Advisory Board

 

 

 Mr. L. J. Evans, Jr. – President and Chief Executive Officer of the SFI Financial Group, Inc.
 

 

  • Vice Chairman; Board of Altarum (formerly Environmental Research Institute of Michigan – the inventor of SAR radar and developer of numerous “Black” technologies)
  • Board Member of Solutions Design Group (an airport/seaport capital management company)
  • Board Member of Safe Life Corp. (a biotech/biodefense company) 
  • Pixel Velocity Advisory Board Chairman (a homeland security company)
  • Ex-RAD Advisory Board Chairman (a radiation/bio-terrorism amelioration company) 
  • Former Board Chairman EOTech, Inc. (optics sighting company) and ART Inc. [advanced nuclear materials].
  • Served as Chairman of the White House Cabinet Council on Technology Commercialization, as Member of National Research Council Applications Board, and as Head of NASA Commercial Technology
  • Former Senior Executive at the White House, NASA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 
  • B.A. in Economics from Colby College and a J.D. from Cornell University

 Dr. Ronald Blanck, D.O. –  Vice Chairman & Partner of Martin, Blanck & Assoc., Former President of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.  

 

  • Former Surgeon General of the US Army & Commander of the US Army Medical Command, Lt. General US Army (Ret.)
  • Served as Commander of Walter Reed Medical Center North Atlantic Region
  • Past Governor of the American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine
  • Recipient of numerous military honors and consulted as an advisor on bioterrorism issues
  • Chairs task forces on bioterrorism for both the Texas Medical Association and the American Osteopathic Association

 

 

Dr. Charles Harvey Roadman II, MD, CNA – Lt. General USAF (Ret.)

  • Former President and CEO American Care Health Association
  • Served as Surgeon General USAF
  • Led the restoration to the Medicare and Medicaid and institution of national Quality Reform for Long Term Care
  • 36+ years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry
  • Managed health services to 2.4 million beneficiaries



Brian Bristol – Senior Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking, W.R. Hanbrecht + Co. 

  • Prior to joining W. R. Hambrecht + Co, he was Managing Director and the Head of Investment Banking at SoundView Technology Group
  • Director and Co-Head of the Technology Investment Banking Group at Salomon Brothers and was Vice President of the Technology Group at First Boston’s investment banking unit
  • Began his career on Wall Street with Smith Barney
  • Received his B.A. from Yale University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from Columbia University

Dr. James J. James, MD, DrPH, MHA – Director of the American Medical Association (AMA) Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response, and Editor-in-Chief, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, an official publication of the American Medical Association

  • Commanding General (Ret.) U.S. Army Medical Department
  • 30 years of experience in the public and private health care sectors – as a clinician, researcher, professional personnel manager and program director
  • Served as Director of the Miami-Dade County Health Department from 1999 through Dec. 2002
  • Recognized as an expert in the area of bio-preparedness
  • Appointed Governor’s Domestic Security Task Force as well as the Lead Health Agent for Preparedness and Response for Region 7 in Florida
  • Board certified in general preventive medicine, earned a doctorate in medicine at Cincinnati College of Medicine, a doctorate in public health from UCLA’s School of Public Health, and a masters in health care administration from Baylor University

W. Craig Vanderwagen, MD, RADM USPHS (Ret) – Senior Partner with Martin, Blanck, and Associates

  • Founding Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response for the US Dept of Health and Human Services
  • 28 years as commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service (USPHS, Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • Deployed assignments to disaster environments in LA after Katrina; Indonesia after 2005 tsunami; Iraq; Honduras after 1999 Hurricane Mitch; and Kosovar refugee assistance in 1999
  • The deployments were in addition to his duties in the Indian Health Service, where he held the position as Chief Medical Officer as his last assignment