Executive Team

Sean Schultz joined Life Line Screening in 2014 working closely with its Founders to transition leadership, infuse new ideas and position the company for accelerated growth. In concert with the Leadership Team, the company has since built Life Line Community Healthcare, a leading Medicare provider of preventive services, created its Wellness Gold Membership program, launched a new Pharma Services Division to provide patient access to innovative clinical treatments and repositioned its platform for a digital future.
Schultz spent fifteen years at Lincare, then a publically traded company and became one of three Vice-Presidents leading sales and operations, and was a key leader driving the company’s growth from $400M to $2B in revenues.  This included a significant breadth of products and services covering Lincare’s core brick and mortar sites, direct to consumer, business to business, acquisition and denovo starts.  He was known as a creative thinker and disciplined operator that could rapidly grow both top and bottom lines.   
After Lincare, Schultz consulted with Cleveland Clinic Innovations group, evaluating market viability of new product and service offerings.  His early career experience in the hospital, sub-acute and home settings gave him an intimate understanding in meeting the needs of patients, physicians and payers.  

Rachel Cameron joined Life Line Screening as the Chief Technology Officer in 2019. Prior to joining Life Line Screening, she worked as the Chief Information/Security Officer at CrossCountry Mortgage, where she had a proven track record of creating technical solutions, developing corporate strategies and building high-performing teams.

As someone passionate about the client experience and the possibilities of modern technical solutions, she is excited to be part of a company applying those technologies to help people avert potential chronic diseases.

She holds an MBA in International Business from Baldwin Wallace University. 

Dr. Manganaro began his tenure at Life Line Screening as a physician reviewer in 2000. His commitment to the company’s overall mission motivated him to take a larger role and in 2005 he became the medical director, overseeing all aspects of clinical quality and development of clinical protocols. He now serves as CMO Emeritus.

During his tenure, Dr. Manganaro directed Life Line Screening’s research collaborations and analysis of its unique database of more than 8 million customers. This research shed new light on vascular disease and vascular screening, with a recent paper on abdominal aortic aneurysm screening hailed as “groundbreaking” by those in the vascular community.

Dr. Manganaro practiced vascular and cardiothoracic surgeon for more than 25 years and cared for more than 10,000 patients with vascular disease, performing more than 5,000 vascular surgeries of every kind. Dr. Manganaro has been a tenured surgeon for more than 20 years at Kettering Hospital and is on the Governing Board of the Kettering Cardiovascular Institute of Kettering Medical Center. 

Dr. Manganaro graduated medical school from New York University School of Medicine. He graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University. 

Ms. Bradford joined Life Line Screening in July 2016 as VP Compliance and General Counsel.

Prior to joining LLSA, she was General Counsel for a healthcare consulting firm engaged in the management of hospitals, surgery centers and large physician practices across the country and then with a world-wide technology company focused on education and e-learning platforms and training solutions.

Prior to that she served as regulatory counsel at a managed care network with more than 90,000 contracted healthcare providers. She has extensive experience in corporate governance, contracting, litigation management and regulatory compliance.

Ms. Bradford holds a BS in Business / Quantitative Analysis and a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University.

Mr. Jahnke joined Life Line Screening in November 2014 as CFO. He brings a well-rounded finance experience including a distinguished career in building, strengthening, and leading corporate finance teams in accounting, financial planning, tax, treasury, and risk management functions for both start-up and mature high-growth organizations across diverse industries.

Prior to joining Life Line Screening Mr. Jahnke has served in a variety of accounting and finance roles, including as CFO in both private and publicly traded companies.Mr. Jahnke previously was CFO of healthcare provider Remington Medical Resorts and logistics providers National Express Inc. and RailTex, Inc.Mr. Jahnke holds a BSBA degree with an emphasis in accounting from Creighton University.

Jim Waters has a proven track record of more than 25 years’ leadership in healthcare, service, and retail industries. His broad experience includes leading both sales and operations teams. This effort has focused on both direct-to-consumer and business-to-business opportunities. Mr. Waters joined Life Line Screening in 2006 and directs the company’s operations.
 His management teams are responsible for delivering individual and corporate screenings at over 15,000 screening events each year across the United States, delivering individual and personalized screening services to nearly one-million people per year. Mr. Waters was previously Vice-President Sales and Operations at CORT Business Services, a division of Berkshire Hathaway. Because of his unique and diverse skill set, he was frequently tasked with leading the company’s national efforts on sharing best demonstrated practices, product expansion, new business integration, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Waters was a Journalism major at the University of Georgia. He has also run a 501(c)(3) organization where he was recognized as the county’s volunteer of the year.

Matt Maxwell joined Life Line Screening as Chief of Clinical Research Strategy in 2021. His industry experience began in his youth, growing up in a medical family heavily engaged in clinical trial conduct and management. He has brought value to independent sites, destination hospital systems, and large research site networks, creating scalable technology-driven platforms to support patient-centered clinical research activities. His extensive background in funnel optimization, clinical trial management, and healthcare innovation uniquely equips him to support Life Line Screening with their advanced research capabilities.

Matt holds a BBA from the University of Georgia, an MBA from Texas A&M University-Commerce, an MS with a focus on interactive technology from the University of Alabama, and is pursuing his doctorate at Florida Institute of Technology with his research centered on improving the efficiency of the clinical trial ecosystem.

Mr. Protass has over 20 years of direct-to-consumer marketing experience and joined Life Line Screening in 2016.

Hired to grow customer acquisition and retention, Mr. Protass started up and substantially grew new online channels of Social Media, Lead Generation and Affiliate Marketing for the company. In August of 2020 he was promoted to Vice President of Marketing. Prior to Life Line Screening, Mr. Protass lead the marketing department for a start-up financial services company called AchieveCard, enabling growth for the company to be successfully acquired by Green Dot Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Protass managed revenue generating marketing activities for Citibank in New York for a $12 billion credit card portfolio.

Mr. Protass has a B.S. in Business Economics from the University of Arizona and a MBA from University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business where he emphasized in Marketing.