The Industry Leader

The Industry Leader in MSD

Experts in Musculoskeletal Wellness,
Soft Tissue Illness Treatment and Prevention

Board Members

  • Gregory Hawkins

    Gregory Hawkins joined the Board of Directors at Workwell Systems in April 2001. Prior to this, Mr. Hawkins served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of buy.com, where he helped take the internet retailer public in February 2000. Previous experiences include eight years in senior management positions with Ingram Micro, Inc, as Senior Vice President, Global Sales, where he was responsible for overseeing the company's sales and customer program management operations. Mr. Hawkins' began his career with J. C. Penney, and also worked for GTE and Mitel Corporation. Mr. Hawkins received his BS in Business Administration from Oregon State University.

  • Craig Horton

    As President for SSDC Corp., Mr. Horton is the chief executive responsible for the growth and development of the company in its disability related coordination of benefits services. He is also Vice President of SSDC’s parent company Assurant Employee Benefits. SSDC is a leading provider of Social Security and Medicare related benefits coordination and data management services to large employer markets. Prior to SSDC, Mr. Horton was a co-founder of CORE in 1990 when he was a leader of the leveraged buyout of the company from Baxter Healthcare.

    He served as the President, Chief Operating Officer and member of the board of directors of CORE during its eleven years of operation as private, then public company. Mr. Horton was a key executive participant in the decision and process that led to the acquisition of CORE by Fortis, Inc. in July 2001 and served as the transition officer following its acquisition. He also served as the Fortis representative on the Washington Business Group on Health’s Employer Health and Productivity Council and is a member, sponsor and frequent speaker at other disability and productivity councils and associations including: Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI); Disability Management Employer’s Coalition (DMEC); and the National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR). Mr. Horton received his B.A. (magna cum laude), MBA and MPH degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • George Metzger

    George Metzger is the retired Vice President Human Resources of Textron Inc. He has more than forty years of management experience. His career encompasses extensive experience in business process design, development and documentation, staff assessment, regulatory compliance and general management experience. He has a wide range of operational and management experience with healthcare management issues, benefit design, and healthcare outcome monitoring. Mr. Metzger is a pragmatic problem solver that is experienced in achieving optimal regulatory compliance, employee satisfaction and successful business outcomes.

  • David Ryan

    Dave Ryan has been a founding Mission Ventures Managing Partner since 1996. He has 28 years of venture capital experience focusing on early-stage information technology and service companies. Prior to Mission Ventures, beginning in 1983, he served as General Partner of Copley Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in information technology, business services and healthcare. Prior to Copley, Dave held positions in strategic planning, business development and plant modernization with Medusa Corp, a Midwest-based manufacturer of industrial materials.

    Dave holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a Director of Access360 Media, Active Storage, BMS Reimbursement Management, NetSeer, Nirvanix, and WorkWell Systems.

  • Steven Schickler

    Steven Schickler serves as Chairman of the Board of WorkWell Systems Inc. Steve comes to WorkWell with 32 years of leadership experience in a variety of medium and large size companies as well as entrepreneurial settings. He has a track record of transforming companies into leaders in their respective sectors. Prior to joining WorkWell he was President and CEO of Kinetix Living, a company that provides coaching for nutrition, fitness and health to employees of client companies throughout the country. In 2010 he led the company’s divestiture. Schickler was also President of Seattle Coffee Company (SCC) owner of Seattle’s Best Coffee, and was later a senior executive at Starbucks Coffee following Starbucks’ purchase of SCC.

    He was a senior executive at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream as the company grew from a largely regional company to the largest in its national industry space. Schickler was Chief Executive Officer of a start-up company in the area of Internet Health Care Communications. He began his career in consumer marketing at H.J. Heinz where he led two of the company’s largest business units. Schickler won the NASDAQ/Ernst and Young Entrepreneur-of-the-Year Award for his leadership and turn-around of a company in Chicago. His experience spans health and fitness, consumer goods, retail, and SaaS (sales as a service), and he has helped transform young companies into national leaders. Schickler Holds an MBA from New York University and a JD From Brooklyn Law School.

  • Jay Stead

    Jay Stead, based in Auckland, New Zealand since 2002, provides executive advisory services and serves on the boards of a select group of technology-oriented software, services and internet businesses around the world. These award-winning businesses have consistently shown rapid profitable and remained clearly focused on providing superior customer service and solutions while emerging as market leaders. Jay is the former President & CEO of Sagebrush Corporation, an educational software leader, and was also a senior executive at Reynolds and Reynolds. In addition, he has held key management positions with Allen-Bradley and McKinsey & Company. His career includes general management, marketing, business development and consulting roles across high-growth software, services, internet, healthcare and manufacturing sectors.

    Jay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Purdue University and received a Masters in Management from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management in 1989. He currently serves on the board of directors/advisors for Workwell, MD Online, GolfLogix, Augen, SalonEzy, Parnell Agencies and BMS Reimbursement Management. Additionally, he is active in community and charitable work and is currently Chairperson for the Auckland Normal Intermediate School Board of Trustees.