David Raney has provided strategic and operational leadership for Nuventive since its inception in 2000. He has been involved in business creation since completing formal medical training. After completing his fellowship, Dr. Raney founded two innovative programs at the Children’s Hospital of Denver. Dr. Raney joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1993, where numerous new programs/business units were created under his leadership.

Dr. Raney left academic medicine in 1999 to become an entrepreneur. In addition to serving as CEO of Nuventive, he led the growth of a medical software line and a human services software and consulting company.

Dr. Raney holds an MD degree from Vanderbilt University and a BA in psychology from the University of California, Davis.

Gary Choban has been responsible for the product strategy for Nuventive since its inception and is widely regarded as a leading technology innovator in the Enterprise Planning and Assessment market. Prior to his promotion to Senior VP and CPO, Mr. Choban was the CTO, leading the technology platform and application development for the Nuventive product lines. He has successfully recruited and led a market-leading development team focused on rapid innovation.

Mr. Choban has held Information Systems management positions at companies such as Rexnord Automation, Texas Instruments, EOG, Inc. and RDA Consultants Ltd. He is also a founder and principal of Innervate, a licensor of certain software technology to Nuventive. Mr. Choban holds a BS in Computer Science from West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Scott Johnson is vice president of sales at Nuventive and leverages over 25 years in the software industry bringing extensive global operations, sales, marketing and consulting experience to Nuventive’s leadership team.

Mr. Johnson leads Nuventive’s market and growth strategies and has worked closely with Nuventive’s customers in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America.

Mr. Johnson’s prior industry experience includes senior sales leadership positions at Oracle Corporation, Siebel Systems (now Oracle), JD Edwards & Co. (now Oracle), and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Mr. Johnson and his wife Susan are also founders of the Denia Bridges Foundation, a 501c3 and California Non-Profit Corporation, that supports educational initiatives in Spain.

Mr. Johnson is an alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He also holds graduate degrees in computer science from Stephen F. Austin State University and in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Mr. Johnson is a CPA (inactive) in the state of Texas.

Denise Raney began working with Nuventive in January 2001. She has served as District Manager, Channel Manager, and Regional Sales Executive on the Sales team and, beginning in January 2017, assumed the role of Vice President of Customer Success. She has always had a central role working with the Nuventive Users Community and has managed Nuventive’s annual users conference since its inception in 2008. Her vision for the Customer Success Team includes joining with customers, listening carefully, and working to develop multiple different opportunities for learning and sharing customer successes. She has experience with the full range of Nuventive’s products and services. Previous experience includes working in Health Education in the California office of the American Cancer Society and in the Office of Communication Research at Vanderbilt University. Ms. Raney earned her BS at the University of California at Davis and her MPH at the University of Michigan.

John Voloudakis is vice president of consulting services at Nuventive and leads the development and execution of services to help our customers maximize the value of their investment in the Nuventive platform. He coordinates with Nuventive’s services organization and external partners to deliver the right mix of services to customers to meet their planning, operational, and technical needs. He has deep experience planning and executing enterprise-level strategy and technology projects for higher education institutions, and has worked with a broad range of institutions, from large research universities to small private institutions to community colleges, and understands the unique needs of these organizations and their constituents.

Mr. Voloudakis brings over 25 years of consulting and management experience in higher education and healthcare. He held education practice leadership positions at Huron Consulting Group and BearingPoint, leading the education and academic medical center technology consulting practice at Huron, and serving as Education Regional Practice Leader for the Western US at BearingPoint. He was a founding member of Ernst & Young’s higher education practice and served as its Chief Technology Officer, having previously been the CTO of its Health High Growth practice. Prior to entering the consulting industry, Mr. Voloudakis held a management position at Harvard University. He also served as an ECAR Research Fellow for nearly a decade and served on Western Governor’s University’s Corporate Advisory Board, a subset of their Board of Directors, for several years.

Mr. Voloudakis holds a Masters in Business Administration from Boston University and a BA from Tufts University. He also earned the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.

David Choban has led Nuventive’s services since 2003. Mr. Choban came to Nuventive with a broad technology background including the successful role as lead developer of a medical education software suite. His knowledge of the development process and close contact with customers through service delivery has been invaluable in supporting rapid innovation of Nuventive’s products.

Mr. Choban has held various positions of responsibility at several companies including Systems Engineer at Teledyne Brown Engineering and Software Engineer at Logicon Systems Inc. Mr. Choban joined Innervate, a licensor of technology to Nuventive in 1995 as project leader on Innervate’s eSystant Suite software products and subsequently joined Nuventive.

He holds a BS in Physics/Engineering from West Virginia Wesleyan College.