Tom Higgins
Chairman

Mr. Higgins has had a distinguished career both in public affairs and the private sector, most recently as the founding chief executive and director of Prosetta Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on novel drug discovery and development. As a state and federal official, he led various initiatives in public health and welfare. As a businessman and entrepreneur, he created several successful ventures and is a former president of Business for Social Responsibility.

Mr. Higgins has been a volunteer board member for many health, social service and arts agencies during his career. In recent years, he has served on the board of the California Coalition for Clean Air and the National Health Law Program. Currently, he is on the boards of the Third Street Clinic and Tutor Corps in San Francisco. He is also on the board of the Human Rights Watch Council for Northern California and St. Ambrose University. Mr. Higgins has been on the board of SCAN Health Plan for over a dozen years.

Dave Schmidt

Mr. Schmidt serves as chief executive officer of SCAN™ Health Plan, a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Long Beach, Calif. In this role, he is responsible to a board of directors and provides leadership to an executive team that is comprised of specialists who have particular expertise in addressing the needs of the more frail aging population over the age of 65. During his 25-year career in senior management, Mr. Schmidt has held executive positions in operations, business development, and sales and marketing in healthcare and other industries. He has a strong background in finance and has been instrumental in developing successful customer-focused programs and has provided strategic leadership that resulted in significant growth for other organizations.

Mr. Schmidt has been involved in fundraising and other volunteer work for local public schools, serves as treasurer for the UCLA Sigma Nu alumni advisory board and serves on the CSULB Health Administration Advisory Board and the Long Beach Meals on Wheels Advisory Board.

Bruce A. Chernof, MD
Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Chernof was elected chief executive officer in April 2008. He is also an adjunct professor in the UCLA School of Medicine and in 2002 was awarded the School of Medicine's Award of Excellence for Education. Previously he served as director and chief medical officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

Mike Noël

Mr. Noël, a long-time senior corporate executive at Southern California Edison, is president of Noël Consulting Company, a financial consulting firm he founded in 1998 specializing in corporate finance. Mr. Noël was a founder of The Academy of Business Leadership, a non-profit organization of business leaders teaching business, finance and investments to disadvantaged teenagers, for which Mr. Noël was awarded its "Outstanding Leadership" award. His community involvement also has included being a loaned executive to the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the University of Southern California student-mentor program.

Tom McDaniel

Mr. McDaniel retired from Edison International (EIX), one of the largest integrated electric utilities in the US with assets of nearly $38 billion, on July 31, 2008. EIX is the parent company of Southern California Edison, a regulated electric utility, and Edison Mission Group, a competitive power generation business. He served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of EIX. Mr. McDaniel is also a director of Edison Mission Group, Edison Mission Energy and Edison Capital.

Prior to January 1, 2005, Mr. McDaniel was chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Edison Mission Energy, a global power generation business, specializing in the development, acquisition, construction, management, and operation of power production facilities. He became CEO and president on August 1, 2002 and was elected chairman on January 1, 2003. From 1987 to 2002, Mr. McDaniel was chief executive officer and a director of Edison Capital, a leading provider of capital and financial services supporting the growth of energy and infrastructure projects, products, and services both domestically and internationally. During his 37-year career with EIX, Mr. McDaniel also held leadership positions in engineering, finance and operations in each of its operating companies.

Mr. McDaniel has been a Director of SCAN Health Plan since September, 2000. He is also active in a variety of charitable activities in the community including the Boys and Girls Club of Huntington Beach, Adult Day Care and the Free Wheelchair Mission. He and his family have distributed more than 1,500 wheelchairs to the disabled in Chile, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Linda E. Strike

Dr. Strike is an independent consultant who has worked extensively in the healthcare field, with clients that include hospitals, physicians and physician groups, academic medical centers and managed care companies. She also holds a doctorate in immunology. Dr. Strike has served as an officer and director of several non-profit organizations in the areas of health (including Alzheimer’s), library management and other social-services areas. She has also volunteered with local education foundations and library districts and serves as the corresponding secretary for the Long Beach Kennel Club.

Kim L. Hunter

Mr. Hunter is the founder and president/chief executive officer of Lagrant Communications, a multimillion-dollar integrated marketing communications corporation. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Hunter has an extensive public service background. He was appointed by the mayor of Los Angeles to both the Cultural Affairs and Animal Services Commissions for the City of Los Angeles, serving a total of seven years. He also serves on the Queens Care Clinics Charitable board and serves on the Education and Outreach Committee. As an advocate of education, Hunter spends time as the founder and chairman of The Lagrant Foundation (TLF), a nonprofit organization, which provides scholarships, career development workshops, internships, mentorship and educational enrichment programs to minority students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in advertising, marketing and public relations.

Patrick Seaver

Mr. Seaver was, until recently, a senior partner at Latham & Watkins, an international law firm. His practice concentrated on counseling public companies in mergers and acquisitions, financings and governance issues. He was the primary outside counsel to several New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Global Stock Markets. Mr. Seaver and his wife helped found the Westerly School of Long Beach, the first independent, non-sectarian K-8 school in Long Beach, CA; he was a board member for nine years and head of the finance committee for five years; his wife was the founding board president serving in that position for seven years. Mr. Seaver also serves on the Executive Committee of Opera Pacific, the twelfth largest opera company in the United States, producing operas on the Orange County Performing Arts Center stage; he served as chairman of the company for eight years.

Colleen Cain

Ms. Cain is a seasoned senior executive and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in the business of healthcare, including healthcare finance and delivery. Her 25-year employment history includes positions such as chief executive officer, president, senior vice president and executive vice president and spans both privately held and Fortune 500 companies. As an entrepreneur, Ms. Cain co-founded Benova Inc., a firm that administered managed care enrollment for the Medicaid and Medicare programs. As CEO, she led the company from a start-up to a national, multimillion-dollar business.

In addition to being a director of Oregon-based Legacy Health System, she serves on the board of CareOregon, a non-profit managed care plan serving Medicaid members and advocating for patient-centered healthcare. She also is a director of PSI, a private company that provides services to state health and welfare agencies. She served on the founding board of the Oregon Health Forum and on two Oregon Governor’s Commissions on Health Care. Ms. Cain has also served on advisory panels for Medicare HMOs and for Medicare Research and Demonstration Projects. She has spoken widely in the healthcare policy field on topics of marketing and enrollment of Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries, and on the competitive environment for managed care organizations contracting with government entities which serve these beneficiaries. She currently sits on the Governor’s Charitable Check-off Commission in Oregon.

Ryan M. Trimble

Mr. Trimble brings nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare services, most recently having served as president, chief executive officer and a board member of P5, Inc., dba ProviderPay, a healthcare technology and services company, focused on integrated healthcare claims and banking services. Mr. Trimble served in the past as a board member of the Arizona Affordable HealthCare Foundation, a non-profit coalition of business, government, hospitals, insurers, labor, physicians and community leaders planning for accessible, affordable, quality healthcare; the Crisis Nursery of Phoenix, an organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of child abuse and neglect by providing protection, support and opportunities to troubled families and their children, and the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra.