Meet our team

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Kevin W. Massengill is the Executive Chairman of Meraglim Holdings Corporation​, a  professional, scientific, and technical investment holding company, and the CEO of Raven Predictive Analytics® a patent-pending enterprise SaaS combining AI, complexity science, and human intelligence for institutional investors and corporate leaders. He is also the Managing Director of Massengill Advisory LLC, a Florida-based business consultancy and family office managing investments in hard assets and private equity. 

Massengill is currently the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board for several acquisition-focused QLA investment holding companies: Brighter Electrical, Caliburn Capital, EVI Holdings, Huntingstone Partners, Impact Holdings, NorthStar Essential Holdings, Optimized Growth Holdings, Panthera Senior Living, Prime Regency, RecordAI, United Pain Clinics, Vernal Partners, White Strix Holdings, and others in development.

A retired U.S. Army Airborne Ranger qualified officer and award-winning senior defense executive with Fortune 500 companies Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS), Massengill also served as a managing director of Silver Leaf Partners, a boutique New York investment bank.

​Massengill has previously served as Chairman of the Board for the Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) operating businesses in Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom, a member of the Overseas Schools Advisory Council for the U.S. Department of State - D.C., a Non-Executive Board Director for GrowthGate Capital, a private equity buy out firm in Dubai, and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the American Community School - Abu Dhabi.​

Massengill holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, a B.A. in Russian Area Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he was a Distinguished Military Graduate, the recipient of the George C. Marshall Award, and a US Army Top 5% Fellowship. He has completed the International Directors Program at INSEAD Fontainebleau, the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives at Harvard Law School, and held FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Wealth of experience in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property strategy, technology licensing, contract law, litigation and claims defense, and international trade. Built and developed strong legal teams both domestically and internationally to meet the ever changing legal landscape. Effective and valued counselor to senior global management. A strong, proactive, principled leader with high energy and a tenacious can-do attitude. 

Robert J Miller has extensive experience as a Legal Corporate Executive leading a 150+ lawyer department at a Fortune 50 company and as a hands-on lawyer doing deals varying in size from $1 million to $55 billion. Miller was a valued counselor to senior management . He has led legal teams of in-house and law firm lawyers in the US and across the world with a significant focus in Asia. His 37 years of experience include a 30 year career at Procter & Gamble and a seven year career as a Partner and Of Counsel with Jones Day. He is a strong, principled, proactive leader. 

While with Procter & Gamble he progressed through several positions of increasing responsibilities culminating in a six year stint as Vice President General Counsel-Global Legal. During this period he led Procter’s legal work to purchase Gillette and the extensive efforts to integrate the legal teams and entities. He lead joint venture negotiations with Sanofi-Aventis and major outsourcing arrangements with HP, IBM and Jones Lang Lasalle. He led efforts to resolve of defend successfully major competitive disputes and insurance recovery claims. 

Prior to this assignment he served for five years as Vice President General Counsel and Public Affairs-AsIa living in Japan and working extensively in China and across Southeast Asia and India. He established several joint ventures and wholly foreign owned entities in the PRC and helped secure Government approval. Robert led the negotiations to purchase Hutchison Whampoa China’s interest in their Chinese partnerships with P&G. He also purchased and divested businesses in the US, Korea, Taiwan, India and brands in Japan, the US and globally. 

While at Jones Day he represented clients in the consumer products, healthcare, retail, industrial materials and pharmaceutical sectors. This work included transactions, corporate governance and reorganizations, and litigation in the US, UK, India and China. He served as a Director of the Columbus Council on World Affairs. 

After leaving full time legal practice he has continued to help select clients and has focused on teaching law students and MBA students. He is an Adjunct Professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and at University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business. His teaching has focused on doing business in China and on getting graduating students ready for work by developing pragmatic skills. He also sponsors a speaker series at the Moritz College of Law bringing leading Restructuring lawyers to campus. 

Brian is an experienced non-executive outside Board Director, Qualified Financial Expert, Chief Audit Executive (CAE), and Senior Advisor with over 30 years of commercial experience leading financial, operational and information technology risk management. He served in these capacities for some of the largest multi-national and U.S. companies including KKR, Lazard, Morgan Stanley, D&T, and Grant Thornton, encompassing all ownership structures, from public, private, private equity, and non-profits, as well as start-ups. Brian currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Grant Thornton supporting their Private Equity Advisory and Execution Practices, and as an Operating Partner for Cadiz Capital. Brian has a great ability to advise, coach and shape strategic agendas, with a real passion for driving change and an imaginative approach to creating transformative outcomes. He is recognized for his skills in building effective relations, supporting investors and Boards of Directors, and rallying teams to achieve results materially beyond what would ever be expected. He places an ethos of fairness and integrity of all corporate, colleague and client-facing activity to enhance performance, engender mutual collaboration, and enable solutions that meet a need. Lastly, Brian is known for being adept at collaborating with boards of directors and executive teams to evaluate internal controls over operational, technological, financial, regulatory compliance and corporate governance and creating a culture of willingness to change. 

Prior to his current roles referred to above, Brian was the CAE for KKR, accountable to the Audit Committee and the Firm’s Board of Directors. This position worked closely with all levels of executive senior management, providing strategic direction, leadership and management of the Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk and SOX functions. Such role was responsible for developing, coaching, and leading teams, and developing best practices and nurturing a culture of commitment, with the highest order of integrity. 

At KKR, Brian resided on various firm leadership committees: Operating Risk Committee, Global Valuation Committee, Portfolio Management Committee, Information Security Committee, Innovation Committee, and Business Approval Group Committees (Private Equity and Credit), and an active member of domestic and international subsidiary boards (AIFM [Dublin], UK [PE, Credit, Capital Markets], MENA, Asia). Brian has a great ability to advise, coach and shape strategic agendas, and to rally teams to achieve results materially beyond what would ever be expected. He has a real passion for driving change and an imaginative approach to creating transformative outcomes. 

Prior to KKR, Brian held executive senior leadership positions at Lazard Freres & Co. and Morgan Stanley, with selected impactful achievements that included global SOX IPO readiness; top rated regulatory audit ratings; best in class audit functions that achieved firm-wide distinction; and a differentiated bench for which front office would tap as part of their hiring programs. Brian began his career at D&T where he secured his CPA license. 

Brian holds an MBA in Finance from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance with Honors distinction from New York University. He received his certifications as a CISA and CFE, and is Series 7, 63 and 27 registered. Brian frequently speaks in public forums, serves as a part-time adjunct professor for Fordham University, and provides strategic advice to business leaders about governance and private equity. 

Brian lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife of 30 years, and has two sons. He is an active participant and avid fan of sports, loves to travel and is committed to health and fitness. 

     Responsible for the oversight and support of all Pennsylvania Pediatric service offices, 27, in total. The business generated from these sites represented over 50% of BAYADA’s entire pediatric business nationwide. In PA, weekly, over 90,000 hours of service were provided, generating weekly revenues in excess of $3,700,000, over $190,000,000 annually, boasting a 42%-44% Gross Margin. From offices under my leadership and supervision, the net income was in excess of $15,000,000 annually. 

Barbara’s career in the home health care industry expands 30+ years. She began her career in the Philadelphia, PA market as the Administrator of Nursefinders. While there, she was recognized for achieving the highest weekly revenue in the entire company, nationwide. Barbara secured many contracts with prestigious hospitals in the Philadelphia area.
 

When she relocated to her native Northeastern Pennsylvania in 1995, she accepted a position as Director with BAYADA Home Health Care, in a small, non-profitable office. Barbara secured Medicare certification and Medicaid enrollment and began to build business rapidly and with positive results.
 

While at BAYADA, Barbara was promoted to several positions, Area Director, Division Director and Regional Director. She began her tenure with one small office and expanded and developed business which demanded the presence of 27 offices throughout the State of Pennsylvania. Her specialty evolved into Pediatric Home Health Care.
 

Under Barbara’s leadership and supervision, her offices boasted weekly revenues in excess of $3.7 million dollars. Her group of offices provided over 90,000 hours per week of skilled nursing care to the pediatric, medically fragile population in Pennsylvania. Barbara’s offices were very profitable, administrative staff turnover was extremely low and she opened new offices, never compromising financial security for the company. Barbara also frequently met with the Managed Medicaid payers in PA and established sound relationships with the key executives. Barbara retired from BAYADA in December, 2018.
 

Barbara has been a speaker at several community events and held the role of Chairperson of Coats for Kids, a charitable group serving the needy. She is a current volunteer at her local hospital and she also assists a physician in his busy practice. Barbara remains in contact with several of her former BAYADA employees and continues to provide mentorship to many.
 

Barbara resides in Pittston, PA, with her husband, Robert and daughter, Giavanna, a candidate for the upcoming PA Bar exam.
 

Paul Marcela is President & CEO of Governance Partners Group, LLC, a provider of corporate governance services. Mr. Marcela earned a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University, a M.B.A. in Finance from Central Michigan University and a B.S. in Economics and Political Science from Allegheny College. 

Prior to founding Governance Partners Group, Mr. Marcela served as Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel of two Cerberus Capital Management portfolio companies, Blue Bird Corporation, a manufacturer of school buses, and North American Bus Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of transit buses.
 

Prior to joining Blue Bird, Mr. Marcela was Associate General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Dow Corning Corporation, a multi-billion dollar global specialty chemical company that had been owned half by The Dow Chemical Company and half by Corning Incorporated until 2016 when it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical. Mr. Marcela managed the Business & Finance Section of the Dow Corning Law Department and was with Dow Corning for twenty-four years. In addition to corporate governance, Mr. Marcela’s primary legal practice areas have been mergers & acquisitions, financial transactions, securities and litigation management.
 

Mr. Marcela has served the Society for Corporate Governance as a member of the Society’s Board of Directors and as the Chair of the Society’s Private Companies Committee. He is also the Vice President & Corporate Secretary of the Private Directors Association.
 

Mr. Marcela has served the legal profession as an officer of the Michigan and Georgia Chapters of the Association of Corporate Counsel. He is also a Director Emeritus of the Board of Directors and a former Chair of the Governance & Nominating Committee of the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University and a past President of the University’s Law School Alumni Association. In addition, Mr. Marcela has been Chair of the Allegheny College Center for Business & Economics Board of Visitors.
 

Allen Sparks is a Co-Founder of Vernal Partners Inc., a distinguished Delaware-based investment holding company that specializes in the consolidation of US medical diagnostic companies. Allen has assembled a Board of Directors with a combined portfolio of over $40 billion in completed acquisitions.

Under Allen's strategic and visionary leadership, Vernal Partners has made significant progress toward achieving its goal of creating the third-largest medical diagnostics company in North America. The company's robust pipeline constitutes almost $500 million of EBITDA, with an additional $400 million of EBITDA in LOI negotiations.

Before embarking on his career in the business world, Allen was a professional Maritime Officer with extensive experience navigating the challenging Arctic Ocean and other US and international waterways. His unwavering commitment to the safety of his crew members while operating vessels of unlimited tonnage is a testament to his exceptional leadership skills. Allen's dedication to building highly successful teams has resulted in an impressive track record of achievements by his colleagues.

As a seasoned adventurer, Allen embarked on a two-year solo motorcycle journey across North, Central, and South America, spending over a year in Latin America and Europe. This unique experience has given him a deep appreciation for the challenges of effective communication with diverse cultures.

Allen founded Vernal Partners in honor of his late Grandmother, a compassionate Registered Nurse who fought a valiant battle against Parkinson's for over two decades. His commitment to honoring her legacy by advancing the field of medical diagnostics is unwavering. Allen currently resides in Florida and is dedicated to continuing his exceptional work in this field.