Executive Bio's

Lew N. Little, Jr. Chief Executive Officer

Lew Little is chief executive officer and co-founder of Harden Healthcare, LLC. Harden was formed in December of 2001 to own senior care facilities. The company's home health subsidiary, Girling Health Care, serves the home health needs of the elderly and infirmed in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, New York, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. The company currently operates and manages 40 senior care facilities (35 skilled nursing and 5 assisted living) in Texas through its subsidiary TRISUN Healthcare. Harden Healthcare also provides in-patient and out-patient therapy services (MBS Rehab), long term care pharmacy services (MBS Pharmacy), nurse practitioners (MBS Integrated Care), and hospice services (Lighthouse Hospice) in Texas.

Prior to the formation of Harden Healthcare, Little was president of Capstar Partners, LLC beginning in 2000. Before joining Capstar, Little was president of Bank of America in Austin, Texas. Little worked with the bank and its predecessors from August 1984 until December 1999. He began his banking career in 1981 with Texas Commerce Bank in Houston.

Little currently serves on the boards of American Physicians Service Group (AMPH NASDAQ), Andrew Harper Travel, ECG Foundation, Austin Community Foundation, and the Seton Fund. He is a member of the Austin Area Research Organization (AARO). Little is a current member and former chapter chair of the Austin chapters of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the World Presidents Organization (WPO). In June 2005, he was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Austin by Ernst and Young.

Born and raised in Austin, Little earned his BBA in Marketing (1979) and his MBA, with a concentration in Finance (1981), from the University of Texas at Austin.

Steve Wood President, Long-Term Care Division

As president of the Long-Term Care Division, Wood oversees the operations of TRISUN Healthcare, which manages senior care facilities throughout Texas, MBS Rehab, MBS Integrated Care and MBS Pharmacy.

Prior to his current position, Wood served as executive vice president and CFO for Harden. He has been with the company since 2002. Before joining Harden, he was partner of TatumCFO Partners, LLP, in San Antonio, Texas. Other past positions include CFO and treasurer of LYNAY Healthcare, Inc., president of KW Capital Resources ($17 million private equity fund), senior vice president of Wells Fargo Bank/First Interstate Bank and chief financial officer of Tecnol Medical Products.

Wood has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington and was formerly a practicing certified public accountant.

Scott Ellyson Chief Financial Officer

Scott Ellyson is the chief financial officer of Harden Healthcare. Most recently, Ellyson served as a senior member of Houlihan Lokeys Healthcare Investment Banking Group where he was active in several areas of corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, private placements and financial restructuring.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Ellyson performed strategic consulting and valuation work for healthcare clients in the Transaction Services Group of KPMG, and he worked for Tenet Healthcare supporting its acquisition and integration of several physician group practices and ancillary businesses.

Ellyson earned an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Arlington, is a certified public accountant and also holds Series 7 and 63 licenses with FINRA (formerly NASD).

Ben Hanson Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Ben Hanson oversees all legal initiatives for Harden Healthcare and its subsidiaries. Prior to joining Harden, Hanson was employed by DMX Holdings, an international company providing ambient music and other sensory services to retail and hospitality clients, where he was general counsel and secretary. Concurrently, he was principal and general counsel for Capstar Partners (one of Harden's primary investors).

Hanson has several years of prior legal experience, including chief of staff/general counsel for two Texas Secretaries of State (Roger Williams and Geoffrey Connor) and was assistant general counsel for Governor Rick Perry. Hanson began his legal career in the corporate/securities group of Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

He earned a bachelor's of arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Plan II honors and government, and received his law degree from the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University.

Dr. Maryann Choi Chief Medical Officer

As chief medical officer of Harden Healthcare, Dr. Maryann Choi provides high-level medical oversight to all of Harden's companies, including TRISUN Healthcare, Girling Health Care, Lighthouse Hospice, MBS Rehab, MBS Pharmacy and MBS Integrated Care.

Dr. Choi has extensive experience in geriatric care. She was previously the founder and president of SunStar Geriatrics Healthcare, a physicians group dedicated to geriatric medicine serving Central Texas. Following residencies in internal medicine at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore and at New Rochelle Hospital in New York, Dr. Choi completed a fellowship in geriatrics at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She worked as a clinical instructor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and as an instructor of medicine at Albert Einstein Medical College in New York. She is board-certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine and ABHPM certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is also a certified medical director.

In addition, Dr. Choi served as an assistant professor of medicine at the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine. Dr. Choi holds master's degrees in public health from the Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health and in computer science from Hofstra University. She was a Texas delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, was a board member of the Texas Department on Aging and currently serves on the Texas Health and Human Service Commission.