ACG has assembled an Advisory Board comprised of esteemed industry and professional experts on Benefit Planning and Management, Risk Management, Legal, Financial and Compliance matters to support ACG management and consultants. Advisory Board members include:

Raymond J. Brusca, Vice President, Black & Decker Corporation
Richard C. Goff, President, MIMS International
Thomas J. Graham, M.D.
Fred F. Nazem, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, Flagship Patient Advocates
Earl S. Wellschlager, Esquire, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
A.A.Windesheim, CPA, KAWG&F, P.A.

Raymond J. Brusca, Vice President, Black & Decker Corporation

Mr. Brusca is Chairman and President for Black & Decker Healthcare Management, Inc. and Vice President of Benefits for Black & Decker Corporation, a Maryland based company (www.blackanddecker.com). He is responsible for the design, compliance, communication, implementation and administration of all welfare and retirement benefits for all U.S. based employees and retirees. Mr. Brusca is a nationally recognized expert in the employee benefits and executive compensation fields, with a specialty in the area of innovative health benefits design, administration, and funding. He currently serves as Commissioner for the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. He is also an active member of International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, Society for Human Resource Management and W.E.B.

Mr. Brusca holds a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law (1984) and a B.S. in Political Science from Towson State University (1980). A frequent national speaker, Mr. Brusca has served on the Board of Directors of the Washington Business Group on Health, the American Accreditation Healthcare Commission/Utilization Review Accreditation Commission, Epilepsy Foundation of the Chesapeake Region, GBMC Healthcare Inc., St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, and the Boy Scouts of America/Baltimore Area Council.

Richard C. Goff, President, MIMS International

Dick Goff serves as President of MIMS International, Ltd., (www.mimsintl.com). MIMS designs, markets and manages innovative value-added insurance products and program. Creative innovation has been the guiding principle of Mr. Goff’s professional life in the insurance industry. Since 1968 as producer, underwriter, manager, and broker for firms in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and for the last 15 years as a senior executive of The Taft Companies, he has devised new and beneficial risk funding and management methodologies.

Mr. Goff is a highly esteemed expert on risk management issues and has held industry leadership positions as the co-chairman of ASAE's Board's Associate Member Committee's Technology Subcommittee; and sits on the Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) Government Relations Committee. He was a Founding Director of the South Carolina Captive Insurance Association and the Captive Insurance Council of the District of Columbia, of which he is still a Director.

Mr. Goff is on the Board of Directors of eMERGE, a 501(c)(3) organization that serves people with developmental disabilities. He is a past Trustee of Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.

Thomas J. Graham, M.D.

Dr. Thomas J. Graham is a renowned Hand Surgeon who serves as the Chief of the Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Union Memorial Hospital and is an Associate Professor of both Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery at Johns Hopkins.

Graham has published numerous articles on almost all aspects of hand and upper extremity surgery, lectured widely around the world, and edited several books. His special expertise in complex upper extremity reconstructive problems, sophisticated elbow surgery, work with children affected by trauma or congenital differences and care of the athlete’s hand is sought by patients from all over the world.

He is among the youngest doctors ever chosen for inclusion in the prestigious publications, Woodward & White’s Best Doctors in America and Castle Connelly’s Best Doctors. He is perhaps best known for his work with professional athletes and sports organizations, as he serves on the medical staff of the Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Flyers and is the Medical Director of the Washington Nationals, as well as being the Hand Surgery Consultant for many other teams, leagues and agencies.

A graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts, Dr. Graham received his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and then served his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Graham completed his fellowship in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery at the Indiana Hand Center and his elbow training at the Mayo Clinic. He is Board Certified in Orthopaedic Surgery, and holds a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand. He has been inducted into fellowship of the American Orthopaedic Association, the specialty’s highest academic honor.

He completed the Executive Management Curriculum in Health Care Administration jointly sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and The Weatherhead School of Case Western Reserve University, while he was the Clinic’s Director of its Hand & Upper Extremity Division. In addition to his administrative duties related to the Congressionally-designated National Hand Center, he is Director of MedStar SportsHealth, the sports operations division of the mid-Atlantic’s largest healthcare system.

Fred F. Nazem Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, Flagship Patient Advocates

Fred Nazem is the CEO and Co-Founder of Flagship Patient Advocates. He also serves as Chairman of the Board. Flagship is a physician-founded, membership-based, private medical group dedicated to obtaining the highest level of advocacy and support for members' healthcare needs. Mr. Nazem is an entrepreneur and corporate architect, with more than successful 25 years building many companies from start-up or early-stage strategy to multi-billion-dollar enterprises such as Oxford Health Plans, Cirrus Logic and Genesis Health Ventures. He has also led the turnaround of many distressed companies.

Mr. Nazem has a BS in Biochemistry, an MS in Physical Chemistry, and an MBA in Finance and has done doctoral work in Nuclear Physics. He serves on the Science and Technology Advisory Board of Columbia Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council, and through the Nazem Family Foundation has supported many civic, educational and healthcare-related causes.

Earl S. Wellschlager, Partner, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP

Sam Wellschlager is Partner in the law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP (www.dlapiper.com). He has a business law practice and focuses on closely held companies and shareholder dispute resolution. He currently serves as outside general counsel to approximately twenty-five domestic companies, both publicly and privately held, and represents the U.S. interests of several foreign corporations.

Mr. Wellschlager has lectured extensively in the areas of estate and financial planning, and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Law School and the University of Baltimore School of Law. He serves on the boards of several companies, including Phoenix Color Corp and Webb/Mason, Inc. For several years, Mr. Wellschlager served on the judging panel of the Baltimore/Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He is the past Chairman of the W. S. Baer Board Corporation, the holding company for Children’s Hospital in Baltimore City, Maryland.

Alfred A. Windesheim, CPA, Shareholder, KAWG&F, P.A.

Al Windesheim, CPA is a shareholder with the accounting and consulting firm Katz, Abosch, Windesheim, Gershman & Freedman, P.A. (www.kawgf.com) in Timonium, Maryland. He joined the firm in 1972 and has substantial experience representing a client base of closely held businesses and professional corporations. For more than 30 years, Mr. Windesheim has provided tax and accounting services for his clients while expanding the firm’s regional presence.

Mr. Windesheim is a graduate of the University of Baltimore with a bachelor’s degree in accounting with continued educational studies at Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland School of Law, Miami Tax Institute, and New York University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts and the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants.