Gary Wood Ph.D

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Dr. Gary Wood is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Concorde Investment Management. Mr. Wood serves as Managing Director & President at Omnimed Capital. He was the Co-Founder of eOriginal and served as Executive Chairman. Dr. Wood also serves as Chairman of the firm's Investment Policy Committees. His investment and business activities include domestic US and North America as well as Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Before founding Concorde, Dr. Wood worked for an independent trust company in Houston, Texas, as an investment and financial advisor. Dr. Wood is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the International Hospital Corporation (IHC), founded in 1991 to develop acute-care hospital facilities, specialty hospitals, and specialty clinics that are uniformly managed and branded in three countries in Latin America. Additionally, he is Chairman of the Board of eOriginal, Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive business-to-business digital transaction management (digital signatures and vaulting) and e-commerce solutions based in Baltimore. He has extensive business experience relating to healthcare, software, manufacturing, and investment management. He is also active in civic and charitable organizations in Dallas. He is currently a member of the Endowment Foundation Investment Committee and Advisory Board for the Children's Oncology Service of Texas (aka Ronald McDonald House) and a board member of Leader Formation International, an International Christian Leadership Development Mission. In February 2005, he completed six years serving on the board of the Parkland Health and Hospital System (Dallas County Hospital District), where he served on the Pension Investment oversight committee. He has twice served as past chairman (in 1988 and 1999) of the Society of International Business Fellows, a leadership organization consisting of 1400 senior business executive level, government officials, and NGO members in four regional networks in 45 countries, where he is a member in good standing. He was the founder and initial chairman of The Health Industry Council (1988-1998) in the Dallas Ft Worth region, a nine-county industry promoter and advocacy organization in North Texas, and he served as a board member for the Baylor Medical Research Institute (1987-2000). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University and went on to receive only the third interdisciplinary Ph.D. awarded by Tech, emphasizing law, business, and statistics. He was named a Distinguished Graduate in Engineering in 1993.