Amicus was founded in 1998 by Ravi Laljani, who is also the co-founder of Integrys, Inc., the firm responsible for EZMed solutions for medical practice management. He has a proven track record of developing effective solutions involving web & database application development. He has led Amicus projects (see Software & Database Consulting) and the development of the PaperChase line of software (see Products). In addition, he has provided training in database design for clinical research.

Key members of our US-based team are
	Vaishali Parikh
	Anya Nagarkar
	Tanmay Panchwagh

Vaishali Parikh manages the medical software and services business. Ms. Parikh is familiar with medical office computerized billing, including ICD-9/CPT/HCPS coding and claims processing. Her software skills include database management with Microsoft Access, EZMed and Medisoft (medical practice management & billing software), and Cyrillic (pedigree software). Ms. Parikh has over 17 years of research experience in leading medical research institutions in the US, France, India and England, with publications in peer-reviewed journals, and an academic background in chemistry and immunology.

Anya Nagarkar has over 20 years experience in software development, including web application development, hosting services (system and network administration) support, database programming and DBA services, and client server software development. He has developed applications using a variety of software languages (JSP, Java JavaScript, ASP, PHP and Visual Basic) and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Access). He has worked as the DBA for Oracle and SQL Server databases, and has supported the System and Network Administration of SUN and Windows servers and iPlanet and IIS web servers.

Tanmay Panchwagh has over eight years experience with C/C++, HTML, XML, Perl, SQL, SQLJ, and J2EE technologies such as EJB/JSP/Servlets, on the Unix and NT platforms. He has also used various leading tools & databases such as Rational Rose, Jbuilder, Visual Café, DreamWeaver, HomeSite, Motif, Oracle, Ingres, Interbase, and UML. He has developed applications for air traffic control, oilfield services, the airline industry, and has worked on a rules editor application for a leading Java-based rules engine.

An offshore development team that collectively provides decades of experience in software development supplements their skills.