new horizons series speaker
Jason Angel
Jason Angel ‘96
Founder, President and COO,
WiFiciency, Inc.

Jason Angel is an average guy who always wanted to become an entrepreneur. As a kid, he often talked about owning a sporting goods store and eventually a professional football team. His friends would often joke about how some day they would all be working for him and he would work while they played golf. While he never did open that sporting goods store, he has built a solid career developing sales organizations, driving business strategy and managing the operations of a number of companies in the technology and healthcare industries.

Jason is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years experience, working to help organizations achieve rapid growth by building regional and national sales organizations, improving operations and recruiting top talent through what he calls “vision mapping”. He started his sales/entrepreneur career between his freshman and sophomore years at Rensselaer, as a commission only sales representative with Vector Marketing. In his first year he was the #2 sales rep in the Northeast and at the age of 19 opened his own office where he recruited more than 150 sales representatives.

Since then, Mr. Angel has been a founding member of a number of start-ups. His career is marked with terrific highs and radical lows; however, through it all he has remained positive and optimistic about the future. He has learned something every step of the way, which has made him a better businessman, smarter negotiator and stronger leader. He often says, “the only time you fail, is when you fail to learn”.

Most recently, he founded Worthington Healthcare Corporation (WHC), a company formed to acquire and manage the medical software company he worked for the previous two years, MRecord. MRecord powers medical transcription, dictation automation and medical records management through a suite of proprietary software. In June 2009, WHC merged with WiSpots, an interactive media company that provides patient education and entertainment in the medical wait environment, to form WiFiciency.

WiFiciency is a holding company that develops, acquires and manages cutting-edge software solutions for specialty medical practices, hospitals and other healthcare facilities. It offers a suite of physician and patient-centric software and hardware solutions that maximize profitability by reducing costs, improving productivity and generating additional revenue from the patient waiting room, while simultaneously improving patient satisfaction through education and entertainment.

Mr. Angel serves as the President and COO of WiFiciency. He is primarily responsible for developing the organization’s infrastructure, which includes sales, marketing, partnerships, and recruiting top talent. Most recently his company was featured on ABC’s new reality show Shark Tank. While it did not provide his company with the capital required to fund their growth, it did provide national exposure to millions of potential clients and end users.

Mr. Angel earned a BS in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1996. While at RPI he played four years of baseball, and was captain of the team in his final two season helping lead the team to its first ever trip to the College World Series. He was also a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity and a frequent visitor to the establishment called Elda’s.

He completed his MBA in e-business from the University of Phoenix. Mr. Angel plans to enroll in the fall 2010 at University of North Carolina where he will pursue a PHD in Health Leadership.

Mr. Angel lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife Cheri and their three children, Marcus, Justin and Katelynn. He continues to play baseball in the Men’s Adult Baseball League and mentors youth players through his non-profit organization Triangle Association of Sports Development (TASD).