Executive Officers

Richard L. Jackson, 70
Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mr. Jackson is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Healthcare, LLC, a leading healthcare staffing company. Launched in 2000, the company has consistently expanded through acquisitions and organic growth to more than $2.5 billion in 2023 revenue. Today, the Jackson Healthcare portfolio includes twenty healthcare staffing, executive search and technology companies that include leaders and innovators in their respective markets. In healthcare staffing, its core focus, Jackson Healthcare is among the largest in the U.S. with more than 20,000 clinician providers across all fifty states. Mr. Jackson has served as Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Investment Group, LLC since 1989. From March 2021 to June 2023, Mr. Jackson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Acquisition Company. Over the course of his career, Mr. Jackson has been instrumental in conceptualizing and developing more than 25 healthcare companies. His ownership and operation of staffing companies, surgery centers, practice management companies, clinics and hospitals over the past four decades have uniquely qualified him to start, grow and scale businesses in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry. With deep domain experience and a passion for the healthcare market, Mr. Jackson has a proven track record in anticipating opportunities and identifying underserved niches — and continues to play an active role in transforming the way healthcare is delivered. As a former foster child, Mr. Jackson is driven by a personal mission to inject hope and opportunity into the lives of underserved children and young people. Mr. Jackson is Co-Founder and Chairman of FaithBridge Foster Care, Inc. and supports numerous local and international charitable organizations. He also is the Founding Chairman of goBeyondProfit, and he serves on the boards of directors of the Giving Company and the Family Christian Resource Center.

David Lawrence, 67
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Lawrence has over twenty years of financial and operational leadership experience in the biotechnology industry. From March 2021 to November 2023, Mr. Lawrence served as Chief Financial Officer of Neurotrauma Sciences, LLC. From 1999 to March 2021, Mr. Lawrence served at Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOR) in several financial and operational positions including Chief of Business Operations and Principal Accounting Officer from 2016 to March 2021, Chief of Business Operations from 2013 to 2016, Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2013 and Vice President of Finance from 2001 to 2004. While at Acorda Therapeutics, Mr. Lawrence managed the successful completion of the company’s IPO and managed several follow-on offerings and private placements raising a total of over seven hundred million dollars. Mr. Lawrence’s prior experience includes financial management positions of Vice President and Controller and Finance Manager for several telecommunication companies including Southwestern Bell and Metromedia Telecommunications. Mr. Lawrence received his B.A. in Accounting from Roger Williams College and an MBA in Finance from Iona University in New York.

Board of Directors

Brian A. McCarthy, 65
Director Nominee

Mr. McCarthy has served as a member of Patient Square’s Advisory Council since May 2023. Over the course of his career, he has served as a financial advisor on over 125 health care transactions representing an aggregate transaction value in excess of $100 billion. From 2012 to August 2022, Mr. McCarthy served in various roles in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Bank of America, most recently as Vice Chairman. In this role, he was responsible for many of the bank’s most important healthcare clients. Prior to Bank of America, Mr. McCarthy served as the Head of the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., from 2009 to 2012. Mr. McCarthy was Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan from 2006 to 2008 and Managing Director and Co-Head of Healthcare at Lehman Brothers from 1999 to 2006, where he was a member of the Lehman Brothers Senior Client Council. Mr. McCarthy is also a member and the former Chairman of the Advisory Council of Brown University’s School of Public Health and on the Advisory Board of Intus Care, a healthcare analytics platform company. Mr. McCarthy completed his B.A. at Brown University in 1981 and his M.B.A. at the Wharton School of Business in 1986.

J. Nicholas Ayers, 42
Director Nominee

Mr. Ayers served in the White House as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President from 2017 to 2019. While at the White House, Mr. Ayers helped shape some of the administration’s important and high-profile initiatives. Recently, Mr. Ayers partnered with Insight Venture Partners to acquire Veeam Software Group GmbH, where he now serves as a member of Veeam’s board of directors. Mr. Ayers serves on the board of directors of PSQ Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PSQH). Previously, Mr. Ayers served on the vestry at the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia from 2019 to 2023. Mr. Ayers received a B.S. in Political Science from Kennesaw State University.

Stephan S. Rodgers, 63
Director Nominee

Mr. Rodgers has over 25 years of healthcare experience working in homecare, insurance, consulting, and employee benefits. Mr. Rodgers has served as an operating partner with TowerBrook Capital Partners, a purpose-driven leading investment firm with a significant healthcare investment portfolio, since January 2024. In this role, Mr. Rodgers works with the TowerBrook team in exploring and driving investment strategies across the healthcare continuum. From 2012 to October 2023, Mr. Rodgers was the Chief Executive Officer of AccentCare, a national homecare, hospice, and personal services company. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Rodgers served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OptumHealth Collaborative Care now known as OptumCare. From 1999 to 2012, Mr. Rodgers worked for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) in various senior leadership positions, including the Executive Vice President of Product and Innovation, the Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Rodgers has worked in numerous other segments of the health care industry, including benefit consulting, provider practice management, and other managed care companies in executive management and marketing roles. His past experience includes working on the performance assessment committee of NCQA in the development of HEDIS, disease management advisory councils with pharmaceutical firms, and advisory groups at JCAHO. He started his healthcare career in the U.S. Army as a medic, and worked his way through college as an orderly, caregiver, and nurse assistant working in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and homes. Mr. Rodgers holds a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of California.

Paul G. Gabos, 59
Director Nominee

Mr. Gabos is a Co-Founder and current Chairman of Kaliber Labs, Inc., a developer of medical AI applications for healthcare providers, patients, health systems and device manufacturers, where he has served since 2018. Mr. Gabos has served as a member of the board of directors of Airo Brands, Inc. since 2018. Mr. Gabos is the former Chief Financial Officer of Lincare Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNCR), a home healthcare services company with approximately $2.0 billion in annual revenues. He was employed with Lincare for nearly 20 years and retired in December 2012 following the acquisition of Lincare by The Linde Group AG in a transaction valued at $4.7 billion. Mr. Gabos was a member of the board of directors of MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD), a physician practice management company, from 2002 until May 2022, where he served as Audit Committee Chairman and a member of the Executive Committee of the board of directors. From 2013 to 2020, he was a member of the board of directors of Benefytt Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BFYT), a developer and administrator of individual health and insurance plans, and served as Chairman of its board of directors, as well as Audit Committee Chairman, until its acquisition by Madison Dearborn Partners in August 2020. He was also a member of the board of directors and Audit Committee Chairman of Life Line Screening Holdings, LLC from 2007 until its sale to Kinderhook Industries in 2021, and PetVet Care Centers, Inc. until its sale to KKR & Co. in 2018. Prior to that, he was a merger and acquisition specialist with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. and for Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Gabos holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.