Management

Vera Leonard, President / Chief Executive Officer - Ms. Leonard, who has served as CEO of Zonda since August of 2007 and will retain that title, brings to CLX considerable successful experience in leadership positions with major medical manufacturing and distribution companies. As vice president of U.S. sales for a Nasdaq listed company that specializes in rapid, point of care diagnostic tests, Ms. Leonard led negotiations on agreements that added approximately $8 million in annual revenue and helped to grow revenues from $32 million to $51 million in 3 years. She delivered an unprecedented 6 consecutive quarters of financial performance that met or exceeded expectations and saved more than $1,500,000 annually for the company from renegotiations of growth incentive plan, implementation of net pricing strategy and elimination of GPO administration fees. Ms. Leonard received awards for outstanding sales performance and distribution partnering from industry-leading distributors 3 years in a row and 4 years total. She restructured the sales and support organization to establish standards of performance, goal-driven compensation plan, territory-level budget and forecast management while developing individuals for promotion to levels of greater responsibility and leadership. Ms. Leonard also served as director of vendor relations for a Fortune 500 distributor of medical and dental supplies to office-based practices worldwide. In this position, she launched 6 new products; negotiated semi-exclusive distribution rights on three innovative new products; designed a product launch template that was adopted for standard use by the entire medical marketing team; negotiated an exclusive special pricing agreement on market-leading product to maximize competitive conversions; and completed an in-depth pricing analysis by vendor, sales division and SKU to assess pricing strategies and assure competitive positioning while maximizing profitability. Previous to these positions, Ms. Leonard served as sales representative, sales manager, regional sales manager, and national sales manager for medical manufacturing and distribution companies where she developed an extensive firsthand knowledge of the medical supply field. These companies ranged from start-ups to major U.S. and international firms. Robert McCoy, Director - Mr. McCoy is an experienced senior executive. As president of Marquis Elevator, Inc. from 1975 to 1990, he built and then later sold the largest independent elevator company in Nevada. Subsequent to selling Marquis Elevator, Mr. McCoy was the General Manager of Canyon Investments, Inc. in Las Vegas Nevada from 1990 to 1996. Since 1996, Mr. McCoy has served as Facilities Manager for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, responsible for 487,000 square feet of facilities in the Las Vegas area. Mr. McCoy is a graduate of the University of Tennessee.age.

Pat Edgerton, Director - Pat Edgerton spent two decades in a variety of positions for McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 15 healthcare services and information technology company. From 1984 to 1997, Mr. Edgerton served as Vice President for McKesson, including Vice President of Credit (1984 to 1995); Vice President of Chain Development (1995 to 1996); and Vice President of National Accounts (1996 to 1997). As Vice President of National Accounts, Mr. Edgerton managed customers purchasing in excess of $1 billion annually and called on major food and drug chains to secure new business. While at McKesson, he also negotiated and prepared supply contracts for major drug companies, bringing in over $500 million of new business in one year. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Edgerton served as Chief Executive Officer of Sun Drug, Inc., a retail drug business. Mr. Edgerton owns and has served as President and CEO of Edgerton Consulting since 1997. Edgerton Consulting provides consulting for business solutions in finance, marketing acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and general business practices. In October 2005, Mr. Edgerton was appointed as vice president of European/United States operations of Zonda, Incorporated, a portfolio investment of CLX Medical, Inc., and since February 2006, he has served as Zonda's Chairman of the Board of Directors.

James Bickel, Director - Mr. Bickel has over 40 years of experience in sales and senior management positions with manufacturing based companies, serving as the president of Allison Spring and Manufacturing (1968-1973), Bicor Machinery and Manufacturing (1974-1979), and Keel Corporation (1980-1986), all California-based manufacturing companies of high-tech metal parts and assemblies.  From 1986 through 2002, Mr. Bickel served as vice president of Uniglobe USA and president of Uniglobe Midpacific, assisting to build a national travel franchise system with over 900 locations. He later built golf retail franchise system. Since 2002, Mr. Bickel has acted as vice president and secretary of World Health and Education Foundation and as vice chairman of MedChannel LLC, a medical device company serving radiology and surgical markets.

In additional to his entrepreneurial experience, Mr. Bickel currently serves on the Board of two other Business Development Companies, CALI Holdings and GTREX Capital.  While serving in that capacity, he has gained hands-on experience in areas such as the evaluation of potential investments, the valuation of assets and providing assistance to portfolio companies in meeting their business goals. 

Mr. Bickel earned a B.A. in economics from Middlebury College and did post-graduate work in metallurgical engineering at Youngstown State University. He is a member of Rotary International and of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.