Ryan McCarty serves as Chief Executive Officer of Lab Angelus. He is also the founder of Becket More, a Kansas City–based business and legal consulting firm whose healthcare practice has advised Mercy St. Louis, the University of Kansas Health System, MAWD Pathology Group, and other major regional providers across nearly a decade of engagements.

A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (BA, 2004), Mr. McCarty served four years on active duty in the United States Air Force in thermonuclear ICBM operations and four years in the reserves, holding Top Secret SCI clearance. He earned his JD from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2010, clerking for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri. He subsequently completed an MBA from Washington University (with honors, 2016) and an LL.M. in Health Law from Saint Louis University (2016).

Mr. McCarty's legal career spans federal and state prosecution, medical malpractice defense, administrative law, and governmental affairs. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Health Law Association, and multiple bar associations, and has served on the boards of several businesses and nonprofits.

Samuel K. Caughron is Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Lab Angelus. He also serves as Chief Strategy Officer of MAWD Pathology Group — the largest provider of pathology and laboratory professional services in the Kansas City region — and as Medical Director of AdventHealth Shawnee Mission.

A native of Kansas City, Dr. Caughron received his medical degree and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology training at Creighton University, then completed a fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at Vanderbilt University. He became the region's first board-certified Molecular Genetic Pathologist and founded two community-based molecular diagnostics laboratories — first in Billings, Montana, then at MAWD, where he established the MAWD Molecular Lab in 2010. He is nationally recognized for bringing advanced molecular testing to community cancer patients.

Dr. Caughron serves as Vice President of the Independent Pathology Practice Network, Vice-Chair of the College of American Pathologists' Personalized Healthcare Committee, Chair of the Association for Molecular Pathology's Economic Affairs Committee, and on the Board of the American Pathology Foundation. He is board-certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology.