Gregory L. Burns

Independent Director and Chair of the Risk Committee

Gregory L. Burns is president of Gregory Burns Consulting Group, LLC. Previously he was founder, president and chief executive officer of NeighborMD Management, LLC, a developer and operator of NeighborMD Urgent Care centers, which was started in 2010 and was acquired by Urgent Care Enterprises, a joint venture between Tri-Star Health and Care Spot Express Healthcare on April 12, 2013. Prior to his retirement on February 12, 2009, Burns served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer for O’Charley’s Inc., then a SEC registered public restaurant company, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Burns joined O’Charley’s in 1983 as controller, and later held the positions of executive vice president, chief financial officer and president before becoming chief executive officer in February 1994. Prior to joining O’Charley’s, he served as chief financial officer for the Nashville Banner Publishing Company, a newspaper publisher, and a senior accountant for Price Waterhouse.

Burns currently serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Kentucky Gatton School of Business and in 2021 retired from his position on the board of the Nashville Public Education Foundation where he was past chairman and served for twenty years. His other civic activities have included serving as chair and board member of the Nashville Chapter of the American Cancer Society and the Nashville Sports Council, the board of the Dan and Margaret Maddox charitable fund, and as a board member of the Nashville Ballet, the Music City Bowl, the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, the Nashville Area Red Cross and the Nashville Symphony. Burns was also inducted into the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.

Burns has extensive business experience having served as first the chief financial officer, and then the chairman and chief executive officer of O’Charley’s Inc., which at that time was a SEC registered public restaurant company. He has a broad understanding of the financial, operational and strategic issues facing public companies and his accounting and financial expertise add to his qualifications. Burns has been designated as an “audit committee financial expert” by the Board.