Michael joined Mission Veterinary Partners as the Chief Executive Officer in October 2018 after serving on the Board of Directors of Mission Veterinary Partners since the company’s inception. Michael is a co-founder of MD Holdings, an entrepreneur-owned holding company formed to acquire and grow a limited number of businesses with significant growth potential. From 2015—2017, Mr. Aubrey was Chief Executive Officer of StatLab Medical Products and successfully led the company through its sale to Cressey & Company. Prior to being appointed CEO, Michael served as Co-President of StatLab Medical Products from 2009 to 2015, where he had oversight of the company’s sales, marketing, product development, and technical support capabilities. Under Michael’s leadership, StatLab’s equity value increased 10x, and the company established itself as the premier anatomic pathology supplier in the United States. Prior to acquiring StatLab Medical Products, Michael was CEO of a parking lot facility management company where he grew revenues 7x and team member 5x in less than five years. Michael also sits on the boards of StatLab Medical Products, MedCerts, LLC., Delasco Dermatological Supply Company, Golden Bear Physical Therapy, and Crestlight Capital.
Michael graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Dr. Stephanie Bailey grew up in Tallmadge, Ohio, where she met her husband while raising hogs, lambs, steers and turkeys in 4-H. Dr. Steph began her undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University before transferring to The University of Minnesota with her husband in 2003. While in Minnesota, Dr. Steph earned her bachelor’s in Veterinary Science. Throughout vet school, she worked as a veterinary technician at the Affiliated Emergency Veterinary Service as well as the university’s Large Animal Teaching Hospital. She also completed rotating externships at Intermountain Animal Hospital in Boise, Idaho, and Westvet Specialty and Emergency Center. Dr. Steph was awarded her D.V.M. from the University of Minnesota in the spring of 2008.

After graduation, she rejoined her husband and family back east when she joined Acredale Animal Hospital in Virginia Beach, Va. When the Baileys were offered a chance to move back to Northeast Ohio, Dr. Bailey excitedly joined Village Veterinary Clinic in Mayfield Village, Ohio, where she practiced small animal general practice until moving to Wooster to join Cleveland Road Animal Hospital.

Today, Dr. Steph will be the first to tell you she leads a truly amazing staff at Cleveland Road Animal Hospital and is very proud of the high standards that are met by our AAHA accredited hospital. Her areas of expertise include dentistry, internal medicine and preventative care.

Dr. Chad and Dr. Steph reside in Wooster with their daughter Jo Marie, their son Owen Oscar and their dogs Daisy, Stella, and Dixie.

Kelly works in conjunction with our field leaders and Hospital Development Coordinators to deliver smooth introductions and rollouts for new programs, initiatives, tools, educational opportunities, and process improvements that support your continued success.

Dr. DeWire attended veterinary school at the University of California, Davis where he earned the Pfizer Clinical Achievement Award for Excellence in Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. DeWire graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts where he majored in Anthropology and fulfilled his pre-veterinary requirements while playing four years of college football. He enjoys snowboarding, drumming, and playing fetch with his best friend Tryspin, his Doberman.

Brian Hamm attended the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and graduated in 2003. After 3 years of general practice, he returned to the world of academics and completed a general rotating internship and an internal medicine residency. He became boarded in 2011 and continued practicing specialty medicine until 2017 at which time he bought a general practice in Kearney Missouri. This is the practice that he went on to sell to MVP in December of 2020. The time of the sale, Dr. Hamm transitioned from practicing to a senior leadership role within MVP. He is currently one of MVP’s Strategic Medical Directors.

Dr. Johnson has served as the Director of Dogwood Veterinary Hospital and Laser Center since 1997. She is responsible for all aspects of the conduct of hospital operations, customer relations, and community involvement.

Dr. Johnson received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Auburn University in 1995. She additionally holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Montevallo, where she was a varsity basketball player, a B.S. in Animal Science from Auburn University, and is a graduate of the Executive Integral Leadership program at the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Johnson maintains currency in veterinary business and medical processes through her participation in a robust continuing education program at Dogwood Veterinary Hospital. Her focus areas in veterinary medicine are internal medicine, cardiology, dentistry, and dermatology.

A strong advocate for community involvement, Dr. Johnson has served on the Newnan Chamber of Commerce and is a Kiwanis Club board member. She is also a member of St. George Catholic Church. Her personal interests include family, traveling, gardening, SCUBA diving, snow skiing, and horseback riding.

As Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. Dan Markwalder will be leading MVP vision and strategy for training, mentorship, and clinical recruiting. Dr. Dan is a graduate of Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine and has been a practicing veterinarian for 26 years. He established Animal Care Clinic in Algonquin in March 1994 to provide an environment of high-quality care for his patients. Dr. Dan has a passion to partner with clients in providing the best care for their pets. He attends over 80 hours of continuing education each year; skydived on his 50th birthday, is a die-hard Cubs fan, grew up in Indiana and has an extensive baseball card collection.

Dr. Dan married his college sweetheart. They have four sons and a daughter, along with a Mini Goldendoodle named Maggie, a parakeet and one bearded dragon.

Jenny Moorman grew up in a veterinary family as her dad was a mixed practice veterinarian. This experience has made her very passionate for the veterinary field and ensuring we continue to improve the industry each and every day.

Jenny worked as a technician in the Chicago suburbs and her love for process improvement allowed her to work as a lead technician and eventually made the move to veterinary practice management.

In 2013 Jenny relocated to Northeast Ohio to be the practice manager for an after hours ER. She obtained her CVPM in 2018.
Jenny joined the MVP Continuous Improvement team as a hospital success specialist where she works each and every day to help support the MVP hospital leaders through their lab journeys and telemedicine initiative.

As the VP of Continuous Improvement, Dr. Rokke is responsible for helping implement positive change throughout the organization. With 20 years of veterinary experience, Dr. Rokke offers operational expertise in multi-site management and wide-ranging hospital policy reform across all business functions. As a prior consultant for veterinary hospitals, she also has significant experience with improving operational efficiencies, profitability, medical documentation, and the development of standards of care.
Dr. Rokke Grew up in NJ and earned her BA in Zoology at Miami University before graduating from Colorado State Veterinary School. As current board member for Bowling Green State University Pre-Professional Advisory, she mentors aspiring veterinary students. Dr. Rokke lives in Dexter, MI with her husband and three kids. As an avid outdoorswoman, she enjoys the mountains, hiking and fly fishing. None of which she gets to do enough!
Dr. Jen Rokke joined MVP in March 2019.

Education: Augustana College. Iowa State University

Doctor Safris was born and raised in central Iowa. He graduated from Urbandale High School in 1993 and went on to Augustana College in Illinois, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in biology in 1997.

In 2001, he finished graduate school at Iowa State University with a doctorate in veterinary medicine. He practiced for two years in Ames before returning to the Des Moines area to open Westfield Veterinary Hospital.

Dr. Safris and his wife Kate and children Luke, Ali and Will, live in Johnston with their multiple pets.

I have had the privilege to be part of the Den Herder Team since 1998. I started where many of
us do, in the kennel. I took a few years off when I moved away to vet school and have been a
veterinarian here since 2004, immediately after graduation. Dr. Jerry Den Herder and Dr. Lori
Cherney molded me into the vet I am now, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to learn
from these 2 wonderful vets, and people. I have been owner of the practice since 2013 and
continue to try to emulate the fundamentals that Jerry built the practice on. That philosophy
always centered around taking care of those around us. In effort to continue to provide the best
service and medicine for our clients, we took the leap and built the new facility in 2019. We are
proud to have our clients and staff walk into a facility that allows them to be proud as well.
My wife, Mandy, and I have 3 boys: Coby 18, Isaac 15, and Wesley 11. They have been my
biggest cheerleaders throughout my career and have blindly followed my crazy ideas every step
of the way. Without them believing in me, I wouldn’t have had the wonderful career I’ve had to
this point. We have collected 2 golden retrievers, a vizsla, and 1 cat. Their best tricks are to get
into the trash, get hair on every article of clothing we have, and to provide unending loyalty to
our family. They are keepers, and so are they boys, I guess.
I’m grateful for all this career has provided for me. It has opened countless doors to meeting so
many people that have become friends over the years. We’ve shared laughter, tears,
milestones, and countless memories. Sometimes all in the same 20 minute window. I’ve had
the pleasure to connect to so many pets that have walked through the front door. I have the
fortune to see a happy family as they introduce their new best friend to us, and the challenge of
helping another family say goodbye to theirs. I embrace these moments and every moment in
between. I appreciate the trust our clients have in me, and our team to look to us when they
need us most.