Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 15, 2000

Jeffrey Tangney – Epocrates Inc

JEFFREY TANGNEY, ePocrates' co-Founder and Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances, has over six years of healthcare experience. Prior to ePocrates, Mr. Tangney was a manager at the consulting firm ZS Associates. At ZS, he provided marketing strategy advice to a number of major pharmaceutical clients and led ZS' strategic alliance practice by assisting in negotiations for some of the largest co-marketing deals in pharmaceutical history. Mr. Tangney also worked for Goldman Sachs as a Healthcare Investment Banker and at biotech start-up Pangene Corporation as a Director of Business Development. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in Economics and earned an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Profile
Before co-founding ePocrates, RICHARD FIEDOTIN, MD, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, was a Senior Product Consultant at HBO & Co., where he provided development and sales support services for one of the industry's leading electronic medical records. Dr. Fiedotin also founded American Medical Forms, where he designed a miniaturized patient record which was licensed to Merck, Pfizer, and Warner-Lambert. He received a BA Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, an MD from Cornell University, and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Profile
TWST: Let's start out by your giving us a brief overview of ePocrates,

just to set the stage for our readers.

Dr. Fiedotin: Jeff and I co-founded the company in the summer of 1998.

We were