Michael Gagnon is an experienced senior information technology executive with over 35 years’ experience in diverse sectors including healthcare, defense, and academics. He is currently the CEO of Collabrity Health, LLC and the Executive Director of HealtHIE Nevada, the state-wide health information exchange in Nevada. He has been actively involved in advancing health information exchange for over 18 years. He helped form the Vermont HIE called VITL back in 2005 and has led HIE projects in Vermont, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada. He has worked with several leading healthcare and technology organizations such as the Mayo Clinic, Beth Israel, the University of Vermont Medical Center, Comagine Health, Cognosante and Lockheed Martin. Michael brings an entrepreneurial spirit and dedicated energy for solving some of today’s most compelling health information technology problems.