David A. Florman joined the Board of Directors on April 1, 2006. In May 2005, Mr. Florman founded DFI Consulting, Ltd, a boutique consulting firm serving the health care marketplace and currently serves as its President. He has over 30 years of broad professional experience in the health care industry. He has held senior executive positions in the healthcare provider sector with community hospitals and key academic medical centers as well as leadership roles in the payer/insurance community with regional and national managed care organizations including United Health Group, Inc. where he served as Regional Vice President from December 2003 through June 2005, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, where he served as Senior Vice President of Medical Delivery and Medicare Risk from March 2001 through September 2003 and Aetna, Inc., where he served in a variety of positions between July 1990 and February 2001. At Aetna, Mr. Florman served as, among other things, Head of the National Medical Cost Management, Market/Health Delivery Strategic Initiative Team Lead and Head of the National Medical Management Strategy. Mr. Florman received a Bachelors of Arts Degree from New York University in 1973 and a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Health Care Administration from The City University of New York in May 1976. |