Peter
Cooper is President & CEO of the Scienta Health Group,
which he co-founded in 2004. His background combines new venture
development, corporate restructuring and
management consulting, where he has specialized in strategy and
organization change.
Mr. Cooper was, until December, 2005, a Director of Merge
Technologies, Inc. (Merge Healthcare, NASDAQ - MRGE), a Milwaukee,
Wisconsin-based leader in medical imaging technologies for the
global healthcare market. He was previously Chairman of the Board
of Cedara Software Inc., which was acquired by Merge
in June 2005.
Prior to that Mr. Cooper was President, Online for Indigo
Books & Music Inc. He led the integration
and restructuring of market leader, Chapters Online Inc., and
distribution unit, Pegasus (acquired by Indigo). He joined Indigo
after serving as a Partner in Pratzer & Partners (now Korn/Ferry
International Canada). Before that he had been Managing Partner
of Paradigm Consulting, Inc., a firm he co-founded in 1984 to
specialize in strategy and organization change. He began his management
consulting career in 1981 with the Coopers & Lybrand Consulting
Group (later PriceWaterhouseCoopers) in Toronto.
Mr. Cooper emigrated from South Africa, where he had been CFO
then CEO of a Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed holding company with automotive finance
and distribution interests. He served on its Board for five years
and negotiated its sale in 1980.
Mr. Cooper earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School
in 1975. In 1985 he completed an executive program - "Information
Technology in Competitive Strategy" - at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He holds an undergraduate degree
in economics and psychology from the University of Stellenbosch
and a graduate degree in finance and accounting from the University
of Pretoria. He was commissioned as an officer in the South
African Navy and served for six years in the Naval Reserve.
Mr. Cooper recently completed a two-year term as the first non-American President of
the 80,000 member Harvard Business School Global Alumni Association
in Boston, and continues to serve on its Board of Directors. He
has served on the boards of several public and private companies
- in electronic entertainment, mobile communications and the wine
industry, in which he has had extensive involvement as an investor
and entrepreneur in the United States and South Africa.
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Dr. Elaine Chin is co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of the Scienta Health Group. Dr. Chin is a pioneer in the clinical application of an individualized preventive healthcare model, including preventive genetics and other leading edge diagnostic techniques.
She graduated from The University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 1988 and completed her comprehensive surgical internship at the Toronto General Hospital.
Dr. Chin’s professional career began practicing Family Medicine in Toronto. She is on staff at University Health Network and at Trillium Health Centre and has served on the Health Centre’s Board and more recently as a Director of the Foundation Board.
Disillusioned and frustrated after years in family practice – where she found she had no time or opportunity to truly make a difference to the health of her patients – Dr. Chin turned to further education in the hope she could somehow change the healthcare system. She became convinced of the need to fundamentally change the orientation of healthcare to a focus on active prevention and health management and away from the deeply entrenched and expensive disease treatment so widely practiced.
She earned her MBA in the Executive Program at the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto in 1994.
Her first role after graduating was as Medical Director at Nesbitt Burns/Bank of Montreal (1994-1997), where she led reviews of Executive Health, Wellness Programs and Benefits in Canadian and US operations. After 3 years in this role and still convinced there was a better way, she initiated her own health and wellness businesses, which included an interest in the Gimbel Eye Centre, Toronto, consulting for TLC (The Laser Centre) then establishing the first “Medical Spa” in Toronto, The Beresford Clinic.
An Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, she has taught at the Rotman School of Management on integrating prevention-driven models into corporate human resources practice. She regularly delivers executive seminars and consulting on the strategic importance of executive and employee health in improving competitiveness and productivity and in protecting human capital.
Since the launch of Scienta, Dr. Chin has addressed physician and healthcare industry conferences in the United States and Europe on the clinical model for individualized preventive healthcare. She has been quoted in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Toronto Star, Macleans and has appeared in interviews and documentaries on CNN International, CBC Newsworld, CTV and City TV.
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