Mr. Malone has been Gentiva's chairman of the board and chief executive officer since 2002. He joined the Company in 2000 as executive vice president of the nursing division. The following year, Mr. Malone was named executive vice president and president of Gentiva's Home Health Division, which then consisted of the home nursing business and the CareCentrix® ancillary care benefit management unit. Prior to joining Gentiva, he held a number of management positions with the staffing division of Olsten Corporation, a major provider of professional and temporary staffing, home healthcare and information technology services, and rose to become president of North American staffing. Mr. Malone was previously a sales, customer service and operations executive with Emery Worldwide, an international air freight company. He currently serves on the board of Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., a leading worldwide manufacturer and innovator of medical technologies and related services for the healthcare industry, and as a director of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice. Mr. Malone holds a bachelor's degree from Furman University in Greenville, SC.
Tony Strange
President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Strange has been President and Chief Operating Officer since November 2007. He joined Gentiva in 2006 as Executive Vice President and President, Gentiva Home Health, following its February acquisition of The Healthfield Group, Inc. In that position, he directed the Company's home healthcare, hospice, durable medical equipment, infusion and respiratory therapy operations. Mr. Strange was previously president and chief operating officer of The Healthfield Group since 2001 and held a number of other management positions with that company since 1990, as well as several earlier management positions with Glass Rock Home Healthcare. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina.
John Potapchuk
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Mr. Potapchuk has been an Executive Vice President of the Company since 2006 and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since 2002. He joined Gentiva in 2000 as vice president of finance and controller, and was named a senior vice president in 2002. Mr. Potapchuk also served as secretary from 2002 to 2005. Prior to joining the Company, he served with Olsten Corporation's healthcare division – Gentiva's predecessor organization -- since 1991 in various financial management positions. Mr. Potapchuk previously held senior management positions at two major independent public accounting firms: PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and Deloitte & Touche. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Boston College and is a certified public accountant.
Thomas Boelsen
Senior Vice President, CareCentrix®
Mr. Boelsen has been a Senior Vice President since January 2008 and was named Vice President and head of the Company's CareCentrix ancillary care benefit management unit in March 2007. CareCentrix delivers a broad array of national and regional homecare and administrative services through a network of third-party provider locations covering all 50 states. Its customers are primarily managed care organizations, insurance carriers, third-party administrators and government contractors. Mr. Boelsen rejoined Gentiva in 2002 as Vice President, Finance, for CareCentrix after serving for two years as Vice President and Controller for CMP Media. From 1985 to 2000, he held a number of financial and management positions with Gentiva's predecessor company, Olsten Corporation. Mr. Boelsen, who began his career with the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Bryant University.
John Camperlengo
Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Camperlengo was named senior vice president, deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer in 2008, and held the two latter titles from 2005 to 2007 as a Gentiva vice president. He is responsible for overseeing Gentiva's compliance program, regulatory affairs, HIPAA management, privacy, billing compliance review and the Company's policy development department. He joined Gentiva in 2000 as senior counsel and has held a number of increasingly important legal positions. From 1992 to 2000, Mr. Camperlengo served in 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.
Steve Paige
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Mr. Paige has been a senior vice president and secretary of the Company since 2005. He joined Gentiva in 2003 as vice president and general counsel. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Paige was senior vice president , general counsel and secretary of General Semiconductor, Inc., a technology based company. He previously served in senior legal positions with several large healthcare, food ingredient and consumer product companies. Mr. Paige began his legal career at the law firm of Winston & Strawn in Chicago. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.
Brian Silva
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Mr. Silva joined Gentiva in 2006 in his current position. From 2002 to 2006, he was senior vice president, human resources and administration and corporate secretary of Linens N' Things, Inc., the international home furnishings retailer. He joined that company as vice president, human resources in 1995 and was promoted to senior vice president and added the position of corporate secretary two years later. Previously, Mr. Silva held senior human resources positions with The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, and several other organizations. He holds a bachelor's degree from St. John's University, a master's degree in organizational psychology from Columbia University and a master's degree in human resources management and labor relations from New York Institute of Technology.
Dr. Charlotte 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 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.
Brian Jones
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Mr. Jones joined Gentiva in 2004 in his current position. He leads the Company's Technology Solutions Group responsible for strategy, operations, and implementation of information technologies to enhance patient care and streamline business operations. Mr. Jones previously served for 15 years with PepsiCo, a world leader in convenience foods and beverages, in various information technology positions, including director of business technology solutions for Pepsi Cola North America and senior director and chief information technologist of global procurement. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Connecticut College and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
Murray Mease
Vice President, CareCentrix
Dr. Mease, who has held his current position with Gentiva since 2001, plays a key role in the operations and strategies of CareCentrix, Gentiva's ancillary care benefit management unit. He previously served with Olsten Corporation's healthcare division – Gentiva's predecessor organization -- since 1994, first as vice president, managed care, and later as vice president of network operations and vice president of CareCentrix. Earlier in his career, Dr. Mease held clinical, operational, and program development leadership roles with Critical Care America and TeamCare. He also developed and managed Medical Care America's Memphis-based patient management and distribution hub in partnership with Federal Express. Dr. Mease holds a doctorate in clinical pharmacy from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He completed his doctoral thesis at Johns Hopkins University Cancer Center and pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institutes, where he conducted pediatric cancer research.
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President and Chief Executive Officer, The Hearst Corporation
Mr. Ganzi has been a director of the Company and chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board since 1999. He was named to the Compensation Committee in 2008. Mr. Ganzi served as a director of Olsten Corporation from 1998 to 2000. He has been 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, since 2002. Mr. Ganzi served as Hearst's executive vice president from 1997 to 2002 and as its chief operating officer from 1998 to 2002. From 1992 to 1997, at various times, he served as Hearst's senior vice president, chief financial officer and chief legal officer. Mr. Ganzi is chairman of the board of directors of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. He is a director of Wyeth.
Stuart R. Levine
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC
Mr. Levine has served as a director of the Company since 1999, as lead director of the Board since 2003, and as chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee since 2008. He was a member of the Compensation, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee from 1999 to 2008 and served as chairman of this committee from 2002. Mr. Levine was a member of the Clinical Quality Committee from 2003 to 2008. He was a director of Olsten Corporation from 1995 until 2000. Mr. Levine has been the chairman and chief executive officer of Stuart Levine & Associates LLC, an international consulting and leadership development company, since 1996. From 1992 to 1996, he was chief executive officer of Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. Mr. Levine is the author of three books: "The Leader in You," "The Six Fundamentals of Success" and "Cut to the Chase." He is a trustee of North Shore-LIJ Health System and a director of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
Dr. Mary O'Neil Mundinger
Dean and Centennial Professor in Health Policy, School of Nursing, Columbia University
Dr. Mundinger has been as a director of the Company since 2002 and chairwoman of the Clinical Quality Committee of the Board since 2003. She is the centennial professor in health policy at the Columbia University School of Nursing and, since 1986, has served as dean of Columbia's School of Nursing. Dr. Mundinger is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the American Academy of Nursing and the New York Academy of Medicine. She is a director of Cell Therapeutics Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Incorporated.
Stuart Olsten
Former Chairman, Operating Board, MaggieMoo's International, LLC
Mr. Olsten has been a director of the Company since 1999 and a member of the Audit Committee since 2008. He was a director of Olsten Corporation from 1986 to 2000. Mr. Olsten also served with Olsten Corporation as chairman of the board of directors from 1999 to 2000, vice chairman from 1994 to 1999 and president from 1990 to 1998. From 2001 to 2007, he was chairman of the operating board of MaggieMoo's International, LLC, an owner and franchisor of ice cream stores throughout the United States, and was its president and chief executive officer during 2003.
Dr. John A. Quelch
Senior Associate Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Quelch has been a director of the Company since 2006, a member of the Board's Clinical Quality Committee since 2007 and a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee since 2008. He has been senior associate dean and Lincoln Filene professor of business administration at Harvard Business School since 2001. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Quelch was dean of the London Business School. He earlier served as an assistant professor, an associate professor and a full professor of business administration at Harvard Business School from 1979 to 1998. Dr. Quelch is also a director of WPP Group plc, Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., and chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Raymond S. Troubh
Financial Consultant
Mr. Troubh has been a director of the Company since 1999, a member of Gentiva's Audit Committee since 2000 and a member of the Compensation Committee since 2008. He was a member of the Compensation, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee from 1999 to 2008. Mr. Troubh served as a director of Olsten Corporation from 1993 to 2000. He has been a financial consultant for more than five years. He is a director of Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc., General American Investors Company and Triarc Companies, Inc.
Josh S. Weston
Honorary Chairman, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Mr. Weston has been as a director of the Company since 1999, a member of the Audit Committee since 2002 and a member of the Compensation Committee since 2008. He was a member of the Compensation, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee from 1999 to 2008. Mr. Weston served as a director of Olsten Corporation from 1995 to 2000. Since 1998, he has been honorary chairman of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., a provider of computerized transaction processing, data communication and information services. He was chairman of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. from 1982 to 1998 and was its chief executive officer from 1982 to 1996. Mr. Weston is a director of J. Crew Inc.
Dr. Gail R. Wilensky
Senior Fellow, Project HOPE
Dr. Wilensky has served as a director of the Company since 2000, as a member of the Clinical Quality Committee since 2003, and as chairwoman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee since 2008. She was a member of the Compensation, Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee from 2007 to 2008 and a member of the Audit Committee from 2000 to 2003. Since 1993, Dr. Wilensky has been a senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation, and since 2004, she has been vice chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission. Dr. Wilensky, who has led two federal commissions on health issues, served from 1990 to 1992 as administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration and from 1992 to 1993 as deputy assistant for policy development to President George H. Bush. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America and the American Heart Association, and an advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund. Dr. Wilensky is a director of Cephalon, Inc., Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, SRA International, Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Incorporated.
Rodney D. Windley
Former Chairman, CEO and Founder, The Healthfield Group, Inc.
Mr. Windley was elected a director and vice chairman of the Board in 2006 following Gentiva's acquisition of The Healthfield Group, Inc., where he had been that company's founder and chairman and chief executive officer since its inception in 1986. He has been a member of Gentiva's Clinical Quality Committee since 2008. Mr. Windley is president of the Georgia Association for Home Care, vice chairman of the Georgia Chapter of the March of Dimes and chair emeritus of Fragile Kids Foundation, Inc., a charity he founded in 1992.
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