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Management Team

Richard Scardina, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Mr. Scardina is a proven healthcare services executive with experience in rapid growth and innovation in businesses including pharmacy benefit management, disease management, infusion therapy and specialty pharmacy. He has been a Director of Millennium since October 2007 and Chief Executive Officer beginning September 2008. Prior to that Mr. Scardina was a private investor and business consultant primarily to healthcare related organizations. From July 1989 until May 2006 he was employed by Caremark Rx and its predecessor companies, most recently as Executive Vice President of Operations. Before that, Mr. Scardina was an employee of Price Waterhouse for thirteen years. He was also previously Chairman and an Executive Committee Member of the Pharmacy Care Management Association, the trade association for the pharmacy benefit management industry.

Mr. Scardina earned a Bachelor of Accounting Science Degree with High Honors from the University of Illinois and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Gary Duty, President, Co-Founder, Director

Mr. Duty is an experienced healthcare industry executive with over 20 years of experience in the institutional pharmacy industry. He is co-founder and former partner of Brown & Duty Inc., which owned and or managed four institutional pharmacies in Western Pennsylvania. He was a partner in HPS, a western Pennsylvania-based institutional pharmacy that was acquired by Gatti LTC Services Inc. in 1990. He was instrumental in the success of Gatti LTC Services Inc. as it grew to service over 25,000 beds in Pennsylvania and contiguous areas. Mr. Duty served in various marketing and operating capacities as a Gatti LTC executive and subsequently served in similar roles with American Medserve and Omnicare. He has extensive experience with the complex customer acquisition process that characterizes the marketing of pharmacy services to the long term care industry as well as the mechanics of compliance with regulatory standards. Mr. Duty is a Registered Pharmacist and a member of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.

Lena Sturgeon, Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations

Ms. Sturgeon is an experienced healthcare industry professional. She joined the MPS management team during the Company's organization and start-up phase and has played an integral role in leading the design and delivery of a market-ready, mission critical medication management system that meets all the demanding requirements for resident care in the long-term care industry. A registered nurse since 1984, she has progressed through a number of senior management positions in long-term care and related fields, including tenures as Chief Operating Officer of an upscale continuum care residential community, Vice President of Pharmacy Operations for a large publicly traded institutional pharmacy company, Regional Clinical Director for a large nursing home chain, and Director of Nursing for a skilled nursing facility. Her experience represents a unique blend of clinical, pharmacy and long term care facility perspectives and operating knowledge.

Stephen R. Duvall, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Mr. Duvall has 25 years of sales and sales management experience within a broad array of healthcare disciplines including long term care, managed care, and pharmacy benefit management. Much of Mr. Duvall's time and attention focused on the development and deployment of managed pharmacy initiatives for corporate, union, health plan and government-sponsored programs and long term care facilities. He is responsible for all sales and marketing strategies and programs at Millennium. Prior to joining Millennium, Mr. Duvall was Senior Vice President of Sales for Coram, Inc., overseeing the company's national sales force and responsible for new business development and contract retention across Coram's various sales channels. Mr. Duvall came to Coram from NeighborCare, where he led the sales and account management teams and served as liaison to the LTCPA. Over his career, he has held a variety of sales and marketing executive positions in the healthcare industry.

Suresh Vishnubhatla, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Vishnubhatla joined Millennium Pharmacy Systems in 2007. In his role as the CTO, he oversees the development of the software products and network operations. He joined Millennium from BodyMedia Inc., where he was the Senior Vice President, Products and responsible for product development (hardware, software and informatics), clinical research and regulatory affairs. Prior to BodyMedia Mr. Vishnubhatla was responsible for Product Development at Emerson Electric Corporation's Power and Water Solutions business. His work during his career was primarily in the fields of real-time systems, software system development, networking and distributed computing. He has over 15 years of experience building integrated systems that bring hardware, software and algorithmic components together to perform complex tasks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and a Master's in Electrical Engineering. Mr. Vishnubhatla also holds several US and international patents.

Joe Poliseo, Senior Vice President, Pharmacy Operations

Mr. Poliseo joined Millennium Pharmacy Systems in October, 2007 with over 22 years of professional experience and 10 years of executive operations experience. Prior to joining Millennium, he held senior operations positions with Medco Health Solutions (running two of the largest pharmacies in the world) and with DaVita Rx (running a national network of specialty mail-order pharmacies and call centers specializing in the care of dialysis patients suffering from end stage renal disease). Mr. Poliseo has managed operations as large as 1,600 people (inclusive of 270 pharmacists) as well as national and global supply chain networks. He has also consulted for the long term care pharmacy industry and has global operations leadership experience in Europe and Asia. He has a passion for continuous improvement in healthcare operations and has been formally trained in Lean Manufacturing and as a Six Sigma black belt. He holds dual B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Engineering.

John M. Froehlich, Vice President, Finance

John Froehlich joined Millennium Pharmacy Systems in 2005. Mr. Froehlich came to MPS from CoManage Corporation, where he served as Controller for the venture-backed software development company. He also was a member of the audit and business advisory services team at Ernst & Young where he worked with clients in the healthcare and technology industries. Mr. Froehlich has extensive experience with growth-stage companies, as well as responsibility for all aspects of the finance operation, including internal and external financial reporting, financial modeling, and shareholder relations. Mr. Froehlich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business, and he is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the PICPA.

Gaile M. Omori, SPHR, Vice President, Human Resources

Ms. Omori brings more than 20 years of human resources experience to Millennium, including leadership at healthcare, financial, and private equity companies such as Evangelical Health Systems, GE Capital, Sears Holding Corporation, and Prospect Mortgage (a portfolio company of Sterling Partners). Ms. Omori has a proven track record of developing, planning, and overseeing human resources strategies and tactics that support the company’s business plan and operating strategies. Her focus is on blending team building, change management, executive leadership, and verbal/written communication with strategic and tactical HR operations to ensure the workforce is productive, satisfied, and delivers quality results.

Ms. Omori holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Masters degree in Industrial Relations from Loyola University of Chicago.