So far there was no technology company overseeing the entire project and Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, was serving as the system integrator.

Founded in 1997 by Tony Singh, QSSI describes itself as an organization with a proven track record delivering a broad range of solutions with particular expertise in Security & Privacy, Software Engineering, and Health IT.

Bringing together more than 400 of the most talented personnel in the industry, QSSI management team represents several decades of IT experience serving both public and private clients, it says.

The company is headed by Bikram Bakshi, an inventor or co-inventor of eleven US patents and author of several IEEE conference publications, who joined the company in 2005 as President & CEO.

A graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from the Delhi Institute of Technology, he has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

The Chief Operating Officer & CFO of the company is Pawan Malhotra. Before joining the company he was an angel investor and advisor to a number of start-ups in the Washington area and spent several years on Wall Street where he supported companies in raising over $1B of new capital, according to the website.

The company's chief technology officer is Kovilvenni Ramaswamy (Ram) with a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from Regional Engineering College in India. He has over 20 years of broad software engineering leadership with design and development expertise across multiple technology platforms.

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