Ken Carr brings over 30 years of finance, technology, data analysis and reporting experience in the health and human service field to OPEN MINDS. He currently serves as a Senior Associate with the OPEN MINDS consulting practice. In this role, Mr. Carr serves as a subject matter expert in the OPEN MINDS consulting practice where he has led numerous engagements in strategic planning, merger and acquisition prospecting, business process improvement, managed care and value-based contracting preparedness, financial analysis of service lines, and technology selection. Prior to joining OPEN MINDS, Mr. Carr served as the Chief Financial Officer for Elite DNA Therapy Services, a mental health provider based in Fort Myers, FL. In this position, Mr. Carr led development of the strategic plan, identified opportunities to optimize the EHR, and restructured financial reporting and analysis by service lines and key metrics. Prior to his role at Elite DNA Therapy Services, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of The Centers, a community mental health center in Ocala, Florida. In this position, Mr. Carr led a realignment of the organization’s financial management functions. This included revenue cycle management, EHR bill implementation and reporting, cash management enhancement, and strategic financial analysis. Prior to his role at The Centers, Mr. Carr served as Chief Financial Officer of Guild Incorporated, an organization providing residential and community based mental health services in St. Paul, Minnesota. As CFO, Mr. Carr led the financial, billing, IT, quality, informatics, compliance, and facilities activities. During his tenure at Guild Incorporated, Mr. Carr used his expertise in change management and business process improvement to lead the EHR implementation team, align service data reporting and financial performance, and lead the financial and data capture activities for new service initiatives. Mr. Carr earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of South Dakota, and a Master of Divinity Degree from Sioux Falls Seminary. He maintains an active CPA license with the State of South Dakota.

Chad Van Houten is the Chief Financial Officer for Zumbro Valley Health Center in Rochester, Minnesota.  Zumbro Valley Health Center is a comprehensive mental health clinic serving adults and children with behavioral health and substance use disorders with an integrated, person-centered approach.  In addition to behavioral and chemical health services, Zumbro Valley Health Center provides primary care, dental, housing and pharmacy services.  It operated as a Behavioral Health Home, and is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic.

In his role as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Van Houten oversees the accounting and finance departments at Zumbro Valley Health Center. Prior to joining the organization, Mr. Van Houten served as controller for McNeilus Truck Manufacturing. He has more than 20 years of experience in finance and accounting and a Bachelor of Science degree from Winona State University in accounting.

Roy Leitstein has served as Chief Executive Officer of Legacy Treatment Services since its inception. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Human Services. Roy began his career in social services while serving in the United States Army and volunteering for the Exceptional Family Member Program.

Roy was named Executive Director at The Children’s Home where after nine years, he co-facilitated a merger between The Children’s Home and The Drenk Center and assumed the role of Legacy Treatment Services’ CEO. In 2017, Roy helped orchestrate an affiliation agreement with Community Treatment Solutions bringing both organizations together to further Legacy’s continuum of care. Under Roy’s leadership Legacy also recently announced a new affiliation with Woods Services of Bucks County, PA and will begin to serve Philadelphia youth in Philadelphia as well as in New Jersey. As the human services field continues to face threats and challenges to its core mission of serving those who need them most, Woods and Legacy are creating a dynamic population health management organization that relies on our combined expertise to provide the highest quality care continuum that meets the complex health, behavioral, social and educational needs of those they serve.

Additionally Legacy established two new partnerships by collaborating with Virtua Health to open the Behavioral Health Assessment and Treatment Service in Berlin Township, and joining with the Atlantic County Sheriff’s Foundation to operate a mobile addiction outreach van called Hope One. Legacy Treatment Services is a nonprofit behavioral health organization serving more than 16,000 people each year. Legacy operates over 70 programs across the entire state of New Jersey. Services include prevention programs, outpatient therapy and psychiatric services, substance abuse programs, emergency and crisis intervention services, therapeutic foster care, juvenile detention alternatives, residential programs, case management, services for adults and children with developmental disabilities, and a special education school. Legacy Treatment Services’ programming aims to change the behavioral health and social service outcomes for people of all ages from surviving to thriving.

Mary Givens was born and raised in New York and has recently returned to the area. She has a Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Administration from the University of San Francisco and over 30 years’ experience in the field of behavioral health and I/DD services. Mary has worked with Qualifacts for almost 16 years on the Product team but has spent most of her time in compliance. She has been the CCBHC Program Manager since September 2021.

John Falsetti brings over 25 years of information services management experience in the health and human services field to the OPEN MINDS team. His areas of expertise include managing all areas of technology and information services, IT strategic planning, database development and warehousing, electronic health record (EHR) development and implementation, voice/data infrastructures, helpdesk and user training, business intelligence and process re-engineering.

Mr. Falsetti is currently the Director of Information Services for Maryville Academy based in Des Plaines, Illinois. In this role, he is responsible for all functions of information services including strategic planning, budgeting, business intelligence, infrastructure and process improvement, as well as training and client services. During his tenure with Maryville, he completed the selection and implementation of an enterprise-wide electronic medical health record system, business intelligence reporting system, and help desk software system.

Prior to joining Maryville Academy, Mr. Falsetti served as the Senior Vice President of Information Services for One Hope United (formally Kids Hope United), a private human service organization focused on children and families in Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Florida.

Mr. Falsetti earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Tonya Harmon has over 25 years of experience in executive leadership roles focused on technology and business development support in the health and human service industry. She brings to OPEN MINDS’ clients a diverse background in tech strategy, development and implementation of new service lines, and marketing and business development planning and management.  Tonya is currently the Senior Director of Technology Product Management for Complex Care Conditions in Medicaid at Optum, the healthcare platform for United Health Group.

Previously, Ms. Harmon served as the CEO of CareDirector USA, LLC. This Ireland-based organization specializes in care management technologies for managed care and service provider organizations. As CEO, she leads the U.S. launch of the organization’s product. In her leadership role, she was responsible for market and product analysis, capturing new state, local government and provider business, and building the company’s product roadmap for the U.S. market.

Before working with CareDirector, Ms. Harmon was the founder and CEO of Harmony Information Systems, a company focused on enterprise management technologies for a broad array of health and human service organizations.

During her tenure as chief executive officer, she raised over 40 million dollars in financing; won the 2005 Microsoft Most Innovative Product of the Year for case management system; won the 2008 Deloitte Fast 50 award for one of the fastest growing companies in Virginia, and won the 2007 Future 50 Award in 2007 for one of the top 50 companies in the metro DC area.

Rafi Khan brings over 30 years of experience in information technology experience in the health and human services industry to the OPEN MINDS team. His areas of expertise include healthcare information systems and health information exchange, clinical and electronic health record governance, information technology needs assessment, workflow analysis and integration, and technology systems acquisition and resource management.

Before joining OPEN MINDS, Mr. Khan served as the Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Hartford Behavioral Health in Hartford, Connecticut. In this role, he was responsible for identifying solutions to transform the information technology (IT) structure to better support Hartford’s high-growth business. In transforming their IT structure, Mr. Khan conducted supply chain management (dental/ medical /business supplies) assessments, diagnosed and recommended processes that align overall organizational strategy with IT, improved telecommunications, and developed strategic partnership with vendors.

Mr. Khan graduated from the School of Nuclear Medicine Technology in VA Medical Center, Northport, NY, where he was awarded an RT (ARRT) board certification from the American College of Radiology Technology Certification Board and a CMNT board certification from the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board. Mr. Khan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Pre-Medicine from Sir Syed Degree College in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Robert Neary brings more 37 years of experience in information technology and management professions, including more than 25 years in management and executive level positions. He also has 20 plus years’ experience with higher education leadership and organization change.

Mr. Neary has recently led complex health care technology initiatives, including multiple electronic health records system implementation projects and, for the last two and a half years, telehealth initiatives. He was the program manager for implementing a telehealth system in more than 200 primary care and specialty care clinics in Los Angeles County.

Mr. Neary has provided information technology management consulting and technical services to clients in higher education, healthcare, mobile communications, and biotechnology industries.

Mr. Neary has created and promoted integrated systems solutions for the Los Angeles Unified School District for Health Information Management, Medi-Cal (Medicaid) billing, special education, and student information systems, as well as facilitated technology solutions selections on behalf of LAUSD. He has provided contract negotiations services for the procurement of technology and service solutions, developed financial and staffing plans for various projects.

Jean D. Pierre is the Vice President for Behavioral Health Services at Community Health of South Florida Inc. From 2008 to 2015, Pierre was the Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Coordinator at CHI where he monitored compliance for client care and services and resolved deficiencies that create barriers for quality care.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social work in May 2002 and then acquired a master’s degree in social work in May 2007. In May 2012, Pierre became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker which speaks to the wealth of knowledge he has and utilizes daily to meet the needs of consumers in the community for Behavioral Health Services. Pierre is also credentialed as a qualified supervisor by the Florida Department of Health. He has more than 12 years of social services experiences ranging from working as the service provider to one who monitored contracts for entities that provided social services. Additionally, he has worked with multiple populations in various settings from hospitals, correctional facilities and the community. Prior to joining to CHI, Pierre worked as government analyst for the Florida Department of Children and Families. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, playing tennis and basketball, and volunteering. He is currently the Miami Dade Chapter President for the National Association of Black Social Workers.

Prior to joining Families, Inc., Bob Puckett worked in human resources in the metal manufacturing, food processing and automotive manufacturing industries. In addition, he completed his graduate internship in the human resources department for a local community mental health center where he later served as a Case Manager working primarily with children and adolescent clients.

Bob joined Families, Inc. in May 2006 as the Director of Human Resources. Over the years, Bob’s responsibilities increased to include the areas of Support Services and Information Technology. In the spring of 2010, Bob led the EMR Committee through a successful 12-week implementation of Credible Behavioral Healthcare Software which transformed the agency from “paper to paperless.”

In September of 2013, Bob was promoted to the Director of Business Operations which added Marketing and Finance to his areas of responsibilities.

Bob is currently serves as an advisory board member on Credible’s Technical Advisory Board, which sits at the intersection of partnership, innovation, and collaboration. Members of the TAB work closely with Credible’s Executive Management Team and their respective State User Groups to help convert development priorities into tangible features and modules that Agency staff use to improve the quality of care in behavioral health. TAB members fully participate in both their user group meetings and in Technical Advisory Board meetings to engender consensus building and collaboration when identifying necessary product features. Advisory board members place the good of all Partners above that of any one organization, supporting the work of Credible and providing mission-based feedback and support on strategic product direction.

Bob also currently serves as an advisory board member on The Partner Advisory Board (PAB). PAB is comprised of Agency C-level staff whoa re hand selected by Credible’s Executive Management team to represent their respective State User Groups. The board’s primary focus is to assist Credible in identifying key strategic opportunities and potential risks facing Partner organizations. Credible uses the information garnered from PAB members in the formulation of our strategic planning and development priorities. Additionally, board members function as a representative barometer to help Credible gauge the satisfaction of Partner Executives with items such as quality of support offered, approaches to Partnership, and awareness of state initiatives impacting billing and reporting. Members routinely share information with Credible related interactions with other Partners and report information to colleagues at other Agencies related to work being undertaken by Credible.

With a B.S. in Business Management including an emphasis in Human Resources from Arkansas State University, Bob went on to achieve his Master of Human Resources from the University of South Carolina.

Bob and his wife Laura Needham-Puckett, have two daughters and are members of a local church in Jonesboro.

Victor Topo, MSW, has thirty years of experience in the community mental health field – as a clinician, manager, and executive. Mr. Topo currently serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Center for Life Management in New Hampshire. In that role, he leads a comprehensive community mental health center that is the largest provider of mental health and addiction treatment services in the area.

While serving as CEO, Mr. Topo restructured the senior management team, implemented an electronic health recordkeeping system, and increased both revenue and number of persons served annually. He also created and implemented a strategy to integrate behavioral health care with primary care and introduced innovative treatment programs using reiki and transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Before joining Center for Life Management, Mr. Topo served as the CEO for Pathways, Inc. based in Mentor, Ohio. In that role, he successfully expanded the organization’s service offerings for chronically mentally ill consumers.

Mr. Topo started his career as a Case Management Supervisor/Case Manager for Community Counseling Center in Ohio. In that role, he provided direct services and supervision of services for severely mentally disabled persons in the community.

Mr. Topo holds a Master of Social Work degree from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Siena College.

Larry Trenga is an IT Executive of 20+ years with experience managing all areas of IT. He is currently the Vice President, Information and Technology at Wesley Family Services.

He has extensive experience with project management and delivery of IT services aligned to providing business value. This includes leading many application development initiatives, infrastructure/operations initiatives, and a $25mm project to design and build a new corporate data center followed by relocating ~ 100 IT services (including ~ 800 pieces of IT equipment).

He is experienced in managing all disciplines of IT aligned to an ITIL/COBIT framework.

Mr. Trenga previously served as Chief Information Officer of Family Services of Western Pennsylvania prior to its recent merger with Wesley Spectrum.

Before working at Family Services of Western Pennsylvania, Larry served in multiple roles at EDMC. He held the position of Software Engineer before being promoted to Assistant Vice President, Applications Development, and ended his career at EDMC as Vice President – IT Operations and Finance.

Larry Trenga also served as a Software Engineer at Union Switch & Signal before moving on to the same position at US Airways.

He received his Masters in International Management at STOA. He attended the University of Pittsburgh for Mathematics and Computer Science, where he also served as President of his Fraternity.