Amedisys


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Bill Borne founded Amedisys in 1982, and has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since that time. Mr. Borne's leadership has resulted in Amedisys being listed in Inc. Magazine's 1989 and 1990 lists of the country's fastest growing companies; being listed on Investors Business Daily's Top 100 list as the number one investment recommendation in 2004; ranked by Forbes magazine as fourth out of the Top 200 Small Companies in the U.S. in 2004; ranked twelfth out of the Top 200 Small Companies in the U.S. in 2005; ranked the fourth best stock of the decade by CNBC on MSN Money in 2005; ranked by Forbes magazine as fifty-fifth out of the Top 200 Small Companies in the U.S. in 2006; ranked by BusinessWeek online as twenty-fourth on its list of 100 Hot Growth Companies in 2006; ranked by Fortune magazine as seventh on its list of 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in 2006; ranked by BusinessWeek online as sixty-fifth on its list of 100 Hot Growth Companies in 2007; ranked by Forbes magazine as thirty-second out of the Top 200 Small Companies in the U.S. in 2007; named by the Louisiana State Nurses Association Foundation names Amedisys Home Health Services as Outstanding Employer or Facility of the Year (Other than Hospital) in 2008; listed by TheStreet.com as one of the Top Five Fast-Growth Stocks in 2008. Amedisys has also been featured in a national industry snapshot in Investors Business Daily. In addition, Mr. Borne has received the following awards: Baton Rouge Business Report's 1990's Young Businessperson of the Year and 1990 Entrepreneur of the Year; Forbes magazine 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year; 2004 Guardian Angel Award from the Caring Institute; 2008 ACG Louisiana Deal Maker of the Year Award; and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award in the Houston & Gulf Coast Area. In 2008, Mr. Borne was also voted as Chairman of the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation.

Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc. He joined Piccadilly in 1982 as Assistant Controller and has held many positions including Controller, Corporate Secretary, Chief Financial Officer, President and CEO and finally Chairman of the Board in 2000. Piccadilly currently operates 221 cafeterias and 9 quick service restaurants in 16 states. The company has annual sales in excess of $400 million.

Serves as Chairman of the Board of Postlethwaite & Netterville. As chairman, his focus is on corporate acquisitions, client strategic planning and tax advice. Mr. Netterville has served as Chairman of the Board of the American Institute of CPA, the highest office that can be attained in the accounting profession. He has also served as AICPA's National Management of an Accounting Practice Committee and is a permanent member of the AICPA's Governing Council. He is past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Associated Accounting Firms International. In 1999, he received the AICPA Gold Medal for Distinguished Service-the Institute's highest honor.

Chairman and CEO of Pitts Management Associates, Inc. (PMA), a firm in its 20th year of service to the healthcare industry. PMA focuses on corporate reorganization and alignment, governance evaluation and consultation, strategic and business planning, selected executive searches, interim management and turnarounds, financial advisory services and workouts, and managed care strategy and contracting. Prior to PMA, Mr. Pitts was the CEO of the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans, and served in the federal government as the Executive Officer for Health Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as the Founding Associate Dean for Administration of the Hebert School of Medicine, and as the Executive Officer in the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General.

The Assistant Dean at Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business. His insight and humor have twice made him the School's top professor. After a successful career on Wall Street Peter served for five years as the assistant state treasurer and chief investment officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's three billion-dollar investment portfolio and served on boards overseeing another eight billion in retirement funds. In 1993 Peter founded the BURKENROAD REPORTS investment research program. Here he leads a team of more than 200 of the University's business students in search of investment information on undervalued stocks in six southern states. He and his program have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barrons, CNN and CNBC.

Serves on the Boards of LaSalle Hotel Properties, a real estate investment trust; Key Technology, Inc., a company that designs and manufactures process automation systems for the food processing and industrial markets; and The Greenbrier Companies, a manufacturer and leaser of railcars and barges and manager of leased fleets of railcars. Mr. Washburn also serves on the board of directors for several private companies. He has held several senior level management positions with Northwest Airlines, Inc. the last of which was Executive Vice President, a position he held from 1995 through 1998, and Marriott Corporation (1980 - 1990), the most recent as Executive Vice President.



Larry Graham is the President and Chief Operating Officer for Amedisys. Previously, he was Vice President of Operations and has served as Vice President of Finance. Through his focus on enhancements to Amedisys' home health operations, disease management services, and successful acquisitions, Mr. Graham has been a key driver behind the growth in both revenues and earnings for the Company. From the time Mr. Graham's term as COO began in 1999, the company has grown from 50 home care agencies to more than 480 home care and hospice agencies in 35 states across the United States as well as Puerto Rico and increased revenue from $38 million to an annualized revenue in excess of $695 million. In addition, Mr. Graham played a key role in the development of the company's strong corporate culture which is the foundation to its success, and in the development of the company's charitable organization, the Christen Foundation, which was created as a means for the organization to give back in the communities the company services.

Dale Redman is the Chief Financial Officer for Amedisys. He brings more than 34 years of senior-level financial experience to the position. Most recently, Mr. Redman served as a Managing Director at Windward Capital Consulting, LLC, where he assisted businesses with capital issues and provided management consulting services in support of companies' growth strategies. Prior to this, Mr. Redman served for 10 years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Companies Financial Corporation, which was a publicly traded home mortgage and home equity lender based in Baton Rouge, LA. In addition, Mr. Redman is an Adjunct Instructor in Finance at Louisiana State University, where he graduated with a Master's degree in Accounting.

Alice Ann Schwartz serves as Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations. Ms. Schwartz's dual role is to ensure the IT and clinical systems are integrated to meet the operational, business, and clinical needs of the organization. Employed with Amedisys since 1997 and having functioned in several critical positions within the organization, she assumed the position of Vice President of Operations in 2001, and was charged with restructuring the company's operational systems. She was subsequently promoted to Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations in 2003 and is responsible for the organization's quality infrastructure. Prior to entering the home care sector, Ms. Schwartz was employed in the acute-care trauma and cardiovascular surgery intensive care settings at the R. Adams Crowley Shock Trauma Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a graduate of Louisiana State University and Johns Hopkins University.

Jeffrey Jeter started with Amedisys in 2001 and currently serves as Chief Compliance Officer/Corporate Counsel. Prior to joining Amedisys, Mr. Jeter served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Louisiana Department of Justice where he prosecuted health care fraud and nursing home abuse. He received his Juris Doctorate from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University and also holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from Louisiana State University. Additionally, he is a graduate of the prosecutor training course at Northwestern University in Chicago. He also has served as an instructor at both the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission Officer Training Program.