DavLong Business Solutions - Management Team

Management Team

David H. Long
President
Mr. Long graduated from Dickinson College with a BA in Economics in 1978. From 1978 until 1983 he worked for Turn-Key Distribution System, Inc. in Woburn, Massachusetts where he performed duties as a Programmer, Project Manager and Programming Manager.

In 1983 Mr. Long founded DavLong Business Solutions in Savannah, Georgia were he remains today as President. In his 22 years at DavLong, Mr. Long has been instrumental in many phases of the company’s development. Mr. Long’s responsibilities include short and long range strategic and financial planning. He also is responsible overseeing all contract negotiations and maintaining all vendor relations. Among Mr. Long’s achievements has been the creation of DavLong’s EMR team, which required the purchase of two companies.

Dean S. Gitlin
Vice President Sales and Support
Mr. Gitlin graduated from Hofstra University where he received his BBA in 1984 and his MBA in 1988. After working as an Operations Manager for a hardware/software corporate and retail distributor in Atlanta, Georgia called Micro Environments, Inc. and Micro Works, Inc., Mr. Gitlin formed a partnership with the owner of that company and started a company called Systems Strategies, Inc. in 1990. System Strategies sold applications software to the wholesale distribution, manufacturing, and medical industries. In 1992, Mr. Gitlin spun off the Medical division of System Strategies and formed Med-Assist. Med-Assist sold a practice management software product developed in-house under the name Med-Assist. In 1998, DavLong purchased Med-Assist, and brought Mr. Gitlin in to head the sales and support aspects of DavLong’s business.

Boris Katz
Vice President of Development
Mr. Katz graduated from St. Petersburg (Russia) Technical University in 1975 where he received an MS in Electronics and Computer Science. In Russia, he worked for a Soviet-American joint venture company as a System Engineer engaged in developing software for the State Emergency Hospital. Some projects included transmitting ECG data from ambulances to the Cardiovascular Center with further processing involving the creation of a Cardio knowledge base. In 1991, Mr. Katz moved to the United States where he began working for a company that transferred MUMS medical applications to new operating systems (Unix, Windows, etc.). From 1992 to 1997, he was Technical Director of the Houston branch of Medical Manager. In 1998, Mr. Katz formed Apex Medical Systems, Inc., a MedInformatix distributor, in Houston, Texas. In 2000, DavLong purchased Apex Medical Systems, Inc. and brought Mr. Katz in to head the development team.