Thomas Mallon, CEO and Founder
Before founding Regent in 2001, Tom served as a founding member and remains a general partner with Gryffindor Capital Partners, a Chicago-based venture-capital fund. In 1994, he co-founded Same Day Surgery, which acquired five distressed and underutilized ASCs and a physician management company. After recruiting more than 70 physician partners and growing the business from $2 million in annual revenues to over $20 million, Tom successfully sold his interest in 1998. Before his healthcare ventures, Tom enjoyed 12 years of successful commercial office leasing for national firms. Tom has a BA from Denison University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

W. Michael Karnes, CFO And Co-Founder
Michael recently served as chief administrative officer of GTCR-Golder Rauner, one of the largest and oldest venture capital firms in the U.S. He also has been CFO for Prime Group Realty Trust and Balcor, a subsidiary of American Express. Michael has led teams that successfully executed two NYSE IPOs, raising $550 million in new equity and merged two NYSE listed firms. He holds a BS in accounting from the University of Maryland, a BBA-Finance degree from University of Notre Dame and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Jeffrey Simmons, President, Western Region
Jeffrey began his successful 20-plus year career in the health care industry as vice president of marketing for American Medical International, where he headed business development for 18 California hospitals. After five years as associate director of Mission Bay Hospital in San Diego, he founded Immune Suppressed Institute to serve HIV patients. He also founded and served as Executive Vice President of IntensiCare, a venture-financed Hospitalist company. Then he transitioned into long-term acute care with Transitional Hospitals and served as CEO of two facilities. Jeffrey holds a MA from University of Maryland and a BA from La Salle College.

Nap Gary, President, Eastern Region
Nap Gary has worked in the healthcare industry for 23 years. Previously Nap was Senior Vice President and Assistant Corporate Counsel for HealthSouth Corporation. Nap also spent 14 years at the Haskell Slaughter Young and Rediker, LLC law firm in Birmingham, Alabama. Nap currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA). He earned a law degree from Washington University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University.

Michael McKevitt, Senior Vice President, Eastern Region
Michael has more than 15 years of senior management experience in successfully developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers and the related physician partnerships. He has led ASC projects on behalf of Ingalls Health System’s Health Directions Inc., in South Suburban Chicago, and as Vice President of the University of Chicago Health System’s Chicago Partners Inc., Michael coordinated the acquisition of Midwest Surgery Center in Palos Heights, Illinois. In addition, he facilitated the development of Orland Park Surgical Center LLC, a successful ASC partnership that consists of a local not-for-profit hospital, a 70 physician multi-specialty group and 20 community-based specialists. Most recently, he has developed several single specialty orthopedic centers in Central Illinois and Chicago’s western suburbs. He holds a MBA in Business from the University of Notre Dame.

Robert Welti, M.D., Corporate Medical Director and
Chief Operating Officer, Western Region
Previously the medical director and administrator of the Santa Barbara Surgery Center, Dr. Welti also was affiliated with Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for 20 years. He is a member of Anesthesia Medical Group of Santa Barbara. His experienced includes both hospital-based surgery centers and the smaller physician-owned surgery center. He recognizes that patients are well served when the aspect of partial ownership drives physicians’ motivation to succeed. A board-certified anesthesiologist, Robert earned his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, where he also served his internship and residency. He was a fellow in cardiothoracic anesthesia at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Ga.

James J. Lynch, M.D., Director, Spine Service
James Lynch, M.D., a board-certified neurological surgeon has joined Regent Surgical Health as director, spine services. Dr. Lynch will launch Regent’s new program to help physicians develop spine-focused ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and specialty spine hospitals. This spine program reviews the necessary equipment needs, implant purchase, recovery room education and types of cases suited to an ASC or specialty hospital as well as partner recruitment, anesthesia, regulatory and reimbursement issues. The president, founder and CEO of SpineNevada and chairman and director of spine at Surgical Center of Reno, Dr. Lynch is a frequent lecturer at national meetings on spine topics related to ASCs. He earned his medical degree from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, followed by a residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and has three spine fellowships from Mayo Clinic; Queen Square, London; and Barrow Neurological Institute with Dr. Volker Sonntag, Phoenix. Jim is on staff at St. Mary's Hospital, Renown Medical Center and the Surgical Center of Reno. He treats complex spine cases across Nevada and Northern California. Dr. Lynch is on the faculty of the Cervical Spine Study Group and other spine groups. His work has been published in professional publications, including The Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery and Spine.

Robert E. Fisher, Chief Financial Officer, Hospital Division
Certified as a Fellow of both the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Bob brings three decades of executive and financial hospital management experience to Regent. He has held various positions as President and CEO, CFO, Corporate Secretary/Treasurer, Compliance Officer or Controller of small to mid - sized hospitals in Texas, Oklahoma and for the past 25 years in Pennsylvania. His expertise includes proactively managing change, financial turnarounds, physician recruitment, insurance and care contracting, legal and tax issues, revenue cycle management, new business development, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and affiliations, lobbying, marketing, human resources, information systems, public financing and compliance. Bob’s most recent success was a financial turnaround as CEO of a Critical Access Hospital. He holds an MBA in healthcare administration from Wilkes College (now Wilkes University) and a BS in business administration (major in accounting) from Bloomsburg State College (now Bloomsburg University), both in Pennsylvania.

Joyce Deno, Chief Operations Officer, Eastern Region
Joyce Deno has been working in the health care industry for 32 years. Prior to joining Regent, Joyce served as the Executive Director of Loveland Surgery Center in Colorado. She also worked for HealthSouth Corporation as a Regional Director of Quality Improvement and as an Administrator. Deno is a registered nurse and received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Bethel College of Nursing.

Steve Hall, Senior Director, Western Region
Steve leads development efforts in the western region, following five years as Regent’s Chief Operating Officer, Western Region. With more than 30 years experience managing hospitals and heath care systems nationwide, Steve has served as CEO, associate administrator, assistant administrator and consultant for hospitals ranging in size from 49 to 300 beds, including public, religious, government, for-profit and university teaching hospitals. Previously he was CEO of the French Hospital and Health Plan in San Francisco and served as the director of group operations for 11 hospitals in the EPIC HealthCare Group. Steve also assisted major health systems as a senior health care consultant with Cooper’s & Lybrand. A 30-year member of the American College of Health Care Executives, Steve has a BA from Wake Forest University and a MS in Health Care Administration from Trinity University in Texas.

Paul Skowron, Corporate Controller
A certified public accountant, his 30 years of financial and healthcare experience include serving as administrator of Palos SurgiCenter and various positions with University of Chicago Health System; Midwest Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center and BlueCross/Blue Shield of Illinois. He was director of patient accounts at University of Illinois Hospital for four years. Paul is responsible for internal and external financial controls of Regent Surgical Health and performs evaluations of sites to assess financials for potential joint ventures as well as communicates with administrators on the financial performance of their ASCs. He holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois State University. He served in the Illinois National Guard for 28 years.

Michelle Banks, Director of Revenue Cycle Management
Michelle has served in a range of business office management roles for healthcare facilities. She has directed scheduling, revenue and reimbursement for ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals and served as a reimbursement consultant for other ASC organizations, DME, home health care and physician offices. Previously, Michelle oversaw revenue and reimbursement operations for 16 ASCs as the Interim Director for NovaMed. She also consulted on the development of centralized scheduling at Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital and worked for revenue cycle consulting firm Tintari Group. Michelle earned a bachelor's in business management from Southern Illinois University and attended the University of Phoenix MBA program.

Kim Reints, Clinical Director of Operations, Western Region
Kim Reints has over 24 years of clinical experience in various surgical settings, predominantly in the ambulatory surgery center market. She most recently worked as an independent consultant for numerous companies including HealthSouth, Neospine, LLC, Titan Healthcare, Instantia Healthcare and various independently owned Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Kim has worked on surgery center development as well as Medicare certification preparations, Joint Commission accreditations, AAAHC accreditations and various quality care issues and surveys for these companies. During her consulting work, Kim participated in preparing both The Colorado Spine Center and Boulder Spine Center for State of Colorado Licensing & Medicare Surveys, while she was acting clinical director at The Colorado Spine Center. Kim received an associate of science degree in Nursing from Manatee Junior College in Bradenton, Florida. She is a licensed, registered nurse in both California and Colorado and she is a Certified Operating Room Nurse (CNOR). Kim is also an active member of the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN).

Carla Daley, Director of Clinical Operations, Eastern Region
Carla M. Daley, RN, BSN, joined Regent Surgical Health as its Clinical Director of Operations, Eastern Division. She has 14 years of nursing experience including supervisory roles at Kettering Medical Center-Sycamore, Miamisburg, Ohio. Her clinical experience includes home care, diabetes, cardiac, stroke and post intensive care, emergency, respiratory and multi-focused intensive care units. Among her many accomplishments are maintaining high customer satisfaction scores and preparation and passing JCAHO Stroke Certification. She received an associate degree in nursing from Kettering College of Medical Arts and a bachelor of science in nursing from Indian Wesleyan University. She is certified in Advanced Life Support and Arterial Blood Gas. She is a member of the Ohio Hospital Association (OHO), Ohio Organization of Nurse Executives (OONE), Dayton Organization of Nurse Executives (DONE) and American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN).