Intelligent InSites, Fargo-based provider of healthcare software, has hired on a new chief technology officer, Morgan Korn, to replace former CTO and co-founder Trevor Gruby.

Korn started working with InSites in January 2016. He comes from an extensive background in software starting as a software engineer for IBM, then a business development manager with Great Plains Software, and on through the acquisition to Microsoft where he spent 14 years slowly climbing the ladder.

He was working in Seattle as the general manager/group manager of corporate IT functions when he left for InSites. According to a hefty LinkedIn profile, Korn was managing 350+ employees, including 160 off-shore, and 1,500+ contractors.

Now, he joins a team of less than 150, at a company barely twelve years old.

Apart from a brief one year venture in 2000, where Korn joined a technology startup called Allidex and raised $3.5 million in angel/venture capital funds – it’s been a while since he was in the startup world.

But this is what drew him to InSites, he said; a tight-knit team, whom he says “have been assembled in top flight”, and the space for creativity that a younger company allows.

“I believe that championship caliber software engineering is achieved by talented teams finding a balance between structure and creativity,” he said. “Large companies gravitate more and more towards structure, and maintaining a creative spark becomes increasingly difficult. Startups and small companies are often full of creativity but need structure to scale. I seek that balance of structure and creativity, but an abundance of creativity is more important to me.”

“It is just more fun to be in a creative environment,” he said.