Who we are

Kyle Ferguson joined Forsta as CEO in 2020 with over 20 years’ experience in technology, banking and payments industries. Prior to joining Forsta, Ferguson held the Chief Executive Officer role at Fraedom, a global financial technology company, where he successfully led the company’s sale to Visa Inc. in 2018. Prior to this, he also served as Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Director at the company, and previously spent 11 years with American Express. Kyle is a seasoned executive with a track record of developing and leading high performing teams in the SaaS technology space, while supporting these businesses through necessary investment and growth stages.

Darren oversees Press Ganey’s organizational strategy, product development, data insights, and analytics platforms. He has more than 30 years of expertise in the technology space, including 20 solely focused on healthcare, and he is widely recognized for his innovation in healthcare operations and patient care.  

Prior to joining Press Ganey, Darren served as Chief Information Officer at Cedars-Sinai Health System, where he also led Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures and founded the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator.

Johnny leads the global marketing organization, focusing on marketing strategy and bolstering the organization’s role as an innovative partner for improving patient, customer, and employee experiences. He drives cross-functional go-to-market efforts for all Press Ganey products and services and the transformative Human Experience (HX) platform. With over 15 years of industry experience at Fortune 500 companies and a background as Cerner’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and Oracle Health’s Vice President of Marketing, Luu excels in communications, team building, and change leadership. His expertise spans healthcare and technology, underscored by his prior role in communications at Google and Waymo.

Clemente leads the global financial organization and financial activities, including accounting and controllership, financial planning and analysis, tax, investor relations, internal audit, and treasury. He has over 25 years of international finance and operations management experience for Fortune 500 organizations across Latin America, Europe, and the U.S.

Clemente most recently served as Chief Financial Officer at Lionbridge. He previously held leadership positions at Empirix Inc., CA Technologies, Sun Microsystem, and Silicon Graphics Inc.

Devin manages all legal, contracting, licensing, and compliance aspects of Press Ganey’s business operations and corporate development activities. 

Devin has over two decades of experience advising privately held and publicly traded companies in all aspects of corporate and securities law, as well as regulatory, compliance, and corporate governance matters.

As Managing Director, Market Research, Tobi is responsible of all of the Quantitative Business. Tobi’s knowledge and passion for technology and marketing research resulted in the birth of Dapresy, which merged with Forsta in 2020. In founding Dapresy, Tobi paved the way for online data presentation systems to visualize Market Research data. He has dedicated his professional career to data visualization and is a recognized expert in the field, having consulted with hundreds of companies on innovative visualization processes.

Brian Bhuta joins Forsta as Chief Product Officer, bringing over 15 years of healthcare, product & technology experience and executive leadership. As a product leader, Brian is passionate about building products and technology-enabled services to rapidly and incrementally deliver value for customers and users. Prior to joining Forsta, Brian was the Chief Product Officer at Signify Health, the market leader in delivering value-based care enablement and was VP, Product Management at athenahealth prior to that where he was responsible for athenaCollector, a cloud-based medical billing and practice management product. Before athenahealth Brian held various executive and leadership roles at EMC (acq Dell 2016), NaviNet (acq Lumeris 2012) and Phoenix Data Systems (acq BioClinica 2008). Brian lives in Boston, MA with his wife and three children.

Peter Myklebust joined Forsta in 1997 as the company’s first employee following its founder. He started his career as a System Architect in the Internet Architecture group of TietoEnator, then known as ISI. At Forsta, Peter leads the R&D team and is responsible for all aspects of Forsta’s research and development. Peter earned a Master of Science in Engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Zhana Baleva is the SVP Strategic Integration and Transformation, directly responsible for defining and implementing the business strategy for that unit. She has been ingrained in the marketing research technology scene since 2011, helping ActiveGroup and later Forsta expand their commercial operations in EMEA. Zhana holds an Executive MBA from Cotrugli Business School and BA in Computer Science from Sofia University.

Chris has over 25 years of experience in building and scaling businesses across large brand-name companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), IBM, GE Healthcare, and Oracle. He’s also spent over a decade growing and scaling private equity and venture-backed health tech companies; leading and participating in successful exits and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Press Ganey, Chris transformed Oracle’s North American Analytics commercial team and led their Financial Services Strategic Client Group to unprecedented growth in SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure during his six-year tenure. Chris holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and a bachelor’s from Westfield State University.