Jim Baker
CFO
Jim’s professional career includes over 20 years in the home health care industry with Apria Healthcare, a NYSE listed company, and 10 years in public accounting.  Jim held various financial positions with Apria and its predecessor including Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer, and Vice President and Controller.  During this time, Apria grew from $150 million to over $1 billion in annual revenues.  Jim was also instrumental in a management buyout, an initial public offering, and numerous acquisitions and mergers.  Jim started his professional career in public accounting and held positions of increasing responsibility in the audit divisions of KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.  Jim is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University’s Honors Program in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Richard Iriye
COO
Richard has over 20 years of home healthcare management experience working with the major national homecare companies. Most recently, Richard was the Senior Vice President of Operations for Coram. Prior to Coram, Richard held General Management and Regional Operations Management positions with Apria and Caremark. In addition to home infusion management, Richard was responsible for managing Coram’s Respiratory and DME Division as well as participating on the Board of several hospital partnerships. Other duties have included operational implementation of Ambulatory Infusion Centers for AIDS and specialty pharmacy administration services. Richard graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in Pharmacy and began his career in home infusion with Home Health Care of America.

Kathi Costello
Vice President, Clinical Operations
Kathi has over 20 years of healthcare experience, including 15 years in Regional and Senior Operations Management positions with national Specialty Pharmacy and Specialty Infusion companies. She has worked with Coram, Quantum Health Resources/Gentiva/Accredo, and Apria Healthcare. Most recently, Kathi was responsible for the operations of the Infusion Division at Apria Healthcare. Prior to that she managed operations for the western half of the United States for Accredo Therapeutics. Kathi has a BS degree in Nursing from California State University, Long Beach and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Jeff Freedman
Vice President, Business Development
Jeff has been in the home health care industry since 1997.  Most recently, Jeff served as Chief Development Officer for Rotech Healthcare, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions and the evaluation of additional strategic and ancillary growth opportunities.  From 2002 to 2004, Jeff served as Vice President, Acquisitions at Apria Healthcare.  Prior to Apria, Jeff was Associate Counsel and a member of the Acquisitions Group at Lincare from 1997 to 2000.  During his tenure at Rotech, Apria and Lincare, a total of 140 home health care transactions were completed with aggregate annual revenues of $500 million.  Jeff’s responsibilities at these public companies have included mergers and acquisitions, business development and a variety of related legal functions.  Jeff began his professional career as a corporate attorney at the Trenam, Kemker law firm in Tampa, Florida, and has provided private client investment banking and consulting services at various intervals during his career.  Jeff holds a B.A. degree from Duke University and a J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law.     

Sherri McKaig
VP Human Resources
Sherri has over 18 years experience in all facets of human resources management. Prior to joining Amerita, Sherri spent 16 years with Scantron Corporation, most recently in the position of Vice President of Human Resources where she was primarily responsible for M&A, post-deal integration, culture development, leadership development and executive coaching. Prior to Scantron, Sherri worked as an agency recruiter and a psychiatric counselor. Sherri holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology and Human Development from Cal Poly, SLO.

Kari Mejia
Director, Finance
Kari has over 20 years of accounting and financial reporting experience. Most recently, she served as the Director of Financial Reporting and Analysis with Apria Healthcare. During her 14 years at Apria, Kari’s primary responsibilities included preparing SEC filings, accounting research, acquisition-related accounting and valuations, budget development, incentive compensation plan development and administration and general oversight of the financial reporting area. Prior to joining Apria, Kari served in various accounting, financial reporting and auditing capacities for a variety of organizations. Kari holds a Bachelor of Business degree in Accountancy from Western Illinois University and earned a C.P.A certificate in the State of Illinois.

Tom Flynn
Board Member
Tom is a member of Ferrer Freeman & Company, LLC. He joined FFC in 1996. He was a Vice President in GE Capital's Equity Capital Group from 1993 to 1996 in the company's Stamford and London offices, the latter pursuant to a joint venture with Advent International. Prior to GE Capital, he held positions with Prudential Investment Corporation and Lehman Brothers Investment Banking division. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aerocare Holdings, Inc., Genova Diagnostics Inc., Informed Medical Communications, PHNS, Inc., and Amerita, Inc. He is also an observer of the Board of MedPointe Pharmaceuticals. Tom holds an B.A. degree from College of the Holy Cross and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.

Jim Greenwood
Board Member
Jim Greenwood has served as Concentra Inc.'s Executive Vice President of Corporate Development since February 1998. In this role Jim is focused on product development initiatives and external growth through mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Prior to this he served as OccuSystems, Inc.'s Chief Financial Officer. From 1988 until he joined OccuSystems in 1993, Mr. Greenwood served in numerous positions with Bank One, Texas, N.A., and its predecessors. Jim holds a B.B.A. degree in Acounting from Baylor University and is a Certified Public Accountant.