American Shared Hospital Services
Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 3700
San Francisco, CA 94111
Tel: 415-788-5300 or 800-735-0641
Fax: 415-788-5660
Our Executive Officers and Board of Directors have over 100 years of healthcare experience.
American Shared's founder, Dr. Bates has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since the company's incorporation. A board-certified neurosurgeon, he is currently Emeritus Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Johns Hopkins University and serves on the Board of Visitors of the John Hopkins Medical Center and the John Hopkins Neurosurgery Advisory Board. He serves on the boards of the University of Rochester, FasterCures and the Salzburg Global Seminar. Dr. Bates was appointed to the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth and the Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel. From 1981-1987 he was a member of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and he served on the California High Speed Rail Authority from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Bates is a member of the Board of Overseers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing. He is a trustee of the Museum of the African Diaspora and a member of the Brookings and Milken Institutes. Dr. Bates is a partner in Black Coyote Wines. He is a graduate of the School of Arts and Sciences of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Mr. Tagawa joined American Shared in 1988 and has served as its Chief Operating Officer since 1999 and Chief Financial Officer since 1992. Additionally, he is GK Financing's Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Tagawa is the former Chair of the Industrial Policy Advisory Committee of the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Cornell University.
Mr. Bates, Vice President of Sales and Business Development since January 2007, previously served as an American Shared Director from 2004 until January 2007. He was Managing Director, Institutional Fixed Income Sales of HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. from 2003 to 2006 and was Managing Director, Head of Asian Product for HSBC from 1999 to 2003. From 1993 through 1999, Mr. Bates held various positions with Merrill Lynch, last serving as Vice President, European Syndicate for Merrill Lynch International. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and an MBA from The Wharton Business School, and is the son of Founder Dr. Ernest A. Bates.
Mr. Houck, Vice President and Controller, has been with American Shared in various positions since 1987. He joined the Company when it acquired Curacare, Inc., which specialized in diagnostic imaging, respiratory therapy, and biomedical services. Mr.Houck started with Curacare in 1986 as Assistant Controller after serving as Controller for a regional franchise restaurant operation, Controller for a sign manufacturing company, and General Accounting Manager for Denny's, Inc., an international restaurant operation. He is a graduate of California State University Fullerton and received a Certificate of Management Accounting in 1979.
Mr. Barnes is Corporate Secretary for American Shared and served as a Director from 1984 to 2004. He is currently a Partner of Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP. Formerly he was a Senior Partner of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips. From 1975 to 1979, he served as Commissioner of Corporations, the state regulatory agency responsible for administering laws regulating specified financial institutions, including credit unions, industrial loan companies, consumer finance lenders, and commercial finance lenders, the California Corporate Securities Law and the Franchise Investment Law. He was a Director of Franchise Finance Corporation of America from 1994 to 2001 and a Director of Spirit Finance Corporation from 2003 to 2007 and chaired its Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Barnes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California in 1953 and a law degree from the UCLA Law School in 1959.
Chairman
Mr. Robison has been an American Shared Director since 2003. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Salzburg Seminar from 1991 to 2005 and President of Middlebury College from 1975 to 1990 and is currently President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of that institution. Additionally, Mr. Robison is a Director of The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund and AMCAP (all of the American Funds Group) and is a former member of the Council (Board) of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University.
Mr. Ruffle has been an American Shared Director since 1995. He retired in 1993 as Vice-Chairman of the Board and a Director of J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated and Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. He is a Trustee Emeritus of The Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Ruffle graduated from The Johns Hopkins University, has an MBA in finance from Rutgers University, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mr. Stachowiak joined the Board of Directors in 2009, becoming the fifth member of the Board and the fourth outside Director. He founded Shared Imaging in 1994 with the purchase of the assets of Shared Imaging Partners, L.P. He has served as President and Chairman since its inception. In December 1999, he acquired Advanced Healthcare Resources, Inc. of Iowa. Together these entities comprise Shared Imaging, LLC. Shared Imaging, LLC is a preferred independent provider of CT, MRI and PET/CT equipment and services. He received his undergraduate degree in Business from Indiana University in 1979 and received an MBA from Indiana University in 1985. Mr. Stachowiak has CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CPIM (Certification in Production and Inventory Management) and CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) certifications.
Mr. Trotman has been an American Shared Director since 1996. He retired in 2000 as a Managing Director with the Health Care Group of PaineWebber Incorporated, an investment banking firm. Mr. Trotman was with PaineWebber since 1995 following its consolidation with Kidder, Peabody, also an investment banking firm, and since 1990 had co-directed Kidder, Peabody's Health Care Group. Prior to this position, he headed the Health Care Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. where he had been employed for approximately 22 years. Mr. Trotman received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1965 and obtained an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1967.
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