Terren S. Peizer
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Terren S. Peizer is the founder of our company and has served as our chief executive officer and chairman of our Board of Directors since our inception in February 2003. He has served as Managing Director of Socius Capital Partners, LLC, since September 2009. Mr. Peizer has served on the board of Xcorporeal, Inc. since August 2007 and was executive chairman until October 2008. Mr. Peizer also served as chief executive officer of Clearant, Inc., a company which he founded in April 1999 to develop and commercialize a universal pathogen inactivation technology, until October 2003. He served as chairman of its board of directors from April 1999 to October 2004 and as a director until February 2005. In addition, from June 1999 through May 2003 he was a director, and from June 1999 through December 2000 he was chairman of the board, of supercomputer designer and builder Cray Inc., a NASDAQ Global Market company. Mr. Peizer has been the largest beneficial stockholder and has held various senior executive positions with several technology and biotech companies. He has assisted companies by assembling management teams, boards of directors and scientific advisory boards, formulating business and financial strategies, and investor relations. Mr. Peizer has a background in venture capital, investing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and previously held senior executive positions with the investment banking firms Goldman Sachs, First Boston and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He received his B.S.E. in Finance from The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.
Richard A. Anderson
President and Chief Operating Officer
Richard A. Anderson has more than fifteen years of experience in business development, strategic planning and financial management. He has served as a director of Catasys since July 2003 and an officer since April 2005. He was the Chief Financial Officer of Clearant, Inc. from November 1999 until March 2005, and served as a director from November 1999 to March 2006. Mr. Anderson was previously a director and founding member of PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP’s, Los Angeles office transaction support group, where he was involved in operational and financial due diligence, valuations and structuring for high technology companies. He received a B.A. in Business Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Andrea Grubb Barthwell, M.D., F.A.S.A.M.
Director
Andrea Grubb Barthwell, M.D., F.A.S.A.M., has served as director since September 2005. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the global health care and policy-consulting firm EMGlobal LLC and Director at Two Dreams Outer Banks Treatment Center. President George W. Bush nominated Dr. Barthwell in December 2001 to serve as Deputy Director for Demand Reduction in the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). The United States Senate confirmed her nomination on January 28, 2002. As a member of the President's sub-cabinet, Dr. Barthwell was a principal advisor in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) on policies aimed at reducing the demand for illicit drugs. Dr. Barthwell received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Wesleyan University, where she serves on the Board of Trustees, and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School. Following post-graduate training at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University Medical Center, she began her practice in the Chicago area. Dr. Barthwell served as President of the Encounter Medical Group (EMG, an affiliate of EMGlobal), was a founding member of the Chicago Area AIDS Task Force, hosted a weekly local cable show on AIDS, and is a past president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Barthwell received the Betty Ford Award, given by the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse and has been named by her peers as one of the "Best Doctors in America" in addiction medicine.
Kelly J. McCrann
Kelly J. McCrann has over 30 years of experience managing and operating healthcare companies. Most recently, he served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Xcorporeal, Inc., a medical device company. Mr. McCrann was responsible for product development, strategic partnerships and facilitating the sale of the company. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of DaVita Inc., where he was responsible for all home based renal replacement therapies for the United States' second largest kidney dialysis provider. Prior to that, Mr. McCrann was the Chief Executive Officer and President of PacifiCare Dental and Vision, Inc and has held executive positions at Professional Dental Associates, Inc., Coram Healthcare Corporation, HMSS, Inc. and American Medical International and began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles and the Harvard Business School. Mr. McCrann currently sits on the Boards of Loma Linda University Medical Center and Sound Surgical Technologies, Inc. He is a former director of Dent
Jay A. Wolf
Director
Jay A. Wolf has served as a director since June 2008 and was appointed lead independent director in December 2010. He is the founder and principal of Wolf Capital LP, an investment advisory firm he formed in October 2009 to focus on small cap public companies. From November 2003 until September 2009, Mr. Wolf was a partner at Trinad Capital LLC, an activist hedge fund focused on micro-cap public companies. During his work at Trinad, Mr. Wolf assisted distressed and early stage public companies through active board participation, the assembly of management teams and business and financial strategies. Prior to his work at Trinad, Mr. Wolf served as executive vice president of Corporate Development for Wolf Group Integrated Communications Ltd. Prior to that, Mr. Wolf worked at Canadian Corporate Funding, Ltd., a Toronto-based merchant bank as an analyst in the firm’s senior debt department and subsequently for Trillium Growth Capital, the firm’s venture capital fund. Mr. Wolf currently sits on the boards of Xcorporeal, Inc. (XCR), Zoo Entertainment, Inc. (ZOOE) and NorthStar Systems, Inc. Mr. Wolf is also a member of the board of governors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. He is a former director of Asianada, Inc., ProLink Holdings Corp., Mandalay Media, Inc., Atrinsic, Inc., Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc., Optio Software, Inc., Xcorporeal Operations, Inc., Zane Acquisition I, Inc., Zane Acquisition II, Inc., Starvox Communications, Inc. and Noble Medical Technologies, Inc. Mr. Wolf received his B.A. from Dalhousie University. Mr. Wolf was chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Starvox Communications, Inc. from March 2005 to March 2007. On March 26, 2008, StarVox Communications, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose. Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc., a company for which Mr. Wolf formerly served as a director, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, on September 2, 2008.
