John Lewis:  

CLASS OF 1964
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Kirtland, OH
Conant High SchoolClass of 1967
Hoffman estates, IL

John's Story

I am retired and live with my wife,Trish, in our great home on the edge of the open space in Boulder. We ride our bikes 9 months of the year, and trade in our bikes to ski (downhill and x-country) during the winter, which we spend in Snowmass, near Aspen. Being active and staying fit is important to both of us, as is being outside. (Trish is an athlete, too. She was Ohio Women's State Champion in racquetball, as well as 2nd in the nation for women age 30 to 35.) We also travel a bit, enjoy good (and healthy) food and wine, friends, and slow-time together. I remain a committed reader, too. Our most exciting trip was a trek to Everest base camp in Nepal in 1999. We have also been to Europe a number of times, and especially love Italy and Provence, where we enjoy the countryside, biking and walking, and touring and tasting at wineries. Professionally, I was a serial entrepreneur in health care services, co-founding three national, venture-capital financed, post-acute care companies: Advanced Rehabilitation Resources (ARRI), Intensiva Healthcare, and Centerre Healthcare. All were, at the time, the preeminent companies in the country in their niches. I served as COO of the first two companies, and as CEO of the third. Intensiva was publicly traded before be...Expand for more
ing acquired by Select Medical in 1998. Centerre has had a successful exit since the last reunion. The Company was acquired by Kindred. I was also involved in 3 other start-ups, including RehabCare Corp, where I served as COO twice. The business models of all the companies were based on parntering, in one way or another (varying from contract management to full joint ventures), with general acute care hospitals. I kept my hand in, professionally, for awhile as an investor and Director for Emerge Medical, a medical device company based in Denver. Emerge was acquired by Cardinal Healthcare after the 50th reunion. John Marotta, Trish's and my nephew, and my sister Lynn's and brother-in-law Justin's, second son, was a co-founder and CEO of Emerge and quarterbacked the successful exit. John remains an enormously talented executive. It's been a lot of fun supporting John as he grows professionally and personally. I have both a bachelors and a masters degree from Ohio University in Athens. My professional educational training was in the behavioral sciences, specifically, community counseling. The behavioral sciences have played a critical role in my life.(I have frequently said that they helped me grow up--but that, after all, remains a work-in-progress.)
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