AmSurg | About AmSurg | Directors & Officers

Additional information on our Corporate Governance is available in Investor Relations and includes links to various documents that govern the conduct of our business.

Christopher A. Holden
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Christopher A. Holden joined AmSurg in October 2007 as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director. Mr. Holden is a healthcare industry veteran of more than 21 years, engaged during most of his career directly in multi-facility and multi-market healthcare management. Prior to joining AmSurg, Mr. Holden served as Senior Vice President and a Division President of Triad Hospitals, Inc., of which Mr. Holden was a founding team member and officer in May 1999. From August 1994 until May 1999, Mr. Holden held several officer positions with Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation.

Claire M. Gulmi
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Director

Claire M. Gulmi joined AmSurg in September 1994 as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Gulmi became Senior Vice President in March 1997, Secretary in December 1997, a Director in May 2004 and Executive Vice President in February 2006.

Phillip A. Clendenin
Senior Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Compliance Officer

Phillip A. Clendenin joined AmSurg in March 2009 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Services. Mr. Clendenin has served in various positions in health care for more than two decades. Prior to joining AmSurg, he held management positions with Community Health Systems, Triad Hospitals, HCA and National Medical Enterprises. Clendenin received his B.S. in business administration from the University of Tennessee at Martin, and holds a master’s degree in health administration from
Washington University School of Medicine.

Kevin D. Eastridge
Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer

Kevin D. Eastridge joined AmSurg in March 1997 and served as Vice President, Finance from April 1998 through July 2008 and as Controller from March 1997 through June 2004. In July 2008, Mr. Eastridge became Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining AmSurg, Mr. Eastridge served as an Assurance Senior Manager at KPMG.

David L. Manning
Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer

David L. Manning has served as Senior Vice President of Development and Assistant Secretary of AmSurg since April 1992. Mr. Manning became Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer in February 2006. Mr. Manning is a founding shareholder of AmSurg. Mr. Manning co-founded and was a principal of Practice Development Associates, Inc., a company specializing in developing single specialty surgery centers, from March 1987 until it was acquired by AmSurg in
1992.

Billie A. Payne, R.N.
Senior Vice President, Operations

Billie A. Payne joined AmSurg in 1995 as a Director of Operations. She came to the company after managing a large cardiology practice for more than a decade. Since joining the company, she has served in several functions in Operations including Vice President of one of the company’s major divisions. She was named Senior Vice President of Operations in 2007.

Thomas G. Cigarran
Chairman
Chairman and former President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthways, Inc.
Healthcare services

Thomas G. Cigarran has served as Chairman of the Board for AmSurg since 1992. Mr. Cigarran served as Chief Executive Officer from January 1993 until December 1997, and President from January 1993 to July 1996. From December 1997 to December 1999, Mr. Cigarran served as an advisor to AmSurg. Mr. Cigarran is a co-founder of Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY), a publicly traded disease management company. Mr. Cigarran has served as Chairman of the Board of Healthways since 1988 and served as Chief Executive Officer of Healthways from 1998 until September 2003.

James A. Deal
Director
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Hospice Compassus
Healthcare Services

James A. Deal, a director of AmSurg since 1992, serves as President & Chief Executive Officer and Director of Hospice Compassus, a private equity backed hospice
provider. From January through July 2006, Mr. Deal served as Chairman of the Board of INSPIRIS and from November 2001 through December 2005 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of INSPIRIS. From September 1998 to June 2001, Mr. Deal served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Inc., a national network of outpatient diagnostic imaging centers. Mr. Deal served as Executive Vice President of Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY), the leading publicly traded disease management company, from January 1991 to August 1998, and as President of Diabetes Treatment Centers of America, Inc., a Healthways subsidiary, from 1985 to August 1998.

Steven I. Geringer
Director
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, PCS Health Systems, Inc.
Pharmaceutical Services

Steven I. Geringer, a director of AmSurg since March 1997, has been a private investor since June 1996 when he retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of
PCS Health Systems, Inc., a pharmacy benefits manager and unit of Eli Lilly & Company. Mr. Geringer became President of PCS in May 1993, when Clinical Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of which Mr. Geringer was a Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, merged with PCS. Prior to then, Mr. Geringer held senior management positions in the hospital management and managed care industry. Mr. Geringer also serves as Chairman and a director of Qualifacts Systems, Inc., a provider of web-based management information software and services for health and human services payors, providers and managers.

Debora A. Guthrie
Director
President and Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of Capitol Health Partners, L.P.
Healthcare Venture Capital

Debora A. Guthrie has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of Capitol Health Partners, L.P., a venture fund specializing in healthcare industries based in Washington, D.C., since October 1995. Ms. Guthrie has more than twenty-five years of experience in healthcare investment banking and venture
capital. Ms. Guthrie is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Capitol Health Consultants and Capitol Health Global LLC, both management consulting and advisory businesses providing research, financial and corporate strategy services to healthcare companies in the United States and Europe. Ms. Guthrie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for International Private Enterprise, an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Guthrie was appointed to the Board of Directors in connection with our preferred stock financing in November 1996. Ms. Guthrie is also a director of four privately held healthcare services companies.

Henry D. Herr
Director
Former Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, Healthways, Inc.
Healthcare Services

Henry D. Herr has served as a director of AmSurg since 1992. Mr. Herr served as Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY), a publicly traded disease management company, from February 1986 to October 2001 and has been serving as a director of Healthways since 1988. Mr. Herr is currently serving as a consultant to Healthways. At AmSurg, Mr. Herr served as Chief Financial Officer from April 1992 until September 1994 and as Secretary from April 1992 until December 1997. From December 1997 to December 1999, Mr. Herr served as an advisor to AmSurg.

Kevin P. Lavender
Director
Senior Vice President, Fifth Third Bank
Corporate Healthcare Lending

Kevin P. Lavender, a director of AmSurg since May 2004, is Senior Vice President with Fifth Third Bank, responsible for developing a national presence in corporate healthcare lending. Previously, Mr. Lavender served as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions, with oversight over all state-chartered financial institutions, from January 2003 through December 2005. During his tenure as Commissioner, he also served on the Board of Directors for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors ("CSBS"), which coordinates and represents legislative concerns for all 50 states and four U.S. territories' banking departments and he chaired ts national Regulatory Committee. Prior to being named Commissioner, Mr. Lavender was a cofounder and served as Executive Vice President of Administration and Banking for MediSphere Health Partners, Inc., a specialty healthcare facilities company, from May 1996 to October 2002.

Ken P. McDonald
Immediate Past President and Director

Ken P. McDonald joined AmSurg in 1993 as a Vice President. Mr. McDonald became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 1994, President and a Director in July 1996, Chief Executive Officer in December 1997 and Immediate Past President in 2007. Mr. McDonald was President of NASCO Data Systems, Inc., a distributor of IBM microcomputer products to the value-added reseller community, from 1988 until he joined AmSurg.