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John A. McMahon - Chairman
Mr. McMahon’s successful career has primarily been in the Insurance Industry having begun in 1974 working for Pacific Mutual Health & Pension. He joined Johnson & Higgins (J & H) in 1979 and rose rapidly in the organization. J & H was the largest insurance broker and employee benefits consulting company in the world with 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies as clients, 112 offices in 52 countries, and 15,000 employees. John was one (1) of 24 individual owners of the firm. J & H was sold to Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC) for $2 Billion in April of 1997. John is active in many charity and community organizations, and an active private equity investor with several large private equity groups including Lion Capital and HM Capital (formerly Hicks Muse Tate & Furst) and Carson Private Capital. Mr. McMahon is the Chairman of the SAB and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Company.
Stuart Altman, Ph.D.
Stuart Altman is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University. Dr. Altman also serves as chair of the Health Industry Forum and the chair of the Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change. He is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. In June 2004, he was awarded the Academy Health Distinguished Investigator Award, and for the past four years Modern Healthcare named him among the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. In 1997, he was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Professor Altman previously served as interim President of Brandeis University from 1990-1991, and as Dean of The Heller School for Social Policy & Management from 1977 until July 1993, and again from 2005 until June 2008. He served as the Chairman of the congressionally legislated Prospective Payment Assessment Commission for twelve years. ProPac was responsible for advising the U.S. Congress and the Administration on the functioning of the Medicare Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) Hospital Payment System and other system reforms. Professor Altman is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and their Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Economics from UCLA and taught at Brown University and the Graduate School of Public Policy at University of California at Berkeley.
Steven Shulman
Steven Shulman is the operating partner at Water Street Healthcare Partners and Tower Three Partners. Mr. Shulman is the Chairman and former CEO of Magellan Health Services. During his tenure, Steve successful brought the company back from bankruptcy and increased shareholders equity over tenfold – from $135 M to $1.6 B. In 2007, he was voted on “The Top Public Company Managed Care CEOs” by Institutional Investor. Prior to that, he founded and served as chairman and CEO of Internet Healthcare Group (IHCG), an early stage healthcare services and technology venture fund. IHCG created successful early stage companies, many of which were sold to larger healthcare organizations. He is the former chairman, President, & CEO of Prudential healthcare, Inc. During his tenure, Steve engineered a major turnaround of the company, improving operational results by $850 million in less than three years. He successfully sold the company to Aetna in 1999. In 1987, Mr. Shulman co-founded Value Health, Inc., a leading specialty managed Care Company. Prior to that, he served as President of Business Development for CIGNA Healthplan. He began his career at Kaiser Permanente as Director of Medical Economics. Mr. Shulman earned a B.S. in Economics and a M.S. from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Additionally, he completed the Advanced Management Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Magellan Health Services, Digital Insurance, CareCentrix, Access Mediquip and Healthplan Holdings. In addition, he is a former trustee of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and the University of Hartford’s Art School.
Josef Woodman
Josef Woodman is President of the Healthy Travel Media Company and author of Patients Beyond Borders. He spent more than three years touring 100 medical facilities in 14 countries, researching contemporary medical tourism. As co-founder of MyDailyHealth and Ventana Communications, Woodman's pioneering background in health, wellness, and Web technology has allowed him to compile a wealth of information about global health travel, telemedicine, and new developments in consumer and institutional medical care. A noted consumer advocate for the globalization of healthcare, Woodman has lectured at the Harvard Medical School and the UCLA School of Public Health, and has hosted more than a dozen seminars and workshops around the world on the topics of medical tourism and health travel. |