Charles Bowsher
Charles Bowsher has a distinguished background in corporate governance, and financial management and reporting in both the private and public sectors. His experience includes a 15-year term as Comptroller General of the United States and head of the General Accounting Office (GAO), a 21-year association with Arthur Andersen & Co., and a 4-year period as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management. Since retiring as Comptroller General, Mr. Bowsher has served on several corporate boards. He is a trustee of the Center for Naval Analysis, the Logistics Management Institute, the United States Navy Memorial Foundation, the Concord Coalition, the Hitachi Foundation, and serves on advisory boards at several universities. Mr. Bowsher was also Chairman of the Public Oversight Board which was an independent, private sector body that monitored and reported on the self-regulatory programs and activities of the SEC Practice Section of the Division for CPA firms of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a major in accounting, and received an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Alain Enthoven
Professor Alain Enthoven has published widely in the fields of the economics, organization, management and public policy of health care in the U.S.A. and U.K. Professor Enthoven is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Chairman of Stanford's Committee on Faculty/Staff Human Resources. He has been a consultant to the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program since 1973. He has served as Chairman of the Health Benefits Advisory Council for CalPERS, the California State employees' medical and hospital care plans. He has been a director of the Jackson Hole Group, PCS, Caresoft Inc. and eBenX, Inc. He is a member of the research advisory board of the Committee for Economic Development. He was the 1994 winner of the Baxter Prize for Health Services Research and the 1995 winner of the Board of Directors Award of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. In 1997, Governor Wilson appointed him Chairman of the California Managed Healthcare Improvement Task Force. Commissioned by the State Legislature, the Task Force addressed health care issues raised by managed care. In 1998-99, he was the Rock Carling Fellow of the Nuffield Trust in London and also Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine, and Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford. Professor Enthoven holds degrees in Economics from Stanford, Oxford, and MIT. He began his teaching career in 1955 while an Instructor in Economics at MIT.
Mark McClellan, M.D., PH.D
Dr. Mark McClellan currently is with the Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute. Previously, Dr. McClellan served as Administrator of CMS from 2004 – 2006. Prior to running CMS, he served as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 2002 to 2004. Prior to joining FDA, Dr. McClellan was Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University, Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical School, a practicing internist, and Director of the Program on Health Outcomes Research at Stanford University. He was also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Additionally, he was a Member of the National Cancer Policy Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and co-Principal Investigator of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a longitudinal study of the health and economic well-being of older Americans. From 1998-99, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, where he supervised economic analysis and policy development on a wide range of domestic policy issues. During 2001 and 2002, Dr. McClellan served in the White House. He was a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he advised on domestic economic issues. He also served during this time as a senior policy director for health care and related economic issues for the White House.
Edward Mazur
Edward Mazur has been Vice President for Administration and Finance of Virginia State University and a former state and federal controller, and is also a member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) by the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) since 1997. Prior to joining Virginia State University in 1993, Mr. Mazur served two years as the first Federal government Controller, a position appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990. Previous to that post, he was the State Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Virginia for 11 years. He is a past President of the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers. Mr. Mazur, a certified public accountant, holds a bachelors degree from the University of Connecticut and earned an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ginny Grenham
Drawing on her more than twenty years’ experience in the public affairs, health care and advocacy fields, Ms. Grenham established Grenham Networks, where she represents corporations, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. From 2006-2008, Ms. Grenham took time away from her consulting practice to serve as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at Revolution Health, an Internet start-up formed by Steve Case, the founder of AOL.com. Prior to forming Grenham Networks, Ms. Grenham was President of the Health Channel at iVillage.com, then the number one women’s-interest Internet site on the web. She later became Chairman of their Advisory Board.
Throughout the 1990’s, Ms. Grenham served as Senior Vice President, Government and Public Affairs, of the Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of 55 CEOs representing all sectors of the health care industry. In this capacity, Ms. Grenham established a nationwide women’s health program and worked closely with Congress, the White House and Administration, the media and the private sector on all major health care legislative issues and initiatives. Earlier in her career, Ms. Grenham served as Senior Vice President of the Insurance Association of Connecticut, worked on Capitol Hill, on the White House Conference on Economic Growth and on other national conferences.
