Corporate Team – (from left to right)

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Trey White — Founder & Chairman Follow Trey on Twitter

Mr. White’s philosophy is defined by investing in forward-thinking solutions with an eye toward technology and first-to-market advantages. He was born a third-generation entrepreneur in Dallas. Understanding that being first to market is a huge advantage, he directed energy toward achievements that positioned him ahead of competitors in emerging markets. To date, he has placed capital of more than $1.5B into companies he founded or co-founded.

Mr. White co-founded NewHomeSearch, a revolutionary electronic real estate listing service for Realtors® and new home builders, gained 100% penetration in the Dallas market within two years of inception and grew to ten markets with an innovative client-server-based application. NewHomeSearch, renamed HomeBuilder.com in 1996, created the first Internet portal for searching real estate listings, quickly expanded to seventy-five markets and became the official Web site of the National Association of Homebuilders. Mr. White oversaw the merger of HomeBuilder.com with Realtor.com and participated in taking the two companies public as HomeStore.com, raised $800M in two offerings, drove stock to $160 per share and resulted in a $9B market cap at its peak.

In 2002 Mr. White began investing in multi-phased, single-family, residential developments and, in 2003, provided the start-up capital to form Marlin Atlantis. This new entity, under the direction of an outstanding management team, took advantage of low interest rates and strong residential housing markets in Texas. To date, Marlin Atlantis has entitled and/or developed eighteen residential communities, including five master-planned developments in major Texas markets. The enterprise has deployed more than $200M in capital and is one of the largest residential community developers in Texas, with more than 20,000 single family lots in inventory.

Also in 2003, Mr. White founded White Energy, a company funded to take advantage of the high cost of oil, reduce dependence on foreign oil, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels by building destination, fuel-grade, ethanol plants. In 2005, White Energy received its air permit to build in Texas. The first new facility created a destination plant trend that continues today in Texas, California, New York, Colorado, Kansas and Florida. White Energy produces 280M gallons of ethanol in three facilities, the fifth-largest US producer and the largest Texas refiner of fuel grade ethanol. To date, White Energy has deployed over $500M into renewable energy investments. Mr. White sold his interests in White Energy in 2007.

Mr. White has created and pioneered markets using a best-of-breed management team methodology as he leads several organizations, charitable as well as for-profit, against which other companies and efforts are measured. His mental and physical cornerstones for success include surrounding himself with smart, experienced, respected individuals at the top of their industries. He and his associates possess the ability to take measured risks, cultivate instincts for emerging markets, and demonstrate the acute market-awareness necessary for properly timed exits. He considers these aspects of business acumen “simple rules for a complex world, instrumental in stacking odds toward the probability of success.”

Brent Hicks — Chief Executive Officer Follow Brent on Twitter

Brent Hicks has more than 15 years of leading and building sales organizations in the real estate finance industry. Mr. Hicks’s vision includes a focus on using technology in back office systems and creative cutting-edge marketing campaigns. He is known as an industry leader for refining a series of systems and automated processes that revolutionized the origination business. Mr. Hicks was the chief architect of the technology that drove automated marketing and underwriting that allowed real time status updates to all clients and affinity partners.

Mr. Hicks was ranked nationally by Mortgage Originator Magazine for the last 7 years as one of the top 50 Loan originators in the country. He led an elite group in 2008 that resulted in a pinnacle in his career with over 1 billion dollars in personal production. During this time, he led his team to their best collective years of production during one of the most difficult years in real estate finance. His achievements have been featured in M.O.M., Broker Magazine and Dallas Business Journal. His results are a testament to his marketing and execution prowess. Mr. Hicks ranked 13th out of 400,000 originators in 2007.

Mr. Hicks helped grow Meridias Capital to the 6th fastest privately held company (US) according to INC magazine with 3 billion in annual origination. His strategic approach to building and executing business initiatives was reflected in his work at the helm of City Mortgage Group.

Mr. Hicks’s exceptional track record in the real estate finance industry is based on his philosophy of leading by example and creating a corporate culture and vision that is accountability based. His vision and focus on a culture-minded organization has set the tone for EvolvHealth, LLC to become the next billion dollar direct marketing company.

Joshua Higginbotham — President Follow Josh on Twitter

Joshua Higginbotham’s business acumen showed itself at an early age. While just 20 years of age, Mr. Higginbotham co-founded his first company in Atlanta, GA building homes. With a few other partners Mr. Higginbotham, only a year later, he began CDS, Inc. and The Piedmont Foundation, two companies focused on development in Section 8 housing in 5 states around the Southeast. After 3 years Mr. Higginbotham was leading a team of almost 100 employees and had partnerships with Boston Capital, Kauffman Broad, Lehman Brothers and other large financial institutions. As President and CEO of these companies Mr. Higginbotham quickly learned that no idea is bigger than the team. These early business experiences have ingrained Mr. Higginbotham with the belief that if you build the Team, the Team will build the business.

While running CDS and the Piedmont Foundation Mr. Higginbotham began looking for ways to invest and start companies in the Internet space. Over the next 7 years, from 1997 – 2004 he created Inspire Partners. As head of this investment group Mr. Higginbotham started, invested in and lead 5 successful Internet and technology focused companies.

In 2001 Mr. Higginbotham co-founded ManyOne Networks, a non-profit organization that set out to build a truly semantic Internet experience that focused on learning and information. His leadership and guidance helped to land investment of close to $20 Million and partnerships with Encyclopedia Britannica, Nasa, The Planetary Society, as well as leading tech companies and media outlets.

Also, in 2001 Mr. Higginbotham started Matchbin, the dating service for your stuff. As CEO of Matchbin, Mr. Higginbotham raised over $3 Million in a series A round of funding. He was able to build a team of designers and programmers that were at the forefront of Social Networking and online commerce. Today,Matchbin, continues to be a leader in online classified ads and provides a platform where a growing number of local newspapers are able to compete with eBay and Craigslist in the classified ad space.

The convergence of his talents as a forward-thinking leader guided him toward work as a consultant for a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded network-marketing company, where he fell in love with the direct sales business model. Over the past 6 years he has been a top distributor and student of the industry. In a few short years he has become a sought after designer of compensation plans, training systems and marketing leader. He also has considerable field experience working “in the trenches” as a Distributor, which has given him a profound understanding of what it takes to enjoy success in this industry.

In late 2009 Mr. Higginbotham became the President of XOWii, a successful startup, and, with James Christiansen, lead the company to $15 Million in revenue in their first 18 months in business. In early 2011, Mr. Higginbotham was instrumental in completing a successful merger EvolvHealth and now passionately serves as the President of Evolv. Mr. Higginbotham oversees sales, marketing, and training for EvolvHealth and can always be found working with his partners the Members of Evolv.

Dr. Anne Bodak Smith B.S., D.C. — Chief Science Officer Follow Anne on Twitter

Anne has a diverse background, having achieved the highest levels of success in athletics, health and business.

Anne was a national-level athlete in swimming, setting Canadian Junior Level records that have not yet been broken. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from the University of Ottawa, and graduated summa cum laude with a Doctorate in Chiropractic from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia. Anne has worked with professional and amateur athletes alike as well as with the general public specializing in wellness and weight management programs.

Anne was introduced to network marketing in her twenties while she was completing her undergraduate degree in Ottawa. She discovered a passion and talent for it, and spent over twelve years as a field leader, achieving the highest rank possible in the company by the age of 30. During her time in the field, she developed and maintained an organization of representatives and leaders that generated millions of dollars in sales, earning her admission into both the Millionaire’s Club and the President’s Club. Having distinguished herself in this way, Anne was approached by the company’s leaders and asked to leave the field and work at the corporate level. No one had ever been offered this type of promotion in the company’s 35-year history. Anne wholeheartedly accepted. As the Director of Sales for North America, she introduced systems and programs that created significant results during her three years at the corporate level, during which time she was also head-hunted by several other top network marketing companies.

It was at this time that Anne realized she was looking for a new challenge outside the networking Industry. During a two-month vacation traveling through Canada, Anne was introduced to Trey White and the Evolv team. She quickly realized that Evolv was very different, and that she had found the challenge she was looking for.

Anne is excited to bring to the table her diverse background, her superlative education, her field and corporate networking experience, and especially her passion and enthusiasm for her work, so that she can help everyone succeed here at Evolv.

Justin White — Chief Information Officer

Mr. White is the Chief Information Officer for Evolv. He has extensive experience working in information technology and real estate finance. He began his career at John T. Evans Company, a commercial real estate brokerage firm. While at the John T. Evans Company, he facilitated real estate purchases and leases for numerous national restaurant and retail organizations. Mr. White also redesigned the market plan and managed all of the public information for the firm.

In 2007, he migrated to Marlin Atlantis, one of the largest master-planned community developers in Texas. He managed finance for multiple master-planned communities and helped improve budgeting and forecasting. He later took on multiple roles as an Asset Manager and the Director of Information and Technology systems. While at Marlin Atlantis, Mr. White has implemented multiple systems to streamline the document management and productivity of the company. He deployed and managed a document management system and implemented a new email archiving service to streamline the document search and backup of files and email.

Justin brings extensive experience and knowledge in information and technology systems to the team. He manages the back office systems and website modifications. Justin will also be involved in the design and deployment of the customer service systems. Mr. White has a BBA in Real Estate/Finance from Southern Methodist University.

Susan Rogers – Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Rogers has over 20 years of accounting experience. She began her career at Ernst & Young and has subsequently managed all aspects of the accounting function in various industries including healthcare, hospitality and professional services. Her experience encompasses both publicly traded and privately held companies. Before joining Marlin Atlantis, she served as the Controller of Strasburger & Price, LLP before being promoted to CFO. Ms. Rogers holds a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Kevin Keranen, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing

A graduate of the University of Oregon, Kevin Keranen is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in both start up and large enterprises. With over 25 years of experience in the direct selling industry, Kevin has contributed as a distributor, executive, and consultant. He has held positions overseeing operations, marketing, new product development, international expansion, and financial transactions. For the past five years, he has been a global consultant for direct selling companies, creating software systems to increase revenues in an ever-changing technology age.

As an entrepreneur, Mr. Keranen has developed and launched www.k2click.com , a social media and SEO promotional firm. Mr. Keranen has designed full client specifications and details building web sites, content development, and logo development and collateral materials. K2click also helps people with promotion via social networking projects for companies on Twitter and Facebook in addition to private label social networks. Mr. Keranen has also assembled a team of professionals in K2click that help websites perform better via Search Engine Optimization.

Mr. Keranen held a position as Chief Operations Officer of Cprime USA. Mr. Keranen created and launched rebrand of corporate identity embracing the celebrity relationships and highlighting the product profile. Additionally Mr. Keranen performed a full software platform conversion to run host and maintain their entire back office infrastructure.

Mr. Keranen also held the position of Chief Operations Officer with Idebit Asia, a global software / Internet payment company. The company specialized in creating software solutions for direct sales and large corporate organization to track and pay their distributors and representatives around the world. Living abroad for over a year Mr. Keranen traveled Asia demonstrating the systems and consulting organizations in building, growing and maintaining their network organizations.

Mr. Keranen served as the President/Chief Operations Officer and was instrumental in the sale of Health Inventions to public company Medifast in September 2003. The dramatic growth of the Medifast story is due in part to the millions of dollars in sales and thousands of customers that Mr. Keranen and his associates created through their sales organization efforts. Nearly 82% of the increase in growth since October 2001 is generated from the system and sales leader created by Mr. Keranen.

Elena Hall – Vice President International Operations

Elena Hall has over 22 years of MLM experience in various positions. As one of the first employees at NuSkin International, Hall spent 18 years with the company growing its Legal and International departments. Hall has contributed to the industry in various positions including commissions and compliance, sales, international development, and legal. As Director of Legal Affairs at MonaVie, Hall resolved high profile litigations for the company. Hall has also managed compliance in all markets and international legal matters, including the opening and launching of new markets. Hall relishes the opportunity to work in the MLM industry and her abilities to be proactive and align with distributors make her an exceptional fit to the EvolvHealth team.

James Christiansen – Principal / Field Leader

In 1999 James Christiansen started his career in Orange County, California as a commercial real estate broker focusing on the sale and leasing of owner occupied and investment properties. Mr. Christiansen quickly rose to one of the dominant forces in the North Orange County market place, and became the youngest partner in the history of Ashwill Associates Commercial Real Estate. In 2001 Mr. Christiansen was recruited to Premier Commercial Bank, N.A., a start up bank located in Anaheim, California and became the youngest Vice President in the companies subsequent 10 year history. In 2004 Mr. Christiansen’s forward and unique thinking birthed Premier Commercial Capital, Inc., a sales division which was contracted with the mother bank itself. Acting as President, Premier Commercial Capital, Inc. became the driving force, and over whelming majority producer of fee income for Premier Commercial Bank, N.A. for many years running.

In 2007, Mr. Christiansen working part time after hours and on weekends, became a distributor in the direct selling industry and quickly rose to the Diamond rank inside of six months. Seeing an opportunity to utilize his financial success in the banking industry, Mr. Christiansen decided to launch his own direct selling company, XOWii LlC, in late 2009 with Josh Higginbotham acting as President by his side. XOWii was ranked as one of the fastest growing direct selling start up companies in 2010, with sales in excess of 15 million, and Mr. Christiansen was featured in numerous industry periodicals such as Success From Home, Obtainer Worldwide, and Prosper Magazine. Identifying a strategic opportunity in late 2010, Mr. Christiansen and Mr. Higginbotham successfully merged XOWii with Evolv Health.

Currently Mr. Christiansen serves as a field leader and acting promoter of the e84 Challenge, helping to guide company culture, sales, and messaging.


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