Coyness Ennix, Jr., MD
Chairman and Executive Medical Director
A nationally recognized cardiac surgeon, Dr. Coyness Ennix has more than 30 years of medical practice experience. He lives and practices in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Before founding Peer Review Solutions, Dr. Ennix was a cardiac surgeon in private practice in Oakland, California. His prior hospital appointments in the San Francisco Bay Area include Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Alta Bates Medical Center,Alameda County Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, San Ramon Medical Center and Valley Care Medical Center, among others. From 1993 through 2002 he was the Medical Director of Cardiac Surgery at the Center for Cardiac Surgery at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley, and served as chairman of the Center’s Cardiac Surgery Quality Management Committee. His board certifications include the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
A widely published author in academic and medical journals on thoracic surgery issues, Dr. Ennix has also held esteemed academic appointments throughout his career. He served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery for the University of California-San Francisco from 1985 through 1989, as a Rotating Clinical Instructor for Cardiothoracic Service for Highland General Hospital, Samuel Merritt Hospital and Children’s Hospital Oakland from 1981 through 2002. Earlier career appointments included Staff Surgeon at St. Joseph Hospital and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, both in Texas.
Internationally, he has served as a Consultant in Cardiac Surgery at Pokrovskaya Hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the University of Cape Town Medical Center in Cape Town, South Africa.
He currently serves on the Clinical Advisory Panel for the California CABG Outcomes Reporting Program (CCORP) in the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). He is founder and past president of the Bay Area Society of Thoracic Surgeons and currently serves on its executive board. Dr. Ennix received his medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. His surgical training includes thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at The Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation in Ohio. He completed post-graduate cardiac surgery training with Dr. Michael Debakey at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Arnold Grisham
President and Chief Executive Officer
Arnold Grisham brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience at Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups to Peer Review Solutions. Prior to joining the organization, Grisham was President and Chief Executive Officer at Alta Alliance Bank, a successful community bank he co-founded in 2006 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of his career has been in the banking industry, and he spent 18 years at Wells Fargo & Company, where he was an Executive Vice President.
He is on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and of Alta Alliance Bank, and is the Vice-Chairman and board member of Children’s Hospital in Oakland. Additionally, he serves as a trustee of DePaul University in Chicago, and as a trustee of the Fromm Institute in San Francisco. He is a co-founder of The Last Mile Foundation, which provides scholarships to minority students who have already raised 80 to 90 percent of their college costs, but cannot meet their additional financial needs. To date, the foundation has granted more than 100 scholarships averaging approximately $2,000 each.
Grisham holds a BS degree in Management and an MBA degree in Finance from DePaul University in Chicago.
Steven McIntosh
Executive Vice President, Operations
Steve McIntosh has more than 15 years of experience in helping organizations grow through the strategic use of technology. In his role as Executive Vice President of Operations for Peer Review Solutions, he is responsible for managing and directing the comprehensive network of back-office operations, including information technology.
Winner of the 2009 CIO 100 Award for creating new business value by innovating with technology, McIntosh has extensive experience in developing and using applications to optimize business processes, and enable agility and change that benefits businesses and their clients.
McIntosh earned an A.B. degree in Engineering & Applied Sciences from Harvard University and an MBA in Financial Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His professional affiliations include serving on advisory boards to technology companies such as Novell and Avotus, as a member of the Executive Council for CIO Magazine, and as a board member and treasurer for the American Red Cross, Sonoma County Chapter.
Sanford Livingston
Vice President, Marketing
Sanford Livingston directs the sales and marketing activities for Peer Review Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for the organization’s nationwide business development and expansion strategies, and for relationship management with clients and prospects. He brings more than 15 years of marketing, financial and operational experience to this position, most notably from a career with a Fortune 500 company, where he lead strategic market initiatives across a broad range of business lines.
Sanford holds a BA degree in Economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where he was a Finance Consortium Fellow for the Graduate Study in Management and a President Steven B. Sample Fellow for USC’s Leadership Institute. His professional affiliations include serving as a trustee board member for organizations such as the Coro Foundation, Life Steps Inc., and Urban Financial Services Coalition.
