As a Senior Advisor for Shoreline Pacific, Ms. Howe Waxman brings many years of experience as an executive and advisor to privately held companies, especially healthcare related companies. Ms. Howe Waxman helps Shoreline determine the suitability and quality of potential clients and their projects in the seed stage of development. In addition, Ms. Howe Waxman brings a large network high net worth individuals to help finance the growth companies Shoreline works with. Ms. Howe Waxman founded and served as Chairman of Howe-Lewis International, a management consulting and executive search firm. She co-founded Diasonics, a medical imaging company which was greatly responsible for bringing Diagnostic Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology and equipment to world markets. She was co-founder and director of American Biodyne, a for-profit, mental health services company which provides psychology-driven behavioral treatment programs. In 1992, while Ms. Howe Waxman served as director, the company was taken public, and was soon after acquired by Medco Containment Services (later itself acquired by Merck). Together with KKR, a Management buyout back from Merck resulted in the increase in the company’s annual revenues to over $800 million. Ms. Howe Waxman has served on the Board of Directors of SOS International, a worldwide medical service company, which was eventually sold in the late 90’s for approximately $800 million. Working in some of the most inhospitable places on earth, SOS offers international standards of medical care where it is otherwise not available, or where cultural or language barriers prevent its proper implementation. While with SOS, she was responsible for the formation of western-style medical clinics in numerous emerging third world countries, and from 1992, helped established SOS clinics in China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Romania, and the former Soviet Union. Through her involvement with SOS International, she became a co-founder and member of the Board of International Medical Care, Ltd. (IMC), which today is a rapidly growing Geneva based company, that staffs and operates family practice outpatient clinics and provides emergency room health services throughout the world. She actively participated as a volunteer on the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, Children’s Rights Project. She was also a member of the Board of the International Center for Better Health (ICBH), which conceived, built and operated a medical clinic in Moscow serving women and children. In 1993, she established the Howe-Waxman Family Foundation, which is today dedicated to serving the needs of women and children worldwide, with a focus on those challenged with life threatening illnesses and socio-economic limitations. In 1998, through this Family Foundation she established the Noah’s Ark Foundation, which has built and continues to operate the Passin-Waxman Center, a private home for orphaned children in Moscow, Russia. |