Markus Fromherz

Biography

Markus Fromherz is the Chief Innovation Officer of Healthcare at Xerox Corporation, where he is responsible for innovation across the payer, provider, government, and employer healthcare businesses in the Xerox Services group. Markus has also been a Vice President at the Palo Alto Research Center, where he directed PARC's Intelligent Systems Laboratory, which develops advanced information and automation systems based on intelligent user interfaces, language and image understanding, and reasoning algorithms. Applications range from business software to embedded systems to cleantech applications. Markus' research interests have been in the domain of intelligent embedded software including constraint-based modeling; model-based planning, scheduling, and control; and model-based design analysis and optimization. He has published widely and spoken internationally and has more than 40 issued and pending patents.