Expert Profile
DAVID ROBBINS *****
FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Corporate oversight; managed health care organizations (HMOs, PPOs); employee medical benefits; health and medical cost containment; strategic alliance formation; affinity group marketing; corporate board membership and trusteeship of not-for profit and academic organizations.
• Graduate of Temple University, BS in Education. Doctoral fellow and research/teaching associate in physiology and anatomy.
• Honored as Outstanding Christian College Athlete (1968) by The Legion of Cornelius. Other award recipients that year included soon-to-be World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Frazier, and Pete Retzlaff of the Philadelphia Eagles football organization.
• Professional sports with the farm system and reserve teams of the Philadelphia Eagles (1968) and Baltimore Colts (1968 and 1969). Defensive end and linebacke *****
• Senior and lead consultant in health care and medical programs to Fortune 100 corporations such as Sun Company, ALCOA, Westinghouse and CIGNA.
• Founded and served as Chairman and CEO of InterGroup, one of the largest and most highly regarded preferred provider organizations (PPOs) with over one million members, seventeen thousand health professionals and 200 participating hospitals.
• Invited to participate in the inaugural CEO class, Harvard University School of Public Health's Executive Program in Managed Health Care.
• Founder of Resource Holdings, Ltd. as a health care acquisition vehicle funded by J. P. Morgan & Co.
• Acquired early stage health care information technology companies and managed health care firms for nurturing and eventual purchase by publicly traded companies. Resulting profit to investors in excess of $60, 00, 00 in less than 18 months.
• Trusteeships and board membership seats with InterGroup; Resource Holdings, Ltd. ; The Foundation for Independent Colleges, and Chestnut Hill College (2 terms: Finance, Student Life and Executive Committees). Senior Advisor to the Board – Salient Business Solutions USA, LLC – A unit of The Avantha Group (India)