Jan Hudak-Karn
President

jan@simplifiedtraining.com

Janis H. Karn, CEO, is an entrepreneur and trained healthcare professional. She holds a BA in Political Science from Rutgers University and a BSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has served as pediatric Assistant Head Nurse at Duke University Hospital and has also held a senior management position with a start-up where she managed strategic marketing and product training for new infection control products for hospitals and clinics.

Since 1992 Jan has served as President of Connections Too, a public relations, marketing communications and advertising firm focused on the high tech and healthcare sectors with clients such as McKesson Information Services, Nortel, Winstar, Tekelec and Adaptive Broadband. Prior to forming Connections Too, she was VP, Operations for an international catalog marketing company where she managed the database, direct marketing, customer service and advertising departments.

J. David Kirby
Development Consultant

dave@simplifiedtraining.com

J. David Kirby has more than 28 years of experience in the use of information technology in healthcare. He developed the Information Security Program at Duke University Health System and served as it's first Information Security Officer. Mr. Kirby is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS). He consults nationally with medical centers, hospitals, medical practices, and health plans on security, privacy, and the innovative use of information technology in healthcare through Kirby Information Management Consulting.

Rob Karn
Sr. VP Marketing and Sales

rob@simplifiedtraining.com

Rob Karn oversees the marketing and sales divisions at Simplified Training Solutions and creates strategic educational, advertising, public relations and marketing communications for high-tech and healthcare clients. He has assisted companies in all stages, from start-ups to publicly traded corporations, with their communications and branding strategies and communication implementation. Clients include McKesson Information Systems, Glaxo Smith Kline, HouseCall Physicians, Nortel Networks, Winstar, Optisphere ( A Siemen's Company) and Paceon (A Mitsubishi Company).

Since 1992, Rob has served as VP, Sales and Marketing for Connections Too. Before then, he was Director of Communications for Nortel Networks, with responsibility for all carrier and enterprise products in North America. He was head of a staff of 60 communications professionals located in five cities and he managed budgets of $18 million.

Rob holds a BA in Journalism from Rutgers the State University and an MA in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a journalist, television newscaster, instructional designer, elementary school teacher, TV producer and film writer.