Meet Our Leaders
Our team
Starting with our leadership, we can provide the best of what comes after. And we're committed to providing each and every patient with compassionate, patient-centered care and evidence-based procedures. We are dedicated to innovation and to our extensive network of care teams and partners around the nation, who work tirelessly to support us in extending the boundaries of home health and hospice care.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, FOUNDER
KATE CONNOLLY
An experienced Director of Nursing, Staffing Agency Director, Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL), and Registered Nurse (RN) specializing in CMS guidelines, staff management, compliance, and KPI utilization and implementation. Ms. Connolly is a former Emergency Department (ED) Trauma Team Lead RN, a US Army soldier, and an Air Traffic Controller with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Ms. Connolly has an extensive background in business leadership and management, healthcare, entrepreneurship, military service, and aviation.
Ms. Connolly is a University of Mississippi graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and holds a master’s degree in Clinical Nurse Leadership from the University of South Alabama. Ms. Connolly has experience working in acute care hospitals as an Emergency Room Trauma RN and Trauma Team Lead, and home health agencies as a Director of Nursing and Assistant Director of Nursing. She was also amongst the brave group of nurses that volunteered to care for the incoming Ebola patients treated at Texas Health Resources Presbyterian Hospital ED, in Dallas, Texas in October 2014, as well as Monkey Pox and COVID patients in 2020.
Ms. Connolly currently serves as Director of Nursing and Healthcare Staffing and Billing Services at Noble Healthcare in Houston, Texas.
Ms. Connolly is a former US Army soldier with 8 years of active duty service as an Air Traffic Controller/ Controller in Charge. She was honorably discharged in 2007 and went on to work for the FAA, as well as work as a military contractor for KRB in the Republic of Kuwait, before starting her healthcare career.
In her roles as a financial advisor and investor, Ms. Connolly has participated in transactions across the capital structure in companies, involving instruments in debt, equity, and other special situations.
Ms. Connolly is a QLA and QLA HARDCORE mentee.
Ms. Connolly lives in Dallas, Texas.
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
MITCHELL FERGUSON
Mitch Ferguson is a leader and entrepreneur who is active in both the business and philanthropic communities. Mitch has owned and operated a healthcare and life science recruiting practice since 2002 and in 2014 added data protection, privacy, and national security to his business lines. Mitch takes a partnership approach with his clients and focuses on solving the business problems at hand when sourcing and placing talent. He has placed corporate CFO’s, Hospital CEO’s, Director of Research and Development, and literally all line and staff levels with hospitals and pharmaceutical manufactures.
Mitch is a 22-year Air Force veteran. He was a recognized expert and leader in two career fields spending his first 14 years in intelligence with key operational and leadership assignments at unit and Headquarters level; his last eight years of duty were in the Department of the Judge Advocate General as a paralegal and law office manager/superintendent with assignments at both the Wing and Number Air Force level.
Community matters and in 2011 Mitch was a founding Officer and Director of the Board of Fisher House Wisconsin. He continues to serve on the Board Governance and Development Committee and leads the compliance efforts. Additionally, Mitch has and continues to support the community through committee leadership positions with the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association helping all three organizations to raise more than 10 million dollars to support their missions in the last decade. Mitch is married to Linda Newberry-Ferguson and they have four grown children they raised together and seven grandchildren.
VP of Finance (Advisory)
SHANOOP KOTHARI
In addition to to his role as the VP of Finance for The Wedda Group, Shanoop Kothari has served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of NuZee Inc (Nasdaq: NUZE). Prior to joining NuZee, Mr. Kothari served as Managing Director at B. Riley FBR, Inc. (“FBR”) since 2014 and has been involved in providing a wide range of financial services to FBR’s oil and gas clients. Before joining FBR, Mr. Kothari worked in the oil & gas industry as the CFO of a private refinery that was a joint venture with a small private equity firm and HollyFrontier, at Credit Suisse in energy investment banking, in finance for a publicly traded software company as well as in public accounting with Price Waterhouse.
Mr. Kothari has 20+ years of accounting, finance and capital markets experience within organizations ranging from a handful of employees to multi-national organizations with tens of thousands of employees. Mr. Kothari holds a BA (Honors) in Accounting from Southern Methodist University and an MBA (High Honors) from Rice University. Mr. Kothari is also a licensed CPA / CIA and possesses Series 7 / 24 / 63 licenses. Mr. Kothari is also a license realtor in Texas and has over 12 years of real estate investing.
VP of Business Development/ ADON
ARGIE KILLORAN, RN, CTM
Argie is a Registered Nurse, Care Transition Manager, and a top-ranked healthcare recruiter recognized for contributions to record-setting sales figures, territory expansion and new account development. Proven ability to lead sales teams to achieve multimillion-dollar revenue gains. Offer an in-depth understanding of the sales cycle process and remain focused on customer satisfaction throughout all stages. Experienced, “fearless” cold-caller and expert presenter, negotiator and closer.
Argie lives in Dallas, Texas with her family.
Administrative Supervisor
HAZEL BAUTISTA
Hazel has been an integral member of The Wedda Group since its founding. Initially, Hazel served as TWG’s Head of Communications & Recruitment. In the years since, Hazel has quickly climbed the ranks to VP of Recruiting, Training & Compliance for The Wedda Group, and affiliate firms Total Care Staffing, and MedTrekkerr-Staffing & Recruiting.
Hazel specializes in coordinating the recruitment, credentialing, and compliance efforts for mass activations of healthcare providers for communicable disease mobilization nationwide.