Healthcare, Finance leader

R. Matthew Neff *********@*****.*** 317-***-****

CEO and Board Member with a history of defining, or re-defining, business strategies and leading businesses to a successful outcome.

• Turnaround of $40 Million revenue healthcare company

• Creation of multiple new businesses, including in China

• Development of new products that immediately contributed to profitability

• Negotiation and implementation of mergers and acquisitions EXPERIENCE

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Institute of Toxicology, Inc./AIT Holding Company, Indianapolis, Indiana 2013-2016 Recruited by Board of AIT, a company with over 400 employees, to turn around this distressed toxicology lab business, completely lacking in organic structures and strategy.

• Recapitalized AIT, negotiating with multiple lenders and shareholders (including an employee stock ownership plan), avoiding forced liquidation.

• Developed new product to manage prescribing behavior involving narcotic painkillers.

• Managed and resolved federal court actions involving ESOP brought by U.S. Department of Labor. Negotiated $7 Million in settlements to benefit ESOP.

• Successfully sold Company to private equity-backed purchaser in June 2016, simultaneously spinning out forensic division to a newly-formed purchaser.

President and CEO, CHV Capital, Inc. (f/k/a Clarian Health Ventures), Indianapolis, Indiana

2007-2013

Founding CEO of venture capital subsidiary of the largest healthcare system in the State of Indiana.

• Secured $35 million of investment capital from parent. Built team of Venture Capitalists and Board of Directors.

• Supervised 15 investments, leading to 1 IPO, 2 trade sales to date, and very low failure rate.

• Founded and grew a diabetes management company in China, in partnership with a public hospital in Hangzhou.

Chairman, President and CEO, Senex Financial Corp., Indianapolis, Indiana 1998-2007 Co-founded non-recourse purchaser of charged-off healthcare receivables, which grew to be the largest such purchaser in the U.S.

• Shifted purchasing program from credit card receivables to healthcare receivables, a previously unknown

(and much more complicated) asset class.

• Negotiated multiple financing structures, including securitization of receivable pools, and managed two rounds of institutional investment.

• Grew business from 2 employees to 100.

President and CEO, Circle Investors, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana 1993-1997 Co-founded purchaser of life insurance companies with Dan Quayle, former Vice-President of the United States.

• Developed Board of Directors and strategy, created financing structures, negotiated and implemented the acquisition of 4 life insurance companies.

• Chaired the boards of 4 life insurance subsidiaries, overseeing operations.

• Negotiated and executed profitable sale transaction when Dan Quayle ran for President. Initial investors received 5x cash-on-cash in 4.5 years.

Deputy to the Chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board, Washington, D.C. 1992-1993 Full-time deputy to part-time Chairman of this new agency, created in 1989 to regulate and govern the Federal Home Loan Bank System, as part of the savings and loan resolution.

• Developed strategic plan for the Bank System, building consensus across the system of 12 banks around the U.S., and among savings and loan shareholders.

• Lobbied Congress, managed relationships with other federal bank regulators, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the White House.

Partner, Chair of Banking Group, Baker & Daniels; also Partner, Krieg DeVault Alexander & Capehart, Indianapolis, Indiana.

EDUCATION

McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, Indianapolis J.D. Magna cum laude; Executive Editor, Indiana Law Review; International Moot Court Team. Ben F. Small Faculty Award for scholarship and leadership.

DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana B.A. Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Elected to the DePauw Board of Trustees by student body. Gold Key, Mortar Board. The Negotiation Project, Harvard University. Executive training program teaching negotiation skills developed by Harvard faculty.

BOARD EXPERIENCE

Former Member, Board of Directors, Chondrial Therapeutics, LLC (startup biotech, control position sold to PE firm)

Member and Investor, Hotel Tango Whiskey, LLC (startup artisan distillery) Former Member, Board of Governors, Riley Children’s Foundation; Chairman, Hope Happens Here Campaign (Chairman of the first-ever Capital Campaign of Riley, raising over $200 million). Former Member, Board of Directors, Unified Financial Services. $2 billion financial services company. Chairman, Audit Committee.

Former Member, Board of Directors, Conseco Strategic Income Fund (NYSE:CFD). Former Member, Board of Directors, Quanta Specialty Lines Insurance Company; also, Chairman of Audit Committee.

Former Chairman of the Board, IU Health Assurance Ltd., offshore reinsurance company headquartered in Grand Cayman, BVI. Also, IU Health Risk Retention Group, an onshore fronting carrier. Former Chairman, IU Health physician compensation committee.

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