Our Leadership

W. Howie Walz

Mid-America Division Vice President

W. Howie Walz joined the American Red Cross in 2002 after a successful 20-year career leading non-Red Cross blood and biological organizations. He held the position of chief executive officer of the Red Cross Lewis and Clark Blood Services Region for three years prior to becoming the vice president of the Mid-America Blood Services Division in 2005. As vice president, Walz is responsible for management and oversight of the Divisions’ eight Red Cross Blood Services Regions, which span the central United States from Texas to Minnesota. The Division collects more than 1 million red cell and 200,000 platelet donations annually, and serves more than 500 hospitals and transfusion centers.

Scott L. Caswell

Chief Executive Officer

Since April 2010, Scott Caswell has served as CEO of the American Red Cross Missouri-Illinois Blood Services Region. Caswell, who has 15 years of valuable blood banking leadership experience, previously served as CEO of the American Red Cross Central Plains Blood Services Region, located in Wichita, Kan. Caswell holds a holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Master of Business Administration and is a member of the AABB and the American Marketing Association.

David C. Mair, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Mair provides medical and scientific oversight to the Reference and Neutrophil Laboratories in the North Central Region and serves as an assistant medical director of the transfusion service and the therapeutic apheresis departments at the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview in Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Veteran’s Hospital. Dr. Mair is a published transfusion-medicine expert and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Immunohematology, Journal of Clinical Apheresis, Transfusion, and Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine publications.