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Esposito Heads HIP BI
As a result of HIP Health Plan of New York's (New York, $3.36 million in total revenue) acquisition of Vytra Health Plans in late 2001, and the subsequent movement to an enterprise technology platform supporting both brands, the CIO position of Vytra is now being phased out. But the person who fulfilled that role is not, according to John Steber, HIP's EVP of operations and CIO. "If someone is of value to the organization, we'll take their experience and knowledge base and use it in a new place," he says. "That's what we're doing with Russ Esposito and his team."
Esposito's new role as a HIP vice president will be to bring together the business intelligence (BI) capabilities of both Vytra and HIP and to take charge of combined e-commerce functions. "Right now we have two separate teams and infrastructures for BI, so the challenge will be to both integrate the staff and to get the infrastructure wedded into one enterprise solution," Esposito says. His team will organize, store and manage warehoused data in order to feed information to internal constituents through an existing executive dashboard and to external parties via the Internet.
The major goal for Esposito and his group will be to fulfill a self-service strategy for business information users, according to Pedro Villalba, CTO, HIP, to whom Esposito will report.
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