Drive Leadership

Former interim President & COO of Dentsply Sirona (XRAY, $4B sales, $13B market cap), the world’s largest supplier of dental materials and equipment. Senior international business executive with 23 years full functional P&L responsibility in private equity and public company environments. Extensive operational transformation experience creating significant value through startups, restructuring, strategic business sale, large scale e-commerce development, accelerated new product pipeline development and field sales redesign and redeployment. Board leadership in private equity and nonprofit. Industry experience in medical device (formulated & fabricated products, pharma, equipment) and materials (electronics, automotive, steel and construction).

Mr. Schwartz is a principal founder of the Company. He served as the Vice President of Sales of Diamond Medical and National Healthcare from 1987 until 1992. Following the sale to a publicly traded healthcare company, Mr. Schwartz served as the Vice President of Sales of such public company until 1996. In 1996, Mr. Schwartz formed Jofra Enterprises, Inc., a distributor of medical products, located in Mt. Vernon, New York, which was subsequently acquired by a publicly traded healthcare company in 1998. Mr. Schwartz served as the Executive Vice President of Sales of the publicly traded healthcare company from 1998 through 2000.

Ms. O’Keefe joined Drive Medical in 2017 and brings to the Company 25 years of global financial experience in Finance and Accounting, Human Resources and Legal departments. She was previously CFO of Savant Systems, a KKR portfolio company that designs and develops automation systems used in luxury homes. Ms. O’Keefe was also CFO at D&M Holdings, a $1 billion global company that designs and manufactures premium consumer and professional audio products. Previously, she spent 14 years at the Black & Decker Corporation in a variety of executive financial positions, and was appointed an officer of the corporation during her tenure as CFO of the Worldwide Power Tools and Accessories Division, a $4 billion manufacturer of consumer and industrial power tools under the DeWalt, Black & Decker, Porter Cable and Delta brands. Ms. O’Keefe began her career at Ernst & Young and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant.

Ms. Coleman joined Drive in July 2017, and brings to the Company 15 years of experience representing and advising national and international manufacturers, distributors and retailers of medical devices, as well as a wide range of other regulated and non-regulated products, in product liability litigation, commercial litigation, and general business matters. She spent her early legal career at a prominent international law firm before becoming a founding partner in a boutique firm dedicated to defending and advising manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Prior to joining Drive, she represented the Company in product liability litigation for nearly 10 years, and served as outside National Counsel for Drive from 2014 to 2017, overseeing the Company’s strategic approach to defense. Ms. Coleman is a graduate of the Cardozo School of Law, and the University of Michigan. She is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey.

Mr. Cerniglia joined Drive Medical in June 2006. He has twenty years of information technology experience with a focus on systems implementation and leveraging technology to achieve business transformation. Previously, Mr. Cerniglia worked for Win-Holt equipment group, a global manufacturing and distribution company, where he spent eight years implementing ERP systems and deploying LEAN methodologies for manufacturing and distribution processes.

A graduate from The Ohio State University and previously working for Golden Technologies, Mr. Lampert joined Drive Medical in 2003 as a Territory Manager for Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. With a highly successful territory, Mr. Lampert earned the 2005 All Star Award and the 2005 MVP Award before becoming the Midwest Regional Vice President in 2006. With the success of the Midwest region, Mr. Lampert has earned the 2006 Coach of the Year Award and the 2009 MVP Award along with the 2010 & 2011 RVP of the year award. In 2012 he was promoted to Vice President of Sales for Drive's Homecare division.

Joseph Lewarski is the SVP, new product development for respiratory. In this role he is responsible for leading the R&D strategy, engineering, product development and upstream management of the respiratory and sleep categories. Joe has been actively working in healthcare for over 33 years and has held numerous senior management and executive leadership positions in a variety organizations and environments, including acute care, homecare, pharmacy, group purchasing, consulting and medical device companies. Prior to joining Drive, he held executive positions with Invacare Corporation, Inogen, Inc. and was a partner for nearly 14 years with Hytree Pharmacy-Hytech Homecare, a large, regional pharmacy and HME company he and his partners sold to Omnicare. His range of executive experience includes entrepreneurial and private equity funded start-ups to executive positions in large, public Fortune 1000 companies. Joe is a registered respiratory therapist and a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC). He holds undergraduate degrees in respiratory therapy and business administration and a master’s degree in healthcare management. Joe has been involved in the design and development of a number of medical devices and has published over three dozen scientific and research papers in clinical peer review journals, as well as numerous clinical and industry related articles and white papers. He is a regular speaker at regional and national pulmonary medicine, respiratory therapy and homecare conferences.