Board of Directors

Brent Guerisoli
Chairman of the Board

Brent Guerisoli was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective August 1, 2022. He previously served as the President of the Company from January 2021 until his appointment as CEO. He has served as a member of the Company’s board of directors since February 2023. Prior to his appointment as President of Pennant, Mr. Guerisoli served as President of Cornerstone Healthcare, Pennant’s home health and hospice segment, helping lead the segment through a period of transformational growth, breakout financial performance and enhanced clinical excellence. Since joining the Company in 2012, Mr. Guerisoli has made significant contributions to the financial, clinical, and cultural achievements of Cornerstone and has played a key role in the organization’s overall leadership recruiting and training. Throughout his tenure at Pennant, Mr. Guerisoli has developed dozens of leaders and directed the organization’s growth efforts across several states. Mr. Guerisoli received his Master of Business Administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Pennant, Mr. Guerisoli completed the executive training program and later served as a business manager at AT&T.

Barry M. Smith
Director
Barry M. Smith served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Magellan Health, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of behavioral health services and a leading national provider of radiology benefit management services, specialty pharmacy and prescription benefit management services, from 2013 until 2019. He founded and served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of VistaCare, Inc., a national provider of hospice services, from 1996 to 2002, and he served as Chairman of VistaCare in 2003. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Smith served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Value Rx, Inc., which was then one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit management companies and, prior to that, served as vice president of operations for PCS Health Systems, also a pharmacy benefit management firm. Mr. Smith has served as a member of the board of directors of Ensign since 2014. We believe Mr. Smith’s extensive experience as a proven and experienced leader in numerous healthcare businesses that are closely related to our businesses and his valuable strategic and other management insights support the conclusion that he should serve as one of our directors.
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Christopher R. Christensen
Director
Christopher R. Christensen currently serves as Ensign’s Executive Chairman. Mr. Christensen served as Ensign’s President from 1999 and its Chief Executive Officer from April 2006, both until May 2019. Mr. Christensen has served as a member of Ensign’s Board of Directors since forming Ensign in 1999. Prior to forming Ensign, Mr. Christensen served as acting Chief Operating Officer of Covenant Care, Inc., a California-based provider of long-term care. Mr. Christensen has overseen Ensign and its growth since its inception in 1999. Mr. Christensen served on the Board of Directors of CareTrust REIT from June 2014 to April 2015. We believe that Mr. Christensen’s important role in the history and management of Ensign and our company and his leadership and business skills support the conclusion that he should serve as one of our directors.
Member of the Quality Assurance and Compliance Committee
John G. Nackel, Ph.D.
Director
John G. Nackel, Ph.D. has served as a member of Ensign's Board of Directors since his election to its Board in June 2008. He is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Three-Sixty Advisory Group, LLC ("Three-Sixty") and Founder and General Partner of Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, LP ("Wavemaker 360") venture fund. Founded in 2007 by Dr. Nackel, Three-Sixty consults with leading health systems, payers, physicians, medical technology companies, and other providers. Founded in 2018, Wavemaker 360 invests in early-stage health care companies in the value-based payment space. Dr. Nackel is a 25-year veteran of Ernst & Young where he advised health care companies in his role as a Global Managing Director of Health Care. Dr. Nackel also served as CEO of Ingenix Consulting (now Optum), a division of United Healthcare. Dr. Nackel served as a director of Mercury General Corporation (NYSE:MCY) from 2016 until 2018. During his career, Dr. Nackel has also served as a board member or chairman of several privately held start-ups and emerging companies, including Visual Health Solutions, Vitalacy, HealthTask, ConnectedHealth, NetStrike, and Sertan, Inc. He earned his bachelor's degree at Tufts University, master's degrees in public health and industrial engineering at the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering (health systems design) at the University of Missouri. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. We believe that Dr. Nackel’s extensive experience as a consultant and an advisor to healthcare companies, his extensive board and management experience and his valuable leadership and management insights support the conclusion that he should serve as one of our directors.
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Stephen M. R. Covey
Director
Stephen M. R. Covey has been Chief Executive Officer of CoveyLink since 2004, and is co-founder of FranklinCovey’s Speed of Trust Practice, where he has taught trust and leadership in 52 countries to business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Mr. Covey is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Covey Leadership Center, where he grew the company to become one of the largest leadership development firms in the world. He is the former Executive Vice President of the Franklin Covey Co., where he also served as President of the Education & Training business unit. Mr. Covey is The New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust and is co-author of the #1 Amazon bestseller Smart Trust. Mr. Covey received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Covey serves on the Government Leadership Advisory Council, and he has been recognized with the lifetime Achievement Award for “Top Thought Leaders in Trust” from the advocacy group, Trust Across America/Trust Around the World. We believe that Mr. Covey's extensive expertise in leadership development and proven track record of educating and helping business leaders achieve their organizational goals supports the conclusion he should serve as one of our directors.
Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Scott E. Lamb
Director
Scott E. Lamb has served as the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of ICU Medical, Inc.—a company that develops, manufactures, and sells medical technologies used in vascular therapy, oncology, and critical care applications—since February 2008. From 2003 to February 2008, Mr. Lamb served as ICU Medical’s Controller. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Lamb served as Senior Director of Finance for Vitalcom, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Lamb held various finance and accounting roles at other start-up and manufacturing companies. Mr. Lamb's experience as a Chief Financial Officer of a public company for over a decade supports the conclusion that he should serve as one of our directors.
Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Gregory K. Morris
Director
Mr. Morris is a partner in MorrisHuml LLC—a consultancy that supports Fortune 1000 firms across industry sectors—where his areas of focus include strategy implementation, strategic alignment, prospective risk mitigation and shaping culture through action learning. Prior to MorrisHuml, he was a partner at Morris & Gunter Associates, LLC. He was senior vice president for strategy and business development for Advocate Health Care, as well as Vice President of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and Senior Partner at Ernst & Young. His insurance experience includes serving as senior vice president health care delivery and corporate medical director for Blue Cross and Blue Shield National Capital Area, Eastern Region Medical Director for MetLife and Medical Director for CIGNA Healthcare of Georgia. He achieved the rank of Major with the Army National Guard/U.S. Army and was awarded the Bronze Star. Mr. Morris graduated from Morehouse College and received his MD from Emory University School of Medicine.
Chair of the Quality Assurance and Compliance Committee
Suzanne D. Snapper
Director

Suzanne D. Snapper is the Chief Financial Officer of the Ensign Group, Inc. (“Ensign”) (NASDAQ: ENSG), a leading publicly-traded provider of skilled nursing services. In this role, which Ms. Snapper has held since 2009, Ms. Snapper is responsible for Ensign’s accounting, finance, information technology, tax, internal controls, investor relations, managed care, treasury and finance risk management functions. During her tenure, Ms. Snapper has helped Ensign generate significant shareholder value, including through multiple spin-offs that have met marketplace needs and benefited shareholders. Ms. Snapper has served as a member of Ensign’s board of directors since 2022. Prior to Ensign, Ms. Snapper acquired additional invaluable experience in financial management and reporting while employed at KPMG from 1996 to 2007. Ms. Snapper is a certified public accountant.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee