Jeff Goodman
The Riverside Company
Chairman of the Board, PharmMD
Jeff Goodman is a partner at The Riverside Company, the largest and oldest global private equity firm investing in companies with enterprise values of under $200 million.
Prior to joining Riverside, Goodman was a Corporate Vice President at Intuit and President of Intuit Distribution Management Solutions, an enterprise software provider that services electrical, plumbing and distribution industries. Before that, he held several executive level positions at General Electric and Saint-Gobain.
Goodman holds two U.S. patents for electro-mechanical devices. Additionally, he is a trained Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
Craig Fuller
Founder and CEO, The Fuller Company
Craig Fuller is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. He has extensive experience in senior public affairs positions in business, association leadership, and executive positions in the federal government. This includes eight years of service in the White House as Assistant for Cabinet Affairs to President Ronald Reagan and the Chief of Staff to Vice President George Bush.
Fuller became the President and CEO of Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) in January 2009. He is the Chairman of AOPA’s Political Action Committee, and was elected President of the International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations.
Fuller served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He was also the Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sure Scripts and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Advancement of Community Pharmacy.
Brian Sauer
The Riverside Company
Brian Sauer is a Vice President at the Riverside Company, where he conducts transactions within Riverside’s Micro-Cap Fund. Sauer focuses on raising capital and performing diligence on investment opportunities as well as partnering with Boards and management teams to achieve additional growth.
Prior to Riverside, Sauer worked in investment banking for KeyBanc Capital Markets, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings.
Sauer is on the Board of four companies in addition to PharmMD: Adventures in Advertising, OnCourse Learning, PROFITsystems and Junior Golf Corporation.
Sauer holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Colorado State University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is an Eagle Scout and has an interest in skiing and other outdoor sports. Sauer resides in Santa Monica, Calif.
Jim Lackey
Chairman of the Board, Passport Health
James V. “Jim” Lackey, Jr. is Chairman of the Board and former Chief Executive Officer for Passport Health Communications, Inc. Prior to joining Passport, Lackey spent four years with the nation’s largest worker’s compensation preferred provider organization, FOCUS Healthcare Management. Here he served as Executive Vice President and President.
Prior to FOCUS, he was Vice President of Administration and one of the founding officers of Coventry Corporation. Lackey also served as Assistant Vice President of Administration for HealthAmerica Corporation. Lackey’s diverse experience also includes hospital administration and health care consulting with Ernst & Young, LLP.
Currently, Lackey serves on the Board of the Nashville Health Care Council. Among his notable industry accolades are three “Healthcare 100” awards from the Nashville Business Journal.
Lackey holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Oklahoma Baptist University. He and his wife of 33 years have three sons, two daughters-in-law, a grandson and two granddaughters. He enjoys camping, motorcycles, cars and is a private pilot.
Mike Kane
President, Kestrel Asset Fund
Mike Kane is the founder and principal of Kestrel Asset Management, a Philadelphia-area investment firm which operates three limited partnership investment funds, including one dedicated to private equity companies.
Kane is the former Vice President of Kane Is Able, Inc., a third-generation family-owned logistics company based in Scranton, Pa. His responsibilities included strategic planning, financial management and corporate governance.
In addition, Kane is a member of the Leadership Council of PathNorth, a national CEO group; the Business Leaders Network, a Philadelphia CEO group; and the Institute for Private Investors, where he is a member of the advisory faculty.
Kane received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his doctorate from Boston College.
Samuel W. Bartholomew, III
Chief Executive Officer, PharmMD
As CEO and co-founder, Samuel W. “Bo” Bartholomew has led PharmMD’s nationwide expansion and year-over-year exponential growth for the past 5 years.
Prior to forming PharmMD, Bartholomew incubated a health advocacy company and a telemedicine physician access start-up company. He spent four years with HCA’s Executive Development program, where he helped build one of HCA’s newest hospitals and then helped manage HCA’s oldest hospital before leaving the company. Bartholomew is an active member with Nashville Healthcare Council, which represents the $62 billion healthcare industry. He is former Chair of Leadership Healthcare which creates networking and leadership training to over 550 healthcare executives. Bartholomew also serves on the Board for Tennessee Red Cross; Tennessee Center for Bioethics and Culture; Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation, and Freedom In Creation, which aids child soldiers’ rehabilitation in Uganda.
Bartholomew and his wife, Sarah, are the proud parents of four children: Samuel, Lilly, Charlotte and Thomas.
R. Clayton McWhorter
Founder, PharmMD
With over 50 years experience in the healthcare industry, R. Clayton McWhorter is the visionary for PharmMD. His passion to see the nation’s medication crisis addressed led to PharmMD’s creation in 2006.
McWhorter founded and serves as Chairman of Clayton Associates, LLC, a venture capital firm that provides early stage and equity growth for healthcare and technology companies. In 1996, he created LifeTrust America, an assisted living and senior services company, and served as its chairman until its sale in November 2004.
He joined Hospital Corporation America as administrator of Palmyra Park Hospital in Albany, Ga., in 1970, and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of HCA from 1985 until September 1987. He served on the Board of Directors of Columbia/HCA from April 1995 until May 2000, and served as its Chairman from April 1995 to May 1996.
Prior to that, McWhorter served as Chairman, President and CEO of HealthTrust from 1987 to April 1995. McWhorter is also a founding member of the Nashville Healthcare Council.
McWhorter attended The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pre-pharmacy 1951-52, and earned his B.S. degree in pharmacy in 1955 from Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.
He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the McWhorter School of Pharmacy as well as the Board of Overseers at Samford University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Belmont University as well as Samford University’s Board of Overseers, having served as its inaugural Chairman.
Chip Kahn
President, Federation of American Hospitals
Charles N. “Chip” Kahn III is President of the Federation of American Hospitals, the national advocacy organization for investor-owned hospitals and health systems. He has held this position since 2001.
Prior to the Federation, Kahn was one of the leaders in the health insurance industry serving as Executive Vice President and President of the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA). As Executive Vice President, Kahn was instrumental in mounting the ground-breaking “Harry and Louise” campaign that called into question the Clinton health reform plan in 1993 and 1994.
Kahn has a distinguished career as a professional staff member on Capitol Hill specializing in health policy issues. Kahn has served as staff director for the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. On this committee, his efforts helped form the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Medicare provisions of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. Kahn later served as a senior health policy advisor to former Senator David Durenberger (R-MN), as well as a legislative assistant of health to former Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN).
Kahn serves on the Boards and Advisory Committees of various organizations including the University of Michigan’s Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, the Partnership for Prevention, the Center for Studying Health Systems Change and the Robert Wood Johnson Health Fellowships Program.
Kahn teaches health policy at The Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and Tulane University.
Kahn received a B.A. degree from The Johns Hopkins University. He also holds a Masters of Public Health degree from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, which in 2001 bestowed upon him its prestigious “Champion of Public Health” award. He is a member of Delta Omega, the honorary society for graduate studies in public health.