Standing (L-R):
Jack Bergstrom, Pat Gross, John Gallop Seated (L-R):
Ed Bersoff, Doug Gibson
Jack Bergstrom
Jack Bergstrom has over 30 years of management experience
in both large corporations and entrepreneurial companies principally
focused on healthcare services.
In 1997, Mr. Bergstrom was a key member
of the management team that was backed by GTCR Golder Rauner to
purchase American Medical Laboratory (AML). Under his leadership
as Executive Vice President of Business Development, AML became
the nation’s third largest lab company, growing to $300 million
in sales and over $40 million in EBITDA. AML became a national esoteric
reference laboratory, earning an industry-wide reputation for customer
service, quality and productivity. AML was purchased by Quest Diagnostics
for $500 million in 2002. Following the transaction, Mr. Bergstrom
remained as a Senior Advisor to the Office of the Chairman of Quest
Diagnostics, leading the establishment of Quest’s hospital
sales strategy.
Prior to acquiring AML, Mr. Bergstrom served
as Senior Vice President of Sales for National Health Laboratory
/ Laboratory Corporation of America (later acquired by Roche) and
Chief Operating Officer of Odyssey Biomedical, a venture-backed
startup genetics testing company that was acquired by Genzyme in
1990. Early in his career, he spent 17 years at Corning Inc. in
a variety of roles, including positions in finance, accounting,
marketing and sales. At Corning, Mr. Bergstrom held national sales
management positions for both the Consumer Products Division and
for Metpath (now Quest Diagnostics), the largest clinical laboratory
company in the world, serving as General Manager for the Midwest
and Southern regions of Metpath.
Mr. Bergstrom has served on the Board of
Directors for Corporate Healthcare Services, Medical Lab of Virginia
and Shared Laboratory Services Inc.
Mr. Bergstrom has an MS in Economics from
the State University of New York at New Paltz and an MBA from the
University of Massachusetts.
Edward H. Bersoff,
Ph.D.
Chairman – Greenwich Associates, LLC
Ed Bersoff has more than 30 years of senior
management and advisory experience. Currently, he is the Chairman
of Greenwich Associates, LLC, an advisory firm he formed in 2003
to serve the business needs of rapidly growing companies.
Dr. Bersoff was the founder, Chairman, President
and CEO of BTG, Inc. BTG, founded in 1982, provided computer-based
solutions to government and commercial clients, specializing in
analysis and consulting, solutions development, systems integration,
operations and support. BTG was acquired by Titan Corporation for
$142 million in 2001. Prior to founding BTG, Dr. Bersoff was President
of CTEC, Inc., and earlier, Director of Engineering Operations for
Logicon’s Washington division.
Following the sale of BTG to Titan, from
2002 to 2003, Dr. Bersoff was a Managing Director of Jeffries/Quarterdeck
Investment Partners, LLC, an investment banking firm dedicated to
the aerospace, defense, information technology, government services
and space marketplaces.
Dr, Bersoff is a former national chair of
the American Electronics Association and the Professional Services
Council, and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of several
public and private corporations, including: Titan Corporation (a
NYSE-listed provider of information and communications products,
solutions, and services for national security), EFJ, Inc. (a NASDAQ-traded
wireless telecommunications solutions provider), Fargo Electronics,
Inc. (a NASDAQ-traded developer of secure technologies for identity
card issuance systems), The Potomac Bank of Virginia, MVM, Inc.
and Phillips International, Inc.
In addition to his professional activities,
Dr. Bersoff is Chairman of the INOVA Health System Health Care Services
Board, a Trustee at New York University, a Rector at the Virginia
Commonwealth University, and a member of the boards of the George
Mason University Foundation, and the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation.
Dr. Bersoff holds AB, MS, and PhD degrees
in mathematics from New York University, and is a graduate of the
Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program.
John S. Gallop
Managing Director – Advisory Research, Inc.
John Gallop is a Managing Director of Advisory
Research, an independent investment advisory firm with more than
$3.6 billion in assets under management specializing in the management
of portfolios for families and institutions. Mr. Gallop has over
18 years experience in the capital markets, as both an advisor and
as an investor.
Prior to joining Advisory Research, Mr.
Gallop was a Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Co. focusing
on leveraged finance and sponsor coverage. Previously, he was the
head of Investment Banking for EVEREN Securities. In this role,
Mr. Gallop had responsibility for the investment banking, syndicate
and convertible securities departments at EVEREN Securities, and
served on the broker-dealer's board of directors. Mr. Gallop continued
to serve as a Managing Director in the investment banking department
of First Union Securities for 2 years after First Union acquired
EVEREN Securities in 1999 for $1.1 billion.
Prior to joining EVEREN, Mr. Gallop spent
four years with Bear Stearns & Co. in the investment banking
department concentrating on growth companies in the Midwest. Mr.
Gallop also serves on the Advisory Board of KB Partners, a Chicago-based
venture capital firm, and Jobs For Youth, a non-profit organization
also based in Chicago.
Mr. Gallop received his BA in history from
the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance from the University
of Chicago.
Douglas G. Gibson,
Esq.
Partner – Covington & Burling
Doug Gibson is a partner in the corporate
and securities practice area of Covington & Burling, a leading
Washington, DC-based law firm. He provides corporate, securities
and transactional advice and assistance to clients ranging from
start-up ventures to multinational corporations. These clients cover
a wide range of industries, with a particular concentration in consumer
products, biotech, broadcasting, industrial manufacturing and sports.
In 1998, Mr. Gibson took a leave of absence
from Covington & Burling to serve as the General Counsel of
Bacardi Limited, a multinational branded consumer products company
with approximately $3 billion in annual sales. He also served as
a member of the Company's Executive Committee. While at Bacardi,
Mr. Gibson oversaw the Company's acquisition of the Dewar's Scotch
Whisky and Bombay Gin brands, including the required $2 billion
multinational financing for that transaction. He also managed the
negotiation and implementation of the Company's production and distribution
joint venture with the Chinese government and the establishment
of a Bacardi manufacturing and distribution venture in India.
Upon his departure from Bacardi in 2000
and prior to rejoining Covington & Burling in 2002, Mr. Gibson
served as a Managing Director of Pitts Bay Partners, a strategic
advisory firm.
Mr. Gibson received a BS in biomedical engineering,
with honors, from The Johns Hopkins University and his JD, cum
laude, from Harvard Law School.
Pat Gross has more than 35 years of senior
management experience. Currently, he serves as Chairman of The Lovell
Group, a business and technology advisory and investment firm.
Prior to forming Lovell, from 1970 to 2001,
Mr. Gross was a founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee
of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS), an information technology
consulting, software development and systems integration firm. Under
his leadership, AMS grew to approximately $1 billion in annual revenue
with 7,000 professionals throughout North America and Europe in
2001.
Mr. Gross is an active corporate director,
serving as the presiding/lead director of several public companies,
including Capital One Financial Corporation (a NYSE-listed financial
services company) and Computer Network Technology Corporation (a
NASDAQ-traded storage area networking company). He is also a director
of Mobius Management Systems, Inc. (a NASDAQ-traded content management
software company) and a number of private companies, including The
Sarnoff Corporation and Liquidity Services, Inc.
In addition to his professional activities,
Mr. Gross is vice chairman of the Council for Excellence in Government,
co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Technology Leadership Consortium
and a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. He is also
a member of the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic
Policy Research, a member of the Council on Competitiveness, and
a director of the Aspen Institute. Mr. Gross is a co-founder and
past chairman of the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.,
a director of the Foreign Policy Association, and a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and International Institute for Strategic
Studies.
Mr. Gross attended Cornell University and
received a BES from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MSE from
the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business.
