Teamwork serves as the key to Public Health Foundation Enterprises' national success. Utilizing a concept known as high performance teams, PHFE staff provides a customer-focused, highly responsive and personalized set of services to its clients. The high performance team model is designed to work in partnership with our clients. Because PHFE recognizes that each client is special, our motto is simple: Unique Programs. Unique Solutions.™
Management Team
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Mark J. Bertler, CAE
mbertler@phfe.org
President & Chief Executive Officer
(562) 699-3484 x 295Mr. Bertler has served as President/CEO since May, 2008. He brings over 40 years of experience in public health, human services and non-profit management.
Mr. Bertler began his career as a community organizer in Oakland County, Michigan developing youth recreation programs, crisis centers, free clinics and programs for runaway and homeless youth.
His interest in public policy eventually took him to the state capitol in Lansing where he represented the state network of Planned Parenthood affiliates and most recently served as the Executive Director of the Michigan Association for Local Public Health representing Michigan’s network of local public health departments where among other projects he participated in the development of one of the nations first local public health accreditation programs.
Mr. Bertler’s national activities have included work with the Public Health Informatics Institute, the Turning Point Information Technology Collaborative, the National Association of Local Boards of Health and the National Association of County and City Health Officials where he most recently chaired the Public Health Marketing Strategic Direction Team.
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Susan Vacko
svacko@phfe.org
Vice President, Director of Operations
(562) 699-7320 x 242Susan Vacko has served within PHFE's Fiscal Department for 12 years, working her way up to the Director position. As such, Ms. Vacko offers a highly valuable "hands on" approach and understanding to the management of the Fiscal Department. She has lead the full integration of two system conversions and therefore has a very extensive working knowledge of how to make PHFE's systems responsive to client needs.
Ms. Vacko is a Business graduate of California Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. Her ongoing goal for PHFE and the Fiscal Department is to maximize efficiency and productivity while offering the highest level of customer service possible. Ms. Vacko offers a strong and stable approach to the management of one of PHFE's core service areas.
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Greg Smith, MPA
gsmith@phfe.org
Director, Consulting Services
(562) 699-7320 x 281Mr. Smith joined PHFE as Director of Consulting Services in April 2003. Mr. Smith has established PHFE’s efforts in the arenas of public health and informatics activities and has been instrumental in establishing the California Public Health Informatics Partnership (CalPHIP).
Prior to joining PHFE, Mr. Smith was Director of the Washington Electronic Disease Surveillance System (WEDSS) at the Washington State Department of Health.
Mr. Smith received his B.A. with an Energy Systems focus and his Masters in Public Administration from The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington, and is currently completing his Masters in Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Danielle Gonzalez
dgonzalez@phfe.org
Director, Human Resources
(562) 699-7320 x 232Danielle Gonzalez joined PHFE Management Solutions in October 2005 and brings with her over 14 years of Human Resources experience. Prior to joining PHFE, Danielle was the Human Resources Division Manager for an education company, where she managed employee relations, training, compensation, recruiting, and legal compliance for schools throughout the United States.
Danielle is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) by the HR Certification Institute. She received a B.S. in Psychology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and is an active member of both PIHRA (Professionals in Human Resources Association) and SHRM (Society of Human Resources Management).
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Jude Lauren
jlauren@phfe.org
National Director, Management Information Systems
(562) 699-7320 x 250As the National MIS Director for PHFE, Jude Lauren oversees PHFE's IT department covering Information Security, Enterprise Infrastructure, Service Desk and Enterprise Resource Planning. Ms. Lauren has 18 years experience as an IT professional with 12 years management responsibility in the commercial real estate, financial, non-profit, consulting, software, design, defense & space industries.
Prior to joining PHFE in June 2007, Jude worked at Ameriquest Mortgage where she had the opportunity to grow her staff by 2,000% and built highly-efficient teams: J2EE technologies, Application Infrastructure and Application Support. Each team delivered exemplary customer service by being a seamless partner to the business. Her organization supported 120+ e-Business applications, 600 physical servers, middle-tier environments, multiple data/business centers and 24x7 production support.
Ms. Lauren garnered Lockheed Martin's Galaxy award for providing outstanding customer service to the Department of Housing & Urban Development. She served as an Associate Director, Business Systems at CB Richard/Ellis for 5 years, servicing the Fortune 100 companies by providing technology solutions to corporate real estate acquisitions and dispositions.
Her educational background includes certifications in Microsoft, Citrix and E-Commerce. She has a BS in Computer Information Systems at California State University, Los Angeles and she is a member of the Project Management Institute. Ms. Lauren is completing her Masters of Business Administration from Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
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Rodney L. Allen
rallen@phfe.org
Chief Financial Officer
(562) 699-7320 x 233Rodney L. Allen has served as CFO with PHFE since January 2003. Mr. Allen has been a successful banker, financial manager and business consultant for more than thirty years and has been the President of several diverse businesses.
Over Mr. Allen’s career, he has provided more than $1.5 billion of financing for a wide range of businesses and has been a key contributor to the strategic planning process for organizations he has run and advised.
Mr. Allen has an international business background in the Orient and has been involved in the start-up of several successful businesses.
