HOUSTON - JULY 28, 2015 – symplrTM, a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) based healthcare compliance and credentialing solutions, today announced Bill Stephenson as the company’s Senior Vice President of Sales. Stephenson will lead sales operations across symplr’s Credentialing, Provider Management and Payor Enrollment product lines.
Stephenson has more than 20 years experience in executive level sales positions at companies including Symantec Corporation, Seismic Micro-Technology, BindView, IHS, P2 Energy and Spatial Energy. He has scaled multi-disciplinary sales teams to support revenue streams in excess of $250 million.
“Bill is known for his ability to scale sales operations while providing the highest levels of customer satisfaction making him a perfect fit for the symplr team,” said Rick Pleczko, President and CEO of symplr. “His experience in building high-performance sales teams and capitalizing on new market opportunities will serve symplr well as the company continues on its aggressive growth path.”
“I’m excited to join the symplr team to help accelerate the already impressive growth they have achieved in the healthcare compliance market over the last few years,” said Stephenson. “Healthcare compliance is an extremely important and vital solution to ensure patient and employee safety and health, as well as to mitigate risk. I look forward to communicating the symplr vision of simple, yet comprehensive compliance to healthcare facilities worldwide.”
About Bill Stephenson
Bill Stephenson is the Senior Vice President of Sales at symplr and oversees sales teams across symplr’s Credentialing, Provider Management and Payor Enrollment product lines. He previously served as the SVP of Americas sales at P2 Energy Solutions. P2’s software and data solutions serve energy companies around the world with over 1,500 customers globally, and solutions that cover key upstream domains from production operations, finance and accounting, land management, geospatial data and reserves management. For nearly 20 years prior, Stephenson held executive sales positions at Spatial Energy, Seismic Micro-Technology, IHS, BindView and Symantec Corporation in 2006. During those 11 years at BindView/Symantec, Bill held Sales Executive, Regional Sales Manager and Sales Director positions, and was interim VP of Sales at BindView during the acquisition and transition to Symantec where he led the sales team to a record quarter post acquisition. Stephenson served in the U.S. Army for four years including active duty in Desert Storm. He then earned a BBA in Finance from The University of Houston in 1996.
About symplr
Founded in 2006, symplr is an industry leader in compliance and credentialing Software as a Service solutions that help healthcare organizations mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Formed by the merger of Vendor Credentialing Services, Medkinetics and Payor Enrollment Services, the new company has a single mission: to make healthcare compliance and credentialing simpler for all constituents of the healthcare community. For more information or to contact symplr, visit symplr.com or (866) 373-9725.
Media Contact
Carrie Ward, cward@symplr.com. 832-407-5347
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