Aug 4, 2025
2024-2025 Promotions
At UPMC Enterprises, our goal is to make Life Changing Medicine a reality by developing thriving businesses. Our businesses aren’t the only things that invest in – we strive to foster the career paths of our employees, too.
Congratulations to our colleagues who recently earned promotions! We’re so grateful for their continued contributions to UPMC Enterprises.
Parker Cahn
Manager, Strategic Product Management
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Senior Associate, Strategic Product Management
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Advocating for patient experience and access across the patient portal transition, provider directory , and GoHealth JV efforts.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
I wanted to be an architect. In retrospect, kind of an odd one for a kid. Likely influenced by spending too much time on my father’s construction sites growing up. While my job is not that today, I like to think that a similar mindset is often applied.
Charlie Cairone
Senior Enablement Program Manager, Technology Services
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Lead Technical Product Analyst
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Having the opportunity to be on the ground floor of what has become the Ahavi data platform. Playing a role in Ahavi development from project initiation to providing services for paying customers has been my proudest achievement at Enterprises so far.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
Shortstop for the Pirates. I still think I might have a chance given their roster.
Michael Coutinho
Manager, Strategic Product Management
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Senior Associate
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Safar spin out to eVisit.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
Marine biologist.
Tyler Crawford
Portfolio Controller
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Senior Manager, Investments & Transactions. Started at Enterprises as a Senior Associate in June 2019.
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
It’s hard to pick one – I’ve been fortunate to work on and see a lot in my 6 years at UPMC. Highlights include providing support to ~25+ investment underwriting processes from initial diligence through transaction execution (new & follow-on), several sell-side M&A’s of Enterprises’ assets, one UPMC hospital acquisition, and one sell-side M&A for UPMC HSD.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
HA, I probably wanted to be a professional athlete like every other little kid. I loved everything about sports – watching and playing. My favorite to play was baseball.
Michelle Dempsey
Services Operations Manager
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Associate Services Operations Manager
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
I get the opportunity to work cross functionally on a day-to-day basis. My proudest accomplishment would be building relationships with my peers rooted in both trust and reliability. Those connections have become my greatest source of support as I continue my work here.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
I wanted to be a zookeeper…and I still do. LOL
Justin Gorny
Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Senior Cloud Engineer
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Supporting the Ahavi platform through the automated deidentification solution and successful engagements with customers / partners.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
As a kid, I wanted to work in sports medicine due to my passion for athletics.
Rob Hartman
Vice President, Translational Sciences
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Senior Director
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Investment diligence in Mozart Therapeutics and Ouro Medicines.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
Paleontologist, forest ranger, medical illustrator
Mathew Henson
Director, Software Engineering Services
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Manager, Software Engineering Services
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
I’m proudest of the work we did on the Safar project, from its inception as a worklist tool written by our architecture group, through several rounds of DoD grant competition, finally finding a good owner with eVisit. I have said since I started with Enterprises that I’d like to see a project from start to successful exit, and I did get my chance with Safar. I also worked with excellent staff, including top notch software and test engineers, passionate product people, and key clinical experts. It’s without a doubt the capstone to my experience with Enterprises.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
My childhood passion was astronomy, particularly solar astronomy. It helped that I grew up in Florida. Throughout junior and senior high school I conducted a large experiment on sunspot dynamics based on visual observation and had the chance to collaborate a tiny bit with professional solar astronomers. I planned most of my childhood all the way through end of high school to pursue astronomy, really observational solar astronomy, as a career. It came as a surprise to many of childhood friends that I ended up in comparative literature instead.
Ken Howard
Vice President, Technology Services Engineering
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Senior Director, Cloud Engineering Services. I was focused on leading our cloud team and delivering services internally to UPMC, UPMC Enterprises, and for our portfolio companies.
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Although I’m proud of many things throughout my tenure at Enterprises, I’m most proud of having so many opportunities to mentor, grow, and develop others. I have had great mentors and leaders over the years, so it has been great to have opportunities to pay it forward and make a positive impact on other people’s careers and lives.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
I wanted to be a cowboy. This dream didn’t work out for me 😊
Jamie Saporito
Senior Manager, Marketing & Communication
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Manager, Marketing & Communications
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Learning the art of working parenthood: juggling work and home while keeping two feral toddler boys alive, fed, and (on a good day) wearing pants.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
As a kid, I dreamed of being a teacher. After growing up and meeting actual children I realized that was a terrifying miscalculation.
Debashish Sasmal
Senior Manager, Strategic Product Management
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Manager – Strategic Product Management
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
I’ve had the privilege of working on several meaningful projects, navigating intricate partnerships and deal structures. As a result, my proudest accomplishment would always be the most recent one. Currently, it’s the launch of Glimmer Health – a UPMC Enterprises and Redesign Health co-creation, which aims to empower PCPs with comprehensive, evidence-based, multimodal chronic pain management support built on the foundations of world-class innovative clinical care developed at UPMC’s Pain Management Division.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
An F1 driver. I was fascinated seeing my first grand prix – 95’ Spa where Michael Schumacher started 16th from the grid to win the race.
Tim Savage
Senior Cloud Architect
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Cloud Architect
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Winning an ACES award.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
Bus driver
Larry Shields
Principal Data Engineer
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Senior Staff Data Engineer
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
My proudest accomplishment at Enterprises is the creation of our batch ingestion framework utilized to ingest documents to Alexandria Charts for use by UPMC Health Plan. This migrated our previous purpose-built engines to a generalized, modular serverless framework hosted in AWS that reduced our compute costs and provided more stability to the process. However, the current Ahavi data platform we are building is gaining quickly on that top spot.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
Doctor of Emergency Medicine
Ruby Shifflett
Executive Assistant II
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Executive Assistant I
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
This past year has been truly challenging for all of us. I would have to say my proudest accomplishment has been the ability to manage seven VPs while juggling numerous daily responsibilities that were divided between the three EAs. I have developed more confidence and an incredible skill set due to all the added responsibilities.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
History Teacher
Yann Thomas
Senior Strategic Designer
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Strategic Designer
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
I’m most proud of the work I’ve done supporting the migration of the MyUPMC patient portal, as part of the broader Bridges transition. MyUPMC is the way that so many folks across the state access their healthcare and engage with UPMC, so ensuring that we guide those folks smoothly onto a completely new system has been challenging and rewarding.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
Professional soccer player! While that dream didn’t exactly pan out, coaching youth teams in Pittsburgh has been a great way I’ve been able to stay involved in the sport.
Aaron Ulsh
Business Analyst
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Associate Business Analyst
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
Supporting the spin-out of Biotronics, a formerly in-house UPMC clinical engineering business, by helping gather and structure the data that informed the transaction.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
My dream job as a kid was to be an inventor, coming up with all kinds of gadgets and ideas.
Kritika Verma
Business Analyst
Q: What was your previous UPMC Enterprises job title?
Associate Business Analyst
Q: What is your proudest accomplishment at Enterprises to date?
I don’t think there is one moment specifically, but seeing the solutions we invest in getting used by patients to make some part of their journey easier definitely makes all the work worth it. The slow and wary pace of health care can be frustrating at times, but knowing that the work we’ve done can impact even one person’s life is so rewarding.
Q: What was your dream job as a kid?
I went through multiple (artist, fashion designer, dancer) but for a long time I wanted to be a teacher!
