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Victor Lazzaro, Jr. Chief Executive Officer
Victor Lazzaro is the Chief Executive Officer of BridgeHealth International. With over 20 years of senior management experience in the health and managed care fields, he has held positions responsible for marketing, finance, administration and healthcare delivery. Previously, Mr. Lazzaro was president and CEO of United Healthcare Corporation - Mountain States (UHC). Prior to his position at UHC, Mr. Lazzaro was regional vice president of Health Plans Operations, Gulf South for Prudential Insurance Company of America. At Prudential, he also had CEO responsibility for healthcare management in the Houston Health Plan, Arkansas, Southeast Texas and Louisiana, where his responsibilities included oversight of 30 primary specialty care clinics. Prior to entering healthcare, Mr. Lazzaro was International Controller of a Black & Decker Subsidiary. Mr. Lazzaro is also the Managing Director of Volante Capital, and an active board member of a number of charity and business organizations and previously served on the advisory board of MediExpress, a UHC affiliate, in Kuala Lumpur. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado at Denver MBA in Health Administration program. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. Terry White President
Mr. White has over 25 years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry. During his career he has served as CEO of hospitals and multi-hospital systems in Hawaii, Colorado and Maryland. White has also been a healthcare consultant, Board member and turnaround specialist. He is a cofounder of Centura Health, Colorado's largest healthcare system, with revenues of over $1 billion annually. He is an active member of the executive team of Signum US Healthcare, developing CyberKnife and radiation oncology treatment centers throughout China. Mr. White also has provided leadership in a number of healthcare businesses including healthcare information technology, healthcare staffing, financial services and outpatient cancer treatment centers. Additionally, he has consulted a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit businesses including hospital operational turnaround assignments. Hospitals under his leadership have received national recognition for quality and service. Mr. White has a Master of Healthcare Administration from Loma Linda University in California and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is active in a variety of community and church organizations and has served on community and healthcare industry boards. Mr. White is a frequent speaker at workshops and seminars. Lonnie Busby Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Busby has over 30 years of domestic and international experience in senior level management positions in the healthcare industry. He has been a CEO, COO, Board Member, management consultant, and entrepreneur. He has served as a consultant to a variety of healthcare clients domestically, as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His management experience in healthcare ranges from multi-hospital systems and solo-hospitals to surgery centers, technology companies, imaging centers, rehab facilities, physician organizations and group practices. He is skilled at building market share and producing profitable operations in both public and private companies, and has a strong background in start-up operations, new business development, financial management, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and turn-around situations. Mr. Busby has spent over five years studying the Chinese healthcare market and developing healthcare projects in China. In 1995, Mr. Busby founded Delta Healthcare Management, a company that provides interim and long-term management, as well as strategic, operational and financial performance improvement services to hospitals, physician organizations, and other healthcare businesses. Prior to forming Delta, Mr. Busby was President of the Midwestern Division for HCA Healthcare Corporation. He had P&L responsibility for all operations within a three-state region encompassing Colorado, Arizona and Nebraska, and total revenue exceeding $1.5 billion. He expanded HCA’s presence in the Denver market from two hospitals to nine hospitals, growing the company’s market share from 9% to 36 % in two years. Mr. Busby received his Master of Healthcare Administration degree from Baylor University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Arkansas State University. He is a Diplomat in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  Jordan Klear, Esq. General Counsel Mr. Klear serves as General Counsel for BridgeHealth and leads the organization on legal matters including contracts, compliance, privacy and risk. Additionally, he serves as a Managing Director at Volante Capital in the firm's Philadelphia office where he focuses on private equity investments in the healthcare services sector. Mr. Klear spent over 5 years at Centra Capital, LLC, a middle market investment banking boutique where he was involved in deal sourcing and execution, as well as building the firm. Prior to joining Centra, Mr. Klear was the Founder and Director of a venture-backed wireless technology company. He began his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he served an Associate in the firm¹s securities regulatory compliance group where he advised investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Mr. Klear has a BBA from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and has a JD from the Widener University School of Law. He currently serves as an Advisor to Signum US Healthcare, which is developing CyberKnife and radiation oncology treatment centers throughout China.  Will Garin Vice President of Marketing Mr. Garin provides extensive marketing and management experience gathered across a host of sectors including healthcare, personal luxury items, retail, and architectural design/build over his twelve-year professional history. In his role as Vice President of Marketing for BridgeHealth International, Inc., he guides the evolution of BridgeHealth products and services in the medical travel industry, with a focus on business-to-business and direct-to-consumer initiatives. As Vice President of Marketing for SmartCare Family Medical Centers, Mr. Garin assumed comprehensive responsibility for the strategic marketing and communications functions for the multi-unit, consumer-driven retail healthcare organization he helped lead from business plan to twenty-one operating units. He also maintained strategic accounts with host partners Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., The Kroger Company and other partners in the pharmacy, grocery and retail industries. Prior to his work with SmartCare, Mr. Garin doubled top line revenue and opened a new market for a mature business in the competitive design/build industry. He held primary responsibility for all aspects of marketing, brand communication and executive management for the firm and earned it national attention on Home & Garden Television, The History Channel and in The Financial Times. While pursuing a graduate degree in business administration, Mr. Garin worked with the Rocky Mountain Regional Office of Starbucks Coffee Company, implementing field level marketing initiatives for the 9 state, 175+ store region. Mr. Garin is a co-founder of For a Good Cause, a non-profit serving non-profits, and sits on the board of Anchor Center for Blind Children. Mr. Garin holds an MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and earned a BA in English and Studio Art, with Honors, from Wake Forest University. Mary Brook Controller
Ms. Brook is the controller for BridgeHealth International, Inc. where she manages the accounting, reporting and financial controls for the organization. Ms. Brook has experience in a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining BridgeHealth, she worked as a financial accounting consultant to businesses in the healthcare and financial services industries. From 1989 to 1997 she was the controller and director of Investor Relations for the Hallwood Companies, a group of 30 publicly traded oil and gas companies located in Denver and Dallas. From 1981 to 1989 she worked as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche, LLP, most recently as senior manager; there, she served clients in the healthcare, financial services, oil and gas, retail, government, not-for-profit, manufacturing, automotive and construction industries including General Motors, Janus Funds, Oppenheimer Funds, Catholic Charities, the Colorado Department of Education and the American Lung Association. Ms. Brook is a Certified Public Accountant and obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Ami Rakshit, PhD Vice President of Management Systems
Dr. Rakshit is an entrepreneur in healthcare, currently engaged in the areas of Healthcare Cost Reduction and Consumer Driven Healthcare. He has worked with various medico-economic and medico-legal projects for an extensive period of time and has specialized in “Patient-Empowerment” as a strategic solution. Prior to being involved in the healthcare services area, Dr. Rakshit was a Research/Design/Project Engineer in medical instrumentation, including medical imaging (ultrasound, X-Ray), sensory technology (pulse oximetry, non invasive blood-glucose measurements, etc.) and rehabilitation engineering (automobile adaptations for paraplegics, biometric systems for prosthesis design, physiological modeling, etc).
In the mid-1980s, Dr. Rakshit was charged with guiding a Fortune 100 company into healthcare business as a part of its corporate diversification effort. There, he was credited with conceiving of and initiating the first US national project in 1986 to create a three-dimensional digital anatomical database from human cadavers in collaboration with Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. This project was eventually completed with public funding, under the auspices of the National Library of Medicine; it is known as the “Visible Man.” Since then, Dr. Rakshit has founded, nurtured, and worked with a number of medical start up companies to their fruition. Dr. Rakshit has provided occasional consultation services to the aerospace, telecommunications and data storage devices industries.
Dr. Rakshit has authored several US and international patents in healthcare. He has a BS in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Jadavpur University (India), an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and a Ph.D. in Bio Engineering from Texas A & M University.
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