Media Room
Management Team
- Rose Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer
- Burt W. Podbere, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, interim Chief Financial Officer
- Paul Banta, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
- Thomas Giannulli, M.S., M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer
- Joe Kleine, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Rose Crane
President and Chief Executive Officer
Before joining Epocrates, Rose Crane spent over 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of leadership roles. Most recently, Rose was a Company Group Chairman at Johnson and Johnson, where she managed the OTC/Nutritional business worldwide. Her group's acquisition of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare resulted in Johnson & Johnson becoming the largest OTC company worldwide, with a well balanced portfolio of diverse brands. She also served as a Company Group Chairman for the consumer, specialty and nutritionals business during her tenure.
Prior to Johnson and Johnson, Rose was President of the U.S. Primary Care division for Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she was responsible for all sales, marketing, regulatory and compliance operations, managing a $6.5 billion budget. During her time at Bristol Myers Squibb, Rose also held a variety of marketing, sales and product management leadership positions.
Rose holds a B.A. from SUNY Oswego and an M.B.A. from Kent State University.
Burt W. Podbere
Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, interim Chief Financial Officer
Burt joined Epocrates in 2007 and prior to his current position, served as Vice President of Finance and Controller. Before joining Epocrates, Burt was Director of Finance at Adteractive Inc., an interactive lead generation and customer acquisition company, where he established the worldwide financial headquarters. He also spent over four years at Amdocs, a provider of software and services for medical billing, where he held several international roles including General Manager of Amdocs Software Systems Limited based in Dublin, Ireland and Director of Finance for Amdocs Canada, Inc. At Amdocs, Burt designed and built two Shared Service Centers spanning all of EMEA and Canada.
Burt is a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.A in Economics from McGill University.
Paul Banta
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Paul joined the Epocrates team with over 13 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Epocrates, Paul was Senior Vice President at PCS Health Systems with responsibility for strategic alliances with the pharmaceutical industry as well as overall management responsibility for PCS’ information business. Previously, Paul had been Assistant General Counsel at PCS for several years with broad responsibilities ranging from transactions to litigation and regulatory compliance. Before joining PCS in 1995, Paul served as General Counsel for Integrated Disease Management, Inc., a start-up disease management company, and spent 5 years at Eli Lilly and Company as legal counsel. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College and his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Columbia University.
Thomas Giannulli, M.S., M.D.
Chief Medical Information Officer
Dr. Giannulli brings to the Epocrates team over 15 years of expertise in healthcare informatics, mobile development and medical training. Prior to joining Epocrates, Dr. Giannulli was the Chief Executive Officer of Caretools, which developed the first iPhone-based electronic medical record. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Physix, Inc. where led development of the first handheld medical application for physicians, and Vice President of advanced research at Data Critical Corp where he managed wireless and internet-based solutions.
Dr. Giannulli holds a M.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of Utah. He earned a M.D. from the University of Texas at Houston where he completed his residency and is board-certified in Internal Medicine.
Joe Kleine
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officerr
Joe Kleine's career spans more than 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. At Epocrates, Joe established the company's healthcare sales business and led the team to work with all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.
Prior to joining Epocrates, Joe led strategic planning and business development for a top 10 medical advertising agency within the Omnicom network. He began his career with Eli Lilly & Company where he held several sales and marketing leadership positions. Joe earned a bachelor's degree at Dickinson College, and an M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.