The Definity
Health board views the healthcare industry from many perspectives.
The mix of experience and variety of backgrounds guides Definity
Health as we continue to create a better healthcare experience.
Albert S. Waxman, Founder & Senior Managing Director, Psilos Group
Dan Janney, Director, Alta Partners
Michael E. Dougherty, Founder & Chairman, Dougherty Financial Group LLC
Thomas F. Madison, President & CEO, MLM Partners
Tony Miller, CEO, Definity Health
Craig Swanson, Team Lead, Strategy & Development, Definity Health
Matthias B. Bowman, former President and CEO of Merrill Lynch Ventures
David F. Dalvey, Partner, Brightstone Capital
Jeffrey N. Saunders, General Counsel and Secretary, Lindquist & Vennum PLLP
Albert
S. Waxman
Dr. Waxman, Ph.D. is the founder and Senior Managing Director of
Psilos Group, a Silicon Alley-based venture capital firm with offices
in New York and San Francisco. Dr. Waxman is recognized as one of
the innovators in care management and healthcare services. He formed
Psilos to create and invest in companies which will use the new
information technology (such as the Internet) to transform industries
with a predominant focus on the healthcare services and e-health
applications. Currently, Dr. Waxman serves as Chairman of four Psilos
companies: Active Health Management, Health Hero Network, Coordinated
Care Solutions and Comprehensive Neurosciences, and is a member
of the Board of Directors of several other Psilos companies. Dr.
Waxman also serves on the Board of Directors of the New York City
Investment Fund, a fund started by leading companies in New York
and headed by Henry Kravis, the purpose of which is to create new
business and job opportunities in New York City. Prior to Psilos,
Dr. Waxman was most recently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Merit Behavioral Care and its predecessor companies: American
Biodyne and Medco Behavioral Care, a subsidiary of Merck & Co.,
Inc., until it was acquired by Magellan Health Services in February
1998. During this period, he brought American Biodyne public, sold
it to Medco, and organized a management buyout of it from Merck,
then its parent. Prior to American Biodyne, Dr. Waxman served as
President, Chairman and CEO of Diasonics, Inc., one of the first
medical companies to provide ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging
in the U.S. Dr. Waxman holds a number of U.S. and foreign patents
for display, imaging and diagnostic technologies and products. Dr.
Waxman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from the City College of New York and Master and Doctoral degrees
in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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Dan
Janney
Dan joined Alta as a Director in 1996 and has focused on life sciences investments.
Prior to joining Alta, he was a senior investment banker at Montgomery Securities
where his responsibilities included public offerings, strategic advisory assignments
and advice on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for life sciences companies.
Previously, Dan was at Bankers Trust Company from 1990 to 1993 in the leveraged
buyout/private equity group. Dan received a Master of Business Administration from the
Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts in
History from Georgetown University.
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Michael
E. Dougherty
Mr. Dougherty is founder and chairman of Dougherty Financial Group,
Minneapolis, an investment firm managing over $12B in assets. Mr.
Dougherty is a member of the boards of Countrywide Credit Industries,
University of MN Physicians Group, Public Securities Association
and the University of Minnesota Foundation. Mr. Dougherty is a former
chairman of the Board of Governors, University of Minnesota Health
System, former board member of Colwell Industries and Allied Group,
Inc. and a former director of the Federal National Mortgage Association
Advisory Council. Mr. Dougherty received his Bachelor of Arts degree
from the University of St. Thomas.
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Thomas
F. Madison
Mr. Madison is the President and CEO of MLM Partners, a business,
consulting and investment group. Prior to that, he spent time as
the President & CEO of Northwestern Bell Telephone Company,
the Executive Vice President of U S West, Inc., President of U S
West Information Markets Group, President of U S West Communications,
Vice Chairman & Office of the CEO at Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance
Company and Chairman of Communication Holdings, Inc. Mr. Madison
is currently a director on the following boards: Valmont Industries,
Inc., Delaware Group of Funds, Banner Health System, Digital River,
ACE Telecentrics, Optical Solutions, Safeguard Scientifics Advisory
Board and Lightning Rod Software. Mr. Madison has a BS in Aeronautical
Engineering from the University of Minnesota and participated in
the Management Objectives program at Carleton College.
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Tony
Miller
A cofounder of Definity Health, Mr. Miller has broad management
experience in the managed healthcare sector. Prior to organizing
Definity Health in 1999, Mr. Miller was a consultant at Deloitte
Consulting, where he focused on strategic business development in
the managed care industry, including mergers and acquisition, market
development and performance turnarounds. Earlier, Mr. Miller worked
for United Healthcare Corporation at the plan and corporate levels.
Mr. Miller has an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate
School of Management and an MS in kinesiology from the University
of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
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Craig
Swanson
Mr. Swanson, a cofounder of Definity Health, has worked extensively
in the delivery and payer sectors of the healthcare industry. Previously
with Deloitte Consulting, he provided strategic consulting to large
healthcare and telecommunications companies. A focus of his work
was preparing those industries for fundamental changes due to the
evolving role of the Internet. Prior experience included investment
banking, commercial banking and commercial real estate. Mr. Swanson
has an MBA in finance from the University of Minnesota Carlson School
of Management.
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Matthias B. Bowman
At the time of his retirement in November 2002, Mr. Bowman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch Ventures. Merrill Lynch Ventures manages a series of private equity funds organized on behalf of the employees of Merrill Lynch. Mr. Bowman joined Merrill Lynch in 1972, became a Managing Director in Merrill’s Investment Banking Group in 1978 and a Vice Chairman of that Group in 1993. Mr. Bowman has also been a Director of Teleport Communications Group, Borg-Warner Automotive, Del Monte Foods, U.S. Food Service, and Supermarkets General Corporation. He is currently a consultant to Merrill Lynch Ventures, with his efforts focused in the healthcare industry. He is a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the American Cancer Society Foundation. Mr. Bowman graduated summa cum laude from Williams College in 1970, and in 1972 graduated from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.
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David F. Dalvey
David F. Dalvey is a Partner of Brightstone Capital, a Minneapolis-based
venture capital fund. Mr. Dalvey has over twenty years of corporate
finance and venture capital experience with Minnesota-based investment
banking and venture capital firms. Over the past twelve years, Mr.
Dalvey has provided over $800 million of early stage, equity capital
into a variety of growth-oriented companies through over 130 private
and public equity investments.
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