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December 2005
Pay By Touch names senior vice president and general manager to pave the way for company's launch into health care
Pay By Touch (12/19/05)
Pay By Touch, the global leader of biometric authentication, loyalty, membership, and payment solutions, today announced the appointment of Steven Yecies '93 as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s new health care business division. Yecies will lead the company’s launch into the health care industry, where Pay By Touch expects to leverage its innovative biometric service application to make improvements for patients, providers, payers and retail pharmacists...
With Yecies’ leadership and expertise, Pay By Touch will leverage its success in consumer biometric authentication systems to help providers, payers and retail pharmacies facilitate identity management and payments for patients. Th e Pay By Touch technology will give consumers the freedom to not only pay with the touch of a finger, but also allow access to direct payment from their health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts. It will also enable access to medical information along with safer, faster prescription pickup – no insurance card or ID will be necessary...
Prior to joining Pay By Touch, Yecies was the founder and general manager of Scient’s global health and wellness business, where he implemented innovative ebusiness solutions for the world’s leading payer, provider, and life sciences companies and institutions. His 20 years of experience also include executive and C-level positions with Model N, Acumen Sciences, Radiology Management Sciences, and Electronic Medical Management...
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Dunk 'Em At Tourney In Tribute to Coach
The Honolulu Advertiser (12/04/05)
Toward the end of this week, eight teams will gather in the gym that bears Jim Alegre's name to compete in the tournament that bears Jim Alegre's name, and will do their best to live up to the legacy.
James Shigeo Alegre was the basketball coach at Radford High School for 34 glorious years, filling the trophy case and record books with more than 600 wins, four state championships and nine OIA titles. Even more than for his winning record, Alegre was known for his warm smile, infallible integrity and the strength of character he taught along with basketball skills.
In October, he succumbed to cancer at 68 after a yearlong fight.
But during that last year, the kids who became good athletes and good men because of Coach Alegre got to thank him. They called, they wrote letters, they came to see him. They made sure he knew.
Raymond Ocampo was a bench-warming junior on Alegre's 1969 championship team, the first OIA team to win a state basketball title. At one point, Ocampo was the only player on the team who hadn't scored a point the whole season. Alegre called special plays to make sure Ocampo got a chance to get on the scoreboard.
A few days before Alegre died, Ocampo sent this letter to the man he still called Coach:
"I went to college at UCLA and law school at Berkeley, neither of which would have happened had I not believed that all things were possible. I have had a successful career with many accomplishments — I was the general counsel at Oracle Corporation, the chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law, co-founder of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (the leading intellectual-property program in the country), a member of the board of directors of several public companies and numerous nonprofit organizations — but I was prouder of being a member of the Radford High School varsity basketball team in 1968-69 than any other organization of which I have been a part. I was a bit player on the team — the last one on the bench — but you made sure to make me feel a part of the game. For that, I will always feel grateful..."
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