About
Meet Our Team
CSI is led by a senior management team with over 100 years of health care and management experience. The depth and breadth of the skills and backgrounds is a tremendous asset for realizing the CSI vision of becoming the most trusted name in admirable caregiving services.
Alan L. Soderquist
President/Chief Executive Officer/Vice Chairman
Mr. Soderquist joined CSI as President and CEO at its inception in April 2000 and assumed the role of Vice Chairman of Caregiver Services in April 2008. He is the architect of the current company and has led CSI from a start-up to its position today as the largest caregiver registry in the nation. He assembled and directs a management team that shares his commitment to quality service for clients, caregivers, employees and investors.
Mr. Soderquist has more than 30 years of healthcare experience in a wide variety of executive positions in operations and finance. Prior to joining CSI, he served as Vice President and General Manager for PerSe Technologies, a leading physician practice management firm. He spent nine years at PST building various regions and operations while growing and improving earnings. He joined PerSe from HBO & Company, a prominent hospital systems company, in which he served as Vice President of Finance after having spent many years directing service and installation operations.
Mr. Soderquist earned a BS in Business and Finance at Brigham Young University. He serves on the board of various industry groups and community service organizations.
Steven L. Hochhauser
Executive Vice President of Business Development
Steven L. Hochhauser serves as the Executive Vice President of Business Development for CSI. Mr. Hochhauser joined CSI in 1999 as Regional Vice President and subsequently as Executive V.P. of Business Development. His 35 yrs of management level healthcare experience includes responsibilities as a Corrective Therapist, Nursing Home Owner/Administrator; CEO of a nationally recognized Rehab Services Provider and as National Manager of Kemper Insurances’ Medical Utilization Management Program. Mr. Hochhauser has a Bachelors degree in Physical Education specializing in Corrective Therapy from Springfield College, Masters degree in Therapeutic Recreation from University of North Carolina, Graduate Level Work in Health Care Administration at Florida International University and Certification in Long Term Care Administration from the University of Connecticut. Steve is married with 5 children and 5 grandchildren.
Mary C. Donovan RN
Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Mary C. Donovan RN joined Caregiver Services in August 2006 and she was promoted to Vice President of Business Development in October,2006 and to Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing in October 2008. Mary’s 20 yrs healthcare management experience includes clinical nursing, healthcare recruitment, physican relations, marketing and business development.
Graduating from New England Baptist Nursing School and Pine Manor Jr. College with an A.S. degree in Nursing, Mary pursued her studies and received a BSHCA degree from Florida International University.
Mary is past President of the Greater Miami Nurse Recruiters Association and past Vice President of South Florida Healthcare Recruiters Association. She is an active volunteer for the Lighthouse Point Police Department.
Thomas L. Garrett, Jr.
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Tom Garrett is a dynamic senior financial executive with extensive experience, including roles as CFO and Treasurer of Fortune 500 companies LTV Steel, Service Merchandise and Magma Copper. Having spent most of his early career at Goodyear in Treasury and corporate finance, Garrett went on to be recruited by both public companies and private equity to a series of increasingly complex assignments, whose objectives ranged from healthy-company growth strategies to the challenges of financial crisis. Garrett’s career has spanned a variety of industries including health care, retail, manufacturing, business process outsourcing, mining and financial services in companies sized from middle-market to Fortune 100. Garrett earned a B.S. in Accounting, summa cum laude, from The University of Akron, and started his career with Arthur Andersen. In his free time he enjoys riding his Trek bike, photography, spending time with his family and reading.
David A. Eichler
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Eichler joined Psilos in April 1999 and focuses primarily on investments in the medical technology and healthcare services sectors. He has worked directly with many Psilos investments as an advisor on finance, strategy and corporate development, including formerly as Acting Chief Financial Officer of Caregiver Services, Inc. He also has extensive experience as an advisor to senior management and boards of directors on M&A, financial restructuring and capital raising transactions. Mr. Eichler represented Psilos on the board of Acuity Pharmaceuticals (exited via merger with Opko Health), and currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Caregiver Services (Chairman), Gamma Medica-Ideas (Chairman), Mauna Kea Technologies [NYSE Euronext: MKEA], Verium Diagnostics, and Comprehensive Clinical Development.
Prior to joining Psilos, Mr. Eichler was an investment banker at Wasserstein Perella & Co., where he worked on numerous mergers and acquisitions and restructuring assignments as a member of the firm's Healthcare Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Eichler worked as a defense policy analyst for DynCorp, focusing on issues relating to nuclear nonproliferation and export control.
Mr. Eichler earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, where he received the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence (top 10% of class). He holds another masters degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree in Government and International Relations from Cornell University, where he graduated magna cum laude.