Board of Directors For Aveanna Healthcare
Our board of directors is comprised of leaders with decades of experience in the healthcare industry. These men bring combined talents of business acumen, clinical work, health services management, adult and pediatric home care experience, healthcare investing and much more into their work for Aveanna Healthcare. The board of directors helps define priorities and improve services as we pursue our goal of revolutionizing how pediatric healthcare is delivered. Learn about the background of each seasoned board member by reading their profiles below:

Rod Windley
Chairman of the Board
Rod Windley has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the healthcare industry. His story is one of building companies and fighting to bring care to some of the most vulnerable and medically fragile patients in the world.
Mr. Windley currently serves as the Executive Chairman of Aveanna Healthcare, which was formed through the merger of PSA Healthcare and Epic Health Services. Prior to the formation of Aveanna in 2017, Mr. Windley served as Executive Chairman of PSA Healthcare.

Victor F. Ganzi
Audit Committee Chair, Independent Director
Victor Ganzi's career spans more than 40 years and includes experience as a general counsel, chief financial officer, and chief executive officer. Educated in both accounting and law, he has extensive legal, accounting and business management experience.
Mr. Ganzi served as president and chief executive officer of the Hearst Corporation, a private diversified communications company, from 2002 to 2008. During his tenure with the company, revenues surpassed $8 billion. He also spearheaded the construction of a new, environmentally friendly, Gold LEED-certified headquarters for the company in New York City.

Christopher R. Gordon
As the leader of Bain Capital’s North American healthcare team, Christopher Gordon brings significant experience in the healthcare business arena to the Aveanna Board of Directors. A managing director at Bain Capital, he oversees private equity investing with a focus on the healthcare sector.
Since joining Bain in 1997 as a consultant with Bain & Company, Mr. Gordon has served on the boards of directors for several healthcare companies in which Bain Capital has invested. Included in his current and former directorships are Acadia Healthcare Company, Air Medical Group Holdings, Beacon Health Options, CRC Health Corporation, Hospital Corporation of America, Kestra Medical Technologies, Navicure, Physio Control, Quintiles Transnational Corporation, and Surgery Partners, among others.

Devin O’Reilly
Compensation Committee Chair
Devin O’Reilly brings a wealth of experience in the healthcare industry to the board. As a Managing Director at Bain Capital Private Equity, he focuses on leading healthcare investments in North America. Mr. O’Reilly previously spent five years in the company’s London office, where he led the European private equity healthcare team.
Prior to joining Bain Capital, he spent several years as a consultant for Bain & Company where he focused on healthcare and private equity industry clients. Previously, he also held management positions in the healthcare and software industries.

Sheldon M. Retchin, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Clinical and Compliance Committee Chair, Independent Director
Dr. Sheldon Retchin is a board-certified internist, and professor of health services management and policy in the College of Public Health and professor of medicine in the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University (OSU). His career includes extensive experience as an executive in major medical centers and appointments to several national panels related to Medicaid and Medicare programs, managed care, the costs of care, and the physician workforce. He has also added qualifications in geriatric medicine and has published nearly 100 articles, papers, monographs and book chapters on the costs, quality and outcomes of care.

Steve E. Rodgers
Steve Rodgers brings to the board more than 20 years’ experience in healthcare investing. As Senior Managing Director at J.H. Whitney Capital Partners and Investment Committee member, Steve leads the firm’s Healthcare Investing activities.
Prior to joining J.H. Whitney, Mr. Rodgers was a Managing Partner at the Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, and he was a Financial Analyst with Alex Brown & Sons.

Tony Strange
Tony Strange has enjoyed a long career in the homecare industry spanning more than 30 years. Mr. Strange currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Aveanna Healthcare, where he also serves on its Board of Directors.
Mr. Strange most recently held the position President and Chief Executive Officer of PSA Healthcare and also served on its Board of Directors before PSA and Epic Health Services merged to form Aveanna Healthcare.

Robert M. Williams, Jr.
As Senior Managing Director at J.H. Whitney Capital Partners and Investment Committee member, Robert Williams has an extensive background in identifying quality companies in which to invest, and influencing their growth and development. During his 17 years with J.H. Whitney, he has been part of the decision-making team that invested Whitney V, VI and VII.
Prior to joining J.H. Whitney, Mr. Williams was a Partner at Duff & Phelps, an advisory firm specializing in valuation, corporate finance, disputes and investigations, compliance and regulatory matters, and other governance-related issues. Before joining Duff & Phelps, he was with the Financial Advisory Services Group at CIBC.

Richard C. Zoretic
Independent Director
Richard Zoretic has more than 30 years’ experience in the healthcare business field, most recently retiring as executive vice president of WellPoint and president of the company’s Government Business Division. In this position, he was responsible for a business structure generating more than $30 billion in annual revenue, an amount that was approximately half of the entire company’s annual revenue.
Mr. Zoretic joined WellPoint through its acquisition of Amerigroup Corporation, where he served as chief operating officer with responsibility for all company operations, including medical management programs, local health plans, information technology, customer service operations, healthcare analytics and provider networks. During the five years he served as COO, Amerigroup grew from 1.3 million to 2.7 million members and annual revenue grew from $2.8 billion to $8.7 billion.