Solacium Executive Team

Solacium owns and operates educational, recovery, and treatment programs that facilitate superior levels of therapeutic change in emotionally or behaviorally challenged youth, young adults, and their families.

Through the use of our congruent framework of theory and methods, and as a result of the success and scope of our operations, we set an example of excellence in our industry. Our success includes and provides growth opportunities for employees, superior facilities, and clinical effectiveness. We currently operate 6 programs in 3 states. Solacium plans to expand through organic growth as well as acquiring programs that align within our family of services.

Solacium is focused on outcomes and studies related to
our students and their family's success.

David Michel

President & CEO

David Michel is a Dallas-based entrepreneur with extensive experience in healthcare, technology & media related enterprises. Mr. Michel is best known for the children's television show he created and produced in 1994 titled "Jay Jay the Jet Plane," an international hit that still airs daily on PBS and other networks around the world. Prior to creating Jay Jay, Mr. Michel was Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Merritt, Hawkins and Associates, a national healthcare consulting firm. More recently, he founded and served as Chairman and CEO of WinningHabits, an international provider of technology-based wellness programs for large employers and health plans. After growing the company for five years, Mr. Michel merged Winning Habits with Matria Healthcare (NASDAQ: MATR) in October of 2005.

Lance Davis

Chief Financial Officer

Lance R. Davis is the Chief Financial Officer for Solacium Holdings, LLC. He was most recently the CFO of Altius Health Plans, a regional HMO with over 220,000 members, where he served for nine years. At Altius Lance was part of a small team of executives which turned around a failing entity and restored it to profitability while improving operations and service to create the number one rated insurer for customer service in the state of Utah. Lance has worked in health care for 17 years and is a graduate of the University of Utah (BS Finance) and Brigham Young University (MBA).

Ashley Auchterlonie

Marketing

Ashley has worked in the behavioral healthcare industry for 16 years. Her extensive experience includes admissions, case management, strategic planning and customer oriented sales in both the education and behavioral healthcare fields. She has held the positions of Regional Marketing Manager for Psychiatric Solutions, Sales and Marketing Consultant for Appian Education, and the National Sales Representative for The Brown Schools. In addition, Ashley has experience as both an Admissions Director and Clinical Case Manager. She enjoys and thrives in sales, marketing, and admissions management and truly enjoys developing national and regional partnerships with referral entities. Raised on the east coast, she attended Texas A&M University, graduating with a degree in psychology. She resides in Austin with her family.

Kacy Kilpatrick

Human Resources

Kacy has worked in the human services industry since April of 1998.  He worked as the Director of Human Resources at New Haven Residential Treatment Center from May of 2000 to February of 2006.  During his time at New Haven he was closely involved in three expansions.  He has been the Director of HR for Solacium since February of 2006.  He has been responsible for the transition of the HR function as Solacium has acquired programs.  Kacy earned his bachelors degree from Brigham Young University in 1999.  He will earn his MBA from the University of Maryland University College this coming April (2008).  He earned his Professional of Human Resources (PHR) certification in 2002 through the Human Resources Certification Institute and has maintained that certification through continuing education.  Kacy is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management.  Kacy is happily married and has three beautiful daughters.

Program Directors