Ivo Nelson is a 27-year veteran in the healthcare industry and is the founder and Chairman of Encore Health Resources (Encore). 

Mr. Nelson has built some of the largest outsourcing and consulting firms in the United States and for the last seven years, he has developed healthcare businesses in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.  This broad, global experience has allowed him to understand each unique market and link the common threads of healthcare solutions and skills across the world.  

Prior to founding Encore, Mr. Nelson was the leader of IBM's Global Healthcare Provider business where he provided sales leadership, created healthcare strategies and conducted Healthcare Summits in India, Singapore, Australia, China, Brazil, Dubai, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands and the UK.  Before joining IBM, Mr. Nelson cofounded Houston-based Insource Management Group, later renamed Healthlink Incorporated (Healthlink).  Mr. Nelson served as the CEO of Healthlink, a company he built to be the nation's largest privately-held, provider-focused healthcare information systems consulting firm.  While leading the company, Mr. Nelson engineered six acquisitions and mergers, which, when combined with strong internal growth, helped make Healthlink one of the fastest growing companies in Houston and the healthcare industry. IBM acquired Healthlink in June 2005.  Prior to founding Healthlink, Mr. Nelson served with corporations such as EDS and Perot Systems. While at Perot Systems, he helped start the Healthcare Division and developed it into what is now the largest outsourcing firm in the healthcare industry.

Mr. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 Award for the Houston and Gulf Coast Region in the IT category. He actively serves the healthcare IT industry through his involvement in many of the industry's leading associations. He is a former Vice Chair of the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the largest association in the healthcare information systems industry, which represents more than 20,000 professionals from provider, payer, and life sciences organizations. He is also past Chairman of the Texas Institute for Health Policy Research, one of the few healthcare policy research institutes in the country.