Management Staff:

Leif Murphy 
   President
       Chief Executive Officer

Jason Gunter
   Senior Vice President 
        Finance and Operations

M. Stephen Harrison
   Executive Vice President
       Chief Development Officer
	   
Dr. Mark R. Kaplan
   Executive Vice President
       Chief Medical Officer

Judy W. Lefkovitz
   Executive Vice President
       Chief Administrative Officer

Jay A. Yalowitz
   Executive Vice President
       General Counsel


Board of Directors:
              
Leif Murphy
   DSI Renal, Inc.

Bruce Pollack
   Chairman of the Board,
        Centre Partners Management, LLC

Michael Schnabel
   Centre Partners Management, LLC

Andrew Vandekerckhove
   Centre Partners Management, LLC

Michael Zugay
   Ares Capital Corporation

Bob Natt
      PayFlex Systems USA, Inc.
	  
Peter J. Clemens
   CFO, Retired, Caremark Rx, Inc.

	  

Leif Murphy
President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Prior to joining DSI Renal, Inc., Mr. Murphy was the SVP Finance of CVS Caremark, Inc., an $85 billion provider of prescriptions and related health services. Mr. Murphy was responsible for financial operations in Caremark's specialty pharmacy, industry relations, disease management and pharmacy services functions. Mr. Murphy also served as Caremark's Treasurer.

Mr. Murphy has had extensive experience in the dialysis industry where he has held executive positions at Renal Care Group (RCG) and National Nephrology Associates (NNA). At RCG, Mr. Murphy was SVP Finance and Development, responsible for corporate finance, treasury, managed care and corporate development. At NNA, Mr. Murphy served as EVP, CFO and Corporate Secretary.

Mr. Murphy has an MBA from The College of William and Mary and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University.

 
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Jason Gunter
Senior Vice President - Finance and Operations

 

Mr. Gunter has extensive experience in the health care industry with a specific focus in the dialysis industry where he has held senior finance positions at Renal Advantage, Renal Care Group (RCG) and National Nephrology Associates (NNA). At RCG, Mr. Gunter was responsible for the management and oversight of the Revenue Cycle process which represented $1.5 billion in annual revenue. At NNA, Mr. Gunter's responsibilities included Revenue Cycle, preparing annual operating budgets and negotiating managed care contracts.

Mr. Gunter received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama where he majored in Accounting. He passed the Certified Public Accounting exam in 1995.

 

M. Stephen Harrison
Executive Vice President - Chief Development Officer

 

Mr. Harrison is a 35 year veteran of the healthcare services industry, in which he spearheaded the development of over 200 alternate site therapy locations, mostly in the areas of chronic and acute dialysis. His responsibilities included medical director negotiation, site selection, construction management, provider-payer relations, and licensing and regulatory.

He was responsible for founding Community Dialysis Clinics, which ultimately was transformed into Vivra, a New York Stock Exchange company. While at Vivra, the company grew from 4 dialysis clinics to 36 clinics. He later headed new business development at REN Corporation USA, where he grew the company from 15 dialysis clinics to over 70 clinics. In 1998 he co-founded National Nephrology Associates which he grew from startup, with no dialysis clinics, to 85 clinics.

 

Dr. Mark R. Kaplan
Executive Vice President - Chief Medical Officer

 

Dr. Kaplan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Bioengineering. He completed medical school and a residency in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University, followed by a year as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital. From there, he completed a clinical and research fellowship in Nephrology and Hypertension at Harvard University Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Since 1997, Dr. Kaplan has been in practice as a partner with Nephrology Associates in Nashville, Tennessee. He launched and developed the practice's clinical research program. Prior to joining DSI, he held the position of Vice President of Clinical Research for Fresenius Medical Care.

 

Judy W. Lefkovitz
Executive Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer

 

Mrs. Lefkovitz has extensive experience in business operations and information technology. Prior to joining DSI Renal, Inc., she was EVP for IMRAC Corporation, an IT affiliate of National Nephrology Associates (NNA). At IMRAC she was responsible for operations, customer service, contract billing and collections services, HIPAA compliance and development and implementation of software for use ranging from in physician practices to statewide governmental institutions. Additionally, she was responsible for all information technology, which included a fully integrated online electronic medical record and billing system, at NNA's centralized corporate office and its 85 dialysis clinics.

Mrs. Lefkovitz has a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from The University of Tennessee and a Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University.

 

 

Jay A. Yalowitz
Executive Vice President - General Counsel

 

Prior to joining DSI Renal, Inc. as General Counsel, Mr. Yalowitz was in private practice in Chicago for almost 15 years, as a partner with McGuireWoods and prior to that, Ross & Hardies. Mr. Yalowitz represented health care providers including dialysis facilities, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices and ancillary providers in a wide range of matters including mergers and acquisitions, regulatory matters and corporate matters.

Mr. Yalowitz received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

 
   
   
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