Dylan Avatar
Co-founder & CEO
Eleven years across tech startups, including nine as a founding-team member at a digital credential platform. Started CredNet after a healthcare experience made the industry's credentialing problem personal.
About Credential Network
Credentialing,finally caught up with healthcare.
We're building the credentialing platform we wish existed when our team lived inside spreadsheets, for the people doing the work, and the patients waiting on care.
How we got here
From a hospital bed to a new mission.
In 2023, our founder Dylan Avatar survived a severe wingsuiting accident and spent weeks in intensive care. Conversations with physicians, nurses, and hospital staff revealed something universal:
Credentialing is inefficient, frustrating, and deeply overdue for innovation.
Once recovered, Dylan partnered with medical software veteran Jeff Falconer to build a digital credentialing platform grounded in real clinical needs and real operational challenges.
Our guiding mission: fix credentialing compliance so healthcare teams remain focused on delivering exceptional care, just as they did for Dylan.
Our story, in our own words.
Leadership
The team behind the platform.
Deep clinical insight, enterprise engineering discipline, and decades of operational experience across healthcare.
Carlos Herrera
Head of Engineering
Engineering leader bringing enterprise-scale discipline to CredNet's platform, security, reliability, and the systems thinking that healthcare-grade software demands.
Danielle Jewhurst
Product Manager
Product manager working hand in hand with partners to build a thoughtful platform. Background in medical billing, coding, HIPAA compliance, and project management at a large insurance company.
Jeff Falconer
Co-founder & CBO
25+ years of medical software and government sales. 15+ President's Club achievements. Drives go-to-market for CredNet alongside engineering and product.
Trusted advisors
Counsel from across the industry.
Decades of experience across clinical practice, payer operations, compliance, governance, and identity innovation.
Governor Jeff Colyer, MD
Former Governor of Kansas, MD
Former governor of Kansas and practicing physician. Brings public-health, policy, and clinical perspective to CredNet's roadmap.
Chris Jann
Healthcare Executive
Founder, operator, and investor with two decades at the intersection of healthcare and managed services. Founded and grew a technology services company to $100M in revenue, ultimately merging into Abacus Group / Medicus IT at $200M+.
Jake Weatherly
Identity Software Founder
Co-founder and former CEO of SheerID, scaled identity verification for commerce from zero to $65M ARR, 190 employees, and $100M raised. Now Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Oregon and Board Director at SheerID.
Brittany Krusze
Healthcare Executive
Healthcare software and network leader with experience spanning health IT, revenue cycle management, government contracting, and enterprise account management.
Dave Patel
Healthcare Executive
Co-founder of BilledRight, a healthcare revenue cycle management company he has led for over 20 years, and Chief Innovation Officer at Medicus IT.
Saurin Patel
Healthcare Executive
Co-founder and CEO of BilledRight, a healthcare revenue cycle management company built over the past two decades.
Brian Cronin, MPT
Physical therapist & practice operator
Owner of U-District Physical Therapy, lecturer at Whitworth, and instructor at U-Inspire. Inspired Dylan to start Credential Network by calling credentialing "a constant headache."
Travis Rodgers
Dental Startup Advisor
Healthcare technology veteran who has built 7 companies and 27 products, with firsts in dental software including electronic referrals, online scheduling, and practice-to-lab integrations.
Josh Sushan
Investor, Civics Capital
Co-Founder and General Partner of Civics Capital, investing in founders bridging government and innovation. Now VP of Global Business Development at PowerSchool; previously helped scale Merit through its $50M Series B.
Tom Simpson
Kick-Start Fund Investor
CEO of Ignite and President of the Spokane Angel Alliance, a 100+ member angel group that has deployed over $80M into 79 companies. Managing Member of the Kick-Start Seed Fund, which counts Credential Network among its portfolio.
What we stand for
Six principles, every day.
Every product decision, every customer interaction, every line of code, these are the principles we lean on.
Impact
Every improvement matters. Every hour returned to a clinician creates better outcomes for patients.
Integrity
We do what is right even when no one is watching. Trust is the core of our work.
Grit
Challenges and setbacks are inevitable, but we approach them with resilience and determination.
Speed
We learn quickly, adapt quickly, and ship quickly. Progress fuels growth.
Empathy
We listen to administrators and clinicians. Their experiences guide our product decisions and our mission.
Security
Our partners trust us with their most sensitive data, and we guard it with relentless focus.
Want to talk about credentialing?
Whether you're evaluating us, want to advise us, or you'd just like to compare notes, we'd love to hear from you.