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Chairman and CEO, ComPsych Corporation
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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz is founder, Chairman, and CEO of ComPsych Corporation, the world's largest provider of employee assistance programs (EAPs) and the leading provider of fully integrated EAP, behavioral health, work-life, wellness, crisis intervention services, and outsourced HR solutions under the GuidanceResources® brand. ComPsych provides services to over 33 million individuals and 12,000 organizations ranging from the Fortune 500 to smaller public and private companies as well as government entities throughout the U.S. and 100 countries.
Named to Crain's Chicago Business Who's Who list of Power Players from 2004-2009, Dr. Chaifetz is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives' Club of Chicago, and Vistage International. In addition, he has served on the board of directors of several public and private corporations that currently include Access MediQuip, Edgewater Funds, Trading Partners Holdings, and NueVista Holdings, and non-profit organizations such as The Field Museum of Natural History, the Miami University Farmer School of Business, and the Saint Louis University Board of Trustees. In 2007, he was named Saint Louis University's Alumni of the Year and was inducted into the University's Entrepreneurial Alumni Hall of Fame.
Dr. Chaifetz, a licensed neuropsychologist, is a magna cum laude graduate of St. Louis University and received his Psy.D. from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.