About us
Bloodbuy is a software and services company focused on developing cloud-based technologies that transform how biological products are managed and disseminated. Our growing digital network operates in the USA, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean.
We serve over 150 integrated healthcare delivery networks, 40 blood collectors, and numerous world changing life sciences companies — connecting millions of blood donors to millions of patients in need.
In recognition of our innovative work within the field of healthcare technology, Bloodbuy has received distinguished accolades from the Harvard Forum on Healthcare Innovation, Cardinal Health, Premier, Inc., RAND Corporation, athenahealth, and TechTitans.
Our patented cloud-based technologies are truly game-changing, and serve a pivotal role in connecting patients, providers, researchers, and biotechs to lifesaving biological products. Moreover, our team of experienced healthcare professionals bring to bear an extraordinary amount of expertise in the fields of blood banking, computer science, engineering, product design, law, supply chain, and finance.
Our groundbreaking work has been prominently featured in WIRED, Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, Business Insider, NPR Marketplace, Dallas Business Journal, and numerous other notable publications.
Bloodbuy is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with team members located coast-to-coast. We are financially backed and strategically aligned with Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), Grifols, S.A. (NASDAQ: GRFS) and Providence St. Joseph Health. We also work closely with Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) to move healthcare forward.
Each of these pioneering healthcare organizations exemplify the innovative, patient-centric, and status quo-challenging values we wish to emulate.
Leadership
Christopher Godfrey
Founder & Ceo
Serving as the founder and CEO of Bloodbuy, Chris is responsible for the overall strategic direction and growth of the company, its technology solutions, and its people. Prior to founding Bloodbuy, he focused on a variety of entrepreneurial and institutional investment activities within healthcare; spanning the entire continuum of care.
Over the course of his career, he has played a principal role in the underwriting, structuring, and execution of numerous healthcare sector, commercial real estate, and technology control investments with an aggregate investment basis in excess of $1.2B USD.
Previously, Chris served as Senior Vice President and Director of Finance for The Cirrus Group, where he chaired its Investment Committee. Prior to Cirrus, he held positions with Hillwood Capital, Macfarlan Capital Partners, and J.P. Morgan.
He has been included on the Dallas Business Journal's list of Who's Who in Healthcare, PharmaExec’s Emerging Pharma Leaders, recognized by the Harvard Forum on Healthcare Innovation as the distinguished winner of the Harvard Health Acceleration Challenge, and serves as the protagonist of a Harvard Business School Case Study that focuses on healthcare, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Chris is the inventor of Bloodbuy’s three flagship software patents, which leverage a series of novel computer algorithms and proprietary digital workflows that work together to optimize outcomes related to biological product requisition, management, and distribution.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with concentrations in finance and real estate from the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, which he earned while attending SMU as a full scholarship student-athlete. He also holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Leadership from Brown University, where he was the sole recipient of the Brown University Graduate School Master's Award for Professional Excellence.
Ashton Paul
principal engineer
As the Principal Engineer at Bloodbuy, Ashton is responsible for development, operational maintenance, and feature enhancement of the Bloodbuy platform. Previously, Ashton was the Programmer Analyst for the Wichita Falls Independent School District and a freelance web applications developer. Ashton specializes in full-stack, highly scalable, real-time applications and web APIs.
Ashton holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Minor in Mathematics from Midwestern State University.
Poornima Ozarkar
Lead UX Designer
Poornima is the Lead UX Designer at Bloodbuy. As the UX lead, Poornima is responsible for defining and detailing the user experience, UI, and visual design of the Bloodbuy platform. Before Bloodbuy, Poornima was the UX Designer for Qualvu in Colorado where she was responsible for the design of Qualvu's cloud-based qualitative research platform and mobile application. During her time at Qualvu, her work focused on conducting user research, usability tests, defining interaction models and UI specifications, creating low and high fidelity prototypes and maintaining all visual assets of Qualvu’s platform.
Poornima holds a Master's Degree in Interaction Design from Savannah College of Art and Design, and a Master's Degree in Product Design from National Institute of Design in India.
Brian danforth
senior customer engagement executive
As Senior Customer Engagement Executive, Brian is responsible for supporting sales and marketing to enhance Bloodbuy's growth. He also provides leadership on meeting the inventory needs of hospitals and blood centers across the country.
Brian brings 40 years of experience in managing inventory and customer relations in the blood bank industry. Before joining Bloodbuy, Brian spent his entire career at Bloodworks Northwest in Seattle, WA, which is one of the largest independent blood centers in the country. During his time at Bloodworks, he served for over 20 years as the Manager/Director of Hospital Services. In this role he oversaw hospital inventory needs and managed customer relations for over 60 facilities.
Brian later became the Senior Customer Engagement and Business Development Executive at Bloodworks. In this position he facilitated the growth of new clients and contracts throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as multiple national hospital contracts around the country.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Washington.
Lorie Perez
director, customer success
As the Director for Customer Success, Lorie is tasked with working closely with hospitals and blood centers by deeply understanding their primary goals and challenges. Lorie is also responsible for sales growth by developing proactive customer expansion and retention strategies.
Lorie also brings 14 years of blood banking experience from South Texas Blood & Tissue Center. While working as an inventory management supervisor at STBTC, her tasks included customer service, resourcesharing national and international, and daily blood product management. Lorie also worked in other departments within the organization including donor recruitment and liaison for hospital contracts.
Lorie also holds a Bachelor’s of Arts & Science from Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. She also holds an Associates in Science from Laredo Community College.
joey abascal
customer success manager
As the Customer Success Manager at Bloodbuy, Joey is tasked with supporting blood centers and hospitals throughout the country to fulfill their daily blood product inventory needs.
Joey brings 8 years of blood center experience in managing inventory, distribution, and sales. Prior to Bloodbuy, Joey worked at South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) where his responsibilities included inventory management, local product distribution, customer communication, and STBTC’s resource-sharing efforts nationwide.
Joey holds a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Health Care Administration from the University of Arizona, and an Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice from The University of Phoenix.
Arturo Ducasse
Software Engineer
As a Software Engineer at Bloodbuy, Arturo is responsible for fine tuning the user experience and front-end development. His development expertise focuses on increasing the functionality and feature sets of Bloodbuy, while building and maintaining a dynamic front-end.
Previously, Arturo was a freelance Software Developer. Arturo is proficient in testing, functionality, full-stack development, and code reliability.
Directors
durral gilbert
Director
As the former President of Premier Supply Chain Improvement, Inc., a consolidated subsidiary of Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), Durral led Premier's core supply chain business. His administrative purview included sourcing, contract management, operations and business analytics. Durral also oversaw Premier's integrated pharmacy offerings, including specialty pharmacy and pharmacy benefit management, and direct sourcing.
Joining Premier in 2006, Durral previously served as Senior Vice President of supply chain emerging services, where he led the development of Premier's pharmacy offerings while identifying emerging supply chain and clinical opportunities.
Durral has more than 25 years of experience in business operations, procurement, and risk management with a resume that includes leadership positions at BDS Management, Marsh, Learning Station, and Wachovia Securities. He is involved in many industry organizations including Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), where he currently serves as secretary and on the Board of Directors; SVS, LLC where he serves on the Board of Directors and Commcare Pharmacy, where he serves as Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors.
A native of North Carolina, Durral earned his Master of Business Administration in Finance and International Business from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was inducted into the UNC-CH's Order of the Golden Fleece.
matt murawski
Director
Matt is Vice President of Business Development at Grifols, S.A. (NASDAQ: GRFS), where he is responsible for acquiring new growth platforms and divesting non-strategic assets. He led the negotiations for the March 2022 deal with Endpoint Health, Inc. where the two companies will combine Endpoint Health’s precision medicine diagnostic solution with Grifols’ Anti-Thrombin product to treat severe sepsis patients. Matt was also responsible for the divestiture of Grifols’ Hemostasis diagnostic platform in late 2021.
Prior to joining Grifols S.A., Matt served as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Hologic, Inc. where he led the daily operations of the $250MM blood screening business, and where he ultimately negotiated a $1.9B sale of this business to Grifols in early 2017. Matt also led the integration of Hologic’s $1.6B acquisition of Cynosure Inc.
From 1995 to early 2006, Matt served in various capacities with increasing responsibility in finance, strategic account management and business development & strategy with Johnson & Johnson across the Consumer, Diabetes Care, and Cardiovascular franchises.
Matt earned a Bachelor of Science in Business and Master of Business Administration in Finance from DePaul University in Chicago. He holds CPA, CMA, and CFA professional designations.
W. L. Hutchison, Jr.
Director
As Co-Founder and CEO of The Cirrus Group, Bill has focused on healthcare-related developments since 1996. Prior to forming Cirrus, Bill worked for Southland Real Estate Resources at its Las Colinas development where he served as project manager for the 400 rooms, 24-story Mandalay Four Seasons Hotel (now the Omni Mandalay). Later, Bill formed Trans Texas Investment Properties with which he developed over 1,000,000 sf of commercial office and retail space across the DFW Metroplex. Notable during this time was Bill’s landmark 500,000 sf, 24-story Trans Texas Tower (now Occidental Tower) in Dallas.
During his leadership at Cirrus, Bill guided approximately 100 healthcare development projects in 15 states, including ambulatory surgery centers, multi-specialty surgical hospitals, general acute care hospitals, post-acute facilities, acute rehab facilities, long-term care facilities, medical office buildings, primary care clinics and other complex medical facility ventures. Included in this list are notable projects Park Cities Medical Plaza in University Park, Texas; Trophy Club Medical Center in Trophy Club, Texas; North Texas Medical Center in Denton, Texas; North Central Medical Center in Dallas, Texas; and several hospital and MOB projects in Southern California.
Bill earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Texas in Austin and a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University's Edwin L. Cox School of Business.
brent depperschmidt
DIRECTOR
Brent is the Director of Joint Ventures Operations at Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), where he currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Texas Health Supply Chain Services, LLC a joint venture between Texas Health Resources and Premier formed in 2019.
Brent joined Premier in 2019 in his current role. Prior to joining Premier, he held various leadership positions in healthcare and private equity. He received his Master of Business Administration from the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University and his Bachelor of Science from Kansas State University.
dan galles
DIRECTOR
Dan joined Allumia Ventures in 2015 (fka Providence Ventures). He focuses on investments in the healthcare information technology, healthcare services, and medical device sectors. For over 20 years, he has been investing in and partnering with management teams of early- and growth-stage companies in the healthcare industry.
Prior to joining Allumia, Dan was a partner at HLM Venture Partners, where he led or co-led investments in 14 companies. Before HLM, he was an associate at the venture capital firm J.H. Whitney and Co. and an analyst in the healthcare investment banking group at Alex. Brown & Sons. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and a BS in Economics from The Wharton School. Dan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three kids, and is an avid sports fan including playing golf, pick-up basketball, and pickleball with his friends and family.
jason dodd
DIRECTOR
Jason is currently the managing partner of Fairlane Funds, a Dallas Texas investment firm specializing in early stage growth capital, equity placements, and fixed income debt solutions for lower and micro-market companies. Fairlane manages a diversified portfolio of investments, real estate and capital deployment through a series of private funds.
Jason has a broad investment, private equity and financial background and was formerly Managing Partner and owner of the boutique investment firm HealthCap from 2012 to 2015, following its merger with The Cirrus Group, where he served as President from 2005 to 2012. In addition to having served on several corporate boards for portfolio companies, he had primary transactional responsibility for over $850 million of partnerships and managed the structured capital for the firm’s investments. Prior to joining The Cirrus Group in 2000, Jason was a Vice President for LaSalle Partners, the predecessor company to Jones Lang LaSalle.
Jason holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (BBA) from Texas A&M University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.