Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 14, 2001
CARL BYERS has served as athenahealth's Chief Financial Officer since
the company's founding in 1997. In this capacity, Mr. Byers helped the
company raise more than $50 million of equity and debt capital,
including four equity rounds and several debt facilities. Mr. Byers
leads the companies planning and accounting activities and also serves
as Treasurer and Secretary of the Board. Prior to joining athenahealth,
Mr. Byers was a management consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton based in
New York City. While at the firm, Mr. Byers worked on client efforts for
the Financial Services Group and developed intellectual capital on risk
management and credit scoring. His achievements there included planning
a re-engineering program for a fortune 500 company that resulted in $1
billion of annual cost savings, evaluation of a new credit card product
for a diversified financial services company, and a study of the future
of investment banking for a bulge bracket banking house. Before joining
Booz-Allen, Byers was a Business Fellow at the University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business where he studied accounting and finance. Mr.
Byers earned a Bachelor's degree with honors from Wesleyan University
and was awarded the Plukas Prize for his thesis on the Chicago School of
Economics. He also was a Hansard Scholar at the University of London,
Birkbeck College. Profile
athenahealth?
Mr. Byers: athenahealth was founded in 1997, originally as a physician
practice management company. We went out and
