O.B. Parrish has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1994, as acting Chief Financial and Accounting Officer from February 1996 to March 1999 and as the Chairman of the Board and a Director of the Company since 1987. Mr. Parrish is a shareholder and has served as the President and as a Director of Phoenix Health Care of Illinois, Inc. (Phoenix of Illinois) since 1987. Phoenix of Illinois owns approximately 233,501 shares of the Company�s Common Stock. Mr. Parrish also is Chairman and a Director of ViatiCare, L.L.C., a financial services company, and Chairman and a Director of MIICRO, Inc., a neuroimaging company. Mr. Parrish is also a trustee of Lawrence University. From 1977 until 1986, Mr. Parrish was the President of the Global Pharmaceutical Group of G.D. Searle & Co. (Searle), a pharmaceutical/consumer products company. From 1974 until 1977, Mr. Parrish was the President of Searle International, the foreign sales operation of Searle. Prior to that, Mr. Parrish was Executive Vice President of Pfizer�s International Division. |