The Independent Rx Team
Led by Pharmacy Owners
Our Team
Independent Rx are advisers to the independent pharmacy owners and entrepreneurs who need peer counseling and accounting to successfully navigate the complexities of buying, starting and operating pharmacies. Led by a team of current independent pharmacy owners who have owned over a combined 30 pharmacies (retail, compounding and long-term care) and 100+ years in the business, we have created an organization committed to coaching others in what we wish we’d known when we began our businesses.
Strengthen and transform the community pharmacy industry one independent pharmacy entrepreneur at a time.
Owen BonDurant | Partner
Experience
Owen is 2nd generation (his father Mark BonDurant, IRx Consultant) in the pharmacy business and has worked in independent pharmacies all his life. His pharmacy experience includes almost every role an independent pharmacy has to offer from currently being an owner in a retail pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy and an LTC pharmacy, cleaning bathrooms, working as a pharmacy technician to starting, marketing and running a durable equipment company and of course being the founder of Independent Rx Consulting.
Owen graduated from Miami University of Ohio and has a degree in marketing and a minor in management information systems (MIS). Over the past 20 years he has started two companies, sold enterprise software to major retail organizations and helped start or acquire over 100 pharmacies.
Role
Owen is a partner and founder of Independent Rx Consulting. He is responsible for all aspects of helping clients start or acquire pharmacies.
Interests
Outside of work Owen enjoys spending quality time with his wife and two children. He also plays golf when he can and strives to travel anywhere he and his family can as often as they can.
Tim Clark R.Ph | Partner
Experience
Tim graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a BS in Pharmacy. Shortly after graduation he began working at the family business making him a 3rd generation pharmacist and later a pharmacy owner. In 1998 he took over the family business, Clark’s Pharmacy, which at the time was a 3 store chain, as CEO and President. Upon taking over he grew the business, through acquisition and start-ups, to 10 retail sites. Then he strategically sold 7 of the stores and rebuilt the business to 15 retail locations plus long-term care and compounding pharmacies, through acquisition and opening stores from scratch.
Tim is also a former Regional Board Member for Sky Bank and a former National Advisory Board Member for McKesson. He also contributes time to the community through being a Foundation Board member at Dayton Children’s Hospital and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy.
Role
Tim is a partner and is responsible for the pharmacy transition for buyers and sellers of pharmacies.
Interests
Tim is busy raising his 8 children that live across the country. He enjoys traveling, playing golf, hiking, and a good meal.
Rich Danhof, CPA | Partner
Experience
Rich began his career in 1989 with the then big eight accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. He earned his CPA license and focused on the audit side but also had tax responsibilities for his client base. After five years and a broad range of experiences and clients, Rich made the move to big corporate. NCR Corporation was the new landing spot and there began a ten year succession of jobs from reporting and planning roles to CFO of an acquired software company to several years in the mergers and acquisitions group. As fulfilling as the experiences were at NCR, there was a desire to have ownership in a business. A partnership in a personal financial planning business became the next stop, and provided individual client based experiences that led to his current position as CFO and partner in Clark’s Pharmacy and Independent Rx Consulting. The last ten years have been spent operating and providing finance and accounting expertise to pharmacies. Clark’s Rx has operated up to 16 stores at a time and has opened, bought and sold over 25 pharmacies. In addition, those experiences are now being used to help entrepreneurs start, acquire and operate their own pharmacies.
Role
Involved in overseeing the overall direction and management of the company. Directly responsible for the financial, accounting, and tax operations of the business.
Interests
Outside of work I am always looking for opportunities to hop on my bikes. I love to mountain bike but also spend a fair amount of time riding on the road as well. Heidi and I enjoy travel, coffee shops, and good food with friends. We have two grown boys that are a joy and a lot easier now that they are on their own.
Heidi Danhof | Partner
Experience
Heidi graduated with a business degree from Cedarville University. Heidi has worked for Clark’s Rx for the past 9 years holding various positions from accounting, to project management, to outside consultant. She has been involved in opening stores, integrating acquired stores, and selling existing stores. Her current role with Independent Rx Consulting is to leverage her extensive experience with Clark’s stores to help others successfully achieve their goals of owning and operating a successful independent pharmacy. She loves her work and she really enjoys the relationships she develops as she works so closely with each of her new owners.
Role
Heidi’s role is working with the clients that are starting or buying a pharmacy. Heidi has weekly calls with our clients and takes them through our step-by-step checklist to ensure everything is complete when it is time to open their new store.
Interests
Heidi has raised two handsome boys, a crazy jack russell, and has been happily married since graduating from college. She loves to spend time with family, traveling and finding independent coffee shops wherever she goes.
Mark BonDurant R.Ph | Consultant
Experience
Mark is a graduate of Ohio Northern College of Pharmacy and is celebrating his 43nd year as a pharmacist. In his forty years with Clark’s Pharmacy in Dayton, Ohio he has experienced many roles including staff pharmacist, manager, supervisor, and chief operating officer not to mention the occasional need to fill in as a technician or delivery driver. For the last twenty years he has been a partner in the business and has overseen operations while growing from three to sixteen stores and managing over two hundred employees. As COO he was involved in over forty transactions of starting, buying, or selling a store and during his tenure as chief consultant, Independent Rx Consulting has conducted over one hundred more.
Role
Mark’s role as a consultant touches many aspects of Independent Rx consulting including buying, selling, or starting a pharmacy, operational issues and strategy, effective communications, and data analysis. He teaches several segments of the Pharmacy Boot Camp (both live and virtual) and represents Independent Rx consulting as a speaker for pharmacy conventions and as adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati.
Interests
Mark has been a performing musician since college and has written over fifty songs. In 2019, he was a co-writer on a song that reached top ten on the Bluegrass charts and was performed several times on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. He also enjoys golf and last year attended all four major championships. His other passions are traveling, good food, and lecturing on the business of pharmacy. Mark’s wife is a successful artist whose work has been featured in several national shows. He and Michele are proud parents of three children and grandparents of two.
Ashley Collins | Client Services
Experience
Ashley has been a technician with our company for many years. She has developed a love and passion for Independent Pharmacies. During this time Ashley has acquired an extensive knowledge of workflow and multiple pharmacy operating systems. She specializes in inventory management and day to day operations. As our Account Manager, she loves working closely with our clients and growing lasting relationships.
Role
Ashley is your main contact for all general day-to-day questions. She will also keep a close watch on your dashboard for any changes to your pharmacy information, inventory, and top payers. She is well rounded with experience in multiple different pharmacy systems and has a great understanding of inventory management and general pharmacy operations.
Interests
Ashley is married to her high school sweetheart. Together they have 3 beautiful daughters. They love spending time as a family doing anything outdoors. She especially enjoys shooting pool, fishing, riding jet-skis/boating. She also enjoys coaching her daughters’ soccer teams and can be found camping every weekend.
Luke Danhof, CPA | Accounting & Tax
Experience
Luke graduated with an accounting and finance degree from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2017 and obtained his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification shortly thereafter. He worked in public accounting in the tax department at EY in Indianapolis for 3 years. During this time, he gained a wide range of experiences by assisting the domestic and international tax teams with Fortune 500 multinational audits, international entity restructuring projects, and tax return preparation. Luke now serves as an accounting and tax manager for Independent Rx.
Role
Luke is responsible for preparing monthly financial statements for clients, analyzing the financial health and well-being of their pharmacies, and preparing business tax returns for them at year-end.
Interests
Luke lives in Centerville, Ohio with his wife Haley, son Oliver, and their little Shichon “Danger.” He enjoys mountain/road biking, disc golfing, and going to coffee shops in his free time.
Danielle Hutchinson | Accounting
Experience
Danielle started her career in sales at a local, independent jewelry store where she spent over 12 years learning the ins and outs of retail. At the age of 29, she became a stay at home mom to two beautiful boys. After 7 years she started a new career path in May of 2019 at Independent Rx consulting as an accounting assistant.
Role
Danielle will drive the day-to-day account transactions and assist in payroll. She will also work with you on your bills, deposits, and accounting transactions.
Interests
Danielle lives in Miamisburg, Ohio with her loving husband, Tyler, her two children, Brady, age 11, and Caleb, age 10, and her three dogs, Oscar, Rocco, and Bernie. In her free time you can find her at the gym or doing anything outdoors.
Mike Kelley | Client Services
Experience
Mike began working in the pharmacy industry 15 years ago as a pharmacy technician . His role developed into daily operations management for our stores in Missouri and eventually to Independent Rx assisting our clients on starting and buying pharmacies.
Role
MIke’s current roles with Independent Rx Consulting includes searching and analyzing pharmacy acquisitions for our clients as well as helping clients get their pharmacies ready for sale.
Interests
Mike grew up playing hockey. He still loves to play whenever he gets the chance and enjoys watching the NHL.
Mike enjoys traveling and has visited 10 countries and counting!
Kateri Masiongale | Accounting
Experience
Kateri graduated with an Accounting Degree from Indiana Wesleyan University. She started her career in the banking industry prior to joining the Clark’s Rx team. She has over 13 years of experience working with independent pharmacies. During Clark’s Rx’s period of store acquisition and divestiture, she was instrumental in applying the unique aspects of accounting for these transactions. She continues to maintain the responsibility of performing the monthly financial accounting for all of Clark’s Rx’s operations. She now applies this accounting knowledge and insights to the Independent Rx Consulting clients.
Role
In her current role with Independent Rx Consulting, Kateri manages each client’s financial accounting and closing processes in addition to assisting our clients throughout the country with special projects.
Interests
Kateri is married and has 3 beautiful children and enjoys reading and a glass of wine in her free time.
Michelle Plunkett, PHR | HR & Payroll
Experience
Michelle graduated with an Accounting Degree from Wright State University and began her career with the public accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand. She transitioned to corporate accounting and during that time expanded her expertise to the many facets of human resources, payroll management and benefits administration. For the past 5 years, Michelle has managed the many aspects of Human Resources for Clark’s Rx pharmacies and now brings this independent pharmacy expertise to the clients of Independent Rx Consulting. She always demonstrates a willingness to go the extra mile for her clients to ensure a successful launch while providing consultative guidance for her ongoing clients. Michelle is a certified Professional of Human Resources (PHR).
Role
Michelle is responsible for managing the Human Resources and Payroll related services for our clients.
Interests
Michelle is married with three children, one grandchild, and enjoys her two dogs, music, and traveling.
Todd Plunkett | Data Services
Experience
Todd graduated with an Accounting Degree from The Ohio State University and obtained his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification as he began his career with the public accounting firm Deloitte & Touche. Valuable accounting, finance and general business process experience was obtained while servicing many different clients during this time.
He then moved to a corporate position with the Reynolds & Reynolds company in Dayton, OH. In this role, he served in a variety of corporate finance and accounting related positions learning many facets of the business – including Financial Reporting/Consolidations, Commissions, General Accounting, Contract Management, and Financial Planning & Analysis. With these business insights and strong technical skills, Todd transitioned to the information Technology group.
Over the years in this role Todd has planned, defined, built, tested and supported many different systems and related processes. With more than 32 years of broad business and technical experience he is now serving the Independent Rx Consulting clients by delivering insightful data services and dashboards to monitor and proactively manage the operations of their pharmacy businesses. Additionally, he works to deliver best practices in pharmacy operations to ensure accurate data and information is managed within the pharmacy systems.
Role
Todd is responsible for establishing your online Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboard. The dashboard relies heavily on the accurate item cost information in addition to incorporating other financial, payroll and operational data. He will work with you to obtain access to your Pharmacy Management System for purposes of extracting data weekly for presentation in the dashboard. Your dashboard will be key to monitoring and understanding trends in your business performance.
Interests
Todd is married with three children (and his first grandchild), enjoys good coffee, live concerts, and traveling for photography.
Lisa Roberts | Accounting
Jim Sunderland, CPA | Accounting & Tax
Experience
Jim graduated from Wright State University in 1983 with a BS degree in accounting and finance, and began his career in public accounting at then Big 8 firm Coopers and Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). He obtained his CPA certification and gained valuable experience there in both audit and tax working on a wide variety of clients. After spending over 9 years at the firm, and progressing to the level of senior audit manager, he moved into a corporate role at Reynolds and Reynolds, becoming the Director of Financial Reporting and General Accounting for one of their divisions. From there, he transitioned to higher level roles at 3 smaller Dayton-area companies, working with other executive leadership to establish and achieve company objectives, and gaining experience in manufacturing, software and marketing services. He has served in a CFO role for the last 21 years during his tenure at these 3 companies. Jim brings a strong background of accounting and finance operations and over 38 years of experience to IRx, to assist clients in their pharmacy operations.
Role
Jim oversees the tax and accounting operations of his clients.
Interests
Jim is an avid sports fan (NFL, College Basketball and Football, MLB, NBA) and follows many local teams throughout the year. He enjoys traveling, and spending time with friends and family. He also enjoys attending rock concerts on a regular basis. Jim resides in Chillicothe, Ohio, and he and his fiancé together are the proud parents of six children as well as grandparents of six.
