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Steve Wiggins
President and Chairman
Bob Dahl
EVP of Business
Development
Michael Litt
Chief Financial
Officer
Frank Young
Director
Tom MacMahon
Director
Chris Garcia
Director
Steve Wiggins
Mr. Wiggins is a Managing Director of Essex Woodlands Health Ventures. Mr. Wiggins was the founder and served 14 years as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Health Plans. Under his leadership, Oxford grew to over $5 billion of annual revenue and ranked among the 300 largest U.S. corporations. He was also the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HealthMarket, Inc, an insurance company that gave birth to innovative Consumer Driven Health Plans and grew to over $150 million of revenue before being acquired by UICI in November 2004.

He co-founded Health Partners, Inc. in 1993, a physician practice management company that grew to $140 million of annual revenue before it was sold. He was also a principal co-Founder of Intelliclaim, Inc., which provided claim auditing and productivity software and services to over twenty health insurers before it was sold to McKesson; and BenefitPort, LLC, a consolidation of health insurance general agencies.

Mr. Wiggins has also been an active private equity investor on his own and in partnership with private equity funds, typically originating transactions or organizing new businesses. Mr. Wiggins serves on the Board of Directors for Touchstone Health and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Ika Systems and Revolution Health. Mr. Wiggins was also the founder, in 1978, and remains a Director of Accessible Space, Inc, a nonprofit organization that develops and operates residential facilities for individuals with mobility impairments and brain injuries.

Mr. Wiggins currently serves as an Operating Partner of Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, one of the premier late venture and growth equity investors in the health care services, medical device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors of the health industry.

Mr. Wiggins holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College where he currently serves as a Trustee, and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Bob Dahl
Bob Dahl has served as our Executive Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Vice Chairman of the Board since our inception. From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm with over $50 billion of equity under management, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field. During his tenure at Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served on the investment committee of the U.S. buyout funds, including the $7.9 billion Carlyle Partners IV and the $3.9 billion Carlyle Partners III funds. Mr. Dahl also served on the investment committee of the $430 million Carlyle Mezzanine Partners
 
Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Earlier in his career Mr. Dahl was a CPA for Price Waterhouse. Mr. Dahl is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was elected a Baker Scholar and received a Loeb Rhodes fellowship. He received a B.A. from Middlebury College. Mr. Dahl is a director of Amkai LLC, Ika Systems Corporation and Slate Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Michael C. Litt
Michael C. Litt has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since our inception.  Mr. Litt was an original Partner at FrontPoint Partners LLC, where he served from 2001 through 2006. At FrontPoint he was the portfolio strategist and co-manager of the FrontPoint Multi-Strategy Fund.  He authored the FrontPoint Quarterly Research publications on market and strategic issues and developed many of the firm's investment products.
 
Prior to his role at FrontPoint Partners, Mr. Litt spent 17 years, from 1984 through 2001, at Morgan Stanley & Co. where he was a Managing Director.  At Morgan Stanley he led the Global Pensions Group in New York, the strategic coverage unit for pension plans, endowments, and foundations.  Prior to that Mr. Litt was a senior member of the Corporate Coverage Group, a joint venture between the investment banking and equity divisions of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Litt began his career as a member of the 545 Group in Morgan Stanley's San Francisco office where he worked closely with Silicon Valley technology firms on cash management, restricted stock sales, and reinvestment of founder proceeds into lower volatility balanced portfolios.
 
Mr. Litt graduated from the University of Chicago with an M.B.A. in Finance. He received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in Writing.

Dr. Frank E. Young, Director
Dr. Young is the former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, serving the FDA from August 1984 to December 1989. Dr. Young led the U.S. government's efforts to develop the National Guidelines for recombinant DNA products and ushered in the regulatory framework for biotechnology products at the FDA. Dr. Young also previously served, from 1989 through 1993, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Science and Environment with oversight of the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control. Subsequently, from 1993 through 1996, he directed the Office of Emergency Preparedness and National Disaster Medical System and concomitantly directed the Emergency Preparedness Plan for Health and Medical at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Dr. Young was previously the Chairman and Professor of Department of Microbiology (1970-1979); Professor of Radiation Biology and Biophysics; Professor of Pathology (1970-1984); and, Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester (1979-1984); the Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Rochester (1982-1984); and Chairman of the Executive Hospital Committee of Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY (1979-1984). Currently, Dr. Young is a part time partner of Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, which currently has $1.6 billion under management. Additionally, he is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cosmos Alliance, an investment group, and a director of Agennix, Inc., La Jolla Pharmaceuticals Company and Elsys Therapeutics, Inc.

Thomas MacMahon, Director
Mr. MacMahon was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of LabCorp, a diagnostic services company, from 1997 to 2006. Prior to his appointment as LabCorp's Chief Executive Officer in 1997, Mr. MacMahon was Senior Vice President of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. from 1993 to 1997 and President of Roche Diagnostics Group and a member of the Executive Committee of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. from 1988 to 1996. At Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. he was responsible since 1988 for the management of all United States operations of the diagnostic business. As a member of the Executive Committee of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., his responsibilities included oversight of Roche Biomedical Laboratories (one of LabCorp's predecessor companies), then a subsidiary of HLR Holdings Inc., from 1988 to 1995. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Express Scripts Inc, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings and PharMerica Corporation and the past Chairman of the American Clinical Laboratory Association. Mr. MacMahon holds a B.S. in Marketing from St. Peter's College and a M.B.A. in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Christopher J. Garcia, Director
Mr. Garcia is presently an Operating Partner and advisor with the Charterhouse Group, Inc., a middle market private equity firm where his primary focus is healthcare services investing and where he has served since March 2003. Prior to Charterhouse, Mr. Garcia spent 10 years, from 1993 to 2003, as founder and Chief Executive Officer of National Healthcare Resources, Inc., a healthcare services business offering managed care services to the property and casualty and auto insurance markets. Earlier in his career, Mr. Garcia spent eight years working in investment banking at Solomon Brothers and Greenwich Capital Markets as well as three years as a CPA at KPMG. Mr. Garcia has held several public and private board positions in his 13 years of private equity investing and is presently Chairman of the Board of Camelot Health Services, Inc, a behavioral health services company and Chairman of the Board of Upstream Rehabilitation, Inc., a physical rehabilitation services company. Mr. Garcia is a graduate of the University of Florida where he received a B.S. in Accounting.

Dr. Anthony Wild, Senior Advisor
Dr. Anthony Wild will serve as our Senior Advisor. We may consult, from time to time, with Dr. Wild, an individual who has experience in the healthcare industry, who is a stockholder of our company and who will provide industry knowledge and general management advise to us. He may also play a role in identifying and analyzing potential acquisition candidates for us. Dr. Wild has been active in the global pharmaceutical industry since 1972. Most recently, Dr. Wild founded and is a general partner of a privately-owned start-up company, BOWS Pharmaceuticals AG of Zug, Switzerland. From 2006 through 2007, he served as the non-executive chairman of the board of MedPointe Pharmaceuticals, a company he founded in 2000. Serving as its Chairman and CEO from 2000 through 2006, he led the building of a significant specialty pharmaceutical business that in 2005 had approximately $250 million in sales. Prior to this, he was Executive Vice President of the Warner-Lambert Company and, from 1995 to 2000, President of its global pharmaceutical operations. Before joining Warner-Lambert, Dr. Wild held a series of marketing and management positions in six different countries for Schering-Plough, starting in Switzerland in 1973 and culminating as President of Schering Plough KK in Japan. He also serves on the board of directors of Millennium Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based public biotechnology company devoted to oncology and inflammation; of Fovea S.A., a privately-owned Paris, France-based ophthalmology pharmaceutical company; and is also Chairman of the Board of Advisors to Ferrer, Freeman and Company, a healthcare private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is a past Governor of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Japan and a past Chairman of the International Section of the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers' Association of the U.S.A. Dr. Wild holds a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of York and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, both in the U.K.