CERECARE CLINICAL SERVICES - Key Persons


Bob Baratta - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the LEADERSHIP Team
  • President
  • Business Partner
  • President of Capstone Management Group
As President of Capstone Management Group, Bob Baratta brings a proven record of accomplishment with more than 55 years in all areas of the insurance and reinsurance industries. In formulating the vision and structure of successful companies, he has been instrumental in the development of marketing strategies and product development. He has also been involved with enhancing administrative systems, including the development of overall corporate management and infrastructures. Baratta began working in the insurance industry in Chicago at Continental Casualty Company as an agent in their division for special risk. Later, he joined American Home Assurance Company (AIG), serving as the Chicago Branch Manager and finally National Sales Manager out of the home office in New York City. While in New York with AIG, Baratta was contacted by the owner of newly formed Duncanson & Holt, the American Accident Reinsurance Group, to become their fifth employee and to expand their facility west of the Mississippi. While at Duncanson & Holt, he was a shareholder and held positions as San Francisco Branch Manager, Western Regional Manager, and Senior Vice President overseeing national sales. In 1982, he and his business partner Nino Pedrini co-founded the Capstone Management Group. Together, they were responsible for forming the first self-funded ERISA health programs nationally. As lead reinsurer, they initiated and supported programs for managing general agents, managing general underwriters, insurance carriers, third party administrators and other reinsurers nationally. They built a national managing general underwriting firm, which developed and managed more than $100 million of revenue. Additionally, they created the first long-term care specialty company that provided actuarial, underwriting, and consulting services to the insurance industry all while developing products for entry level carriers and providers, which resulted in managing more than $500 million dollars of long-term care premiums. Baratta's experience in all levels of senior management, financial planning, underwriting, and national sales prepared him to develop a cadre of entrepreneurial-focused companies.

David Haase

Job Titles:
  • Medical Director
  • Founder of "the Food Initiative
David Haase, MD is a Vanderbilt and Mayo Clinic trained double-board certified physician who founded the MaxWell Clinic in Nashville, TN. There he practices Personalized Systems Medicine to investigate and address underlying causes of chronic disease. He is faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine and there leads the mitochondrial disorders curriculum. In his book, "Curiosity Heals the Human", he explores the power of asking better questions and utilizing advanced diagnostics to improve personal health outcomes. He is a pioneer and sought-after, international lecturer in the fields of metabolic, integrative and functional medicine and is a recognized authority in the emerging field of regenerative apheresis. Dr. Haase is founder of "The Food Initiative", a non-profit organization that helps youths make healthier choices for their bodies and their communities. He also serves as an advisor and board member to numerous ventures in the medical, wellness, biotech, and neuroscience fields that have Creating Health as a common goal.

Dr. Richard Perryman - COO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Founder
Dr. Richard Perryman is the founder of several innovative corporate population health, compliance and transparency initiatives including Health Coach® Corporate Wellness Centers, LifeStrive®, Direct Access Lab® and TrendShift®. The healthcare and corporate transparency programs he has developed are unique in combining the expertise of population health-trends and fiduciary oversight to meet both corporate health and financial goals. Clients included Qwest, Maricopa County, City of Phoenix, Discover Card, American Express, Microsoft, AT&T, Consol Energy, ATI and many others. Richard believes that as the key stakeholders, privately-held corporations and self-insured government entities have a clear mandate and fiduciary responsibility to move away from the current reactive, non-transparent, disease-management model, and toward a more integrated, transparent and fiscally-responsible healthcare system.

Nino Pedrini - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the LEADERSHIP Team
  • Business Partner
Nino Pedrini has more than 45 years of diverse industry experience with proven accomplishments in formulating the vision and structure of successful companies. He is also an Owner, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Partner who has been recognized as a results-oriented leader and for his entrepreneurial vision and spirit. Prior to leading the Capstone Management Group, Pedrini was affiliated with Duncanson & Holt, a New York-based reinsurance managing underwriting firm that specialized in life, accident/health, property/casualty, marine, and aviation. In 1982, he and business partner Bob Baratta co-founded the Capstone Management Group. Together, they were responsible for forming the first self-funded Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health programs nationally. As lead reinsurer, they initiated and supported programs for managing general agents, managing general underwriters, insurance carriers, third party administrators and other reinsurers nationally. They built a national managing general underwriting firm, which developed and managed more than $100 million of revenue. Additionally, they created the first long-term care specialty company that provided actuarial, underwriting, and consulting services to the insurance industry all while developing products for entry-level carriers and providers, which resulted in managing more than $500 million of long-term care premiums. Pedrini has a proven record of accomplishments in formulating management strategies and objectives specific to managing underwriting, overall administration and reinsurance risk pool management. He has been responsible for marketing and strategies both nationally and internationally; he has been instrumental in product development and enhancement, administrative systems, and development of overall corporate management and infrastructures. He has spearheaded cross-functional initiatives to achieve corporate goals, consistently demonstrating competency in leadership, management, strategic planning and execution, marketing, and profit optimization. Pedrini has also spearheaded mergers, acquisitions and their associated integrations, and he has time and again created strategic measures with organization leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives - all while building and retaining high-performance teams.

Walter "Del" A. Marting - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the LEADERSHIP Team
  • Senior Advisor to the Beijing
Del Marting brings entrepreneurial vision, investment expertise and healthcare innovation experience to his role as Chief Operating Officer of Brain Health Restoration. Del was a principal and Chief Financial Officer at hCell Technology, Inc., a Reno-based biotechnology firm engaged in the in-vitro cultivation of pancreatic islet cells to aid in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes. In 1992, he co-founded the Transdigital Communications Corp., a California-based manufacturer of digital systems for in-flight communications and entertainment applications, where he successfully raised the capital for the firm and oversaw all financial, accounting and treasury functions at the company. Earlier in his career, he was a principal at the investment-banking firm of L.J. Kaufman and Co. in Los Angeles, leading the group's efforts in financing aviation equipment and aerospace firms, as well as mental health care facilities. Del began his career in the mining industry, holding senior management positions, both in the United States and in Europe, at Amax, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer for Amax Europe. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1969 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1975 and served in the US Navy with SEAL Team Two from 1970 to 1973.