Board of Directors
Patrick B. Cline (44) currently serves as President of the Company’s NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Division. He served as the Company’s interim Chief Executive Officer for the April - July 2000 period. Mr. Cline was a co-founder of Clinitec; a company acquired by Quality Systems, Inc. in 1996, and has served as its President since its inception in January 1994 and throughout its transition to NextGen Healthcare Information Systems. Prior to co-founding Clinitec, Mr. Cline served, from July 1987 to January 1994, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Script Systems, a subsidiary of InfoMed, a healthcare information systems company. From January 1994 to May 1994, after the founding of Clinitec, Mr. Cline continued to serve, on a part time basis, as Script Systems’ Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Cline has held senior positions in the healthcare information systems industry since 1981. Mr. Cline was appointed a director of the Company by the Board on May 25, 2005.
Ibrahim Fawzy (64) has been president of Fawzy Consultant Group since 1999. Fawzy Consultant Group works mainly in investment industrial projects. Dr. Fawzy has taught mechanical engineering at Cairo University in Egypt since 1969. Previously, he taught mechanical engineering at the University of London in England. Prior to forming his own consultancy group, Dr. Fawzy held several posts with the Egyptian government, including as cultural attaché in London, from 1979 to 1983. Dr. Fawzy was the Minister of Industry and Mineral Wealth from 1993 through 1996 and the Chairman of the General Authority for Investment from 1996 to 1999. Dr. Fawzy is a director of seven companies in Egypt, three of which are public (The Egyptian Abroad for Investment and Development, Misr Canada Lube Oil and El-Nubaria for Agricultural Mechanization).
Edwin Hoffman (68) has been employed as an engineering consultant with O-H Inc. since 2001. From 1972-2001, he was Co-Founder and President of Osborne-Hoffman Inc., a company that developed and marketed products for the security industry. Mr. Hoffman holds a BSEE from the City College of New York and a MSEE and PhD from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Ahmed Hussein (63) is, and has been since 1997, the Director of National Investment Company, Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Hussein founded National Investment Companyin 1996 and has served as a member of its Board of Directors since its inception. Mr. Hussein served as a Senior Vice President of Dean Witter from1993 to 1996. Mr. Hussein is a director of the following publicly held Egyptian companies: Nasr City Co., Simo Paper Co., and Nobria Agriculture.
Vincent J. Love (64) is the managing partner of Kramer, Love & Cutler, LLP, a financial consulting group. He was employed by the accounting firm Ernst & Young from 1967 to 1994, and served as a partner of that firm from 1979 to 1994. He is a member of Counsel, the governing body, of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and an honorary member of the Executive Committee of the American Arbitration Association. He achieved the rank of Captainin the U.S. Army, has a B.B.A. from the City College of New York, and is a New York, Ohio, and Connecticut C.P.A.
Russell Pflueger (43) is and has been since 2002 the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Quiescence Medical, Inc., a medical device development company. During 2001 and 2002, he founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Pain Concepts, Inc, a medical device company. He holds a chemical engineering degree from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of California at Irvine.
Steven T. Plochcoki (53) joined Trinity Hospice, a national hospice provider, as Chief Executive Officer and board member in October 2004. Prior to joining Trinity Hospice, he was Chief Executive Officer of InSight, a national provider of diagnostic imaging services from November 1999 to August 2004. Previously he was Chief Executive Officer of Centratex Support Services, Inc., a support services company for the healthcare industry and had previously held other senior level positions with healthcare industry firms. He holds B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations from Wayne State University and a Master’s degree in Business Management from Central Michigan University.
Sheldon Razin (67) is the founder of the Company and has served as its Chairman of the Board since the Company’s inception in 1974. He served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from 1974 until April 2000. Since its inception until April 2000, he has also served as the Company’s President, except for the period from August 1990 to August 1991. Additionally, Mr. Razin served as Treasurer from the Company’s inception until October 1982. Prior to founding the Company, he held various technical and managerial positions with Rockwell International Corporation and was a founder of the Company’s predecessor, Quality Systems, a sole proprietorship engaged in the development of software for commercial and space applications and in management consulting work. Mr. Razin holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Louis E. Silverman was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on July 31, 2000. Mr. Silverman was previously Chief Operations Officer of CorVel Corp., a publicly traded national managed care services and technology firm with headquarters in Irvine, California. Mr. Silverman holdsa Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College. Mr. Silverman was appointed a director of the Company by the Board on May 25, 2005.
