Ronald Marston

“Good people beget good people”

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Mr. Marston has served as a Director since August 2015. Mr. Marston has more than 40 years of experience in international healthcare and is known as an international authority on healthcare systems and trends. In 1973, Mr. Marston joined HCCA International (now Health Care Corporation of America), a subsidiary of Hospital Corporation of America, and was employed there through 1990. In 1980 he was promoted to CEO & Chairman HCA United Kingdom. In 1987, he was promoted to President and CEO of HCA International with responsibility for all development and operations internationally. Under Mr. Marston’s leadership, HCA International grew to include 10 hospitals and seven nursing homes in the United Kingdom; 10 hospitals in Australia; five hospitals and 55 clinics in Central and South America; a management contract for the restructuring of the Singapore General Hospital; a commissioning and management contract for the King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and the longest-standing recruitment contract in Saudi Arabia. Hospital Corporation of America sold HCA International in 1989 after the company elected to go private. After the sale, Mr. Marston and his management team acquired certain assets and management contracts, and he became the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the resulting privately held company, Health Care Corporation of America, doing business as HCCA International, where he was CEO and President, positions he held until 2010. He sold his interest in HCCA International in 2010 and then started two companies of his own, Southern Manor Living Centers LLC and HCCA Management Company. Mr. Marston was the Founder and served as CEO of Southern Manor Living Centers LLC, three assisted living facilities in Tennessee (which he sold in November 2019) and HCCA Management Company, where he is Founder and CEO doing business in the international healthcare industry.

Mr. Marston’s previous experience was with Vanderbilt University and Medical Center from 1968 to 1973. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was responsible for the training and administration of the 400-bed Twelfth Evacuation Hospital located in Cu Chi, Republic of Vietnam, and was a graduate of the US Army Airborne School in Fort Benning, Georgia. Mr. Marston holds a BA from Tennessee Technological University; a Certificate in Healthcare Administration from the Academy of Health Service; and a PhD in management from California Western University.