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About Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey A. Smith was named President and CEO of One Direct Health Network, Inc. and T-Rex Investment, Inc. in April of 2017. Under his leadership, the company has more than doubled its revenues and were EBITDA positive in 2018. The company is building out a post-operative care “Platform to improve patient outcomes, while reducing cost in the Workers Comp and VA arena. Prior to accepting this position, he briefly acting as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Amendia from June, 2016 to January, 2017. As Chairman, Jeff’s responsibilities include mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and investing in new IP. Mr. Smith held the title of Amendia CEO and Director for seven years. Under Jeff’s leadership, Amendia was recognized by multiple awards from Atlanta’s Best And Brightest Companies to Work For, 2016, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Fast 40 Companies in Atlanta, 2012 and 2013, Deloitte’s Tech Fast 500, 2014 and 2015, and Georgia Manufacturers of the Year, 2014. Under his guidance, Amendia grew from $2.9 million in Revenue to over $82.5 million in seven years and was instrumental in spinning off a biologics company in 2012, Vivex Biomedical, Inc., that will have Revenues in excess of $65 million in 2019. He has held several board seats over the last 8 years which include such companies as Amendia, Inc., Vivex Biomedical, Inc., Valeris Medical, Inc., One Direct Healthcare Services, Inc., DSS, Funding, LLC, Phalanx Technologies, LLC and POE Management, LLC. He is currently acting as Chairman of United in Gaming, Inc. a new E-Sport Gaming Platform “Gather.gg” with a focus on the casual gamers.

Before Amendia, Mr. Smith held an Executive Vice President position at Synovus Securities, Inc., which is affiliated with Synovus Financial Corporation (Ticker Symbol on NYSE – SNV), a $30 billion financial institution. Mr. Smith was also a Senior Vice President at Morgan Keegan, Inc., which was owned by the $80 billion Regions Bank (Ticker Symbol on NYSE -RF). His experience included managing the Investment Portfolio, Funding Solutions and interest rate risk in the balance sheets of small to mid-sized financial institutions throughout the U.S. as well as sitting on Synovus Financial Corporation’s Asset/Liability Committee, which oversaw the funding of the balance sheet and the management of their $3 billion fixed income portfolio. Before serving as CEO, Jeff advised over 30 community banks with total fixed income portfolio assets of more than $1.5 billion and provided investment banking services to community banks and their clients. In addition, he has an extensive background in providing alternative funding solutions for small to mid-sized companies and community bank clients throughout the Southeast.

Jeff is a graduate of the Georgia Banking School and the University of Georgia, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a Major in Finance. Jeff has been married to Amy for 32 years and they have two boys and a daughter-in-law.