Catalyst Board of Directors

Charles B. O'Keeffe

Senior Advisor

Charles B. O'Keeffe is Professor, Preventive Medicine and Community Health, at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Mr. O'Keeffe recently joined VCU after retiring as President and CEO of Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. O'Keeffe has led a distinguished career in the pharmaceutical industry and gov­ern­ment. As President of Drug Abuse Rehabilitation Services, he developed the first child-resistant, abuse-resistant vehicle for dispensing methadone. He served as President of Washington Reference Laboratories, which provided toxicology services to the Department of Defense during the Vietnam War. He has served in the White House for three presidents — as advisor, special assistant for in­ter­na­tion­al health and deputy director for international affairs in the Office of Drug Abuse Policy — and has served on U.S. delegations to the World Health Assembly and the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Mr. O'Keeffe was in­stru­men­tal in helping Congress reach consensus on the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000.

Board of Directors

• Patrick J. McEnany – Co-Founder, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
• Philip H. Coelho
• Hubert E. Huckel, MD – Co-Founder
• Charles B. O'Keeffe – Senior Advisor
• David S. Tierney, MD
• Milton J. Wallace