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John Hilgenberg
L. Barney Johnson
Jeff Koepsell
Stephen C.Schimpff, M.D.

John Hilgenberg

Mr. Hilgenberg has held numerous "C" level positions during his career and has been advising entrepreneurial companies since 1986. As a strategic business consultant, he serves as a "CEO extender" in organizations that, due to full-time staffing constraints or rapid growth, require further resources and experience to assist in key strategic decisions. In addition to serving clients, he advises several governmental and educational entities on entrepreneurial issues and has served on several community and corporate boards. He holds degrees from Yale University and the Darden Graduate Business School of the University of Virginia.

L. Barney Johnson

Mr. Johnson has focused his forty-year career at the President and Chief Executive Officer level at various hospitals and healthcare organizations around the country. He served as President of Winter Haven Hospital in Florida for 8 years. He was a Chief Operating Officer in two Holy Cross Health System hospitals for 8 years and he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Harbor Health System Corporation for 18 years. During that time, he also served as Vice President of Helix Health Inc., as a result of its merger with Harbor Health. He also held a position on the Executive Council of MedStar Health as a result of another merger. Mr. Johnson has served on numerous boards, including the Maryland Hospital Association, the American Hospital Association's Regional Policy Board, and SunHealth, Inc. of North Carolina. He currently serves on several Boards and is an Associate with Starizon, Keystone, CO. He holds a degree from the University of South Florida and a Masters in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota.

Jeff Koepsell

Most recently, Mr. Koepsell served as Chief Operating Officer of Matria Healthcare, a publicly-traded multi-divisional health care services company with over 1600 employees and $280 million in revenue. Prior to that, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of two startup, venture capital-backed business that produced a 20 times return on investment for venture partners. He has led three healthcare services companies during his professional career and has been a Board member of three publicly traded companies.

Stephen C.Schimpff, M.D.

Dr. Schimpff was the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Maryland Medical Center, the academic flagship of a six hospital system from 1999 until he retired from that position in 2003. From 1985 to 1999, he was the Medical System's executive vice president and chief operating officer. In 1982, Dr. Schimpff, who is board certified as a medical oncologist and as an infectous diseases expert, became the first director of the newly created University of Maryland Cancer Center. Prior to that, he was head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Head of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology for the Baltimore Cancer Research Center of the National Cancer Institute. He served for seven years on the Board of Governors of the National Institute's of Health Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center and was chair for the final three years. He is a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology in the University of Maryland School of Medicine and holds an adjunct appointment as Professor in the School of Pharmacy. He has published over 200 scientific articles based on his research on infections in cancer patients and is the editor of three major textbooks. Dr Schimpff obtained his medical degree and did his medical residency at Yale School of Medicine.

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