Guy Esten is an accomplished Director with decades of Healthcare IT leadership. As Director of Portfolio Management & Open Source Initiatives for Apex Data Solutions, LLC, Guy brought extensive experience from government service with the VA, as well as a decade in private sector healthcare IT delivery with Dictaphone Corporation, and Nuance Inc. As a Major Initiative Lead for the VA Guy led the Access to Care initiative, and also completed the standardization of the VA's 129 VistA EHR instances. As a retired Naval Aviator, Guy's service included tours as the Antarctic Program's Operations Officer, and in the CIO role at the National Defense University. Guy holds a BS in Management from Georgia Tech, and an MS in Information Systems from Naval Post Graduate School, Monterrey.