Mr. Creem has spent over 30 years as a "C-level" executive of healthcare organizations and brings strong business evaluation and operational experience to the Company. From July 2017 to present, Mr. Creem has served as President of The Bridgewater Healthcare Group, which provides hospital and health network management services and performance consulting. From October 2015 to July 2017, Mr. Creem served as the CEO and CAO of Verity Health System, a six-hospital system in California.
From October 2012 to October 2015, he served as the CFO and Board Member of Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMEH) ("ApolloMed"). Before ApolloMed, he served as the CEO of the Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Center. Prior to his tenure at USC, he served as the CFO and Associate Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences, including UCLA Medical Center, the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and UCLA Faculty Practice. And prior to UCLA, he served as CFO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard University teaching hospital, and CFO of Tufts University Medical Center.
Mr. Creem also worked for several years in a senior management position at the healthcare practice group of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was responsible for numerous consulting engagements, financial statement audits, and financial feasibility studies. He has been a guest lecturer at USC, UCLA, and Harvard.
Mr. Creem holds a B.S. in Accounting and Business Administration from Boston University and a master's degree in Health Administration from Duke University. Mr. Creem's qualifications to serve on the Board of Directors include over 30 years of corporate experience working as a senior executive in the healthcare industry and prior service on private and public company boards.