People: Pet DRx Corporation (VETS.O)

Mr. Gary Brukardt has served as a director of Pet DRx Corporation since September 25, 2008. Mr. Brukardt has more than 30 years of varied healthcare experience and currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Specialty Care Services Group, a healthcare company based in Nashville, Tennessee. From 2003 until March of 2006, Mr. Brukardt served as a director, president and chief executive officer of Renal Care Group (now Fresenius Medical Care), a provider of dialysis services to patients with chronic kidney failure. From 1996 until 2003, Mr. Brukardt also served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Renal Care Group, which provided dialysis and ancillary services to over 32,300 patients through 456 outpatient dialysis centers in 34 states in addition to providing acute dialysis services to more than 200 hospitals. Prior to joining Renal Care Group, Mr. Brukardt served as executive vice president of Baptist Health Care affiliates as well as chairman and president of HealthNet, a managed care company. Mr. Brukardt also served as a director of Echo Healthcare Acquisition Corp. from 2005 until the Merger. Mr. Brukardt received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and earned an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona.