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Mr. Pacala has 25 years of general management and venture capital
experience in services, technology and healthcare companies. He began
his career as a banker in 1977 at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Corp. and
transitioned to strategic planning in healthcare at Booz, Allen and
Hamilton. He served as Director of Corporate Planning and Vice President
of Operations at Marriott Corporation from 1984 to 1989, where he
founded the Fairfield Inns division. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Pacala was a
Senior Vice President and General Manager at Walt Disney Company, where
he founded the Disney Vacation Club. He then served as the CEO of Forum
Group, Inc., a public, $200-million-revenue senior housing and
healthcare company, which later was sold to Marriott.
In 1997, Mr. Pacala was recruited by Essex Woodlands to serve as the CEO
of American
WholeHealth, an integrative health network company which combines
conventional
medicine, alternative medicine, nutrition and wellness. He joined Essex
Woodlands full-time
in 2002 and manages investments in and/or sits on the Board of Directors
of
BENU,
Touchstone Health,
CareGuide (formerly Coordinated Care Solutions,)
KeyHealth,
Millennium Pharmacy
Systems,
Bledsoe and
SleepMed.
Mr. Pacala holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College, where he
graduated magna cum
laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and a Masters of Business Administration from
Harvard Business
School, where he graduated with distinction.
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