CHS is led by an effective and creative management team, all of whom have extensive and significant industry experience and a national reputation for successful business growth.

Robert Cucuel

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Cucuel was previously Founder, President and CEO of American Homecare Supply, LLC, a $130 million Kohlberg portfolio company and provider of Home Medical Equipment and Respiratory Therapy.

Mr. Cucuel continued to grow American Homecare Supply following Kohlberg’s sale of the company in 2002, subsequently named Air Products Healthcare, where he remained until late 2005.

Air Products Healthcare completed over 20 acquisitions and built more than $300 million in revenues under his leadership.

Air Products Healthcare also was awarded the “Industry HME Excellence Award” in 2004 for being the “Best Home Respiratory Provider” in the nation.

He has more than 25 years of health care experience, including senior level positions at American HomePatient, Home Health Corporation of America and Home Nutritional Services, Inc.

Mr. Cucuel also has served in numerous positions with the American Association of Homecare and other trade groups on their Executive Committees and Boards of Directors. Most recently he served as Treasurer of AA Homecare.

He completed his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance at Boston College in 1981.

 Bruce R. Gilbert

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Mr. Gilbert was appointed as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company on July 7, 2008.

Mr. Gilbert was counsel to Universal Health Services, Inc. (“UHS”) for 22 years, serving as General Counsel for UHS from 1991 to 2007. Prior to that, he was associated with the Los Angeles-based law firm of Weissburg and Aronson (now part of Foley and Lardner), in both Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Gilbert was a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Hospitals from 1994 to 2007, serving as Chairman of the Board in 1997 – 1998. And Mr. Gilbert is currently the Chairman of the Advisory Board to National Healthcare Payer Networks, a Wayne, PA based health care consulting firm.

Mr. Gilbert is a 1976 graduate of The University of Wisconsin (B.B.A.) and a 1981 graduate of The Antioch University School of Law (J.D.).

 Mary Jane Graves

Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Graves previously acted as an independent consultant to American Homecare Supply and Air Products Healthcare in financial and operational capacities.

She was CEO and CFO with Superior Renal Care, Inc., a regional multi-facility outpatient dialysis provider. Also, from 1998 to 1999, she was President and COO of StadtSolutions, LLP, a specialty pharmacy company.

Ms. Graves graduated in 1983 with Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Accounting, summa cum laude, from Tennessee Technological University. She completed her CPA program in 1984.

 Colleen M. Lederer

Senior Vice President of Professional Services

Colleen M. Lederer has 29 years of clinical and management experience as a working professional in the health care industry including 26 years of experience in the home health industry. For 10 years she was Corporate Vice President of Professional Services for Home Health Corporation of America, responsible for all clinical operations and management.

For five years Ms. Lederer was a founding partner and owner of a prominent home health staffing and consulting agency in the Philadelphia five-county region. She was also Chief Compliance Officer for a publicly-owned home health company for five years.

Ms. Lederer is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson University School of Nursing and has served on multiple task force and home health industry committees as they relate to Home Health Regulations and Reimbursement.

 Nitin J. Patel, R.Ph.

Senior Vice President of Operations

Mr. Patel possesses more than 25 years of health care industry experience, most recently in senior operations, acquisition integration, supply chain and patient services management positions at Air Products Healthcare.

Prior to this, Mr. Patel was Vice President of Operations for Drugstore.com; Area Vice President of Operations for American Home Patient, Director for Hastings Consulting, Vice President of Operations for Home Health Corporation of America and Zone Operations Director for Home Nutritional Services.

Mr. Patel is a graduate of the University of London (Pharmacy) and Ohio Northern University (Pharmacy). He is active with trade associations and has also served on multiple healthcare industry committees.

 Joey Ryan, MBA, CPA

Senior Vice President of Reimbursement & Compliance

Ms. Ryan has 20 years of health care industry experience. She most recently held positions as Vice President of Government Relations and Compliance and Sr. Vice President of Reimbursement at American Homecare Supply/ Air Products Healthcare.

Prior to this, Ms Ryan had her own consulting company for seven years providing revenue cycle management and process improvement services to the health care industry, including DME/RT/Infusion/Home Health Agencies/ Physicians and Hospitals throughout the country.

Ms. Ryan has also held various management positions overseeing billing and reimbursement functions for several other large healthcare companies in the Philadelphia area.

Ms. Ryan has a BS with a major in biology from the University of Missouri and a MBA in Finance from Drexel University and is a Certified Public Accountant in Pennsylvania.

She has been active in various industry associations, recently serving on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Homecare.

Mark P. Sneff

Senior Vice President of Human Resources.

Mr. Sneff has a 25 year HR career in healthcare, educational services, international pharmaceutical development and executive search. Prior to joining CHS he served for 3 years as VP of Global HR for the Clinical Development Services division of Covance, Inc. a global clinical research organization conducting drug development for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Mr. Sneff worked for Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. a global educational services provider for 7 years in a variety of key positions starting with head of HR, Staffing, Organizational Development & Communications for the Corporate group of Sylvan, then progressing to VP of Global HR for Sylvan Ventures, LLC – a venture capital fund focused on acquiring and investing in educational software and elearning businesses as well as private universities. In his last position at Sylvan, Mr. Sneff served as VP of Therapist Services Operations for Sylvan’s school based contract rehabilitation therapy business.

Mr. Sneff spent a total of 11 years in U.S. national healthcare organizations with the NovaCare and ManorCare companies in multi-state, multi-site long term care, sports medicine and outpatient rehabilitation therapy services. During his 7 years at NovaCare, Mr. Sneff was part of NovaCare’s Outpatient Rehabilitation Services division - a rapid growth consolidator of acquired sports medicine, outpatient therapy and work hardening clinics across the US, ultimately acquiring over 100 locations nationally. During his 4 years at ManorCare, Mr. Sneff was a leader on the start up of the Assisted Living division of ManorCare called Arden Courts, and led the HR and staffing efforts to successfully open 32 Arden Courts Centers nationally in 18 months.

Mr. Sneff’s first position was in executive search with a Philadelphia firm. He holds a B.A. from Penn State University.