John K. Castle, Chairman - Mr. Castle has spent much of the last two decades involved with healthcare institutions and issues including serving as Chairman of the Board of New York Medical College for eleven years, and as a member of that Board for more than twenty years. Mr. Castle served for five years as a public commissioner on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), as a trustee of five different hospitals in the metropolitan New York region and is a director emeritus of the United Hospital Fund as well as a trustee of the Whitehead Institute. In addition to his healthcare activities, Mr. Castle has served on many voluntary boards including the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as numerous corporate boards of directors, including the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. He is chairman of a leading merchant bank and has been chief executive of a major investment bank. Mr. Castle holds a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT; an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar; and an honorary doctorate from New York Medical College.

Philip Micali has over 20 years experience designing, developing and operating innovative health and wellness companies, including HMOs and specialty managed care programs, both in the US and in Europe. Most recently, Phil led the second sales and government program initiatives at the nation’s leading and pioneering consumer driven health plan, Lumenos.Prior to his innovative work in developing, selling and implementing health savings account models of reimbursement, Phil spent over 10 years in behavioral healthcare with the nation’s leading managed mental health companies—Value Behavioral Health and Merit Behavioral Care—leading network development, account management and government programs. In these positions he successfully procured and managed over $300 million of annualized revenues. He was also an equity partner in a start up company for oncology disease management and eldercare services portal in the US and Europe respectively.

Phil is actively involved in the New York Business Group on Health as an advisory board member, as well as The Conference Board, serving as a frequent speaker and chair of their health care and employee benefit conferences. He also is the principal researcher for The Conference Board Working Group on Wellness. In addition, Phil is a founding visiting professor of the Masters in International Health Management Economics and Policy at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.