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Dr. Jeffrey Brooks currently serves as the Chief of Foot and Ankle Surgery at the Mineral Area Hospital Podiatric Residency Program and resides in St. Louis, Missouri. In addition, he is president of the Midwest Podiatry and Associates, LLC. He serves as a podiatric consultant to the foot healthcare division of Johnson & Johnson Professional, Inc., and to Payless ShoeSource. In 1999, Dr. Brooks founded “From the Heart and to the Sole” – an organization providing shoes to the underprivileged and disaster relief areas. He also designed the patented technology found in SmartFit™ and many other branded shoes of Payless ShoeSource, Inc.

Dr. Brooks is a member of the Missouri and the American Podiatry Medical Association. He is a diplomate with the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and the American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics. Dr. Brooks is also a fellow of the American College of Foot Orthopedics and the American College of Foot Surgeons, and served 2 terms as President of the American College of Foot Orthopedists, Midwest Division. Dr. Brooks has written for professional journals and has lectured throughout the world on a variety of podiatry topics.

Dr. Brooks is an accomplished life long inventor who has been granted a library of Utility and Design patents that redefine the categories of their focus and are the foundation for the current and future success of DBI.

Dr. Brooks earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Missouri in 1969 and his doctor of podiatric medicine from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine in 1974. He completed his residency training at Lindell Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri and has been a staff member of Washington University School of Medicine since 1976. He has also severed as adjunct faculty member of six Podiatric Colleges.

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Mr. Goldstein, a marketing specialist, recently sold his interest in the pioneering event marketing agency, Sports Etcetera, which he co-founded in 1979.

Specializing in the turnkey promotion of major sports and entertainment properties as well as the representation of Fortune 1000 companies pertinent to their event portfolios, Sports Etcetera enjoyed decades long representation agreements with Philip Morris, Unilever, Met Life, Merrill Lynch and other major multi-national corporations. Mr. Goldstein negotiated and executed, with legendary exactitude, over 1000 event sponsorship agreements with strategic rights holders including the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, PGA, LPGA, NCAA, ATP, WTA, Madison Square Garden, Kentucky Derby, The Academy Awards, Lincoln Center, Cirque du Soleil, New York Philharmonic, Tour de France, Wimbledon, and the Olympics.

As event principals, most notable was Sports Etcetera’s 20 year ownership and record breaking promotion of the Virginia Slims Championships, the culminating event on the women’s professional tennis circuit, which became the largest, annual, women’s sports property in the world.

An attorney by training, and member of the California Bar Association, Mr. Goldstein began his career as a class action litigator specializing in consumer related cases.

In the mid-70s he left the formal practice of law to pursue opportunities in sports and entertainment, first as General Sales Manager of Madison Square Garden’s college basketball program which included 25 separate doubleheaders, the ECAC Holiday Festival, and the NIT.

Mr. Goldstein then moved to the NBA, becoming the Executive Assistant to Commissioner Larry O’Brien, working principally on: the NBA/ABA merger; the landmark Oscar Robertson lawsuit litigation; and the development of the first model for the market-altering salary cap system.

Recruited by Billie Jean King, Mr. Goldstein subsequently became the General Manager of the New York Apples of World Team Tennis. Moving the franchise’s home matches to Madison Square Garden, he assembled a roster which included Ms. King, Virginia Wade, Vitas Gerulaitis, Mary Carillo and Fred Stolle; and which won the League Championship.

Mr. Goldstein graduated from the University of Rochester and from Boston College Law School, Summa Cum Laude. He lives 25 miles north of Manhattan in Westchester County in the bucolic hamlet of Pocantico Hills, with his ever understanding wife of many years, Deborah, and their horse crazy daughter Elizabeth.

Mr. Tuffin began his professional career in sales at Procter & Gamble in the spring of 1988. Over the next 20 years, he advanced continually through Corporate America assuming leadership positions in Sales, Brand Management, New Product Development, Acquisitions and Global Business Development. Mr. Tuffin’s perspective on business has been uniquely shaped in that his entrepreneurial spirit which created a strong real estate development company while in high school & college was then molded by management positions in Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Kraft General Foods and SC Johnson.

Prior to being named President of SC Johnson’s largest business unit outside the US, Mr. Tuffin reported directly to the CEO as Worldwide Director of Sales and took part in all strategic & commercialization initiatives for the corporation. Mr. Tuffin was integrally involved in opening the SC Johnson operation in Pakistan, Building their joint venture with Unilever in India, and went into Russia after the currency crisis to help stabilize the operation. He has spent significant time developing SC Johnson’s businesses in all Latin America, Asia and Europe which allows for a unique global perspective on business and life in general.

From March 2000 to December 2004 Mr. Tuffin lead the Canadian Company to year over year financial results that out performed all 72 SC Johnson subsidiaries 3 of the last 5 years and the in-market results outperformed the competitive set the last 4 years consecutively.

Mr. Tuffin’s life passion was to get back to creating value for himself and others around him as he did when he started his own successful company at an early age. As a result, in December 2004, he left SC Johnson and with signed LOI with the Clairvest Group to purchase the largest orthopedic consumer products leader in its space, ObusForme, and the emerging industry science leader Moller Back Support Systems, and created the new leader in the space, Integral Orthopedics Inc. As CEO since January 2005 with a solid equity position, Brian formed a solid executive team from his past global relationships and led the IOI company integration process; streamlined and improved the corporate margin profile by 12 percentage points; Acquired and out grew a majority owned production facility in Ningbo, China; Secured IOI rights to the world’s leading technology in the Orthopedic Sleep category; Established an industry leading medical platform under the Moller brand that has first mover advantage in a significantly underserved non-invasive orthopedic back market; and completed a North American Joint venture with Conair Corporation in a three year period. A strategic shift by the majority shareholder on the direction they wanted to take this company within their portfolio opened the door for Mr. Tuffin take an interim CEO role with DBI Inc., a fast emerging company with 2 business units driving industry leading product solutions for the podiatric physician channel and end consumer. In addition, Mr. Tuffin is the board advisor and corporate consultant for Healthy Home Products, a fast growing organic based, Consumer Products Company uniquely focused on infant and pet safety.

Mr. Tuffin has a dual BS degree from The Ohio State University and also is a proud Alumni of Harvard Business School.

Mr. Tuffin gets his competitive spirit from having played 2 years of varsity Ice Hockey and 3 years of varsity Football for The Ohio State University. Additionally, in 2003 & 2004 he played Major League Hockey in Ontario (OHL) with the Brantford Blast.

Today Mr. Tuffin is enjoying life with his wife Mary and 3 children in South Florida.

Jeanne Hebert began her professional career in Pharmaceutical Sales for Bristol Laboratories. Over the next 18 years, she advanced her career in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, working in sales and marketing capacities for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bayer Pharmaceutical, Merck & Co. and Integral Orthopedics Inc. Jeanne’s perspective on business was shaped at an early age by her family. Her grandfather was the inventor and owner of the Hebert Hose Clamp Company and her father founded and successfully managed Manhattan Pharmacy for 55 years. Jeanne’s strong work ethic and entrepreneurial interest were created at a young age as she worked in both companies understanding the family businesses.

During her tenure at Merck & Co., one of her primary responsibilities included providing direction on science-based content to support Merck’s strategic objectives in the Respiratory and Ophthalmology franchises. As a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, she created the scientific platform for the Respiratory Health Science organization. In addition to crafting compelling sales messages, program talk titles and objectives from the supporting science, her role involved identifying and engaging thought leaders (leading researchers and academicians), in peer level, scientific discussions in an effort to convert them to be advocates for Merck’s products.

Jeanne was named Vice President of Marketing and a member of the senior executive team when she joined Integral Orthopedics Inc. in 2005. As a shareholder in this the private equity backed Medical device company, Jeanne played a key role in defining corporate strategy in a corporate consolidation and start up environment on the medical side of the business. In her position, she developed and implemented the marketing platform to drive physician education and market penetration in the non-invasive orthopedic back care space. She advanced product innovation through development and into the commercialization phase for medical application. Additionally, Jeanne led aggressive corporate IP protection via case management, better designs and web protection strategies. She managed the process with internal and external overseas suppliers on product design and advanced prototyping of several new products.

Jeanne further designed and initiated internal and external clinical studies for Integral Orthopedics Inc. In this capacity, she worked with thought leaders of whom are most notable, Dr. Vinod Podichetty, Head of all Hospital Research at the Cleveland Clinic Florida. Jeanne worked with spine specialists to initiate the first of its kind clinical study and outlined a publication strategy. With significant positive results, she leveraged the outcomes in corporate communication materials to help advance the business. Jeanne also provided oversight on the testing of new products performed in IOI’s internal research facility which led favorable outcomes and the launch of several new products.

Jeanne graduated from Washington State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.

Currently, Jeanne is enjoying life in Florida with her husband Brian.

Greg is a success-driven business professional who has for the last 21 years built a successful career in driving business result in Fortune 500 businesses and private equity backed start up environments within the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer products industries. He has a proven track record in executive leadership developing new markets for innovative products. An articulate leader focused on bottom line results and a demonstrated ability to advance strategic objectives at all levels of an organization.

Greg started his career in sales with solid track records of performance and business expansion with Avery Dennison Corp., PepsiCo and Dunn & Bradstreet. In 1997 Greg was heavily recruited by Bayer and began his rise through in pharmaceutical sales driving business development of anti-invectives, blood pressure lowering and diabetic control medications. With his growing knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry Greg took an opportunity with Merck to train and build advocacy of their regional and national speakers. Along with his training of prominent thought leaders Greg also trained and lead sales for the launch of Singulair for allergic rhinitis. Greg held a seat on the Field Advisory Board working directly with Merck’s senior executive committee to improve in market effectiveness and go to market strategies. Greg was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for professional excellence in 2004 by the senior officers of Merck.

In 2005 Greg was named Vice President of Sales and a member of the senior executive team when he joined Integral Orthopedics Inc. As a shareholder in this private equity backed medical device company, Greg played a key role in defining corporate strategy in a corporate consolidation and start up environment on the medical side of the business. In his position Greg has not only developed physician and insurance executive partnerships by collaborating on the introduction of a new to the world technology but also he has built a solid sales team that established a pilot market while expanding the company’s footprint nationwide. The development of these relationships has been instrumental in inking major health care insurance contracts for full product coverage including Medicare. He led his team through the challenges of a corporate restructure to a more cohesive group that provided substantial growth for the medical division.

Greg received a Bachelor of Science degree and a minor in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1988 where he was a member of the varsity basketball team and was elected captain 1985-1988.

Today Greg is enjoying life with his wife Grace and 2 children in the Northwest.

Mr. Harris began his professional career in Consumer Products as a Sales Representative for American Home Products. Over the next 25 years he excelled through Sales, Marketing and General Management positions to become a leader in the industry. After 4 years in sales at American Home Products, Rick joined S C Johnson and held several key positions in Sales and Marketing as he advanced quickly through the organization. As National Sales Manager for SC Johnson’s US operation, Rick managed a 350 person direct sales force and over $1 billion in sales. Following his successful leadership of the sales organization Mr. Harris was appointed President & General Manager of Puerto Rico & Caribbean Operations based out of San Juan, PR. Under his leadership, the subsidiary delivered the highest Sales, Market Share and Profit growth since its inception and became the fastest growing operation.

In 2003, after 19 years at SC Johnson, Mr. Harris was recruited into another industry and accepted a position as Vice President of Sales for North America with Michelin, the Leading Tire Company Internationally. In this capacity Mr. Harris drove the implementation of newly defined corporate strategies to drive increased penetration within Independent retailers, car dealers, distributors, wholesalers and other major accounts across both the US and Canada. Today Michelin’s North American market performance continues to climb beyond historic levels which are a result of Rick’s leadership and ability to transfer learning across industries.

Mr. Harris is known for delivering business results and his passion for helping people to succeed. Leadership, people development, strategic planning, motivation, job enrichment and career development have always been high on his list. He has a reputation of developing strategic alliances with customers, improving product distribution in all classes of trade and delivering profitable business growth.

In August 2006 Mr. Harris started his own company RL Enterprise & Associates, LLC. The Company focuses on Business Development Consulting, and Executive Coaching & Recruiting. Major clients include Michelin, Rockwell Automation, TCI, Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Cytec, Integral Orthopedics, Inc., Baldor, Professional Services, Victory Personnel and several consumer product companies.

Rick is an Alumnus of The Ohio State University where he holds BS and MBA degrees from the Fisher School of Business.

Mr. Harris is a Rotary Member, on the board of the United Way and recently appointed by the Governor of the State of South Carolina and approved by the Senate to the Commission of Minority Affairs as Board Member and Chairperson.

Rick and his wife, Linda are the proud parents of three daughters. The oldest daughter a senior at The Ohio State University; the second a sophomore at UNC; and the youngest entering the 8th grade where he resides in Greenville, SC.