Meridian's seasoned management team has an established track record in financing, developing, and operating ambulatory surgery centers, specialty surgical hospitals and related healthcare ancillary businesses throughout the United States.
Geoffrey T. Pace
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Geoff has more than 27 years of information technology and 
business experience with the last 16 years devoted to the healthcare industry. His career spans the Transportation, Gaming, Credit Card, Banking and Healthcare industries, as well as academic and teaching arenas.
Geoff was the former executive vice president and chief information officer of Medifax-EDI, and was senior vice president and division CTO of Emdeon Provider Services following the acquisition of Medifax-EDI by WebMD (Emdeon) in 2003.
Geoff holds a Bachelor degree from Middle Tennessee State University in Computer Information Systems with minors in Business Administration and Accounting, and holds the professional designations of Certified Data Processor (CDP) and Certified Computer Programmer (CCP). He is a past AFEHCT board member and panel member to CMS on healthcare technology topics, and periodic speaker at national healthcare conferences such as MMIS, HIMSS and HFMA.
Chad Luttrell
Director, Information Technology
Chad has more than 13 years of experience in information technology and over six of those years in the healthcare industry. Chad previously served as director of application development for Surgis, Inc. (now USPI), a leading ambulatory surgery center management company. In his role with Surgis, he developed industry leading applications that automated the data mining needs from their distributed surgery center billing, scheduling, clinical, and financial accounting systems. Prior to Surgis Inc, he served as a senior consultant for Everest Technologies. As project manager and a lead developer for Everest, Chad designed and developed multi-faceted, integrated applications for companies in the insurance, healthcare, and education industries. He also served as director of information systems for Medical Business Associates where he developed an application to support a centralized coding service for hospitals across the country.
Zach Guest
Manager, Information Technology
Zach has more than five years of experience in Information Technology. Two of those years were spent working directly in the healthcare industry. His experience has spanned other industries as well in which he supported and maintained Technical Help Desk Support for Comcast and Fresenius (Previously Renal Care Group). Zach was previously on the team at Ceres Terminals as an I.T. Support Specialist to assist in the creation and development of the I.T. support infrastructure for Ceres. Zach is a 2004 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Major in Computer Information Systems.
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