Our Team

Dr. Avi Katz

Chairman, Board of Directors

Independent Chairman. Dr. Avi Katz, GigCapital’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, has spent more than 30 years holding international managerial and executive positions in the high-technology sector. He is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with decades of experience working for companies of every size, from start-ups to global enterprises. Throughout his career, Katz has facilitated leadership team building, large-scale fundraising, initial and secondary public offering, the development of alliances and tech partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and almost every other facet of business and financial operations.
In addition to his work at GigCapital, Katz is also the Founding Managing Member of GigAcquistions, LLC; GigFounders, LLC; and GigNext, LLC. Previously, he bootstrapped in 2007 GigOptix / GigPeak. Inc., took the company public in 2008 (NYSE: GIG) and led its growth as Chairman, CEO and President through organic and strategic growth through rollup of 10 M&A deals during that time. He sold the company in April 2017 for $250 million all-cash to Integrated Device Technology (NASDAQ: IDT).
Katz is a graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy and holds both a bachelor of science degree, and a Ph.D. in Semiconductors Materials Engineering from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology. He has authored more than 70 U.S. and international patents, has published more than 300 technical papers and is the editor of a number of technical books.

Agnes Rey-Giraud

Member, Board of Directors

Independent Member. Agnès Rey-Giraud is chairman and CEO of Acera Surgical, Inc., which she co-founded in 2013. Acera Surgical has engineered a new class of resorbable synthetic hybrid-scale fiber matrices designed to restore damaged tissue. The proven healing power of Acera’s surgical matrices provide relief to patients who suffer from surgical wounds, trauma, burns, and chronic wounds, among other indications. Rey-Giraud played an essential role in devising Acera’s initial strategy, recruiting the company’s first leadership team and securing the financial backing to bring revolutionary concepts from the lab to the operating room.

She was previously an officer at Express Scripts (NASDAQ : ESRX), a Fortune 100 company, where she served in multiple executive roles of increasing responsibility, including executive vice president of product development, supply chain, corporate strategy and president of international operations.

Rey-Giraud currently serves as a member of board of directors at UpHealth and chairs the compensation committee chair. She also serves on the board of GoodRx (NASDAQ : GDRX), a role she has held since 2016. She has served on numerous boards of directors, including RxHub (now SureScripts), a healthcare technology services company, from its design and creation in 2000 to 2006. During this period, RxHub transformed from a business plan to a service and technology platform, facilitating the creation of communication standards and the adoption of electronic prescribing in the US that are now the common standard in the country.

Her other board roles have included Pritikin, a wellness company, and HD Smith, a privately owned drug wholesale distributor.
Rey-Giraud is a cancer survivor who credits a clinical trial with her life-saving treatment. She has since become an advocate for breast cancer awareness and affordable health care, especially for patients diagnosed with debilitating or terminal illness.
She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a master of management in operations from Ecole de Management de Lyon Business School, one of France’s leading universities, and a master’s degree in engineering, also earned in France. She has earned certifications in board service from Northwestern University and Harvard University.

She and her wife live in Colorado where they enjoy hiking, biking and the magnificence of wildlife and the outdoors.

James S. Greene

Member, Board of Directors, Compensation Committee Chair

Since 1980, Jim has been serving the global financial services industry. 21 of those years with Accenture where he was instrumental in creating and leading their global financial services business. The last 20 years spread between being CEO of a technology start-up, global head of Financial Services for Cap Gemini, global head of Financial Services Consulting for Cisco and as a Managing Partner of a private equity fund focused on creating and incubating enterprise class analytics software companies. He has worked with over 75 start-ups in the last 10 years ranging from fintech, payment tech, big data, platforms, to name a few.

He is Founder and Managing Director of Sky D Ventures. They are a firm providing advisory services to incumbents and disrupters alike in financial services, to private equity and VC’s in FinTech and to technology companies serving the financial services industry.

Jim’s industry tenure has been primarily focused on serving global financial services clients. His functional expertise spans consumer, wealth management, commercial, financial markets, mortgage, payments and business models. His geographic experience is balanced across North America, EU, Asia and Emerging Markets. Jim’s work with clients covers large-scale solution development and implementation, business and technology strategy development, and new venture creation and operation. He has an abundance of experience in creating and scaling strategic partnerships and ecosystems.

Jim is a well-recognized thought leader on several topics. He regularly hosts and moderates small to large executive conferences and visits to the Silicon Valley. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on the topics of Enabling Commerce and New Models for Profitable Growth in Global Financial Services. He also serves on the Boards of both public and private companies.

Education: BA, Economics – University of California at Davis; MBA, Finance - Santa Clara University
Base of Operations: Silicon Valley/New York/UK

Luis Machuca

Member, Board of Directors, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Chair

Independent Board Member. Luis Machuca’s leadership roles span healthcare services, technology-enabled healthcare and population health management software. Machuca is a turnaround expert, former CEO of emerging growth companies and a company founder. He served as President and CEO of Enli and in senior leadership roles at Intel Corporation, as Executive Vice President of the NEC Computer Services Division of PB-NEC Corporation and as President and Chief Operating Officer of eFusion Corporation. He currently serves on the board of public and private companies, including Umpqua Bank (UMPQ) where he serves as Chairman of the Compensation Committee and Vice Chairman of the Finance and Capital Committee and as a member of the Umpqua Executive and Nominating and Governance Committees. Machuca also serves on the Board of Cambia Health Systems, a nonprofit health care company based in Portland, Ore., and a member of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association operating six health plans across Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah, providing insurance to more than three million people. Among his other Board memberships are HCAP portfolio company, Saphyre, and he is an advisory board member of HCAP portfolio companies, Chordline Health and IronRod Health. Aside from his accomplishments as a leader, he has significant experience in governance, turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, finance, risk management and talent development.

Mark J. Guinan

Member, Board of Directors, Audit Committee Chair

Independent Board member and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mark Guinan serves on the Board of Myovant Sciences as Chair of the Audit Committee and Lead Independent Director. He recently retired from Quest Diagnostics after serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for nine years.

From 2010 until joining Quest Diagnostics in 2013 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mark served as Chief Financial Officer for Hill-Rom Holdings Inc., a manufacturer and provider of medical technologies and related services for the health care industry. Previously, he had served in a number of finance and operations roles in a long career at Johnson & Johnson, where Mark served as Chief Procurement Officer, and earlier as Vice President of Pharmaceuticals Group Finance. Before that, he held a number of financial roles at Procter & Gamble.

Mark earned an MBA from The John M. Olin Graduate School of Business at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Raluca Dinu

Member, Board of Directors, Compliance Committee Chair

Independent Member. Dr. Raluca Dinu is a visionary and global business executive, offering 20 years of achievements in the high-tech industry (semiconductors, electronics, media, cloud data management, and information technology), with an established track record of driving increased revenue and profitability, building and leading cross-functional teams, delivering strong results in turnaround situations and leading strategic growth and consolidation in fast-paced business environments.

Dinu held a General Manager / Vice President position at Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDTI), which was acquired by Renesas Electronics Corp (TSE 6723:JP) for $6.7B. She drove the transfer and integration of the team from GigPeak, Inc. (NYSE GIG) into IDT, post-acquisition of GigPeak by IDT in April 2017. Prior to this, she was Chief Operations Officer of GigPeak, leading 10 M&As prior to the acquisition by IDT.

Dinu is chair of the compliance committee as part of the board of directors of UpHealth, Inc., a digital healthcare company (NYSE: UPH), and she is also a member of the audit and compensation committees. Additionally, she is part of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI), a company that operationalizes artificial intelligence and machine learning at scale through its end-to-end data analytics platform. She holds a bachelor’s degree. in physics and a Ph.D. in solid state condensed matter physics from the University of Bucharest and an Executive MBA from Stanford University. She has an audit committee certificate and compensation committee certificate from Harvard Business School, Executive Education Program.

Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria

Member, Board of Directors

Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria is an Indian-American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Dr. Kathuria co-founded several leading companies in the medical field that include American Teleradiology NightHawks, Inc., Ocean Biomedical and UpHealth. American Teleradiology NightHawks, Inc. merged with NightHawk Radiology Holdings, Inc., and the combined company went public on NASDAQ. Kathuria also co-founded Ocean Biomedical, which recently announced a malaria vaccine discovery. Kathuria ran for U.S. Senate in Illinois, becoming the first Indian-American to run for the US Senate. He received a bachelor’s degree and a medical degree from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Dr. Mariya Pylypiv

Member, Board of Directors

Dr. Mariya Pylypiv is an accomplished executive, thought leader and strategist with demonstrated success across healthcare, technological services and financial services. She has deep experience in raising capital and corporate development. Pylypiv has served as VP, Investment Banking and Corporate Development for a nationwide professional services firm and developed global equity strategies for a quantitative machine learning hedge fund (AUM $350 million peak assets). Pylypiv received her Ph.D. from Purdue University with a focus on behavioral finance. She holds a master’s degree in accounting and international economics from Ternopil Academy of National Economy, a bachelor’s degree in accounting and international economics from Ternopil Academy of National Economy, and serves on several advisory boards for digital health, wellness and investment markets.

Lisa Fluxman

President of TTC Healthcare, Inc.

Lisa brings 20 plus years of experience in sales, marketing and executive management. She was educated in Johannesburg, South Africa and attended UNISA towards a degree in Psychology. In early 2015, after immigrating to the U.S., Lisa started a role as a Sales and Marketing Director with OnetoOne Physical Therapy and Aquatics group. She mentored and trained the sales team, and personally started and grew its marketing division. Her efforts not only increased the turnover of the company, but they also boosted the number of incoming patients. Lisa then joined Transformations Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in 2016 as Executive Director where she was responsible for overseeing the client services divisions and developing strategies to increase revenue, services, systems and improved data collection and analysis. Lisa’s efforts and achievements at Transformations were recognized and she was promoted to her current role of President, after serving as Chief Marketing Officer and COO. Married with two children, Lisa enjoys spending time reading and learning whenever she gets the chance. She loves spending time with her family and French Bulldog puppy.

Dr. Jawad Daud

Medical Director

Dr. Daud is a double board-certified Psychiatrist with specialty training in Addiction Medicine and Psychiatry. He specializes in substance use disorders and mood disorders including depression and bipolar disorder, as well as anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety, panic, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Daud graduated from North Carolina State University with a BS in Business Management and then earned his MD from Saint George University School of Medicine. Dr. Daud has had professional training at the University of Miami Hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital, and Miami VA. Dr.Daud was chief Psychiatric Resident at the Miami VA and was also involved in clinical research at the Cleveland Clinic and National Institute of Mental Health. Uphealth has contracted with Dr. Daud to be our medical provider.
MD, Addiction Psychiatrist

Ragen Stone

EVP Of Nursing

Ragen Stone is the Executive Vice President of Nursing at Transformations Treatment Center. She is a Registered Nurse in the State of Florida. She has experience as Director of Nursing at two other facilities in South Florida before coming on board with Transformations. She has her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Certifications:
RN, BSN

Michael Clark

EVP of Finance and Shared Services

Michael Clark joined UpHealth in October 2020. He has a Bachelors and Masters of Accountancy from The University of Tampa and is a Licensed Florida CPA. Michael started his career in public accounting and has provided financial support and leadership for multiple healthcare companies prior to joining UpHealth. Currently, Michael is passionate about the growth of UpHealth to allow the company to help more individuals in need.

Jordan DeMarie

VP of Administration and Compliance

Jordan DeMarie has been with Transformations since 2009, wearing many hats in her time with the company. She started off as receptionist, moved to office manager, followed by six years in Utilization Review before becoming Director of Revenue Management. Jordan is now VP of administration who works directly under the President. She oversees the Quality Assurance department and licensing standards to ensure compliance with standards set forth by The Department of Children and Families, The Joint Commission and all accrediting bodies.

Certifications:
BSW

Salvatore Aiello

VP of Revenue and Growth

Sal joined Transformations in 2016 as a Patient Advocate Manager where he started the company’s first ever Patient Advocate department.  Sal developed and implemented a protocol to collect patient responsibilities from clients and family members.  Additionally, he worked closely with the Admissions staff as well as the Billing staff to increase company revenue.

After 5 years of managing the Patient Advocate department, Sal was promoted to VP of Revenue Growth where he now oversees the Patient Advocate department as well as the Billing department.

Sal brings 20 years of Substance Abuse and Mental Health experience to the table.  The majority of his work experience in the field of treatment has been with admissions as well as various rolls pertaining to finance.

Sal obtained his Master’s of Science in Education in 1998 and worked as a Guidance Counselor from 1998 - 2001 before finding his true passion of working in the substance abuse and mental health field.

Certifications: MS Ed

Kristina Netherland

EVP of Clinical

Kristina Netherland is a seasoned professional with over two decades of experience in the field of clinical services and counseling psychology. Kristina currently holds the position of Executive Vice President of Clinical Services, where Kristina is responsible for overseeing daily clinical operations, developing clinical programming, and supervising and training staff. Prior to this role, Kristina has served in various leadership positions at reputable organizations such as Harmony Health Group, Beach House Center for Recovery, State of Florida, and Delphi Behavioral Health Group. With a strong educational background, including a Masters of Science in Counseling Psychology from Troy University, Kristina brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to their work in the field.