Meet the Leadership Team

Experience, Agility
And Innovation

Our leadership team brings deep knowledge, expertise and insights from multiple industries – from enterprise software, aerospace, medical devices, consumer electronics and IoT – to our collaborative approach for meeting the challenges of connected care systems.

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Bernhard Kappe

Founder & CEO

Bernhard Kappe

Bernhard is a software development leader, technologist, and pioneer who provides clients with an unequaled advantage by helping them develop Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), Digital Therapeutics (DTx), and connected medical devices, while leveraging important trends and techniques at the leading edge of the adoption bell curve.

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Randy Horton, VP of Solutions and Partnerships, Orthogonal

Chief Solutions Officer

Randy Horton

Randy has spent over a decade working with healthcare and life sciences organizations to tackle the Quadruple Aim: 1) optimizing health system performance by improving the individual experience of care, 2) advancing the health of populations, 3) reducing the per capita cost of care, and 4) enhancing the work-life of those who deliver care.

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Brett Stewart - Principal Solutions Architect

Principal Solutions Architect

Brett Stewart

Brett is a technology architect responsible for solutions engineering for a wide range of SaMD client projects and system architectures at Orthogonal. He brings over 20 years of experience delivering enterprise and mobile software solutions in industries ranging from diabetes care to national intelligence, where he developed his extensive engineering knowledge.

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Principal UX Architect

Bob Moll

Bob directs UX and human factors initiatives for Orthogonal’s SaMD projects. He oversees user definition, use environment analysis, user workflow modeling, and interface design & development for FDA in an agile environment. Over the past two decades, Bob has worked with a range of enterprises, designing successful new products and reenergizing existing products.

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VP, Quality and Regulatory

Larry Gyrziak

Larry guides quality management and regulatory efforts for Software as a Medical Device and connected mobile medical devices. He is a scrum master whose primary focus is on ensuring that all of our work meets – and exceeds – relevant standards set by the FDA and in the ISO 13485 regulatory framework. He has over 20 years of experience working in the technology sector.

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Senior Technical Architect

Jim Hewitt

Jim provides deep expertise in software, firmware, data architecture, and development in health informatics and medical device projects for Orthogonal. He brings over 35 years of experience as a senior technical architect focusing on team and project success in a variety of industries. In addition, he has established himself as a leading expert on Bluetooth technologies.

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