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Almanac of Chronic Disease 2008

The United States is experiencing an unsustainable disease burden – 130 million people today suffer from chronic diseases – taking a tremendous toll on individuals, families, and communities. In addition to lives lost and quality of life lost, we are also a nation in crisis – an economic crisis.

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Ben Gardner - CEO

Ben is a 25-year veteran of health care, marketing, and marketing services.

Ben started his career in sales and marketing with medical device manufacturers and clinical software developers including Stryker Medical and Health Payment Review (later purchased by McKesson).

Most recently Ben helped build Imagitas, an upstart marketing services company, into $100+ million per year enterprise. Ben spent his time at Imagitas leading new business initiatives, including ParentSource (a successful couponing and sampling partnership with McDonalds Corp), and DriverSource, a direct marketing program in partnership with State DMV's. Pitney Bowes purchased Imagitas in 2005 for over $275 Million.

Ben earned a B.S. in Marketing from Bentley College.

Dan McCabe - Senior Vice President of Sales

Dan is a 20-year CPG and marketing services veteran.

Dan started his career in consumer-packaged goods with Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, Ltd. At Wyeth, he quickly moved through the ranks, becoming the youngest District Manager in the company's history, and later became National Accounts Manager.

After a successful stint as an entrepreneur, Dan joined Catalina Marketing's online couponing business and later moved to Catalina's base-business where he helped to pioneer the company's targeted sampling business.

Dan then ran a new division of Imagitas focused on the Catalog business. Dan and his team took the business from product concept to a profitable national launch in less than two years.

Most recently Dan was with Affinnova, an advanced market research firm where he led a successful turnaround of the company's Client Management & Client Services teams.

Dan earned a B.S. in Economics from Fordham University.

Kami Hess – Director of Wellness Partnership Support

Kami brings to Linkwell more than 25 years experience in the custom publishing industry with the last 15 years spent in healthcare communications and marketing, managing complex communication projects and strategies for health plans, hospitals, retail/pharmaceutical organizations and large employer groups, all with a strong focus on program goals and objectives, outcomes, and exceptional client service.

Kami most recently lead the custom print solutions operation at StayWell Custom Communications, an organization dedicated to helping health care organizations use health information, online and in print, to engage and motivate consumers. StayWell Custom Communications is part of the StayWell family of companies that reaches 80 million individuals each year with print and online health information designed to improve the quality of their lives. This family of companies includes Krames, StayWell Health Management, Consumer Health Publishing Group/Harvard Health Publications, StayWell Productions, and the Red Cross Strategic Business Alliance. StayWell is a division of MediMedia USA and represents the largest patient education and consumer health information publisher in the U.S.

Kami holds a B.A. in English from Michigan State University.