Leadership

Dave Garets
President and CEO

Mr. Garets is President and CEO of HIMSS Analytics and Executive Vice President of HIMSS.
 
Mr. Garets has 31 years of experience in information technology. He joined HIMSS Analytics in 2004 from Healthlink where he was Executive Vice President. Before that, he was Group Vice President, Healthcare Industry Research and Advisory Services at Gartner, Inc. Prior leadership roles included Senior Manager in Emerging Practices with the First Consulting Group and CIO of Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls, ID. Before coming to the health care industry, Mr. Garets spent thirteen years in various management capacities for AT&T.
 
He was a course director and served on the faculties of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Information Management Executive Courses for 11 years. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of four health care information technology journals and magazines and the board of directors of HIMSS Analytics. He is an affiliate professor at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University.
 
Mr. Garets is a HIMSS Fellow, and was chair of the HIMSS Board for 2003-2004. He is an internationally known author and speaker on information technologies, strategies, benchmarking, and the future of healthcare.
 
Mr. Garets graduated with a bachelor's of business administration in marketing from Texas Tech University.

Michael W. Davis
Executive Vice President

Prior to joining HIMSS Analytics, Mr. Davis was Managing Vice President of Healthcare Research and Advisory Services for Gartner, Inc. He joined HIMSS Analytics to pioneer new product development and spearhead the organization s market research enterprise.

With more than 29 years in the healthcare IT field, Mr. Davis has managed clinical departments in healthcare organizations and has held senior roles with progressive organizations like Micromedex/Thomson, American Express Health Systems Group, First Data Corporation and Motorola. He has published two books and more than 150 research articles on computerizing healthcare information. Mr. Davis has graduate degrees from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in clinical pathology, and in business administration from Pfeiffer University.

Jeff Kenjar
Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Mr. Kenjar has a successful record of career accomplishments representing over 25 years experience in healthcare IT management. His responsibilities have included consulting, customer service and support, product management, project management, operations management, direct sales and sales management. He has held various positions with Eli Lilly and Company, Norand Corporation and Source Data Systems where he also served as a member of the board. He most recently served as a Managing Director with Keane Healthcare Solutions where he was responsible for customer support and account executive sales. Mr. Kenjar received his Bachelor's of Science in Pharmacy from University of Iowa and his Masters in Business Administration from Nova-Southeastern University. He also serves as Vice President of Sales and Corporate Relations for HIMSS.