Steven Francis is the founder and Chairman of AMN Healthcare, one of San Diego's success stories. He is the 2007 Director of the Year for Companies in Transition for the work that he has done with this company. Listen to this show to hear Steve talk about how he built a company such as AMN Healthcare in to a successful public company that it is today.
LISTEN: SEGMENT ONE
Steven takes us back to the when he founded AMN Healthcare together with his wife. Listen to hear him tell some of the challenges and opportunities that they faced in the initial growth and the evolution of their board performance.
LISTEN: SEGMENT TWO
AMN Healthcare today is a business with sales of approximately $1.2 billion. The acceleration of growth happened organically and through acquisition. It is the latter that also made them more serious and better in corporate governance.
LISTEN: SEGMENT THREE
AMN Healthcare went public in 2001, one of the first companies to file their IPO after 9/11. This also brought the corporate governance requirement to the public levels. Steven walks us through some of the pressures that he faced as he continued to lead the company as CEO.
LISTEN: SEGMENT FOUR
Steven became the Executive Chairman in 2005. A few weeks later the mayor of San Diego resigned and Steven decided to run in the run-off selection. He provides us with an unique perspective on how corporate governance rules can be and should be applied to city government.
