
Jeanne is the liaison between Fionet and its end-users, stakeholders, clients, and partners in the region. Jeanne previously spent 6 years in a software development and business analysis role at the The Parliament of the Republic of Rwanda. She holds an M.Sc. in Information Technology from Handong Global University in South Korea, and a B.Sc. from the National University of Rwanda.
Fionet Values
1 Honesty
Be honest with yourself about yourself, especially about accountability.
Be open with others about what you think. Discuss the undiscussable.
Read reality as it is, not as you fear it to be or would like it to be.
2 Caring
Care about and support teammates.
Care about those who buy, use, and could be helped by our products.
Care about shareholders and business partners. We didn’t get here, nor can we get there, alone.
3 Frugality
Abhor waste. Challenge activity that adds no value.
Seek positive motives for effort.
Value profit.
4 Preparation
Learn. Know what you’re talking about.
Listen - there is always something important that you don’t know. Prize people who know what they’re talking about.
Plan imaginatively and rigorously.
5 Impact
Make and keep commitments. Never give up.
Favor originality. If we’re going to be like everyone else, what does the world need us for?
Deliver excellence. Think and act past the nominal point of completion of a task to its impact.