Paul Ricci
David Klements has stepped aside as president and CEO of health care software firm Qualifacts after 15 years at the helm.
Paul Ricci, the former chairman and CEO of tech giant Nuance Communications, recently took over from Klements, who remains a board member at downtown-based Qualifacts, which markets an electronic health record. The transition came a few months after Klements and his team
announced that Qualifacts was joining forces with Maryland-based peer Credible Behavioral Health. Combined, the two companies work with more than 800 behavioral health care and human services agencies.
Ricci, 64, spent nearly 18 years at the helm of Nuance, which markets speech recognition software to a number of sectors and has a market capitalization of more than $13 billion. He was elected chairman of the company in March 1999 when he was a senior Xerox executive and named CEO of Nuance in August 2000. Ricci retired in March 2018 after helping build its health care business and