Richard Perlman

Richard Perlman is a member of the Board of Directors of VIVEX Biologics. He is also a co-founder and Executive Chairman of ExamWorks Group, Inc., the global leader in the independent medical exam industry. Since its founding in 2008, ExamWorks has grown revenues to $1.5 billion and is the market leader in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada.

Prior to ExamWorks, Mr. Perlman was Executive Chairman of TurboChef Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVEN), the world leader in speed cook technology (of which he acquired control in 2003 and sold to Middleby Corporation (NASDAQ:MIDD) in 2008), PracticeWorks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRWK), the world leader of dental practice management software and digital radiography (which he sold to Eastman Kodak (NYSE:EK) in 2003), and AMICAS (NASDAQ:AMCS), a leading medical practice management software company (which was sold in two transactions to Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ:CERN) and Merge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRGS).

Mr. Perlman is also the Chairman of Compass Partners, LLC, a merchant banking firm specializing in middle market companies, which he founded in 1995. He sits on the boards of various private companies in which Compass has invested.

Mr. Perlman is the donor of the Perlman Grand Prize for the Wharton Business Plan Competition and serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Wharton Undergraduate School and the Wharton Entrepreneurial Advisory Board. He is a Trustee of the James Beard Foundation and a board member of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and the Boys and Girls Club of Sarasota.

Mr. Perlman is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and received his Master of Business Administration from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.