About Samvit
Our team is composed of senior analysts who have deep technical and domain expertise in providing business process modeling and building detailed software requirements for creating standards-based software solutions for the healthcare community.
Team members have supported the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) enterprise technology solutions for over 15 years; they have provided enterprise modeling, re-engineering of organizational business processes and workflows, technical requirements and design services, and healthcare data standardization support to various NCI initiatives. The team has also been engaged with the US FDA for the last 8 years in developing data standards and terminology in the drug quality (CMC) domain and representing this drug quality and drug labeling structured data elements in HL7 FHIR and supporting the development of the FHIR Implementation Guides (IG) for these efforts.
Leadership Team and Co-Founders

Smita Hastak
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Smita Hastak has over twenty-eight years of systems analysis and design experience focused on the healthcare domain. This includes over twenty years working in the cancer clinical research community on various National Cancer Institute (NCI) related software development projects and five years in state Medicaid and bio-surveillance software initiatives. For the last eight years, Ms. Hastak has also co-lead the development of structured data standards in the Pharmaceutical Quality/Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (PQ/CMC) data and representing them in HL7 FHIR at the US FDA by working closely with the drug quality reviewers for three FDA Centers. In the biomedical research domain, she has been one of the lead modelers of the Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) model since its inception and has worked extensively with other industry standards organizations in building this comprehensive domain model for clinical research, which is now an ISO standard. She has also led the NCI CRDC Data Standards Harmonization effort that involved developing harmonized data elements and terminology across the various datatype nodes of the CRDC program and worked with the NCI Semantic Infrastructure teams to help develop CRDC Common Data Elements (CDEs) as well as led the development of the models.
She is an active participant in CDISC and HL7 standards efforts. She was a co-chair of the HL7 Biomedical Research & Regulation WG for over 4.5 years. Ms. Hastak interests and skills are in data and process representation, metadata standards, requirements analysis and systems and database modeling. She has also served as program lead in managing business growth and building successful partnerships. Ms. Hastak holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and a Masters degree in Information Systems.

Charles Yaghmour
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Charles Yaghmour has over thirty years of business and systems analysis, program management and technology experience in the civilian and military healthcare domains. His project engagements included projects at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Air Force Office of the Surgeon General, Army Office of the Surgeon General and the Navy Bureau of Medicine.
At his engagement at the Army Office of the Surgeon General, he lead a team to develop the NATO Allied Medical Publication-7 Concept of Operations for Medical Support in Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Environment. He lead multiple working sessions and worked closely with NATO countries representatives to the Biological Medical Advisory Committee (BioMedAC) to solicit feedback and guidance for the development of the document.
Mr. Yaghmour possesses skills in business operations management, program management, data modeling, and UML modeling. He managed, and served on, multiple projects at NCI and FDA. Mr. Yaghmour holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Computer Science.