Mr. Adams is Managing Director of GWA Capital Partners, a registered investment advisor in Beverly Hills, CA. He has over 30 years of experience in money management and investment banking. For the past 20 years, Mr. Adams has structured private and public equity investments for himself and for various wealthy families. He is currently on the board of directors of: Reading International (RDI) (2014 - Present) and Avem Health Partners (2019 – Present) serving as Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Adams was involved in three successful proxy contests: Exar Corporation, in which he was publicly endorsed by both Institutional Shareholders Services ("ISS") and Glass Lewis & Co., resulting in the decisive election of the entire GWA dissident candidate slate in 2005-07 where he served as Chairman of Audit Committee and Financial Expert; and Mercer International, 2003-2013 as a nominee of Greenlight Capital, where he served on Compensation and Audit Committee. Previously, Mr. Adams served as a director of Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon 2001-2002. Mr. Adams was publicly endorsed as a candidate for the Lone Star Board by ISS and California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). He also served on the board of Vitesse Semiconductor 2007-08, serving on the Compensation and Audit Committees.

From 1989-1995, Mr. Adams held the position of Investment Manager with Decurion Corporation, a holding company for a Forbes 400 Wealthiest Family. He also served as Chairman of the Pacific Theatres Employees Retirement Plan.

From 1986-1989, Mr. Adams was President and Founder of Petro Investments, an investment banking company advising on mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Adams was with Sonat Offshore (now Transocean) as a Drilling Engineer, General Manager, and Area Manager of Operations. While at Sonat, he was responsible for offshore drilling operations in the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Europe, overseeing 427 employees and operations in 13 foreign countries. During this period, his division set three (3) world records for exploratory drilling in ultra-deep waters.

Mr. Adams has been profiled in The NY Times, Fortune, Smart Money, Institutional Investor, Money, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He has appeared on CNBC and was a past keynote speaker at the Council of Institutional Investor conference. During his career, he has developed an in-depth knowledge of matters involving corporate governance, proxy contests, strategic mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. In 2018 he became a National Association of Corporate Directors Governance Fellow.

Mr. Adams has an undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in Petroleum Engineering and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Rakesh Shrivastava serves in the role of Chief Medical Officer. He is board certified in cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology. In addition, he also holds a Master Certificate in Healthcare Practice Management from Oklahoma City University.
He graduated from Institute of Medical Sciences, Varanasi (India) and completed residency training at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL. He completed his fellowship in General Cardiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport, LA and went on to complete Interventional Cardiology fellowship from University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

Dr. Shrivastava has remained actively involved in providing care to medically underserved and rural communities throughout his career. Notable amongst those are his role as Associate Medical Director of Health Care for the Homeless program in Rochester, NY. He also serves in leadership roles in various hospitals in local communities. In his role as chief medical officer of our organization, Dr. Shrivastava is responsible for overseeing the clinical services of the rural hospitals.

Mr. Adams is Managing Director of GWA Capital Partners, a registered investment advisor in Beverly Hills, CA. He has over 30 years of experience in money management and investment banking. For the past 20 years, Mr. Adams has structured private and public equity investments for himself and for various wealthy families. He is currently on the board of directors of: Reading International (RDI) (2014 - Present) and Avem Health Partners (2019 – Present) serving as Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Adams was involved in three successful proxy contests: Exar Corporation, in which he was publicly endorsed by both Institutional Shareholders Services ("ISS") and Glass Lewis & Co., resulting in the decisive election of the entire GWA dissident candidate slate in 2005-07 where he served as Chairman of Audit Committee and Financial Expert; and Mercer International, 2003-2013 as a nominee of Greenlight Capital, where he served on Compensation and Audit Committee. Previously, Mr. Adams served as a director of Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon 2001-2002. Mr. Adams was publicly endorsed as a candidate for the Lone Star Board by ISS and California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). He also served on the board of Vitesse Semiconductor 2007-08, serving on the Compensation and Audit Committees.

From 1989-1995, Mr. Adams held the position of Investment Manager with Decurion Corporation, a holding company for a Forbes 400 Wealthiest Family. He also served as Chairman of the Pacific Theatres Employees Retirement Plan.

From 1986-1989, Mr. Adams was President and Founder of Petro Investments, an investment banking company advising on mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Adams was with Sonat Offshore (now Transocean) as a Drilling Engineer, General Manager, and Area Manager of Operations. While at Sonat, he was responsible for offshore drilling operations in the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Europe, overseeing 427 employees and operations in 13 foreign countries. During this period, his division set three (3) world records for exploratory drilling in ultra-deep waters.

Mr. Adams has been profiled in The NY Times, Fortune, Smart Money, Institutional Investor, Money, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He has appeared on CNBC and was a past keynote speaker at the Council of Institutional Investor conference. During his career, he has developed an in-depth knowledge of matters involving corporate governance, proxy contests, strategic mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. In 2018 he became a National Association of Corporate Directors Governance Fellow.

Mr. Adams has an undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in Petroleum Engineering and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Houlihan has been an investor in our company since 2005, and a member of the Board of Directors since 2010. He has five decades of finance experience. He has been Chief Financial Officer or a member of the Board of Directors for multiple publicly traded and privately owned companies between 2001and the present. Mr. Houlihan also was an investment banker for Goldman Sachs and other major Wall Street firms from 1981 to 2000, when he advised Chief Executive Officers, other corporate officers, members of the Board of Directors, and major shareholders of many companies concerning a broad range of acquisitions, financings and other corporate transactions. His industry experience includes healthcare providers, banks, non-bank lenders, technology companies, and real estate investors. Mr. Houlihan received a B.S. in Accounting in 1977 from Manhattan College, became licensed as a C.P.A. in 1979, and received his M.B.A. in Finance in 1983 from New York University Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Schwartz has been on the AVEM Board of Directors since August 1998. He has served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former member of the technical staff at the Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California. Dr. Schwartz is currently a research faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Colorado.

LTG Keith Walker has served as a director and advisor for several small and mid-sized companies since retiring from the Army in 2014, focusing on strategy, business development, and leader development. He currently serves on the faculty of Thayer Leadership, conducting leadership training for executives of many of the Fortune 500 companies. During his military career, his assignments included senior leadership and management positions in U. S. Army and Joint and Combined Forces, and thirteen years of overseas operational assignments with U. S. partners in Iraq, Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Germany, and Belgium. Keith is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and received his MBA from Harvard University School of Business. He and Valerie live in Moneta, Virginia. They have two daughters, two sons, and six grandchildren.

Barb Holcomb is a retired Army Major General, having served 33 years as a leader in Nursing, Healthcare, Medical Research and Logistics. She served in command positions at every rank from Captain onward. She deployed to Iraq during Desert Shield/Desert Storm; Kosovo during Operation Joint Guardian; and Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. Her last military assignment was as the 25th Chief, Army Nurse Corps and as Commanding General, Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick, in Frederick Maryland. She retired on June 1, 2020.

She is a 1987 Distinguished Military Graduate of Seattle University Army ROTC where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She earned a master's degree in Nursing Administration from the University of Kansas, a master’s level Certification in Emergency and Disaster Management from American Military University, and a master's in Military Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA. She is a graduate of the Master Leadership Program of Greater San Antonio, Class XVII. The program focused on preparing attendees for service on non-profit boards or civic commissions.

Barb is the CEO of her own consulting company, Barb Holcomb Consulting, LLC., working in areas of medical research strategy, federal health care planning, leadership, and team and organizational development She serves as an advisor to Echelon Med-Tech LLC and is on the executive boards for Q30, Maxwell Biosciences, Inc., Humanetics Corporation, and AVEM Health Partners.

As a Veteran, Barb continues to serve by volunteering a clinical nursing shift once a week in the Brooke Army Medical Center Emergency Department. She is Vice President for 360MVP, a non-profit organization in the San Antonio area. She is also on the executive board for The Geneva Foundation; BioBridge Global; and the Military Affairs Committee for the San Antonio Livestock Exhibition and Rodeo.

She is a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, Army Nurse Corps Association, Sigma Theta Tau, Intl., Veterans of Foreign Wars, Association of United States Army, Military Officers of America Association, Master Leadership Program Alumni Association and the Mil-Civ Club of San Antonio. She enjoys fitness, golf, baking, and traveling. She is married to Max Holcomb and resides near San Antonio, TX.