EGHC Board of directors

W. Michael Long

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EGHC

Mike Long is an accomplished entrepreneur most known for building and leading several of health care's most prominent businesses. He was the Chief Executive Officer and later Chairman of Healtheon/WebMD, taking the now-iconic business from start up to market leader and overseeing its successful initial public offering. The market-leading clearinghouse vendor Emdeon and the world's largest consumer health information company WebMD were born out of that market leadership.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Long led Continuum, a producer of software and computer services for the insurance industry, growing it into a multi-billion dollar global enterprise and later overseeing its acquisition by Computer Sciences Corporation.

John Burbank

Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer, Passport Capital

John Burbank is the chief investment officer of Passport Capital, LLC, a San Francisco-based global investment firm managing approximately $4.6 billion in assets. The firm’s investment process uses a combination of macroeconomic analysis to develop major themes and rigorous fundamental research on individual companies to create global portfolios. Under Mr. Burbank’s leadership, Passport’s investment team focuses on the following areas: agriculture, basic materials, consumer, energy, financial services, health care, India, capital markets, internet/technology, and Middle East/North Africa.

Mr. Burbank has more than a decade of experience investing in global equity markets. Prior to founding the firm in 2000, he was a consultant to JMG Triton Offshore, Ltd. From 1996 to 1998, he was the director of research at ValueVest management. Mr. Burbank earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke University and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Denis A. Cortese, MD

President and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Mayo Clinic
Director, Health Care Delivery and Policy Program, Arizona State University

Denis Cortese is a champion of high-quality and patient-centered health care. He is currently Director of the Health Care Delivery and Policy Program at Arizona State University (ASU); Foundation Professor at ASU; and President of the Healthcare Transformation Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care delivery and lowering health care costs. Dr. Cortese is also Chair of the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Value and Science Driven Healthcare, and serves on the boards of Pinnacle West and RAND Health. From 2003 until his retirement in November 2009, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Mayo Clinic. Prior to that, Dr. Cortese served in other administrative positions at Mayo, and worked in the organization’s pulmonary and critical care areas for nearly 30 years.

L. John Doerr

Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

John Doerr joined Intel in 1974, just as the company had invented the legendary “8080” 8-bit microprocessor, where he went on to hold various engineering, marketing, and management assignments. In 1980, Mr. Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and soon thereafter started Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and @Home, the nation’s first broadband cable Internet service. Together with KPCB’s partners, he has backed many of America’s best entrepreneurial leaders, including:

•  Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt at Google
•  Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com
•  Scott Cook and Bill Campbell at Intuit
•  Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, and Vinod Khosla at Sun Microsystems
•  The founders of Compaq, Cypress, Macromedia, and Symantec

In addition to serving on the EGHC board of directors, Mr. Doerr is a board member at Google and other companies.

Matt Downs

Managing Director, Sandbox Industries

Matt Downs is Managing Director of Sandbox Industries, and a member of the board of directors of Marbles, Bloom Health, and Myca. Prior to joining Sandbox, Mr. Downs was a venture investor with Highland Capital Partners and worked for Morgan Stanley in their mergers and acquisitions group. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Frank Ingari

President, Essence Healthcare Vice Chairman of Government Relations, EGHC

Frank Ingari is an accomplished leader with more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and senior information technology executive. Prior to joining the EGHC family of companies, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shiva Corporation, a pioneer in the remote access market, taking the company public with Goldman Sachs in 1994. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager of the spreadsheet division at Lotus Development Corporation, and as Senior Vice President at Atex, Inc., a division of Kodak. He was also founder and Chairman of Wheelhouse Corporation, an early application service provider in the customer relationship market.

Christopher W. Kersey, MD, MBA

Managing Member, Camden Partners

Christopher W. Kersey serves as a Managing Member of Camden Partners, one of the largest growth equity and investment management funds in the United States, with more than $700 million under management.

Dr. Kersey serves on the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also serves on the board of directors of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Endowment Fund, and is the Chairman of the Board of Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the global development arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine, with hospital management and clinical education services in the Middle East, North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

Additionally, Dr. Kersey is a director of LipoScience, Inc.; Medivance, Inc.; MinSec Corrections Corporation; PatientSafe Solutions, Inc.; Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc.; and Webmedx, Inc. Eight of his previous portfolio companies have either been acquired or become publicly traded companies.

Dr. Kersey earned his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, his MBA from the Harvard Business School, and his doctor of medicine from the Emory University School of Medicine.

John H. Rice, MD

Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Esse Health

John Rice is a practicing internist, Executive Vice President, and Internal Medicine Department Chair at Esse Health, one of the nation’s largest independent physician groups. Dr. Rice is also a member of the Esse Health Board of Directors and its executive committee.