Richard P. Kusserow - President Mr. Kusserow, nationally recognized as the leading authority on corporate compliance programs, has consulted with over 700 organizations in the development of their compliance programs and establishment of Hotline operations. He served as the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for eleven years, managing over 1,600 auditors, investigators, management analysts, inspectors, and medical professionals and providing oversight of $665 billion in annual outlays. He was also responsible for

Larry J. Tomayko - Chief Operating Officer Mr. Tomayko brings to NHS over 25 years of experience in executive management positions in both the public and private sectors. He served in a variety of senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. As the Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), he coordinated policy and personnel issues and oversaw critical incident management, including reaction to DHHS Hotline reports. He coordinated the performance management of 650 career senior executives. He also served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (Legislation and Public Affairs), U.S. Department of Education and as a senior executive at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. As Executive Assistant and Deputy Chief of Staff for a United States Senator, he managed response operations to constituency correspondence and telephone calls averaging 7,000 per week. Mr. Tomayko was also the founding managing editor of a highly respected and successful online national daily news service. He was a partner for ten years in a firm specializing in the purchase, renovation and resale of historic properties before coming to NHS. Deborah M. Collins - Client Relations and Training Ms. Collins has assisted in the development of over sixty corporate compliance/ethics programs, including the establishment of hotlines, for the past eight years. She has provided hotline, ethics and compliance training programs for employees at over two hundred organizations. She has extensive expertise in compliance charter, policy, procedure and code development, as well as compliance operations management and compliance communication. Ms. Collins is a frequent speaker on the subject of compliance program implementation and has authored several articles on compliance related issues, including Prevention of Liability for Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Violations. Previously, she was on the staff of a U.S. Congressman, where her responsibilities included coverage of healthcare issues. David Newhall III - Consultant and Member, NHS Board of Directors Mr. Newhall brings to NHS 27 years of experience at the highest levels of the federal government. He served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (Health Affairs), U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), where he developed and managed programs for healthcare delivery (1.2 million admissions, 58 million ambulatory visits yearly), including $3 billion of care purchased annually through the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). He was the primary architect of the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative, which became the foundation for DoD's regional managed care support contracting (TRICARE). Earlier, as Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), he managed the operations of the 250 programs constituting DHHS, including, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, NIH, and the FDA. Previously, he served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Richard S. Schweiker. Prior to federal service, he was a manager for Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and a reporter with the Philadelphia newspaper, The Bulletin. Mr. Newhall, an authority on compliance and on Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE contracting, serves on the Board of Directors of a major Medicare contractor and chairs its compliance committee. Rebecca Hatchell Wilner - Consultant and Member, NHS Board of Directors Ms. Wilner brings to NHS over 30 years of experience in human resources management (HRM). She is a recognized expert in employee and labor relations, staffing, classification, employee assistance programs (EAP), strategic planning and other facets of HRM. In her career, Ms. Wilner has operated a number of Employee Assistance Hotlines. She served twelve years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she later became Director of Personnel, Office of the NIH Director. She was also the Director for Personnel, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) with responsibility for over 5,000 employees. She served in a similar capacity in the Office of the Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service and at the Federal Trade Commission, and was Deputy Director of Personnel and Chief of Employee and Labor Relations at the National Gallery of Art. For the last several years, Ms. Wilner has been a consultant to both public and private sector clients. Julian De La Rosa - Consultant Mr. De La Rosa has over 34 years of administrative and management experience at the highest levels of the federal government. He is a nationally recognized expert on compliance programs and has guided the creation and management of scores of corporate compliance programs, which include Hotline operations. Mr. De La Rosa is a sought after presenter to senior management and board-level forums and is an acknowledged expert on labor-management issues. He was appointed by the President of the United States as Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), where he was charged with oversight of the Department's $39 billion budget and 18,000 employees. The DOL programs included ERISA, OSHA, job training, workers' compensation, pensions and health insurance. He was also responsible for the operation of the DOL Hotline. Mr. De La Rosa served for 30 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a senior executive and Special Agent in Charge, for the St. Louis Division. He was also Secretary of the Board of Police Commissioners for St. Louis, in which he was responsible to the Board and the Governor for administration of the police department. David J. Butler - Consultant Mr. Butler possesses over 25 years of experience in both policy and operational levels of the federal government. He is the Chief Operating Officer for Strategic Management Systems, Inc., the country's leading firm for development and implementation of compliance programs in the healthcare industry. Previously, as the Deputy Associate Administrator (Operations and Resource Management) of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), he served as the Chief Operating Officer of the agency. Mr. Butler was responsible for 3,200 of HCFA's 4,200 employees. His duties at HCFA included executive direction and compliance oversight to the 78 Medicare fiscal intermediaries and carriers that accounted for $1.6 billion in annual operations.He oversaw regulation development, strategic planning and had direct management responsibilities for HCFA field offices' operations. His previous experience was in commercial banking and as a Naval aviator. Steven D. Forman, CPA - Consultant Mr. Forman provides over 25 years of experience as a Certified Public Accountant in public and private sector financial management. Over the past seven years, he has assisted numerous organizations in the development and implementation of compliance programs. His involvement includes all phases of the compliance programs, and he has particular knowledge and expertise in the evaluation of hotline operations. His previous position was as Director of the Division of Resources Management and Operations for the Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). His duties included managing the $100 million budget, and the agency's administrative services and information resources, as well as management controls and work planning programs. Mr. Forman was also Executive Director of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), a national association of over 12,000 financial management professionals. He served at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), where he was responsible for agency-wide budget formulation and execution activities, centralized accounting and procurement, administrative services, security and printing operations. Al Bassett, J.D. - Legal Advisor Mr. Bassett is a well-known expert and consultant in the development and implementation of compliance programs and hotline operations. As Assistant Vice President of Strategic Management Systems, Inc., the country's leading consulting firm for development, implementation and evaluation of corporate compliance programs, he works with senior executives and boards to initiate and oversee effective compliance programs. An expert on program fraud and abuse, he was Deputy Inspector General for the Department of Labor (DOL), where his office provided oversight of OSHA, workers' compensation, ERISA, pensions and health insurance and job training. He was directly responsible for the DOL Hotline. Mr. Bassett spent twenty years as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and was the Executive Assistant to the Director of the FBI at the time of his departure.In the FBI, his expertise was program fraud and white-collar crime. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Bassett served as a U.S. Marine Corps officer. Andrew H. Joseph, J.D. - Legal Advisor Andrew Joseph provides expertise to corporate compliance programs on evolving laws and regulations, developments in qui tam litigation, government lawsuits and settlements. He is an expert in compliance code development, hotline operations, compliance policies and procedures and compliance reviews. Previously as a staff attorney for a firm representing institutional providers in large dollar insurance disputes, he gained a broad range of exposure to legal issues in the healthcare field, including PPO/HMO contracting and repricing, state healthcare mandates, COBRA, and ERISA. He prepared appeals in contract disputes and negotiated monetary settlements with private insurers, third-party administrators, and government intermediaries. He also dealt extensively with government programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, FEHBP and CHAMPUS. Mr. Joseph, a frequent speaker at professional and industry group meetings, has authored compliance-related articles including, Hotlines, Proactive or Reactive? Mr. Joseph also served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Cornelia M. Dorfschmid, Ph.D. - Technical Advisor Dr. Dorfschmid brings to NHS experience in technical applications and support. She developed and sustains the data analysis functions and oversees webmaster services for NHS. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the New York University where she has taught economics and statistics classes. As a full-time research and teaching staff member, she was involved in policy and legal issue evaluation at the Institute for Economic Research at the Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany. She is a statistical consultant to many clients. For the past eight years she has been the Vice President of Survey and Evaluations for Strategic Management Systems, Inc., where she was instrumental in the development of the Compliance Benchmark Survey" supported by the national Health Care Compliance Index (HCCI") database. She has been the primary developer and is responsible for the validation of the Compliance Monitor" survey. She was also instrumental in the design and development of Compliance SAVER", a leading software program for Corporate Compliance Officers in healthcare.

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