BNETAL :: Business Networks International Inc

"Business Networks International Inc. provided security architecture and design services as part of the CSC-Connecting for Health (CFH) consortium that recently concluded the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Architecture project. This prestigious project was funded by the US Department of Health Human Services with the goal of providing the foundation for secure, reliable and standards-based health information exchange nationally. The CSC-CFH consortium developed the NHIN architecture and implemented prototype networks in three health markets to demonstrate the real-life value of the NHIN.

Business Networks was responsible for developing the security and privacy architecture component of the NHIN architecture, and did a superlative job in completing this critical project deliverable. They made significant contributions to the rest of the CSC-CFH NHIN architecture, and were active participants in building a consensus across the diverse stakeholder group that made up the consortium. Their work was of high quality and appreciated by all members of our team."

Team lead
NHIN Architecture Team

Raja Kailar, Ph.D., Founder and CEO

Dr.Rajashekar (Raja) Kailar is the founder and CEO of Business Networks International Inc (BNETAL) in the US, and the technical director of Adstock group of companies in Bangalore, India. Dr.Kailar is the chief architect of ManageSecure® (Security Resource Management System) and SureDeliver® (Secure and Reliable Messaging System).

Dr.Kailar received his doctoral degree in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland at College Park. As part of his doctoral dissertation, he developed methods and tools to analyze vulnerabilities in cryptographic protocols for the Internet. Dr.Kailar is also Certified Vendor Security Analyst by the National Security Agency.

Prior to BNETAL, he has served as a researcher at IBM Federal Systems division, and as a senior security analyst/software designer at Hewlett Packard's Internet and Systems Security Lab and SecureWare. Dr.Kailar represented IBM, Hewlett-Packard, SCO and SecureWare in their security product evaluations including at NSA's TCSEC B1/CMW level and at the European ITSEC E3 level.

Dr.Kailar was the security architect of the New York e-Health Collaborative’s Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Phase II Trial Implementation, and the security architect on the NHIN Phase I prototype that was implemented across three Health Information Exchanges (HIEs): Massachusetts, Indiana and Mendocino, CA. He is a senior security analyst and consultant to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on their Public Health Information Network (PHIN) related projects. He provided subject matter expertise to the security architecture, design and development, and security certification and accreditation of CDC’s PHIN Messaging System. He also consults on the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH)'s CORE initiative, as a senior consultant to the CORE Connectivity and Security subgroup. He has represented CDC on the OASIS ebXML Messaging Services Technical Committee and represents CAQH on the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Security, Privacy and Infrastructure technical committee.

Dr. Kailar can be reached at Kailar@BNETAL.com. For more information and a list of Dr.Kailar's publications, Click Here.

Roopa Kailar, President Roopa Kailar has several years of architecture, design and development experience in fortune 500 companies including telecom and telephony companies. She has served as development team lead on several of Business Networks projects. Roopa has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland at College Park, and a B.S. degree in Maths and Statistics from Bombay University in India. Roopa is a technical lead on the ManageSecure project. Roopa Kailar can be reached at Roopa@BNETAL.com. Sudha (Sue) Mohan, Senior Vice President, Business Development Sudha has more than 22 years of experience in human resources, business strategy and information technology. Sudha is a recognized expert in strategic business partnership, executive coaching and compensation, strategic talent acquisition and retention strategies. Sudha has worked with organizations across a range of industries including banking, education, information technology, manufacturing, advanced research and high technology defense support and food processing. She has extensive business strategy and human resource experience in the R&D industry including Fortune 50 companies such as GE and United Technologies. Sudha work experience includes extensive R&D management and leadership positions in message processing systems in the banking and insurance industries, real-time distributed processing applications in the utility and defense industries, and process improvement and new system deployment in the food processing industry. Sudha has full-fledged generalist HR management experience including regional and multi-site management, strategy and policy development, compliance, salary planning, compensation benchmarking, new benefits design and administration, executive recruiting, coaching for performance management, and strategic employee relations. She has extensive strategic HR, training delivery and training management expertise in the US, Europe, Africa, Mexico. Sudha has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures in all phases, due diligence through complete integration of processes and benefits to derive acquisition objectives. She was chosen member of several company-wide committees such as the Mergers & Acquisitions council and the Global Mobility task while in GE, and the mergers & acquisitions team and the Organization Development teams in UTC-Carrier Refrigeration Operations, and the Kellogg Company team for Value Based Management (VBM) project for aligning marketing and manufacturing strategies.. Sudha holds MBA [Beta Gamma Sigma honors] (Marketing, Finance) from Syracuse University and MS (Computer Science) from SUNY Buffalo; B.Com. (Commerce, business management) from University of Mysore; Law education from Mangalore University. Sudha is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), GE-certified Six Sigma Greenbelt, UTC-Certified ACE Quality professional, and certified in Communication from Syracuse University, and CAIIB from the Indian Institute of Bankers. Recognized as a talent scout, Sudha is a discerning recruiter who focuses on finding well-motivated people with great skills, who also know how to balance their life. In addition to serving as the Senior VP of Business Development, Sudha handles people strategies for Business Networks International. Sudha can be reached at skailar@twcny.rr.com . V.R.Venkataramana (Venkat), Senior Vice President, Western Region Venkat has more than 22 years of software engineering experience in networking, operating systems and system development. He has held development team lead positions on several projects at Reynolds and Reynolds, IBM, Novell, Assured Access Technologies, Network Appliance and Peribit Networks. While at IBM, he has designed and implemented NetBeui/NetBIOS protocol and worked in the areas of Token-Ring Network and OSI/CS sub-system networks. He has authored NetBeui/NetBIOS Format and Protocol document for NetBIOS implementers. His work includes NetBEUI for NetWare Platform, ATM OC-12 driver, LANE/LECS/BUS protocol stacks at Novell and Network Appliance. His experiences also include IBM LAN Network Manager to support two port Bridge, various networking debugging tools, modem driver, driver to control LAN/WAN relays and LEDs, LCD driver, SNMP, CLI, Licensing Software, design of Radius software etc. Venkat holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Wright State University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from University of Mysore, India. Venkat can be reached at Venkat@BNETAL.com.