Joe brings over a decade of diverse financial services experience across multiple sectors and companies. He earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business and holds a BS in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Most recently, Joe was a Principal at MHT Partners, a national middle-market investment bank focused on serving high growth companies. In this role, he developed and executed on various companies’ buy and build growth strategies.

Joe’s primary sector experience resides in both business and healthcare services, with a focus on human capital-intensive businesses. Prior to that, Joe spent several years at Credit Suisse where he and his team managed over $2 billion of assets for both high-net-worth individuals and institutions. While at Credit Suisse, Joe and team were repeatedly recognized by Barrons as one of the country’s leading financial advisors.

Prior to Credit Suisse, he served in the corporate finance function of Baxter International, an acute healthcare products company with over $10 billion in annual revenue. Joe is highly regarded within the industry for his collaborative ability to drive organizational alignment in support of key growth initiatives.

Dr. Chudner began his impressive optometric career more than 21 years ago. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Optometry and completed a residency at the prestigious Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

After working for a large OD/MD practice in the Pacific Northwest, he acquired an independent Optometry practice in Bremerton, Washington where he built a successful practice and team before eventually selling the practice 10 years later.

Since that time, he has spent over a decade in leadership roles in some of the most recognized organizations in the eyecare industry. Companies such as Bausch and Lomb and Luxottica have benefited from Dr Chudner’s extensive understanding of the complexities of the optical industry. Under his leadership as Senior Clinical Director, he streamlined eyecare operations and improved relationships with doctors affiliated with Luxottica resulting in tremendous eye exam growth year over year.

Dr. Chudner is also an accomplished lecturer and trainer and an active member of several industry organizations including the AOA, AAO, and the New York State Optometric Association. Dr. Chudner is most recognized for his deep passion for full-scope optometry and building organizations that can deliver better outcomes for all patients and fellow optometrists.

Satish brings with him highly impressive and diverse experience across several relevant industries. He has held key senior technology and operations leadership roles at Vision Source, MedSolutions, Coventry Healthcare, and General Electric and has focused on driving total enterprise performance through the successful deployment and utilization of technology solutions.

While leading Information Technology at MedSolutions, Satish helped grow the company’s top line sales from $240 million to $910 million while also delivering $40 million in annualized operational cost reductions.

Prior to joining AEG Vision, Satish was the Chief Information Officer for Vision Source and led efforts to create business value through the innovative application of technology. This initiative resulted in the doubling of the company’s market cap realization. Satish is best known within the industry for his expertise and intuitive understanding of successfully integrating technology solutions within a practice as well as throughout an organization.

Meera began her impressive career in the optical world over 20 years ago, which spans both North American and international market experience.

She started at Cole Vision Corporation and spent several years taking on various leadership roles with increasing levels of importance and responsibility.

This ultimately resulted in her championing and directing all product strategy and merchandising for a wide range of organizations. 

Meera’s significant contributions have driven success for multiple businesses in profitability growth, improved product life cycle management and stronger store segmentation. Meera is highly respected within the industry and is well known for her motivating leadership style and tremendous depth of merchandising knowledge and expertise.

Brad brings almost 20 years of experience in strategic business analysis, operations and project management in multiple industries. Brad has optimized system and project management at Electronic Data Systems, and DaVita Kidney Care.

In his role at AEG Vision, Brad has driven significant improvements in the AEG Integration process. Additionally, as Vice President of Integrations, Brad provides additional leadership and support in other areas including real estate negotiations and the optimization of product pricing.

Matt brings more than 12 years of relevant experience to the role in Lens Technology, Lens & Lab Systems, Vendor Management, Frame DC and Practice Operations within the Essilor organization in Dallas and Arizona.

His prior experiences include: Regional Operations Director – where he supervised 10 large Essilor optical labs with $200m annual revenue, Operations Manager CFDC – where he managed a “Central Frame DC”, and GM Southwest Lens – where he had full P&L responsibility for a wholesale lab supporting chains like AEG Vision.

Matt is a graduate of Fontbonne University and resides in the Dallas Fort Worth area.