Board of Directors
Mitesco, Inc. is governed by a three-member Board of Directors. Each director’s full biography appears below.
Mr. Mack Leath — Chairman of the Board
Mr. Mack Leath, age 66, is Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is a senior executive with 30+ years’ experience in business management, including a number of rapid growth and start-up situations. He has been a sales and marketing professional in Petro-chemical distribution, software and construction related products as well as healthcare. His roles include financial management and capital markets. He has previously served on the Board of the Company from September 2016 until May 2017 where he assisted in restructuring and evaluating various business situations.
Mr. Leath has held several positions with several software companies. He is the founder and Vice President of Business Development for Araicom Life Sciences, a literature search software start-up, Medsoftccs, LLC a software solution focused on assisting HR functions with nursing compliance issues and represents WVI Enterprise Companion, a software operating environment for the petro-chemical industries. His involvement with each organization has varied with his primary focus being development and implementation of the business plans, raising investment capital (angel), marketing and sales. Most recently, Mr. Leath is a partner in CLRM which assesses GHG’s to trade in environmental carbon credit market and assists in improving fuel economies and emissions for long haul trucks.
Mr. Leath has been the past president and has continued to serve on the Board of Searstone (www.searstone.com), a $150 million Continuing Care Retirement Community in Cary, NC since its inception in 2005, construction and occupancy. As president, he presented and argued the business case before the North Carolina MedCare Commission for the $112 million bond financing in 2010. In conjunction with this role, he has served as president of Quality Care Foundation, a 501c(3) corporation since 2002 which is the bond holder for other assisted care living facilities and CCRCs.
Mr. Leath graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in Business Administration; 1986.
Dr. Jordan Balencic, D.O. — Director
Dr. Jordan Balencic, age 37, and his employment history includes positions in both the healthcare arena, and as an entrepreneur. His healthcare experience is as follows: From October 2016 until the present, he has served as the Service Chief, Medical Director, and a staff physician for Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration Lebanon, PA (Lebanon VA Medical Center).
His experience as an entrepreneur includes CEO / Co-Founder of ERApeutics, LLC d/b/a EVERMIND, Lancaster, PA, a physician-led organization dedicated to commercializing evidence-based, functional food and beverage products for cognitive health. From August 2017 until the present, he serves as CEO / Co-Founder for BrainPower Capital, Inc., Lancaster, PA a health and wellness commercialization consultancy that has provided strategic guidance to several startups and public microcap companies since 2017.
He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for Mitesco from September 2016 until September 2018 where he assisted in restructuring and evaluating various business acquisitions.
Dr. Balencic’s education includes the following degrees: Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), in June 2013 from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in May 2009 from Gannon University, Erie, PA Degree: B.S. Biology with Emphasis in Pre-Medicine, Cum Laude.
Mr. Brian Valania — Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer & Director
Brian Valania is a technology and business development executive focused on enterprise software, data infrastructure, and strategic growth initiatives across emerging technology sectors. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Mitesco, Inc. and has been instrumental in shaping the company’s strategic direction, including the development of its Centcore data center platform and expansion into artificial intelligence and vertical software applications. For the prior 20 months, he served as General Manager of Centcore, LLC, the Company’s data center subsidiary, where he led operational planning, partnership development, and the initial deployment strategy for small-format distributed data centers.
Earlier in his career, Valania worked extensively with enterprise data and analytics platforms, including roles with Experian and Dun & Bradstreet, where he advised corporate clients on data strategy, analytics, and market intelligence solutions designed to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
Later in his career, Valania worked with enterprise software ecosystems including SAP, supporting large corporate clients in implementing data and process transformation initiatives across finance, supply chain, and operational systems. His work has consistently focused on helping organizations leverage technology platforms to drive measurable productivity and revenue growth.
At Mitesco, Valania has been a key contributor to the company’s transformation toward a technology-driven model centered on infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and vertical SaaS platforms. His work includes advancing the Centcore distributed data center strategy as well as supporting the development of AI-enabled software initiatives designed to operate on top of that infrastructure.
Valania holds a bachelor’s degree from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.