13D Filing: Krensavage Asset Management, Llc and Rti Surgical, Inc. (RTIX)

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(c)           The principal business of each of Krensavage Partners and Krensavage Partners Too is investing in securities. The principal business of Krensavage Advisors is serving as the general partner of Krensavage Partners. The principal business of Krensavage Advisors Too is serving as the general partner of Krensavage Partners Too. The principal business of Krensavage Asset Management is serving as the investment manager of each of Krensavage Partners and Krensavage Partners Too. The principal occupation of Mr. Krensavage is serving as the managing member of Krensavage Asset Management.   The principal occupation of Mr. Goldberg is serving as Chair of the Board of Directors of MModal IP LLC, a provider of service-based and technology-based transcription, coding, and clinical documentation-improvement services to health care systems, and as Co-Chair of Surgical Specialties Corporation, which supplies blades and wound-closure devices to support the surgical suite as well as OEM products to most of the world’s largest medical device companies.  The principal occupation of Mr. Lehrich is serving as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Investor Relations of American Renal Associates, Inc., a national provider of dialysis services.  The principal occupation of Mr. Stolper is serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of RadNet, Inc., a national provider of freestanding, fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services in the U.S. based on number of locations and annual imaging revenue.  Mr. Stolper also serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of On Track Innovations, Ltd., a developer and marketer of contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions, and Surgical Solutions, LLC, a provider of minimally invasive surgical support and equipment.  The principal occupation of Mr. Williams is serving as Senior Vice President and Senior Managing Director of Acquisitions for Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust focusing exclusively on providing capital to acute care facilities.
(d)           No Reporting Person has, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).
(e)           No Reporting Person has, during the last five years, been party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
(f)           Messrs. Krensavage, Goldberg, Lehrich, Stolper, and Williams are citizens of the United States of America.
Item 4.
Purpose of Transaction.
Item 4 is hereby amended to add the following:
On April 12, 2016, Krensavage Partners (together with its affiliates, “Krensavage”) delivered a letter to the Issuer (the “Supplemental Letter”) supplementing Krensavage’s February 19, 2016 letter to the Issuer nominating four highly qualified nominees for election to the Board at the 2016 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”).  In the Supplemental Letter, Krensavage notified the Issuer of its substitution of Darren P. Lehrich for former nominee John S. Watts Jr., as one of Krensavage’s nominees for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting.  Krensavage believes Mr. Lehrich is well qualified to serve on the Board, as evidenced by his biography below, given his relevant credentials and industry experience.
Darren P. Lehrich has served as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Investor Relations of American Renal Associates, Inc. (“ARA”), a national provider of dialysis services, since July 2015. Prior to ARA, Mr. Lehrich served as Managing Director in the Health Care Providers Equity Research Team at Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB), a global banking and financial services company, from May 2005 to July 2015. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Lehrich served as Managing Director and Senior Analyst covering the Health Care Services sector at Piper Jaffray & Co, a subsidiary of the investment banking and asset management firm Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE:PJC), from 2004 to 2005. He also served as a Senior Health Care Analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., an investment banking firm, from 2001 to 2004, and at ING Barings Furman Selz LLC, a securities firm, from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Lehrich began his career at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he served in practice management roles in the Ambulatory Care Division, from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Lehrich earned his MBA in Finance from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and a B.S. in Healthcare Policy and Administration from the Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Lehrich was Nashville Health Care Council Fellow (2015), and a recipient of the Penn State Alumni Achievement Award (2007).

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