Board of Directors
Joey A. Jacobs, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, joined Acadia in February 2011 and serves as the Chairman of our Board and as our Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Jacobs has extensive experience in the behavioral health industry. Prior to joining the Company in 2011, he co-founded Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. (“PSI”) and served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of PSI from April 1997 to November 2010. Prior to founding PSI, Mr. Jacobs served for 21 years in various capacities with Hospital Corporation of America (“HCA,” also formerly known as Columbia and Columbia/HCA), most recently as President of the Tennessee Division. Mr. Jacobs’ background at HCA also included serving as president of HCA’s Central Group, vice president of the Western Group, assistant vice president of the Central Group and assistant vice president of the Salt Lake City Division. Mr. Jacobs serves on the board of directors of Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Mental Health Management, Inc.
E. Perot Bissell, Director, has served as a director of Acadia since April 2013. Since 2012, Mr. Bissell has been the Vice Chairman of Maxum Enterprises, LLC. From 2006 to 2012, he served as Chief Executive Officer for Maxum Petroleum, Inc., an independent energy logistics company. Prior to that, Mr. Bissell was a Partner of Northwest Capital Appreciation, Inc., a merchant banking and private equity firm, and before that, the Co-Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer of SLP Capital, a specialty finance company. Our Board believes that Mr. Bissell is qualified to serve as a director because of, among other things, his extensive corporate finance background and his general business and financial acumen. Mr. Bissell currently serves on the board of directors of Maxum Enterprises, LLC and previously served on the board of ASG Security, LLC, Maxum Petroleum, Inc., SLP Capital and SPI Petroleum, LLC, all private companies. Mr. Bissell also serves on a number of charitable boards.
William F Grieco, Director, has served as a director of Acadia since April 2011 and as a director of PHC since February 1997. Since 2008, Mr. Grieco has served as the Managing Director of Arcadia Strategies, LLC, a legal and business consulting organization servicing healthcare, science and technology companies. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of American Science and Engineering, Inc., an x-ray inspection technology company. From 2001 to 2002, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of IDX Systems Corporation, a healthcare information technology company. Previously, from 1995 to 1999, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fresenius Medical Care North America, a dialysis service and products company. Prior to that, Mr. Grieco was a partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart, a general service law firm. Since February 2011, Mr. Grieco has been a member of the board of directors of Echo Therapeutics Inc., a medical device and specialty pharmaceutical company. From February 1997 until November 2011, Mr. Grieco served as a member of the board of directors of PHC, Inc.
Allan B. Hubbard, Director, has served as a director of Acadia since April 2013. Mr. Hubbard is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of E&A Industries, Inc., a privately-held holding company which acquires and operates established manufacturing companies. Mr. Hubbard served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council during the George W. Bush administration. Prior to that he served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle and Executive Director of the President’s Council on Competitiveness during the George H.W. Bush administration. Our Board believes that Mr. Hubbard is qualified to serve as a director because of, among other things, his extensive government and economic policy experience and his knowledge ofand experience in the healthcare industry. Mr. Hubbard serves on the board of directors of Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE:SPG), a real estate investment trust, and PIMCO Equity Series and PIMCO Equity Series VIT, investment management companies. He previously served as a director of WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE:WLP), a managed healthcare company.
Kyle D. Lattner, Director, Director, has served as a director of Acadia since April 2013. Mr. Lattner is a Vice President of WCP and joined the firm in 2013. Prior to joining WCP, Mr. Lattner worked as an investment professional with American Securities LLC in New York from 2009 to 2011. Previously, Mr. Lattner was an investment banking analyst with each of Oppenheimer & Co. and CIBC World Markets in New York. Our Board believes that Mr. Lattner is qualified to serve as a director due to, among other things, his investment banking experience and financial acumen.
Wade D. Miquelon, Director, has served as a director of Acadia since January 2012. Since July 2009, Mr. Miquelon has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Walgreen Co (“Walgreens”). Mr. Miquelon joined Walgreens in June 2008 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Walgreens, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Tyson Foods, Inc. from 2006 to 2008. From 1989 to 2006, Mr. Miquelon served Procter & Gamble Co. (“P&G”) in a number of positions of increasing responsibility, most recently for three years as Vice President—Finance, Western Europe, the senior most financial officer responsible for the 17-country Western Europe operation. Among other positions during his tenure at P&G, Mr. Miquelon was the head of Finance and Accounting for the ASEAN, Australasia, and India region, served as Director and Investment Partner of I Ventures, a P&G venture capital fund, and co-founded and served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development/Human Resources of Emmperative, Inc., an enterprise marketing management software joint venture between P&G and other entities.
William M. Petrie, M.D., Director, is currently Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he has served for more than 20 years. He is also Director, Vanderbilt Senior Assessment Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Previously, Dr. Petrie served as President and Co-Director of Research at Psychiatric Consultants, P.C., a leading psychiatry practice in Nashville, TN and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Parthenon Pavilion at Centennial Medical Center. With 35 years experience in conducting clinical research trials, Dr. Petrie was the primary investigator for a substantial variety of clinical studies. In addition, Dr. Petrie is a noted researcher, who has published dozens of papers in numerous healthcare publications. Dr. Petrie served as a director for Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. from September 2004 until November 2010.
Hartley R. Rogers, Director, has served as a director of Acadia since April 2013. Mr. Rogers is the Chairman of Hamilton Lane Advisors, a global private equity investment firm. Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2004, Mr. Rogers was a Managing Director in the Private Equity Division at Credit Suisse First Boston. In that capacity, he served as a senior partner and member of the Investment Committee of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners III, a private equity fund, and as a co-head of CSFB Equity Partners, a private equity fund. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 1997, Mr. Rogers was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he was the President of the General Partners of the Princes Gate Investors family of private equity funds and Head of the Morgan Stanley Bridge Fund. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, Mr. Rogers worked at Morgan Stanley at various times and in various capacities from 1981 to 1997. Our Board believes that Mr. Rogers is qualified to serve as a director because of, among other things, his extensive finance background and his general business and financial acumen. Mr. Rogers has served on the board of directors of various private companies including Hamilton Lane Advisors and currently serves on the board of the Metropolitan Opera.
Bruce A. Shear, Executive Vice Chairman, joined Acadia in February 2011 and serves as a director of our Board and as our Executive Vice Chairman. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Shear served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of PHC since 1980 and Treasurer of PHC from September 1993 until February 1996. From 1976 to 1980, he served as Vice President, Financial Affairs, of PHC. Mr. Shear has served on the Board of Governors of the Federation of American Health Systems for over fifteen years and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems. Since November 2003, Mr. Shear has been a member of the Board of Directors of Vaso Active Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company marketing and selling over-the-counter pharmaceutical products that incorporate Vaso’s transdermal drug delivery technology.
Reeve B. Waud, Director, has served as a director of Acadia (and a manager of its predecessor Acadia Healthcare Company, LLC) since December 2005. Mr. Waud formed WCP in 1993 and has served as the Managing Partner of WCP since that time. Prior to founding WCP, Mr. Waud was an investment professional at Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (“GTCR”), a private equity investment group based in Chicago, Illinois. Before joining GTCR, Mr. Waud was in the Corporate Finance Group of Salomon Brothers, Inc. and was a founding member of its Venture Capital Group. Mr. Waud also serves as the controlling shareholder and/or chairman of the board of directors of Adreima, CarePoint Partners, Maxum Petroleum, True Partners Consulting, and Whitehall Products, all private companies. He also serves on the board of directors of Northwestern Memorial Foundation, the philanthropic arm that supports the fundraising, grant-making and stewardship activities of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (“NMHC”), and is a member of the NMHC Finance Committee. Mr. Waud currently serves as an advisor to Green Courte Partners, a private equity, real estate investment firm. In addition, Mr. Waud is a member of the Commonwealth Club of Chicago and is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago. He is a trustee of St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire and the John G. Shedd Aquarium. In addition, he serves on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.





