Edward Kuntz

Edward Kuntz is a Senior Advisory Partner and Operating Partner Emeritus of Sentinel Capital Partners. He has worked closely with Sentinel since 2003, primarily with Sentinel’s healthcare companies. Mr. Kuntz currently serves as chairman of Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE), one of the largest providers of long-term health care services in the United States. He joined Kindred in 1998 and served as CEO from 1999 to 2003. In 2004, he retired as CEO and became Executive Chairman. Mr. Kuntz also serves as a director of Rotech Healthcare, a publicly held provider of oxygen and related healthcare products. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of Living Centers of America (NYSE), a long-term health care company operating more than 250 nursing centers and a pharmaceutical distribution and contract rehabilitation therapy business.

Mr. Kuntz is a director of the Alliance for Quality Healthcare, a multi-facility long-term care organization, and a past member of the Board of Governors of the American Health Care Association.

Mr. Kuntz, who began his career as an attorney, served as Associate General Counsel of ARA Services (now Aramark) from 1978 to 1985, when he became Executive Vice President of ARA Living Centers. He held that position from 1985 to 1992. Mr. Kuntz received a BA degree, magna cum laude, and JD and Master of Law degrees from Temple University, where he was an editor of the law review and a Barenkopf Scholar.

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