Corporate Governance - Board of Directors

Dirk Allison
Dirk Allison - Chairman of the Board -
Chairman of the Board

R. Dirk Allison has served as a director of the Company since 2010. He was President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2016 through March 2021 when he was named Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. From April 2019 until January 2022, Mr. Allison served as a director of National Mentor Holdings, Inc., the holding company for Civitas Solutions, Inc., a home- and community-based health and human services provider. From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Allison served as a director of Curo Health Services, LLC, a hospice care provider. From 2013 to 2014, Mr. Allison served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Correctional Healthcare Companies, Inc., a national provider of correctional healthcare solutions. Prior to joining Correctional Healthcare Companies, Inc., Mr. Allison served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of CCS Medical, Inc., a provider of mail order diabetic supplies, from 2011 to 2013. Prior to that, Mr. Allison served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Odyssey Healthcare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ODSY), a provider of hospice services. Odyssey Healthcare, Inc., was acquired in 2010 by Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV), a $2 billion provider of home health and hospice services. Prior to joining Odyssey Healthcare, Inc. in 2006, Mr. Allison was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Omniflight, Inc., an operator of aviation support services to the healthcare industry. Prior to Omniflight, Inc., Mr. Allison served for approximately three and a half years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ardent Health Services LLC, an operator of acute care and behavioral care hospitals, and for approximately four years as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Renal Care Group, Inc. (NYSE: RCI), an operator of dialysis centers. Between 1987 and 1999, Mr. Allison served as President and Chief Executive Officer of several publicly and privately held healthcare companies, including a physician practice management company and several institutional pharmacy providers. Mr. Allison earned a Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly Northeast Louisiana University) and a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Dallas. Mr. Allison is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Heather Dixon
Heather Dixon -
Director

Heather Dixon, CPA, has served as a director of the Company since March 2023. She is Chief Financial Officer of Acadia Healthcare, the largest stand-alone behavioral healthcare company in the United States. Previously, she was Chief Financial Officer of Everside Health, one of the nation’s largest direct primary care providers. Prior to joining Everside, she was the Senior Vice President, Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., a Fortune 20 integrated healthcare, pharmacy, and retail company. Her previous financial executive experience includes serving as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Aetna; Assistant Controller at PepsiCo; and various global accounting and regulatory roles with American Express. She started her professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dixon also served as an independent board member of Signify Health from 2021 through its recent acquisition by CVS Health. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from Southern Methodist University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.

Michael Earley
Michael Earley -
Director – Audit Committee Chairman

Michael Earley has served as a director of the Company since 2014. Since 2013, Mr. Earley has also advised on healthcare services and other businesses through a consulting company, Pelican Advisors, LLC, where he serves as Managing Member. Mr. Earley served as Chairman and CEO of Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc. (NYSE: MDF), an operator of a provider services network, from 2003 to 2013. Mr. Earley has been an advisor to public and privately owned companies, acting in a variety of management roles since 1997. From 1986 to 1997, Mr. Earley served in a number of senior management roles, including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operational Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Development Officer, for Intermark, Inc. and Triton Group Ltd., both publicly traded diversified holding companies. Mr. Earley was CEO of Collins Associates, an institutional money management firm, from 2000 through 2002. Mr. Earley has also served as a director for several public companies throughout his career. Mr. Earley received undergraduate degrees in accounting and business administration from the University of San Diego. From 1978 to 1983, Mr. Earley was an audit and tax staff member of Ernst & Young LLP.

Mark L. First
Mark L. First -
Director – Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Chairman

Mark L. First has served as lead director of the Company since October 2022. Mr. First previously served as a director since 2006. Mr. First held the title of President of the Company from 2006 to 2009; however, Mr. First was not paid for his service in his capacity as President and had no involvement in the management of Addus Healthcare, Inc. (“Addus Healthcare”). Mr. First is a Managing Director of Eos Management, L.P. (“Eos Management”) and its affiliates, which includes ECP Helios Partners III, L.P., ECP General III, L.P. and Eos Partners SBIC III, L.P. (the “Eos Funds”), where he has been employed since 1994. Mr. First was previously an investment banker with Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated (NYSE: MS) from 1991 to 1994. Mr. First has served as a director of PetIQ (Nasdaq: PETQ) since 2013 and is a director of several privately owned companies. Mr. First earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Darin J. Gordon
Darin J. Gordon -
Director – Government Affairs Committee Chairman, Member of the Audit Committee Charter

Darin J. Gordon has served as a director of the Company since October 2016. Mr. Gordon also has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the consulting firm Gordon & Associates, LLC. since 2016 and as a founding partner of Speire Healthcare Strategies, LLC, a healthcare consulting firm, since June 2017. From 1996 to May 2016, Mr. Gordon was employed at the State of Tennessee’s Division of Health Care Finance and Administration, an $11 billion healthcare enterprise that provided services to nearly 1.5 million Tennesseans. In 2006, he became the division’s Chief Executive Officer and Director, which included his responsibilities as Director of TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program. Prior to becoming the division’s Chief Executive Officer and Director, Mr. Gordon also served as the division’s Director of Managed Care Programs and Chief Financial Officer. Throughout his career, Mr. Gordon has held various board positions in both corporate and non-profit capacities, including at Advanced Care Partners and Upperline Health, Inc. as well as at Siloam Health. Mr. Gordon earned a Bachelor of Science from Middle Tennessee State University.

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Veronica Hill-Milbourne -
Director

Ms. Hill-Milbourne has served as a director of the Company since January 2021. Ms. Hill-Milbourne is President and Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Health Services, Inc., with executive oversight of three Federally Qualified Health Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She previously served as Chief Executive Officer/State Director for Pathways by Atar Capital, with executive oversight of mental and behavioral health home and community-based service programs operating in 30 counties throughout Pennsylvania. Prior to this position, she held senior executive leadership roles with healthcare organizations in Philadelphia, including Health Transformation Alliance, Health Partners Plans, Independence Blue Cross, the Inglis Foundation and The Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia. Her community volunteer work includes serving as a Board Director of the Health Federation of Philadelphia, Chair of the Board of Visitors for the Temple University College of Public Health, and as a Councilwoman for Horsham Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Ms. Hill-Milbourne has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Villanova University College of Nursing, a Master of Science degree in Health Education from Saint Joseph’s University, and a Juris Doctor from Temple University College of Law. She is a licensed Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania.

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Esteban Lopez M.D. -
Director

Esteban López, M.D. has served as a director of the Company since January 2021. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Doxy.me, Inc., a telemedicine software provider, where he leads the company’s efforts to increase access to telemedicine. Dr. López is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hopscotch Health, a provider of pediatric urgent care based in San Antonio, Texas, and a director of Axonics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AXNX), a medical technology company focused on the design, development, and commercialization of innovative and minimally invasive sacral neuromodulation solutions. From May 2023 until August 2023, Dr. López served as Vice President, U.S. Growth, for Babylon Health (NYSE: BBLN), a London based digital-first health service provider. From September 2020 until March 2023, he served as Market Lead-Americas, Healthcare and Life Sciences for Google Cloud, with executive responsibility for strategy, thought leadership and product development for the multinational technology company. From March 2013 to December 2019, Dr. López served as Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Strategy and Innovation for Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), one of the largest health insurers in the U.S. Prior to this position, he was President of the Southwest Texas Region for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as Chief Medical Officer, where Dr. López had oversight responsibility for sales, network, medical and community affairs for a 1.8- million-member business. He is also a former advisor to UNIT Innovations and served on the board of directors of The Texas Lyceum. Dr. López also previously held executive committee roles with the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, the San Antonio Mayor’s Fitness Council, and the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Dual board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. López earned his medical degree from Michigan State University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jean Rush
Jean Rush -
Director

Jean Rush has served as a director of the Company since October 2018. From 2015 to July 2018, Ms. Rush served as the Executive Vice President of Government Markets at HighMark Inc., an affiliate of BlueCross BlueShield. During her tenure at HighMark Inc., Ms. Rush held various board positions in both corporate and non-profit capacities, including Gateway Health Solutions, Highmark Delaware, West Virginia Family Health, and Highmark Select Resources. Prior to serving at Highmark, Ms. Rush served in various executive roles with Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) from 2011 to 2015, most recently as Senior Vice President, Complex Care. Ms. Rush currently serves, and has served in the past, on the board of directors of numerous privately owned healthcare companies. Ms. Rush is also a member of the board of directors and chair of the compensation committee of Women Business Leaders in the U.S. Healthcare Industry. Ms. Rush earned a Bachelor of Arts at Boston College and a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Connecticut.

Susan T. Weaver
Susan T. Weaver M.D. -
Director

Susan T. Weaver, M.D. has served as a director of the Company since October 2016. Dr. Weaver served as President and then Chief Executive Officer of KEPRO, a technology enabled healthcare services company, from July 2018 until its merger with CNSI in December 2022. From 2016-July 2018, Dr. Weaver served as the Chief Executive Officer of the healthcare services company C3 HealthcareRx, LLC. Prior to joining C3 Healthcare Rx, she was President of Transformation Health Partners, a healthcare consulting company she founded in 2015. From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Weaver served at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state’s largest health insurer, completing her service there as Chief Medical Officer. From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Weaver held various executive positions at WakeMed Health & Hospitals, a healthcare services provider, including Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs. Dr. Weaver also currently serves on the board of AdaptHealth Corp. (Nasdaq: AHCO), a home medical equipment company, since November 2019, the merged company of KEPRO/CNSI since January 2023, and Eating Recovery Center, a national leader in eating disorder treatment, since March 2023. She previously served on the board of directors for DFB Healthcare Acquisitions Corp. (Nasdaq: DFBH) until its merger with AdaptHealth Corp. Dr. Weaver also previously served on the board of directors of several privately held healthcare companies and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Weaver earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Duke University and an M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine. She completed postgraduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Weaver is board-certified in Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.