Manfred Sternberg
President & Chief Executive Officer

Manfred Sternberg is a seasoned entrepreneur that has founded and also been involved as General Counsel in a number of successful business ventures. Manfred is Board Certified in Consumer and Commercial Law and has been licensed to practice law in Texas and Louisiana for the last 25 years. Most recently, Manfred founded and operated Bluegate Corporation, a publically traded healthcare information technology firm based in Houston with clients like Memorial Herman, Northwestern in Chicago and Texas Children’s Hospital. Under Manfred’s leadership, Bluegate received the Houston Business Journal’s prestigious Fast Tech 50 award, five years in a row.

Several years ago, Manfred received an appointment by Governor Perry to be the Chairman of the public/private partnership Texas Health Services Authority created by the last Texas legislature in House Bill 1066. The Authority is charged with becoming the catalyst for health information exchange in Texas and will be the recipient of ARRA stimulus dollars for the planning and development of a health information exchange throughout the State of Texas.

Manfred has also founded and is Chairman of iHealth Trust, a 501( c)3 nonprofit corporation based in Houston, whose mission is to become the transparent, neutral, non stakeholder, nongovernmental information broker for the local Healthcare market.