Board of Directors:

Jeffrey Goffman

biography

Grant Ingersoll

biography

Gordon Rausser

Gordon Rausser is a recognized national expert on financial markets, a widely-published author and inventor, and a founder of start-up companies. He frequently speaks publicly on urgent economic and financial issues. Dr. Rausser is the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor at U.C. Berkeley. Gordon is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Agricultural Economics Association. Over the course of his professional career, Dr. Rausser has been responsible for developing four new areas of research and has been one of the pioneers in nine other fundamental areas.

As a result, he has received 16 national awards for original research discoveries. During the 1970's and 1980's, much of Dr. Rausser's research focused on exchange futures markets and CFTC regulations. He was engaged as an expert by a number of the organized futures exchanges on risk analytics, portfolio analysis, and futures markets as an asset class. He has also testified before the CFTC on the proposed introduction of new futures commodity contracts.

He has published more than 200 articles, books, and book chapters and has written more than 100 Commissioned Papers, Governmental Reports, and Working Papers. While on leave from U.C. Berkeley, Dr. Rausser served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the mid-1980's and subsequently as chief economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1988 to 1990.

Gordon has created over $500 million in shareholder value by founding two companies that have been taken public and three successful private companies. He is the co-author of two patents in financial technology pertaining to dynamic risk-based OTC transaction permissioning and on methodologies for selecting capital efficient asset portfolios.

Mark B. David

Mark B. David is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Landmark Companies, LLC (“Landmark”). Landmark was founded in 1982 and is a diversified real estate development company. Landmark developed thousands of single family homes, condominiums, apartment units and hotel rooms. Landmark, through its various entities, has had business relationships with several Fortune 100 companies including General Electric Capital, Westinghouse, and Bank of America. It has continuing long standing partnerships with Chevron Oil and GMAC. Landmark is currently a franchisee of Marriott International, Hilton Hotels Corporation, and Starbucks. Several years ago Landmark transitioned from an active real estate development concern to an asset manager of its various holdings including hotels and apartment complexes. Mr. David is a founder and partner in an Italian restaurant in Newport Beach, California along with a Chef/Partner who is a James Beard Honoree. The restaurant, Osteria Drago, is due to open spring, 2010.

Mr. David from 1977 to 1982 was the President of Mark B. David & Associates, a Firm specialized in representation of professional athletes, including contract negotiation, tax planning and business management. Mr. David has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Sociology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law.

Mr. David is currently or has previously served as a member or board member of the following organizations: Pacific Mercantile Bancorp, American Mensa Ltd., National Association of Home Builders; Lincoln Club of Orange County; Building Industry Association of Southern California; Olive Crest Homes for Abused Children; Boy Scouts of America Orange County Council; University of California Irvine Chancellor’s Club; Sergeant, Special Services Bureau of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Mark Hughes

Mr. Hughes is a managing director at ComVest and has a 14 year career in finance, primarily spent as an investment banker focused on middle market companies. Throughout his career, Mr. Hughes has acted in a lead capacity in most of his transactions with prime responsibility for originating, negotiating and executing deals. Mr. Hughes’ transactional experience includes private placements, IPOs, follow-ons, PIPEs, 144a converts, and M&A in a diverse range of industries including technology, communications, defense, restaurants, energy, and real estate. In aggregate, Mr. Hughes has closed 45 transactions; raising roughly $1.5 billion in gross proceeds and advising on over $400 million in M&A.

Prior to ComVest, Mr. Hughes was a Managing Director at Tejas Securities Group, where he spearheaded the development of the Corporate Finance and M&A practice with a balanced approach between emerging growth and distressed opportunities. Prior to Tejas, Mr. Hughes served as a Managing Director at C.E. Unterberg, Towbin where he focused on middle market companies in the technology sector, most recently, having senior leadership of the communications and defense groups. Prior to Unterberg, Towbin, Mr. Hughes worked in Global Markets at Deutsche Bank as a Foreign Exchange analyst. Mr. Hughes was a CPA and received his B.S. from the Rutgers University School of Business.

Barry Uphoff

Barry Uphoff is a Partner with Capricorn Investment Group. At Capricorn, Barry leads the investment team with a particular focus on healthcare and wellness investing.

Prior to joining Capricorn, Barry was a senior investment professional and at Silver Point Capital, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund with approximately $7 billion in total assets under management. Barry led Silver Point’s private-side healthcare investment activities and served on the firm’s deal review committee. Prior to Silver Point, Barry was a director with Trivest, one of the nation’s oldest private equity firms, where he led the firm’s healthcare investing activities. Prior to Trivest Barry was a founding partner with Diamond Management Consultants (NASDAQ: DTPI), a Chicago-based management consulting firm where he led the firm’s global healthcare and strategy practices. Barry earned his BA from the Johns Hopkins University with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa distinction. Barry read for a Diploma in Law and an MSc in Medicine at Oxford University under the auspices of a Rhodes Scholarship. Barry also received an MBA from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business with highest honors.

Dave Steffy

Dave Steffy is a healthcare entrepreneur and investor and Managing Director of Mountain Pacific Equities, Inc. Mr. Steffy is currently a board member and investor in the Company, as well as Medmark Services, Inc., Ascend Healthcare, Signature Hospital Corporation and Women's Diagnostic Centers (dba Solis).

Mr. Steffy was previously a founder of: Odyssey Healthcare, Fidelis Seniorcare Inc., Community Health Systems, Province Healthcare, Advanced Rehabilitation Resources, American Transitional Care, New Life Treatment Centers, Republic Health Corp., Intensiva Healthcare Corporation and Great Northern Health Management, and also held senior executive positions at Hospital Affiliates. Mr. Steffy has a Master of Public Administration, Graduate Program in Health Services Administration, from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ohio State University.