Picis Board Members
Chairman and Director
Richard M. Johnston has served as a director since November 2004 and as chairman of the company’s board since February 2005. Since 2000, Johnston has been a managing member of Camden Partners Holdings, LLC, a private equity firm and investor in Picis. Previously, he was vice president of investments and a director at The Hillman Company, also an investor in Picis. Johnston is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and holds a master’s degree in business administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as chairman of the board of The West Penn Allegheny Health System and its predecessor organizations from 1979 to 2003. Johnston currently serves as a director of several of healthcare technology companies including Lombard Medical Technologies, COHR, Medivance, PharmaNetics and Webmedx.
Vice Chairman and Director
Cozzens is vice chairman and a director of the company’s board of directors. Cozzens, who co-founded Picis in 1994, has more than 23 years of experience in the healthcare technology and information systems industry. It was Cozzens’ original strategic vision of information systems for the high-acuity care areas of hospitals that drove the company’s growth trajectory over 1,500% since 2001. Prior to Picis, he served as the president of a division of Marquette Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) and held several other senior management positions, including vice president of sales, from 1983 to 1995. Cozzens is a graduate of Marquette University and the Harvard Business School Executive Program for Management Development. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2005 and was a four-time member of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team.
Director
Jeffrey B. Meskin is a co-manager of BBH Capital Partners, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co's private investment business. He is actively involved in sourcing, executing and monitoring investments. Meskin is a director on the Board of Directors of Long Lines, LLC, BarrierSafe Solutions International, Inc., Durcon Laboratory Tops, Inc., Reveal Imaging Technologies, Inc., Tower Ventures, LLC, and Picis Solutions Inc. Previously, Meskin served as director of telecommunications investment banking at Morgan Keegan & Company and began his career with Coopers & Lybrand. Meskin received a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin.
Director
Tommy G. Thompson is a director of the company’s board. Secretary Thompson previously served as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary and four-term governor of Wisconsin, the longest tenure in that state’s history. He is currently senior advisor of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he is responsible for developing innovative solutions to the healthcare challenges facing American families, businesses, communities, states and the nation. He received his bachelor’s degree and law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Secretary Thompson has received numerous awards for his public service, including the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Public Service Award. In 1997, Thompson received Governing magazine’s Public Official-of- the-Year Award, and he received the Horatio Alger Award in 1998.
Director
Andrew D. Beckman is portfolio manager of the Multi-Strategy Investing group within the Americas Special Situations Group (AmSSG) at Goldman Sachs. He has over 10 years of principal investing experience in both private and public companies. Previously, Beckman was a member of the investment team at Investcorp, a global private equity firm. At Investcorp he evaluated, executed and structured principal investment opportunities in a broad variety of industries. Beckman began his career working in the mergers and acquisitions department of Salomon Smith Barney. He graduated magna cum laude with a BSc from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Director
Richard Dieter is a director of the company’s board and serves as the chairman of its audit committee. Dieter was a partner with Andersen LLP from 1976 to 2002 and continues to work part time as a principal. Previously, he was an accounting and audit practice director for New England and Latin America and was responsible for risk management for the software industry. From 1987 to 1997 he was the director of Andersen’s SEC Practice. Prior to that he served in a variety of roles including as an audit engagement partner for public and privately-held companies. He is a graduate of Boston University and earned a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dieter has held several leadership roles in professional associations including as chair of the AICPA-SEC International Task Force and as a member of the Auditing Standards Board.
Director
Jay E. Toole is a director of the company’s board. Toole is the chairman of Dearborn Advisors, LLC, a Chicago-based healthcare consulting firm focused on clinical information systems adoption and maximization of health care providers’ return on investments in information technology. From 1992 to 2003 he was a partner with Ernst & Young/Cap Gemini Ernst & Young where he led the healthcare IT consulting practice and served in other leadership roles. Prior to that, Toole was an executive with a healthcare software company and worldwide director of Andersen Consulting’s healthcare practice. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of South Carolina’s Executive Graduate Program in Healthcare Financial Management.
Director
Gene Yoon is the head of private equity for Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Americas Special Situations Group, where his focus is on middle market and growth equity investing. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Yoon was a partner at Great Hill Partners, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in media/communications, technology and business services. Yoon was formerly director of corporate and business development at Geocast Network Systems, a technology infrastructure provider backed by Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield and IVP. Prior to Geocast, he was in investment banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Yoon received both a bachelor’s degree in Economics and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Richard M. Johnston
Andrew D. Beckman
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