Wilson Allen
Mr. Allen is a Managing Director of Westlake Securities, an Austin, Texas based investment bank that serves the middle market with an emphasis for regional corporations and emerging companies. Since 1995, he has provided leadership and guidance to early-stage companies with unique intellectual property in large markets, assisting with capital, corporate structure, strategy, and developing management teams. Prior to 1995, he served as senior equity trader and member of the asset allocation group for a $2 billion money management firm, Eagle Management. He has served on numerous for-profit and non-profit Boards throughout his career. Mr. Allen earned a BA from the University of Texas and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
James M. Kenny
Mr. Kenny is currently a managing partner of Voltron Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in high tech/med tech investments. Mr. Kenny has been involved in private equity ventures and investments for the last ten years and previously served as vice president of Signature Capital. At Signature Capital, he was involved in the formation and funding of several start up companies, including Additch, Acoustic Technologies, NetNumber and VIRxSYS. Most recently, Mr. Kenny co-founded and serves on the board of directors of Quickfilter Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in programmable digital filters for signal processing. Mr. Kenny received a BA and MBA from Georgetown University. He serves on the board of regents for Georgetown University and on the board of directors for the NYU Cancer Center.
Jack McMullen
Mr. McMullen is the Managing Principal of Cambridge Meridian Group, Inc., a strategy-consulting firm that serves Fortune 500 and technology-based companies. Mr. McMullen previously taught business strategy at Harvard Law School. He serves, or has served, on the Boards of three NASDAQ-listed technology companies as well as 12 other privately funded, chiefly technology-oriented companies. From 1993 to 1997 he was an informal advisor to Senator Bradley (D-NJ). In 2004 he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate from Vermont. He is a Navy veteran who served on the staff of Admiral Rickover overseeing the retrofit of advanced technology reactors into the Navy's nuclear fleet. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University in Applied Physics and Engineering and received a JD with Honors from Harvard Law School and an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was elected a First Year Baker Scholar.
William Sanger
Mr. Sanger has provided leadership to the health care industry for over 30 years and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Emergency Medical Services Corporation (NYSE;EMS). He has successfully lead multi-system hospitals, including ambulatory care, post-acute services (nursing homes), physician management companies, freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers, and managed care entities. Mr. Sanger co-founded a publicly traded health care company and established one of the first managed care organizations. His expertise in strategic positioning for healthcare entities is nationally renowned. He has provided turnaround and merger and acquisition (M&A) consultation to private, publicly traded, and not-for-profit domestic and international healthcare companies.
Robert G. Shepler
Mr. Shepler is a Managing Director of Telegraph Hill Partners, a private equity firm focused on medical devices, life science technology and healthcare companies. Mr. Shepler has been an investor and corporate transactions specialist for 30 years. He has served on numerous company boards and completed over 150 M&A and financing transactions. Prior to forming Telegraph Hill’s predecessor firm in 1991, he was an officer with Merrill Lynch in their corporate finance division. In addition to Vidacare, his current directorships include AcroMetrix, Applied Precision, Aurora Discovery and LDR Spine.
Harold L. Timboe, MD, MPH
Dr. Harold Timboe is a family physician and physician executive. A Vietnam and Gulf War I veteran, he retired in 2002 as a Major General from the US Army after a distinguished career culminating as commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. he has extensive experience in excecutive leadership of large, complex health systems, senior health policy positions, and is a decorated combat medical leader with several experiences in mass casualty situations and natural disasters, including the 9/11 Pentagon attack, anthrax letters, Indonesian tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina. After military service he served for 5 years at his medical alma mater, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as an Associate Vice President, Clinical Professor and Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness.
General Timboe is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Army War College. He also has a Masters of Public Health from the University of Hawaii, and holds positions on the boards of several private companies as well as non-profit organizations.