Jim McLane, who founded the company in 1989 and is now chairman of the board, was a chief pharmacist at Cooper Green Mercy, then the Jefferson County-owned hospital for the poor on Sixth Avenue South.
McLane’s son, Brad, joined the company in 2016 and has been CEO since January.
Brad McLane earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. His dad asked him to join the family-owned business.
“My [younger] brother, [Jeff], had been working with dad and was going to take over the company someday, but he died unexpectedly [in November 2016 in a car fire in his garage],” McLane said.
After the loss of his brother, McLane was asked to come work for the company.
