Our Leadership Team

Dan Neubert

Chief Operating Officer

Dan Neubert has been the Chief Operating Officer of MinuteMen OhioComp since 2002. He has over 30 years of experience in workers’ compensation, including being the former Director of Medical Claims for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. While at the BWC, he held other key management positions and facilitated several projects including development of the V3 Case Management System.

Certified rehabilitation counselor and certified disability management specialist

Ronald Hawes, M.D.

Medical Director, Occupational Medicine

Dr. Hawes specializes in family medicine and is affiliated with the Akron General Medical Center where he serves as the Medical Director for their Health and Wellness Centers. He rejoined MinuteMen OhioComp in 2015 where he previously worked from 2001-2012. He is a member of the Summit County Workplace Wellness Symposium Committee and served on the State Bureau of Workers' Compensation Manage Care Organization Medical Director's Committee from 2001-2012. Dr. Hawes is a Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine where he has been teaching since 1998.

Medical degree: University of Toledo College of Medicine

Otto Schmidt, D.C.

Medical Director, Chiropractor

Dr. Schmidt is a board certified chiropractor and owner of the Pleasant Valley Chiropractic Clinic in Parma. He has a post-graduate certificate in spinal trauma and has been practicing since 1992. Dr. Schmidt served as President and later Chairman of the Board for the Ohio State Chiropractic Association (OSCA). He has also represented the chiropractic profession on the BWC Health Care Quality Assurance Advisory Committee.

Medical Degree: Palmer College of Chiropractic

Donato Borrillo, M.D, J.D., M.S.

Medical Director

Dr. Borrillo is a practicing physician, attorney, and decorated war veteran. He is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, Indiana, New York, Michigan, Nevada, and Illinois, and law in Ohio and Michigan. He also holds a Master of Science in Immunology, a second Master's in Aerospace Medicine, and is a commercially rated multi-engine pilot. He is board-certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and works full time as an Occupational Medicine physician in a busy clinic practice. Borrillo served nine years in the military, with 30 combat sorties, and received an honorable discharge as a Major from the USAF. He has served as a Medical Advisor for The North Toledo Chrysler Assembly Plant, Medical Director at ProMedica Occupational Medicine, and has hospital staff privileges with the University of Michigan Sparrow Hospital. He teaches at the University of Toledo free clinic and also practices in the field of wound care and hyperbarics. Dr. Borrillo has served on several mission trips to Appalachia and El Salvador, and serves in the Guadalupana Free Clinic. He recently completed a four-year certificate from the Catholic Bible Study program in Jackson, MI. His legal practice is of general counsel with the Institute for Law and Justice in Bryan, Texas.

Medical Degree: State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine
Residency: Wright State University and graduate program at Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Law Degree: Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Lynn Popovich, RN, BSN, CCM

Director of Case Management

Email: Lynn.P@minutemenmco.com

Lynn Popovich has worked for MinuteMen OhioComp since 2006 and is the Director of Case Management. She has over 14 years of workers' compensation experience. She has held various positions including case manager and vocational rehabilitation case manager.

Certified Case Manager
Serves on the BWC MCO Quality of Care Committee
Degree: Bachelor of Science and Nursing, Case Western Reserve University

Sara Kain, RN

Director of Compliance

Email: Sara.K@minutemenmco.com

Sara Kain has worked for MinuteMen OhioComp since 2013 and has over 10 years of workers' compensation experience. She has held various positions including case manager and Assistant Director of Case Management.

Certified Case Manager

Michelle Leeser, RN

Director of UM/UR

Email: Michelle.L@minutemenmco.com

Michelle Leeser has worked at MinuteMen Ohiocomp since 2016 and is the director of UM/UR and the policy coordinator . She has 20 years of acute care nursing experience. She has held various positions in management including Director of nursing, quality control management, safety management, post-op acute care, and policy and procedure management.

Degree: Associates, Akron U

Anthony Kafiti

Director of Information Technology

Email: anthonyk@minutemenmco.com

Anthony Kafiti has been the Director of Information Technology at MinuteMen OhioComp since 2000. He led the implementation of MCO Central, MinuteMen OhioComp’s web-based claims management software, along with being the Open Enrollment coordinator since 2002.

Degree: College of Business, Management Information Systems, Ohio University

Megan Washington

Director of Billing

Email: Megan.W@minutemenmco.com

Megan Washington joined MinuteMen OhioComp's billing department in 2010 and is the Director of Billing. She oversees coding, billing and the utilization review. She has over 17 years of workers' compensation billing experience.

Serves on the BWC Billing and Reimbursement Committee