Brad Lawson
Co-founder and President/CEO

Brad Lawson is President/CEO of YourEncore, Incorporated. Mr. Lawson co-founded YourEncore in October 2003. Lawson is known for being an entrepreneurial executive, exhibiting significant experience in building and managing professional services and business consulting organizations. Lawson has served in senior sales and marketing roles for companies such as Tandem Computers and Sun Microsystems. In 1996, Mr. Lawson co-founded Allegiant Technology Group where he focused the business on customer relationship management. The success he achieved during his time with Allegiant resulted in the Ernst & Young 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year award in the category of Technology and Business Consulting. Mr. Lawson is a native of Indiana and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Evansville.

Michael E. Burns
Chief Technology Officer
Vice President, Consumer Science Division

Mike joined YourEncore in December, 2003 as Relationship Manager for Procter & Gamble. He is currently Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Consumer Science Division. Mike retired from Procter and Gamble in 2002 following a 35 year career in technology development, product design, and technical brand management. While at P&G he was appointed Research Fellow in the Fabric & Home Care Technology Division in 1992 and in the Beauty Care Technology Division in 2000. He received a BS from the University of Dayton in 1962 and a PhD in physical-organic chemistry from the University of Florida in 1966.

Tim Tichenor
Co-Founder and Vice President, Finance & Operations

As the Vice President of Finance & Operations for YourEncore, Inc., Tim is responsible for all financial and fiscal management aspects of company operations. He provides leadership and coordination in the administrative, business planning, accounting and budgeting efforts of the company. Tim brings a combination of financial and business development experience to YourEncore, Inc. Before co-founding YourEncore, Inc., Tim served as Vice President of Barnard Associates, Inc., a Midwest provider of business advisory services. Tim received a BBA from the University of Saint Francis and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Lisa M. Arbogast
Vice President, Life Sciences

Lisa began at YourEncore as our Account Manager for Eli Lilly and Company and is currently the Vice President of our Life Sciences division. Lisa brings a background in both Marketing and Life Sciences to YourEncore from her previous experience at the Kimberly Clark Corporation. Lisa has over 17-years of corporate experience encompassing medical capital equipment, reusables, disposables, pharmaceutical and diagnostic products. Lisa has an established reputation as a consultant within her industry. Her solid experience and innovative approach has resulted in developing marketing strategies for life science companies and their products. Lisa earned a Business degree from Indiana University and has completed extensive corporate training programs in addition to working with leading Fortune 500 companies in the Life Science industry.

Gary Crays
Vice President, Member Company Development

Gary joined YourEncore in 2009 in his current role of Vice President of Member Company Development. Gary works with current and potential Member Companies to help them better understand how to leverage YourEncore's Expert services to achieve tangible and measurable results. Gary has a wide range of leadership, operational and consulting experience in business and consulting services that spans a 20 year career in business leadership, business development and technology consulting. This experience spans multiple roles and industries, and includes: business development and technology operational responsibilites; strategic and operational analysis and planning; outsourcing services; large scale account development and program management for a wide spectrum of technology-based business solution implementations. Gary's background and strengths include start-up operations, organizational and operational transformations, team building and leadership development. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering.

Ann E. Bastin
Director, Business Operations

Ann began with YourEncore as Programs Manager and quickly moved into the Director of Operations role. In this role, she is responsible for the oversight of Human Resources, Staffing, Recruiting, Facilities, IT, Accounting and Billing, Compliance, and many other functions within YourEncore. In previous positions, Ann has developed extensive healthcare industry experience, exhibiting significant knowledge of commercial health plan business as well as Medicare, Medicaid, regional Durable Medical Equipment contract administration, provider credentialing, capitation, claims processing, customer service and implementations. She has served in numerous business operations roles for companies such as ACS Healthcare and WellMed of Indiana. Most significantly, Ann held a 12-year tenure at Anthem where she served as Operations Manager for their risk bearing, multi-specialty physician network and Manager, Government Programs for the Medicare carrier and intermediary acting as the primary liaison to the Government. Ann is a native of Indiana and graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University where she earned her B.S. in Business Administration.

Herb Young
Director, Expert Development

As Director of Expert Development, Herb is responsible for recruiting and maintaining high quality expertise for the YourEncore Network of Experts. In addition, he plays a role in developing new and innovative ways in which the Network of Experts can be utilized, and in which the Experts can use collaborate tools to solve the technical questions and problems of YourEncore’s Member Companies. Prior to joining YourEncore, Herb worked for Procter & Gamble as a technical manager in food and beverage product and technology development. He retired from P&G after 31 years of service. Herb holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.