Senior Management Team

Tony Strange

Chief Executive Officer, President and Director

Mr. Strange has served as a director of Gentiva and our chief executive officer since January 2009, and as our president since November 2007. He served as our chairman of the Board of Directors from May 2011 to February 2013. He served as chief operating officer of Gentiva from November 2007 to May 2009 and as executive vice president of Gentiva and president of our home health division from February 2006 to November 2007. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Strange served as president and chief operating officer of The Healthfield Group, Inc. Mr. Strange joined Healthfield in 1990 and served in other capacities, including regional manager, vice president of development and chief operating officer, until being named president in 2001. He is a director of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina.

Eric R. Slusser

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Mr. Slusser was named chief financial officer and treasurer in May 2010. He joined the Company as senior vice president of finance in October 2009. Prior to joining Gentiva, Mr. Slusser held senior management roles in finance and operations at large companies such as Sprint PCS Group, MCI Inc., Cardinal Health Inc., and most recently, Centene Corp. During his tenure at Centene, Mr Slusser held several senior management positions, including executive vice president and chief financial officer. From 1983 to 1995, Mr. Slusser worked in the audit division of Arthur Andersen, supporting clients from a range of industries on projects that included mergers and acquisitions, and business consulting. He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Missouri and has been licensed as a Certified Public Accountant since 1983.

John N. Camperlengo

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary

Mr. Camperlengo was named general counsel and secretary in May 2010. He became chief compliance officer and deputy general counsel in 2005, and has been a senior vice president of the Company since 2008. Mr. Camperlengo joined Gentiva in 2000 as senior counsel and held a number of increasingly important legal positions over the years. From November 2007 to May 2008, he served as vice president and chief compliance officer of Duane Reade Holdings, Inc., a retail pharmacy chain, and from 1992 to 2000, he held various legal and compliance positions with The Prudential Insurance Company of America and its subsidiaries, where he rose to become first vice president and associate general counsel. He holds a bachelor's degree from St. John's University and a law degree from Seton Hall University. Mr. Camperlengo is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.

Dr. Charlotte A. Weaver

Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer

Dr. Weaver has been Gentiva's senior vice president, chief clinical officer since she joined the Company in July 2008. She was previously executive director and vice president, nursing research for Cerner Corporation, the health information technology company, since 2007, and Cerner's chief nursing officer and vice president, patient care systems from 1999 to 2007. Dr. Weaver was a senior executive, analyst and consultant advising a number of healthcare organizations on nursing informatics and related areas from 1979 to 1999. She holds a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California-San Francisco, a bachelor's degree in anthropology and a master's degree in epidemiology from the University of Washington, and a nursing diploma from St. Elizabeth School of Nursing. During and after her pursuit of education, Dr. Weaver served for 14 years as a clinical nurse specialist in oncology, coronary care and surgical intensive care. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and is widely published in the field of healthcare information technology, evidence-based practice, nursing education transformation and related subjects.

David Causby

Senior Vice President, President of the Home Health Division

Mr. Causby became President of the Home Health Division in 2011. He joined Gentiva in 2003 and most recently served as the Senior VP of Operations for the Home Health Division. He previously held various other positions at Gentiva, including VP of Operations for the Home Health Division, VP of Operations for the Western Region, and VP of Operations for the Carolinas Region.

Jeff Shaner

Senior Vice President, President of the Hospice Division

Mr. Shaner became President of the Hospice Division in 2011. He joined the Company in 2002 as VP of Operations at Total Care, Inc., which was subsequently acquired by the Healthfield Group, where he became VP of Operations for Home Health. After Healthfield was purchased by Gentiva in 2006, Mr. Shaner served as VP of Operations for the Southeast Region, VP of Operations for the Home Health Division, and most recently, Senior VP of Operations for the Hospice Division.

David L. Gieringer

Vice President and Controller

Mr. Gieringer has been Gentiva's vice president and controller since 2002 and a Company officer since 2006. He joined Gentiva in 2000 as assistant vice president of accounting after serving 13 years with Gentiva's predecessor organization -- the healthcare division of Olsten Corporation -- in financial accounting management and staff positions. Mr. Gieringer previously held staff-level positions with a Kansas accounting firm. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Kansas State University and an MBA from Rockhurst College.

Board of Directors

Rodney D. Windley

Executive Chairman of the Board, Former Chairman, CEO and Founder, The Healthfield Group, Inc.

Mr. Windley has served as our executive chairman of the Board of Directors since February 2013. He has served as a director of Gentiva since February 2006, when he was elected to the Board of Directors and appointed vice chairman of the Board of Directors in connection with the completion of our acquisition of The Healthfield Group, Inc. He has served as a member of the Clinical Quality Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2008, serving as chairman since May 2009. Mr. Windley, Healthfield’s founder, had served as its chairman and chief executive officer since its inception in 1986 until the completion of the acquisition. Mr. Windley is the chairman of Prom Queen, LLC, a private real estate holding and restaurant development company, chairman of RDW Ventures, LLC, a private equity firm, and chairman of Gulf Coast Hatteras, Inc., a private yacht and sport fishing dealership. Mr. Windley is president of the Georgia Association for Home Care and is also chair emeritus of Fragile Kids Foundation, Inc., having started the charity in 1992.

Tony Strange

Chief Executive Officer, President and Director

Mr. Strange has served as a director of Gentiva and our chief executive officer since January 2009, and as our president since November 2007. He served as our chairman of the Board of Directors from May 2011 to February 2013. He served as chief operating officer of Gentiva from November 2007 to May 2009 and as executive vice president of Gentiva and president of our home health division from February 2006 to November 2007. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Strange served as president and chief operating officer of The Healthfield Group, Inc. Mr. Strange joined Healthfield in 1990 and served in other capacities, including regional manager, vice president of development and chief operating officer, until being named president in 2001. He is a director of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina.

Robert S. Forman, Jr.

Technology Consultant

Mr. Forman has served as a director of Gentiva and a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors since September 2009, serving as chairman of that committee since May 2011, and has served as a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2012. Mr. Forman was the founder, president and chief executive officer of IMI Systems, Inc., an international computer consulting firm specializing in the design and implementation of service order and billing systems in the telecommunications industry. In 1995, Olsten Corporation acquired IMI Systems, Inc. and Mr. Forman was an executive vice president of Olsten Corporation until 1997. Since leaving Olsten, Mr. Forman served on the boards of several private information technology consulting companies. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s IT School.

Victor F. Ganzi

Former President and Chief Executive Officer, The Hearst Corporation

Mr. Ganzi has served as a director of Gentiva since November 1999 and as Lead Director of the Board of Directors since May 2009. He has served as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors since November 1999, serving as chairman of that committee from November 1999 to May 2009, and has served as chairman of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2012, having previously served as chairman and a member of a predecessor committee of that committee since May 2009. He served as a director of Olsten Corporation from 1998 until March 2000. He was president and chief executive officer of The Hearst Corporation, a private diversified communications company with interests in magazine, newspaper and business publishing, television and radio stations and cable programming networks, from 2002 to 2008. He is a director, chairman of the audit committee and member of the nominating and governance committee of Towers Watson & Co. and was a director of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. from 1997 to 2008 and a director of Wyeth from 2005 to 2009.

Philip R. Lochner, Jr.

Former SEC Commissioner

Mr. Lochner has served as a director of Gentiva since September 2009, as chairman and a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2012, having previously served as a member of a predecessor committee of that committee since September 2009, and as a member of the Clinical Quality Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2010. Mr. Lochner currently is a director and member of the audit committee and the director affairs/corporate governance committee of CLARCOR Inc., the presiding director and member of the audit committee and the executive committee and chairman of the governance and public responsibility committee of CMS Energy Corporation and a director and member of the audit committee and the nominating and governance committee of Crane Co. During the past five years, at various times, Mr. Lochner was a director of Apria Healthcare Group Inc., GTECH Holdings Corporation, Monster Worldwide, Inc. and Solutia Inc. From 1991 until 1998, Mr. Lochner was senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Time Warner Inc. Prior to that, from 1990 to 1991, he served as a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has also previously served as a member of the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers and of the American Stock Exchange.

Stuart Olsten

Former Chairman, Operating Board, MaggieMoo's International, LLC

Mr. Olsten has served as a director of Gentiva since November 1999, as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2008 and as a member of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2012, having previously served as a member of a predecessor committee of that committee since May 2009. He served as a director of Olsten Corporation from 1986 until 2000. From 1990 to 2000, at various times, he served as Olsten Corporation’s chairman of the board of directors, vice chairman and president. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Olsten was the chairman of the operating board of MaggieMoo’s International, LLC and was its president and chief executive officer in 2003. Mr. Olsten serves on the board of private online employment service company IvyExec, Inc., as well as on the board of HarQen, Inc., a voice asset management company, where he also serves as chairman of the compensation committee. He is on the Advisory Board of the Syracuse University School of Management.

Sheldon M. Retchin, M.D., M.S.P.H

Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Commonwealth University Health

Dr. Retchin has served as a director of Gentiva and a member of the Clinical Quality Committee of the Board of Directors since September 2009 and as a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2012. Since 2003, Dr. Retchin has served as the chief executive officer of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, Virginia, and as vice president for health sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is a large academic health center in Central Virginia and delivers primary and tertiary health care to the mid-atlantic region. Dr. Retchin is a professor in the departments of internal medicine, gerontology and health administration and is a national expert in health policy and health care delivery, with special expertise on the costs, quality and alternative financing strategies for the Medicare program. He has over 80 publications on the costs and quality of care and has had appointments on numerous national panels regarding health care and the health professional workforce.

Raymond S. Troubh

Financial Consultant

Mr. Troubh has served as a director of Gentiva since November 1999, as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2000, serving as chairman of that committee from May 2009 to May 2011, and as a member of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors since May 2012, having previously served as a member of its predecessor committees since November 1999. He served as a director of Olsten Corporation from 1993 until March 2000. He has been a financial consultant for more than five years. He is a director, member of the compensation committee and member of the audit committee of Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc., a director and member of the compensation committee of General American Investors Company, and a director and member of the audit committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee of The Wendy’s Company.