Inner Reach^® Board of Directors

Chief Executive Officer, Founder— Constance Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., R.N.

Dr. Fitzpatrick is a health psychologist, a registered nurse, and the founder of Inner Reach^® Corporation. She is the innovator of the collection of protocols and the Health Information Gathering System— HiGS . Dr. Fitzpatrick holds a Diploma in Nursing, a Master of Education degree with a focus in Counseling Psychology, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Health Psychology. She has particular areas of proficiency in health psychology, medical-surgical nursing, adult development, and ancient ways of healing.

Her areas of substantive knowledge include: American Indian ways of healing; herbal medicine, particularly Chinese herbs and Fangji; Traditional Chinese Medicine theories, therapies and modalities; counseling psychology, alcoholic family systems, anxiety disorders; group therapy, women’s issues, and multiculturalism and diversity. Researching past and current studies and trends, she is the author of numerous articles and tutorials on physical and mental health issues, environmental and occupational health, nutrition, military and veteran health and stressors, health psychology, health preservation, preventive self-care, disease delay, disease management, and the prevention of disease progression.

Additionally, she has co-authored articles with physicians on various topics, including personalized medicine, patient-authenticated narrative based medicine (PANBM) and evidence based medicine (EBM), Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs (TCMH) for a number of diseases and functional disorders i.e., apoptotic effects of berberine on liver cancer cells; the impact of behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and one’s roles on breast cancer risk; the psychopathology of the behavioral patterns of adult children of alcoholics and anxiety disordered females and their proneness to developing breast cancer; nutraceuticals, post traumatic stress disorder, genomics, phenomics and proteomics. Dr. Fitzpatrick drives the company with vision and relentless dedication to make a difference.

Chief Software Architecture, Director-- Mark Fitzpatrick
Mark Fitzpatrick is the architect and co-inventor of the Inner Reach® Health Information Gathering System (HiGS) and the developer of the Inner Reach® Corporation web sites. As Vice President of Software Architecture, he has devoted 9 years to the creation of HiGS and its e-health technology. Mr. Fitzpatrick has carefully designed secure data bases, weaving more then 10,000 history and assessment questions plus more than fifteen-hundred signs and symptoms in 9 body systems areas into the Inner Reach® HiGS. Inner Reach® is a web-based preventive care technology business designed to place individuals in the center of their own healthcare process by electronically collecting the first and most important step to self-care and healthcare– health histories.

Other experience: Mr. Fitzpatrick has been developing web sites and applications for 14 years. He was the architect of an e-learning management solution for Smarter Online, an e-learning management system for the securities industry. Additionally, he designed a prototype to help match people with appropriate medical tests for Test Universe. Mr. Fitzpatrick has designed data bases for many companies using Microsoft SQL Server. His expertise in various software products, technologies, and languages include: Visual C#, Visual Web Developer, Expression Web, and Adobe Dreamweaver; SQL, ASP.Net, and .Net Framework; C#, HTML, XML, and JavaScript. He has also used FORTRAN, COBOL, C, Pascal, and Visual Basic. He has designed and developed e-commerce systems.

Computer industry trade organizations: Mr. Fitzpatrick has consulted to computer industry trade organizations including: the Fibre Channel Loop Community (FCLC) and the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). For FCLC - a group marketing Fibre Channel technology to the world, he was the web site designer and web master (FCLC 5 years; FCIA 1 year), as well as the trade show support-team organizer for 6 years (1995 to 2001). For six years, he worked in this position at three trade shows annually - COMDEX, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), and INTEROP in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mark Fitzpatrick was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 1997 to 2008 of which there are now around 1,200 active. (Microsoft describes MVPs as exceptional technical community leaders from around the world that dynamically share real world expertise in offline and online technical communities.) He is a contributing author or technical editor of standard texts about Microsoft software, FrontPage, and IIS Administration. Those texts include Special Edition Using FrontPage 2002 (Que Publishing, 2001), Special Edition Using FrontPage 2000 (Que Publishing, 1999), Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 in 21 Days (Sams Publishing, 1999), IIS Administration (a book about Microsoft’s Internet Information Services; New Riders Press, 2000), and a Microsoft white paper on Microsoft FrontPage 2003 (Microsoft Corporation, 2003).

President, Chief Financial Officer, Director-- Jack Wilson

Jack Wilson served as the treasurer of an Oklahoma real estate development and investment company for 20 years, managing numerous multi-million dollar land development and property deals, sales to the private sector, and the government. He provided cash management and investing in all types of financial securities, directed the accounting staff, enhanced the business structure by streamlining accounting functions, managed facilities, and interfaced with the staff of in-house attorneys reviewing contracts and other general business.

While employed by the Internal Revenue Service for 7 years, Jack Wilson audited individuals and corporations, including several medical based facilities. In private practice, he enabled businesses to cut costs by streamlining various financial components. A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Wilson has broad and deep knowledge of accounting, taxes, general business practices, assets, liabilities, contract law, and investments. At Inner Reach, Mr. Wilson brings his diligence to merge product integrity, service of excellence, and the insuring of high revenues through lower than standard overhead and operational costs, maximizing profits.

Chief Business Development Officer, Director--Gerald "Jerry" L. Byrnes

Gerald L. Byrnes, Chief Business Development Officer, Director at Inner Reach Corporation is a Marketing and Business Development executive, specializing in creating new business opportunities in Computer Technology in Government and Commercial venues. With particular proficiencies in Funding, Legislative and Policy Issues as well as Extensive Capitol Hill (DC) experience, Mr. Byrnes’ areas of substantive knowledge include: New Business Development, Product Management and Marketing Communications, Business Plan Development, Access Control and Security Systems, Biometrics, Secure Identification Systems, Engineering Technology, Trade Show Production, and Press Relations.

He has worked with many federal and state agencies including Departments of Defense (DOD), State and Justice as well as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) and Federal Bureau of Prisons. He has been a key leader in introducing new technologies into the government marketplace. Mr. Byrnes introduced the use of facial recognition biometrics into the DOD in 1994.

Mr. Byrnes’ past 35 years of experience include upper management positions at Fujitsu (computer technology and technology security), Curtiss-Wright (products and services for commercial aerospace, power generation, general industry, and defense), and Viisage Technology/Lau (developer of biometric identification systems; facial identification biometrics). He has extensive experience in TeleMedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring Systems.

Mr. Byrnes is a former Naval Officer, holding a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Engineering with a Major in Economics from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD (Diploma1971). He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with a specialty in Marketing and Market Research from Clark University (Diploma 1986).

Chief Technology Officer, Director--Michael Fitzpatrick

Considered a visionary bringing Fibre Channel technology to the marketplace, Mike Fitzpatrick is an electrical engineer, Engineering Fellow, and computer marketing professional with 40 years experience in systems, strategic engineering, storage architecture, product development, and marketing. With a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, Mr. Fitzpatrick has served on boards and committees for 30 years that set the standards for technologies world-wide such as ANSI, SCSI, RAID Advisory Board, ARRAY, Optical, Trusted Computing Group, T10 SCSI, and T11 Fibre Channel. Currently he serves on standards working groups and committees such as T10, the SCSI Trade Association, SNIA, IDEMA, and the Storage Performance Counsel.

In 1995, he created and founded the Fibre Channel group, in which he strategically focused and switched the worldwide market away from a competing technology [IBMs Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)] to Fibre Channel. One of Mike Fitzpatrick’s most meaningful contributions to the industry was marketing Fibre Channel to the world making it into its 9 Billion dollar annual business by 2003 (currently 6 Billion dollar market size). He served for four years as the chairman of the board of the Fibre Channel Community (FCC) and the fifth year as chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). Mr. Fitzpatrick built the Fibre Channel group up to 150 member companies, including Fujitsu, IBM, Seagate, Hewlett Packard, Brocade, Compaq, QLogic, Emulex, Sun Microsystems, Unisys, and Intel. Currently a computer related technology industry leader, early in his career he was a medical laboratory technician and spent eight years developing computerized medical instrumentation and hospital information systems.

Director -- Benjamin R. H. Davis, Ph.D., Retired Board member

Dr. Ben Davis, served on the Inner Reach Corporation Board of Directors for 12 years (1998-2010). During that time, he endeavored to help frame and implement the highest policy and decision-making processes to ensure that the management, through its various planning, efficiently executed the mission and objectives of Inner Reach. Dr. Davis was instrumental in establishing the organizational development, policies, and principles followed by the Company, which are continued today. Inner Reach is grateful for his outstanding dedication and service.

Dr. Ben Davis, an adult learning specialist and a scholar and practitioner in the use of the Internet and other distance learning technologies, with over 40 years in the field, has focused on leadership development in both formal and informal educational settings. As Professor Emeritus with the Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, a former Dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, he also served as chairman of the board of North Central University, an Arizona online university. Dr. Ben Davis’ areas of substantive knowledge include administration and organizational development, higher education, adult learning, integral health and computer science and technology. He is currently a fellow of the Wildflowers Institute, a San Francisco organization devoted to socially sustainable community development in the US and China. He assisted the American Association of Traditional Oriental Medicine in achieving recognition as the accrediting body for US schools of acupuncture. For twelve years, he continued his interests in health delivery systems with Inner Reach HiGS until his retirement in 2010 when he felt it was time to take life easier, spend more time cooking elegant delicious meals, and enjoying jazz and family.

Simon Hurst of England and Oklahoma City, OK., is the official photographer for Inner Reach Corporation.