James B. Canby IV is the President of Intrepid Management
Strategies, LLC, and a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander. He started his career
in a clinical health care setting having worked as the sole health care
provider for 300 natives and 15 Coast Guardsmen in the Palau archipelago of the
Western Caroline Islands. He also worked for RCA / OMS, in the same capacity,
200 miles above the arctic circle at Cape Lisburne, Alaska. After getting his
degree in Health Services Management from Golden Gate University (1984), he
entered the U. S. Navy as a Health Care Administrator. He served in a variety
of capacities, to include: Radiation Health Officer for the eight nuclear
reactor divisions on the USS Enterprise, Medical Clinic Administrator managing
fleet support to two Battleships and various surface vessels, Operations
Management Officer of a 200 licensed bed hospital and Financial Systems Analyst
at Headquarters, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington DC. Liuetenant
Canby was awarded a Masters of Science in Management with a focus in Financial
Management from the U.S. Naval PostGraduate School, Monterey, California in
1994. He was first published in the industry periodical Health Care Financial Management in 1995. LCDR Canby retired from
the Navy in 1999 having completed his last four years as the Financial Officer
for the Naval Hospital at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington. He has
experience as an Adjunct Professor, for Chapman University College, Northwest
Campus in their Organizational Leadership program. He is active in his South
Whidbey Island community, and currently serves as Treasurer for the South
Whidbey Mobile Turkey Unit – a nonprofit charity that delivers thanksgiving
meals to those who would otherwise go without. Currently, he lives with his talented
wife Laura, dog & two alpacas (Cuzco & Zorro), on their forested
property in Puget Sound.
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