BrightSpring Health Services is welcome Olivia Kirtley to its board of directors. With an extensive background and leadership in finance, accounting and risk management, Olivia joined the board in January with the company?s initial public offering. Olivia brings decades of finance, regulatory and related process experience with an extremely distinguished track record of serving on public company boards across a variety of prominent industries and organizations, including U.S. Bancorp, Vista Credit Strategic Lending Corp., Papa John?s International, Rangold Resources Ltd, and ResCare, Inc. As a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant, Olivia has also worked as a business consultant focused on strategic risk management and corporate governance strategies and issues since 2000.

Previously, she served as senior manager at a predecessor to one of the largest U.S. accounting firms, Ernst & Young LLP, and as chief financial officer and treasurer of Vermont American Corporation. Olivia has also held several chairman positions since 1998, including for the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and AICPA Board of Examiners. In March, Olivia was recognized by American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as one of six ?Women Pioneers of Accounting,?

notably as she was elected chair of the AICPA board of directors in 1998, making her the first female chair of the AICPA. Olivia holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Florida Southern College and a master?s degree in taxation from Georgia State University.