Amerita Executive Biographies

Jim Glynn
President and CEO
Jim has over 20 years of healthcare experience.  Most recently, Jim served as Senior Vice President, Apria Healthcare where he was responsible for Apria’s Specialty Infusion division.  From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Glynn served as Vice President of SPS Operations, Gentiva Health Services.  Prior to Gentiva, Jim worked with Coram Healthcare from 1991 to 1998.  While at Coram, Jim held various roles of increased responsibility.  As the Senior Vice President, Jim was responsible for the Western Division of the company, Coram Prescription Services and New Business Development. Jim began his healthcare career with Johnson and Johnson where he spent six years in sales, sales training and sales management positions.  Mr. Glynn holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from Northern Illinois University and has completed graduate work in Finance at Loyola University.
     
 

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.

     
 

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.     

     
 

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.

     
  Keith Longson
Board Member
Keith is a member of Ferrer Freeman & Company, LLC. Prior to joining FFC he was a Vice President at JP Morgan with responsibilities in Global Health Care Investment Banking. Prior to joining JP Morgan in 1994, Mr. Longson held positions at Putnam Associates, a health care management consulting firm, and the health care investment banking division of Smith Barney. Mr. Longson is a member of the Board of Ernest Healthcare, Inc., WebMedx, Inc. and Preferred Care Partners Holdings, Corp., Amerita, Inc., and K2M, LLC. He is also an observer of the Board of Concentra. He holds a B.A. degree from Boston College and an M.B.A. degree from Columbia 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.