Lifetime Achievement

Director
Various Boards

James M. Sweeney, various boards, recognized for Lifetime Achievement in Corporate Governance.

Sweeney is a serial entrepreneur and director who has been involved in buying, selling or taking public more than 20 healthcare product and service companies over the last 40 years. He is acknowledged as the founder of the multi-billion dollar home infusion therapy industry.

Sweeney has been the founder and CEO of eight healthcare product and service companies, including Bridge Medical, the pioneer of bedside barcode scanning prior to medication administration. While he was Chairman and CEO of Bridge, the company produced “Beyond Blame” an award-winning documentary that showed the human consequences of medication errors on families and caregivers and point to the system flaws that were the root cause of error.

Sweeney is currently the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PatientSafe Solutions Inc., a patient and nurse centered company that provides complete patient safety solutions to hospitals. The new company’s offering will allow nurses to spend more time with the patients to provide a better patient care experience and the highest patient safety standards.

Prior to starting PatientSafe Solutions Inc., he was founder and CEO of CardioNet (NASDQ: BEAT), the highly successful developer and marketer of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry, a technology and service that allows physicians to continuously monitor cardiac activity as patients go about their normal daily activities. Sweeney took CardioNet public in March 2008; when he left the company in September 2008 it as valued at $650 million.

He has taken three companies public, led an LBO resulting in a 650 percent return to investors in less than four years. He has also raised more than $2 billion in financing for his various companies including $500 million in venture capital, $700 million in debt financing, $400 million in three IPO’s – and sold two companies for more than $1 billion.