Vern Johnson began his career as a social worker and has devoted more than 30 years of his life to health care; including consulting to develop and implement a new business concept for 17 hospice and home care start ups.

He moved on to partner in several projects regionally, including two large facilities in Mesa, Arizona, as well as hospice programs around the country. Vern served as CEO of Building Blocks Counseling and has held various board positions for nonprofit and industry trade organizations, including the National Hospice Organization, Arizona Health Care Association, one-n-ten and the Arizona Recovery Housing Association.

Today, Vern is involved in brokering projects in development, especially in behavioral health, nursing facilities and assisted living. He brings extensive experience in the service provision of health care in hospice, home care, assisted living, behavioral health and skilled nursing facility businesses; as well as taking an active role in Axiom Care.

ViVRE Recovery Housing, operating as Axiom Care today, was Duane Mantey’s vision. He has worked tirelessly since 2010 to develop partnerships and support to inspire and change lives.

His passion is focused on improving the lives of those involved in the justice system, specializing in low level offender re-entry, and providing a safe and structured living program for otherwise homeless releases.

Duane is originally from Washington, but made Arizona his home many years ago. He is involved in many social organizations including DACA and Toastmasters.

He can regularly be found presenting at community events on recovery related topics. Mantey previously served as President of Axiom Care and Board Chair for the Arizona Recovery Housing Association.

John Pokorney serves as Axiom Care’s Chief Financial Officer, a role he has held since October 2023. John brings more than 30 years of financial management expertise across a variety of industries and organization sizes to the role. His extensive experience includes financial crisis and turnaround management, new business development, capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, financial modeling, data analytics and managing companies through growth and restructuring. His business philosophy is based upon communication, collaboration and contribution.  

He earned a bachelor of science degree in Economics from Ball State University and an MBA in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Marcia Scott joined Axiom Care as Chief Communications Officer in May 2025, bringing 30+ years of strategic marketing and communications experience to the role.

Prior to Axiom Care, Marcia served as CEO of Clearwater Communications, representing local and national clients including Helios Education Foundation, Alliance Residential Company and Chef Mark Tarbell.

As Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Valleywise Health Foundation, she led the organization’s rebrand, the launch and messaging for the $54 million ALL IN for Valleywise campaign and all communications throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, securing recognition as Arizona Business Magazine’s Healthcare Nonprofit of the Year. Past clients include Banner Health, NotMYKid, PetSmart and The Coca-Cola Company.

She previously served as Director of Corporate Communications for Mesa Airlines (American Eagle/United Express), PR Supervisor at Lavidge, VP of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for Premiere Global Services (PGi) and Director of Corporate Communications for ValuJet Airlines/AirTran Airways (acquired by Southwest).

She serves on the boards of Xavier College Preparatory and Florida-based Veteran nonprofit GratitudeAmerica.

Marcia earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations from the University of Florida.