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Richard Barker

Mr. Barker retired in 2006 as Vice Chairman of The Capital Group Companies after 35 years with the firm, one of the world’s largest and most successful financial management organizations with over $1 trillion under management. Prior to joining Capital, Mr. Barker served as Executive Vice President of Standard and Poor’s Equity Services, Inc. Active in philanthropy nationally, as well as at locally in San Francisco, Mr. Barker serves, among others, as a Trustee of Brown University, the California Film Institute and the San Francisco Ballet.

Doug Brooks

Mr. Brooks is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Brinker International. Brinker's portfolio includes Chili's Grill & Bar, Romano's Macaroni Grill, On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina, and Maggiano's Little Italy. Brinker, a Fortune 500 company, currently owns or franchises more than 1,850 restaurants in 50 states and 26 countries and 120,000 employees with revenues of over $4 billion annually.

Mr. Brooks serves on the board of directors for Limbs for Life Foundation, the Kenny Can Foundation, Dallas Citizens Council, and on the professional advisory boards of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Norman Brinker Institute for Hospitality and Restaurant Management at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. He also serves on the International Food and Safety Council and the Elliot Leadership Advisory Council.

Dennis Clark

Dennis Clark has spent 20 years in top-level positions with leading companies in the orthotics and prosthetics field. Dennis currently serves as president of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Group of America (OPGA), a network of over 1,300 independently owned orthotic and prosthetic facilities. In addition to his integral role in the launch of OPGA, Dennis also started and remains president of Clark & Associates Prosthetics. Prior to starting Clark & Associates, Dennis served as vice president of Hanger Orthotics, the largest US provider of orthotic and prosthetic services. In 1997, he was vice president of NovaCare Orthotics and Prosthetics. In 1987, he purchased Dale Clark Prosthetics, where he served as president and CEO for ten years.

Clark completed the orthotics and prosthetics program at Northwestern University and is certified by the American Board of Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics. He has served as past president of Region 7, the American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics and the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association. Clark has served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, where he was awarded the Distinguished Practitioner Award in 2003. Clark is currently on the VA sub committee for AOPA and president of Orthotics and Prosthetics One, Central Fabrication, a nationally known orthotic and prosthetic outsourcing company.

Bill Gimson

Bill Gimson served for 35 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. At CDC, his senior management roles included Director of the Office of Financial Management, and more recently, as the Agency’s Chief Operating Officer. As CDC’s second ranking official, Mr. Gimson had oversight responsibility for more than 15,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $10 billion.

Mr. Gimson, who holds an MBA from Duke University, led many of CDC’s most significant and high profile initiatives. These included the development of an almost four million square foot capital improvement plan totaling $1.6 billion, improvement of agency security and continuity of operations following 9/11, and preparation for a national outbreak of pandemic influenza. During the first half of 2008, Mr. Gimson served on the ground in Iraq leading a health unit for a Department of State Provincial Reconstruction Team in Tikrit.

Thomas Kirk, Ph.D.

Dr. Kirk has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. (NYSE:HGR), the largest US provider of orthotic and prosthetic services, since 2002. Prior to joining Hanger, Dr. Kirk was a principal with Alix Partners, LLC, a management consulting firm. In addition, Dr. Kirk has served in various senior corporate management positions, including as Chief Financial Officer of Rhone-Poulenc, S.A. Dr. Kirk is a registered professional engineer, and obtained a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

Charles (Chuck) T. O'Neill

Mr. O’Neill has spent the past 14 years establishing and running new divisions for major corporations and founding new healthcare companies. In 2004 Mr. O’Neill co-founded Avalon Healthcare Holdings, Inc. a health insurance company offering consumer directed health plans throughout Florida. Prior to creating and starting Avalon Healthcare Holdings, Inc., he was co-founder and director of Oxford Benefit Management (OBM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxford Health Plans. In 1999, he co-founded and served as co-CEO of Tech Health, Inc., a healthcare technology company.

Previous to Tech Health, Mr. O'Neill was instrumental in establishing a cohesive and focused marketing department for PharMerica, Inc., and in 1997, he managed Riscorp Health Plans after the company was purchased by Oxford Health Plans. Mr. O'Neill spent 15 years in corporate public relations and created the public relations department at Oxford Health Plans in1994. He was vice president at Burson Marsteller, Inc. the world's largest public relations firm in the early 1990s and worked with Fortune 100 companies for many years. Chuck holds a B.A. in mass communications from St. Bonaventure University.

Ron Oxley

Mr. Oxley is a seasoned government contracting executive with executive level experience that includes President of L3 Communications Analytics Corporation and as Senior Vice President of Federal Marketing for Litton/PRC where he was responsible for nearly $1 billion annually in federal sales. Previously, he spent more than 28 years in the US government where he held senior executive service positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence, Comptroller, and Acquisition and Technology. Ron holds a master of science degree in systems management from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from California State University.