Thaddeus Stepanovich
Founder & CEO, Hive Rise Labs
Before building Forager, I spent over a decade as a healthcare IT director at two major health systems. I ran end-user services across multi-hospital divisions — managing field teams, data centers, and enterprise device programs, and leading Cerner activations in complex clinical environments. The work required coordinating across facilities teams, clinical leadership, third-party vendors, and compliance officers simultaneously, under timelines that didn't move.
In that time I watched every major asset tracking approach fail the same way: not because the technology was wrong, but because updating a record took longer than ignoring it. So people ignored it. Audits became guesswork. Equipment went missing between shifts.
I built Forager because I knew exactly what the tool needed to do — and I'd never seen anyone build it right. Two taps. Five seconds. Compliance record written. That's the design goal, and everything in the platform exists to protect it.
Background
- CommonSpirit Health — Divisional Director, IT
- Dignity Health — Technical Support Director
- ZOLL Data Systems — Deployment Specialist, EMS Software
- UCLA Center for Prehospital Care — Principal Instructor
- Tech Rockstars — Operations & Account Management
Hive Rise Labs is an independent technology company. We're small by design right now — focused on getting the first deployments right before we scale. If you're evaluating Forager, you'll be talking directly to the person who built it.
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