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Industry expertise. Sound financial backing.

The MedeFinance Board of Directors provides deep experience to ensure appropriate growth and exceptional client service.

Our board of directors includes industry leaders in healthcare, credit, communications, insurance, finance, technology, and business development. The directors also play a critical advisory role to MedeFinance's executive team.

James T. Quist
Board Chairman
CEO, MedeFinance, Inc.


For Jim Quist's bio, please see the Executive Team.
William Binch
Board Member

William Binch is a professional independent director with extensive experience in worldwide sales, enterprise applications, and analytics/business intelligence. In addition to Medefinance, he serves on four other boards: SPSS, SeeCommerce (Executive Chairman), Callidus Software, and Saama Technologies.

Mr. Binch also serves on several advisory boards, notably Demandtec and Verari. Previously, Mr. Binch was Senior VP at Hyperion/Arbor from July 1997 to May 1999. He was a senior executive at Business Objects and Prism, two business intelligence and data warehousing companies. Mr. Binch served for five years at Oracle, finally as VP of Strategic Accounts. He has held executive sales/general management positions at IBM, Itel, and Fortune Systems.
Richard M. Mastaler
Chairman & CEO, Managed Health Ventures, Inc.

Mr. Mastaler is founder and CEO of Managed Health Ventures, Inc., a managed care consulting firm. He is a seasoned healthcare executive with more than 30 years of Chairman and CEO management experience in healthcare IT, hospital administration, managed care, insurance, and clinical laboratory management. Specializing in company turnarounds and developing new healthcare concepts, he has a proven track record of achievement for both private and publicly held companies including the University of New Mexico , Samaritan Health Services, Unilab Inc., and Hospital Corporation of America . He was also a founder of the Managed Care Division for Humana Inc., which is now 8 million members strong, and generates $12 billion in revenue.

Rich holds an MHA from George Washington University and a BS degree from Florida State University .

Jeff Crisan
Board Member

Jeff Crisan joined Bain Capital in 1998. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Jeff worked in Bain Capital's Private Equity group, focusing primarily on technology and healthcare investments, including software, semiconductors, telecommunications, business services, and healthcare services. Prior to Bain Capital, Jeff was a consultant with Bain & Company.

Jeff's current and past portfolio company Board responsibilities include Accelecare Wound Centers, Enclarity, Liberty Dialysis, Nanosphere (NASDAQ: NSPH), Princeton Review (NASDAQ: REVU), and Solarwinds.

Jeff received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a BA magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics and government from Dartmouth College.
Michael E. Gallagher
Vice Chairman

Mr. Gallagher has a broad professional background with over 25 years experience in the healthcare service sector and demonstrated capabilities in management, operations, strategic planning, financial controls, as well as acquisitions and divestitures.

In addition to investing as a principal and representing others as an advisor in numerous merger and acquisition and strategic planning engagements at Shamrock Investments, LLC, Mr. Gallagher has also successfully discharged a variety of significant operating assignments on the Board of Directors of several public and private providers and health plan organizations. He was formerly Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Net of California and CEO of Paragon Ambulatory Surgery. Mr. Gallagher was also the Director of Corporate Development, Financial Planning and Controls of American Medical International, Inc., and his professional career included positions with the public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand and service in the United States Marine Corps.

Mr. Gallagher holds a bachelor's degree in economics (1972) and a Masters of Business Administration (1973) from the University of Southern California and earned his CPA certificate in 1977. He has served as a member of the American Hospital Association's Special Board Committee on Capital Formation and also sits on the board of The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.