Advisory Group

Rick Cooper

Advisor

Rick serves as Manager of the National Healthcare Practice Group at McDonald Hopkins and is co-chair of its Healthcare Restructuring Practice Group. He also serves on the firm's Board of Directors. Rick focuses his national practice in healthcare law, representing clients in transactional, restructuring, corporate, regulatory, reimbursement, contractual, strategic planning, and venture matters. McDonald Hopkins represents in excess of 400 pathology groups and a substantial number of laboratories.

A graduate of Syracuse University (B.A. 1978) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1981), he is a frequent speaker on laboratory and pathology issues at state and national conferences and contributes to several laboratory and pathology publications.
 

Jeff Lautenbach

Advisor

Jeff Lautenbach is President of My Customer, a SuccessFactors/SAP business. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading the end-to-end business of the customer (CRM) and social pillars for SAP Cloud globally. Prior to joining Success Factors, Jeff was the Senior Vice President for North America Enterprise Commercial Sales for Salesforce.com. Jeff also worked at IBM for 19 years. In his last role, Jeff was Vice President, West IMT for the software group responsible for IBM’s software business in the western part of the United States, leading over 1300 sales and technical professionals that support all IBM customers in the Western US.

At IBM, Jeff also served the Vice President of Sales and Services for IBM’s Master Data Management business, leading the Product Information Management (Formerly Trigo Technology), Customer Data Integration (formerly DWL) and the Industry Models sales and services teams. He also led the due diligence and the acquisition integration of Trigo and DWL from a sales and services perspective. Jeff holds a B.A. from Xavier University and an MBA from the University of Illinois.

Douglas King

Advisor

Douglas currently serves as the Senior Technical Advisor and Head of Academic and Scientific Research Markets for Biostorage Technologies. He was previously Director of Business Development for the Pharmaceutical Studies Division of DCL Medical Laboratories, Inc. In this capacity, Doug was responsible for establishing enduring client relationships and developing strategic plans that respond to changes within the pharmaceutical drug development marketplace.

Doug spent part of his career as a Cytotechnologist and professor, with contributions to Thomas Jefferson University, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the Medical University of South Carolina. Doug has been recognized with an Army Commendation Medal for work in Cytopathology (1976) and is the recipient of two Fulbright Grants (1984 and 1987). He holds a B.S. in Zoology, an M.S. in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, and a Certificate in Molecular Pathology from Michigan State University.
 

Bob DeCresce

Advisor

Bob is the President of Pathology Associates of Aurora and is a Trustee of Rush University Medical Center -- named a top U.S. hospital by U.S. News and World Report – where he serves as Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Rush. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors at VWR International and also serves as President of University Pathology Consultants, LLC.