Management

ProCure is built on the experience and passion of our people. Collectively our company has more than 100 years of proton therapy experience. We've brought together expertise across multiple functional areas to ensure success, including medical physics, healthcare management and radiation therapy delivery.

John Cameron, PhD
Founder, Chairman, President & Director
Dr. Cameron has a long and distinguished career in nuclear physics, medical technology, applications of accelerators, and research and development administration, and is among the pioneers in proton therapy. He played a pivotal role in the development of the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, leading it from initial funding through construction. Dr. Cameron served as professor of physics and director of the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and has directed major multi-disciplinary research and development institutes for the past 20 years. He has received more than $200 million in grants and contracts and served on numerous advisory and review boards for U.S. and foreign research agencies.

Dr. Cameron received his undergraduate degree in 1962 from Queens University, Northern Ireland, with first class honors, and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1967.

Hadley Ford
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Hadley Ford has been involved in ProCure's development since its founding in 2005. He is a veteran of the financial industry with more than 16 years of experience raising and deploying capital for service and technology businesses. Most recently, he headed up the East Coast Technology Group and was Managing Director at Banc of America Securities. Mr. Ford has also served as CFO of Clearway Technologies and vice president in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at Goldman Sachs, as well as on numerous boards.

Mr. Ford graduated summa cum laude with a BS, BA from Boston University and received his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

John Henderson
Chief Operating Officer
John Henderson has extensive experience in planning and corporate development, and has been involved in ProCure's growth since the early stages of the company. Prior to joining ProCure, he served as president of the George B. H. Macomber Company, a $225 million Boston-based service company, providing early facility planning to major institutions and corporations in the Northeast. While there, he grew Macomber revenues fivefold. Mr. Henderson has planned and developed more than two million square feet of healthcare facilities and more than four million square feet of fast track and technical industry construction and technically complex interdisciplinary research facilities.

Mr. Henderson earned a BA in English Literature at Northwestern University and his MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Richard Katz
Chief Financial Officer
Prior to joining ProCure, Richard Katz worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for 18 years, most recently as a Managing Director of the High Yield Distressed Investing Desk in the Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities Division. In that role, Mr. Katz co-managed a $2 billion portfolio of bonds, public and private equities, loans and credit derivatives based on deep fundamental analysis of companies undergoing significant changes. In other positions at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Katz pioneered the development of the senior secured financing market for sectors of the communications industry, including a resale market for vendor financing; created portfolio management infrastructure for credit extension; structured complex private placements and analyzed new capital markets products.

Mr. Katz graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and was a member of phi beta kappa.

Chris Chandler
SVP of Clinical Partnerships
Mr. Chandler has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry ranging from front line clinical experience in laboratory medicine to significant operational and project development positions in both private and academic settings. Mr. Chandler established himself in the healthcare management setting as an HMO developer at the Blue Cross Blue Shield system in Florida. He became intimately involved with healthcare finance and reimbursement. Leveraging his insurance experience, Mr. Chandler followed with executive level roles in academic medicine. He operated the Department of Pathology for the School of Medicine at the University of Florida and served as the Administrator of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville, where he guided a multidisciplinary academic cancer program. Later in his career, Mr. Chandler developed a national network of medical oncology centers. Before joining ProCure, Mr. Chandler successfully developed major proton therapy programs as the Vice President and General Manger of IBA Proton Therapy in North America. There are 6 proton therapy centers under construction or operating in the United States that Mr. Chandler had an active role in developing.

Niek Schreuder
SVP of Medical Physics and Technology
Mr. Schreuder, senior vice president, medical physics and technology, is one of the foremost medical physics pioneers in the world. He was director of medical physics at the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI) where he was responsible for all medical physics related matters. Mr. Schreuder also served as the medical physicist and project manager for the Indiana University (IU)Cyclotron Facility where he led the medical physics design effort associated with MPRI. Prior to MPRI and IU, he was division head of the operations and development division of the Medical Radiation Group at Ithemba Laboratories for Accelerator Sciences (tLabs) in South Africa. At tLabs, Mr. Schreuder developed the computerized patient positioning system for proton therapy using a commercial robotic arm. Mr. Schreuder earned a BS with honors in radiation physics, a Diploma in Datametrics, and an MS in physical sciences in medical sciences from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.