ExactCost, Inc. draws valuable guidance from an esteemed Advisory Board which is comprised of members that are recognized as thought-leaders in their respective fields.
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» R. James Woolsey |
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R. James Woolsey is a Venture Partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners and a former Director of Central Intelligence. He is also the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; Of Counsel to the law firm of Goodwin Procter; and chairman of the Strategic Advisory Group of Paladin Capital Corporation. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger; Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council; and is on the Board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Before he joined VantagePoint, Mr. Woolsey was a Partner with Booz Allen Hamilton, specializing in energy and security issues, and prior to that a partner with Shea & Gardner in Washington D.C.
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» Ruben J. King-Shaw Jr. |
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Ruben King-Shaw is Founding Partner of Pan American Risk Management (PARMA), a Director of Scripps Florida Funding Corporation, and former Deputy Administrator and COO of the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
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» Bernard J. Korman |
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Bernard Korman is Chairman of the Board and a Director at Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. He formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Health Care Trust (a private healthcare foundation), and as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of MEDIQ Inc. (healthcare services). Mr. Korman is also a Director of the following public companies: The New America High Income Fund, Medical Nutrition USA, and NutraMax Products, Inc.
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» Kenneth S. Abramowitz |
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Kenneth Abramowitz is a Managing General Partner at NGN Partners and a former Managing Director at The Carlyle Group. Prior to joining Carlyle, he worked as an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., where he covered the medical supply, hospital management, and HMO industries for 23 years. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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» Allan Ferguson |
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Allan Ferguson serves on the Boards of Autoimmune, Inc., Biopure, Inc., TransMedics, Inc., Xthetix, Inc., Bonnie CLAC and Kimble Union Academy. He is also a member of the Tuck Entrepreneurial Center Advisory Board as well as the University of Delaware Chemical Engineering Advisory Board. Allan recently retired from 3i where he headed the U.S. businesses. Having held several senior operating positions at Johnson & Johnson, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics and Damon Biotech, Allan brings with him extensive knowledge of the healthcare sector, over 25 years of operating and management experience, and over 21 years of experience in international venture capital investing with technology companies.
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» Robert S. Kaplan |
Robert S. Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and chairman, Professional Practice, at Palladium Group, Inc. He has been a co-developer of both Activity-Based Costing and the Balanced Scorecard. Kaplan has published extensively in the fields of strategy, cost accounting and management accounting, and speaks globally on performance and cost management systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University and has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stuttgart, Lodz, and Waterloo. In 2006, Kaplan received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and was named to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
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>>Robert S. Kaplan's Biography on the Harvard Business School Website
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» Myrtle Potter |
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Myrtle Potter is CEO and President of Myrtle Potter & Company, LLC, which advises public and private life science corporations and boards of directors. She brings 28 years of successful operating and management of global life science companies of varied sizes and maturity, and has a proven track record of significantly improving growth and profitability. Her prior positions include President and COO of Genentech, Inc., where she led the $5+ billion biotechnology business and helped the company to achieve record sales and earnings growth; and President of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s $4 billion, 3500-person U.S. Cardiovascular/ Metabolics business. Ms. Potter is a sought-after speaker and has recently joined CNBC Television as a business contributor. She has received numerous awards and recognition ("Everyday Icon", "Woman of the Year", "Top 50 Most Powerful Women In Business" – to name a few), and has been written about in a number of books. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Medco Health Solutions, Inc. and of EPL, Ltd.
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» Edwin M. Kania, Jr. |
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Mr. Kania is the Managing Partner and Chairman of Flagship Ventures. Prior to co-founding Flagship Ventures in 2000, he spent 15 years as Managing General Partner of OneLiberty Ventures and as General Partner at its predecessor firm, Morgan Holland Ventures. His direct investment experience covers over 100 companies. In addition, he has been intimately involved in the launch and development of more than a dozen companies as the founding and lead investor. Mr. Kania is currently a director of Aspect Medical Systems (Nasdaq: ASPM), EXACT Sciences (Nasdaq: EXAS), Acceleron Pharma, Interactive Supercomputing, INTIO, Parasol Therapeutics, Pervasis Therapeutics, TARIS Biomedical, Inc., and is Chairman of the Boards of TransMedics and VisEn Medical. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and The Johns Hopkins Medicine Alliance for Science and Technology Development Industry. He holds a degree in physics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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» Suzanne H. Woolsey, PhD |
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Sue Woolsey specializes in corporate and not for profit governance. Her current corporate directorships include the Van Kampen mutual fund family, the Fluor Corporation, Changing World Technologies and Intelligent Medical Devices. She also serves on the boards of several non profits, including Caltech, Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado College, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 1989 to 2004 she worked with the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and Institute of Medicine, first leading the behavioral and social sciences and then for eleven years as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Communications Officer. She was Associate Director of OMB during the Carter Administration, overseeing the domestic 50% of the federal budget, and earlier directed policy staff at HHS (then HEW) for Secretaries Elliot Richardson and Cap Weinberger. She led a consulting practice as a partner at Coopers and Lybrand in the 1980’s, specializing in overall governance, legal support strategy, and financial restructuring for clients that ranged from large- and mid-cap corporations to universities and research institutes. She was a member of the editorial page staff at the Washington Post. She has taught at the university level, managed large-scale social science research, and managed a clinical counseling center. Her education includes a 1963 BA from Stanford in history and psychology, and MA and PhD degrees in clinical and social psychology from Harvard University.
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» Tom Fisher |
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Tom Fisher is CIO and Senior VP of Information Technology at DriveCam, bringing over 26 years of experience in the software industry. Prior positions include VP IT at Qualcomm Corp., VP Technology & Strategy and CTO of eBay, and VP Architecture and Security at Gateway Computers. Fisher is an active advisor to several leading VC firms including Clearstone Capital, Foundation Capital, JMI and Odyssey Venture Capital. He has also been an advisor to Oracle’s Database Technology Advisory Board, the Agile Technical Advisory Board, Google’s CIO Advisory Board as well as several private company advisory boards.
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» Jeremy M. Jones |
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Jeremy M. Jones brings 35 years of experience in home healthcare, clinical laboratory, disease management, healthcare distribution, and temporary staffing businesses. He also has a unique understanding of third-party reimbursement and contracting with managed care organizations. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Lifecare Solutions, Inc, and On Assignment Inc. (Nasdaq: ASGN). Mr. Jones was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Apria Healthcare Group (NYSE: AHG), the largest homecare service distributor in the nation. He has also served on the Board of Directors of US Labs, Inc. (acquired by LabCorp), Byram Healthcare Centers (acquired by OPG Inc.), Cardium Healthcare, and Access Point Medical. Additionally, he has served as Chairman of the Health Industry Distributors Association, Board Member of the National Association of Medical Equipment Services and founding Chairman of the Home Oxygen Services Coalition. He holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of Iowa and in 2007 was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the National Fraternity of Sigma Chi for his business accomplishments.
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» Marc Goldman |
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Marc Goldman is a successful businessman from New Jersey. Since selling his family business, Farmland Dairies, to Parmalat in 1999, he has been involved in various business ventures, primarily real estate. He is on the Board of Directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and was recently appointed by President Bush to the U.S. Holocaust Museum Council in Washington DC. He was the recipient of the first annual Crains New York business all stars, Who’s Who in Sales and Marketing, Who’s Who in the East 1989-90 and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Marc holds a BBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Miami.
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» Stephen Saft |
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Stephen Saft, an attorney with extensive expertise in corporate matters, specializes in taxation, trusts and estates. After 35 years of practice, in 2006 he joined the international private client law firm of Withers Bergman LLP. He is also a CPA. Over the last 25 years, he has also been involved in private equity investments and the development and management of commercial real estate in Connecticut and Florida.
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» Jerry Mashburn |
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Jerry Mashburn recently retired from his position as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mercy Hospital, Miami. Dedicating his talents and compassion to Mercy Hospital since 1972, Mr. Mashburn raised the bar of integrity from both the human resource and financial perspectives. Among his many achievements at Mercy, Mr. Mashburn directed numerous installations and upgrades of cost accounting, revenue management, general ledger, payroll, accounts payable, and billing systems; directed the integration of hospital financial systems and assets into Catholic Health East; assisted in the development of hospital-physician partnership offerings and the negotiation of hospital-based physician contracts conforming to changes in Medicare regulations and reducing hospital costs by $1.5M; and represented the hospital before State and Federal agencies dealing with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and regulation issues.
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» Mark Rosenbloom, M.D., MBA, FACEP |
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Dr. Mark Rosenbloom is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, and the CEO & Executive Editor of PEPID, LLC (a leading publisher of clinical, medical and drug references). He is also the Founder and Chairman of The Unicorn Children’s Foundation and a member of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders.
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» David Goldsmith |
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David Goldsmith brings over 35 years of experience in the health care financing arena, working with organizations ranging from start-ups through large companies in both the service and product segments of the industry. His expertise includes public market research, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital and buy-out transactions. He has served on the boards of numerous private and public health care companies and the board of a non-profit hospital system. Currently retired, Mr. Goldsmith remains an active health care investor and student of the industry. He holds a B.A. from Occidental College Los Angeles, an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
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» Bruce Levy, M.D., J.D. |
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Dr. Bruce Levy is CEO of Austin Gastroenterology, PA and Austin Endoscopy Centers. He received his Medical Degree from Hahnemann Medical College and his Legal Degree from The University of Houston Bates School of Law. He is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist who previously practiced at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas and served on the Baylor College of Medicine faculty. Dr. Levy has served on multiple, prestigious national medical policy commissions and has been a consultant to a majority of the national medical organizations. He is the past Executive Director of the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, Texas State Board of Physician Assistants, Chairman of the Texas Health Professions Council and Deputy Executive Vice President of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States.
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» Moshe Gerstenhaber, D.Prof. |
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Moshe Gerstenhaber has over 21 years of practical experience in franchising and business start-up. He founded Europe's largest print, copy and design franchise, Kall-Kwik Printing. He has published over 100 articles and has lectured at many venues, including London Business School, Judge Institute Cambridge, London’s City University, Durham University, and Middlesex University. He studied Economics at Columbia University and postgraduate Business Administration at the London School of Economics, and holds a doctorate from Middlesex University. He is a strong advocate of lifelong learning and, until recently,was an independent member of the Board of Governors of Middlesex University in London.
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» William M. Maykel, D.C., D.I.B.A.K |
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Dr. William Maykel is a chiropractic applied kinesiologist with over 30 years of clinical practice. After graduating from Western States Chiropractic College in 1978, Dr. Maykel became a diplomate with the International Board of Applied Kinesiology and board eligible in orthopedics. He is one of less than 100 doctors globally, licensed to teach this new medical specialty. He has served as Vice Chairman of the International College of Applied Kinesiology, U.S.A. chapter, for two different chairs. Responsible for treating corporate executives along with doctors from America's best hospitals, Dr. Maykel's clinics are becoming certified as Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) Centers of Excellence. TLC's are recommended as a first line of treatment by many organizations, including The National Institute of Health (NIH), National Cholesterol Education Program (ATP III Guidelines), American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association.
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» Abraham (Avri) Havron, PhD |
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Dr. Havron is a biopharmaceutical and biotechnology consultant with over 25 years of experience. His areas of expertise include: entrepreneurial biotechnology; regulatory, pharmaceutical, pre-clinical and clinical development; and management of biotech, pharmaceutical & medical device operations. He holds a Ph.D. in Bio-Organic Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.
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» Shlomo Nass, PhD |
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Dr. Shlomo Nass is an Advocate, CPA, and Certified Information Systems Auditor with over 22 years of practical work in every aspect of investment banking, economics, commercial, tax, and corporate law. He holds a PhD in Law, LLB Law degree, and B.Sc. in Economics and Accounting from the Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
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» Aharon (Roni) Ofer, PhD |
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Prof. Roni Ofer is a Professor of Finance, Recanati Graduate School of Business of Tel Aviv University and Kellogg Graduate School of Business Management, Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois. Professor Ofer is on the Board of Directors of several companies, chairman of investment committees and a consultant to corporations.
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» Rita Spiegel |
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Rita Spiegel serves on the Board of UCLA’s Jewish Studies Center, is a member of the UCLA Chancellor’s Associates and UCLA’s Plato Society, and is on the International Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University. She was a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for the Basic Sciences at UCLA and was a member of the Steering Committee of the Los Angeles-Tel Aviv Partnership and Co-Chair of that body’s Economics Committee. She serves on the Israel and Overseas Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles and is engaged in business and community activities both in Los Angeles and in Tel Aviv.
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» Marc Miller, M.D., MBA |
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Dr. Marc Miller is a physician executive with both operational and medical management experience. He is Chief Medical Officer / SVP for SeaBright Insurance Company, with nationwide responsibility for managed care service. He has expertise in providing consulting services to international healthcare companies focusing on US investment, strategic partnerships, and business development. Prior positions include: providing medical management for 120,000 HMO members of FHP, Inc. and serving as a Medical Director in Physician Practice Management, Hospital and Managed Care Workers’ Comp organizations.
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» Itzhak Chen |
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Itzhak Chen is Executive Manager of The Israeli Management Center, which is the largest training center for managers in Israel. Prior to his current position, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces for 33 years in various commanding positions, reaching the rank of Brigadier General. Among his various positions, he served as Attaché and Director of the Israeli Ministry of Defense in the U.K. and Ireland and Director of the Army College in Israel.
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