Entrepreneur,attorney, and businessman, John H. Ruiz, is the Founder and CEO of MSPRecovery, the country's healthcare reimbursement recovery leader. Thedata-analytics and technology company recently became publicly-traded("MSPR")--the second largest SPAC transaction in the U.S., with a value of $32.6billion. Mr. Ruiz innovated and designed the business and IT platforms at MSPRecovery, which the nation's largest healthcare organizations rely upon tomaximize their recoveries.John H.Ruiz also leads the legal recovery strategies as the Founder of MSP RecoveryLaw Firm. He is nationally recognized as one of America's pre-eminent triallawyers for his accomplishments in healthcare law. Among his countless awards,he is honored annually as one of Lawyers of Distinction's "Power Lawyers". Hewas also named "2019's DBR Florida Trailblazer", for his groundbreaking work inintegrating data analytics into the practice of law, and for the positiveimpact it's having on healthcare recoveries across the mainland U.S. and PuertoRico. Over the course of his distinguished 30 year legal career, Mr. Ruiz hasalso gained national recognition in class action, mass tort litigation, MDLconsolidated cases, medical malpractice, products liability, personal injury,real estate, and aviation disaster cases.Mr. Ruizled the legal team in the landmark win handed down by the U.S. Court of Appealsfor the Eleventh Circuit, in "MSP Recovery Claims versus Ace American InsuranceCo". In addition, he has certified more than 100 class actions and participatedin three federal appellate court decisions: (1) Humana v. Western Heritage, 832F.3d 1229 (11th Cir. 2016); (2) MSP Recovery v. Allstate, 835 F.3d 1351 (11thCir. 2016); and (3) MSPA Claims 1, LLC v. Kingsway Amigo Ins. Co., No. 18-14980,2020 WL 728625 (11th Cir. Feb. 13, 2020).He hasbeen involved as counsel in cases that have totaled more than $20 billion insettlements. These class actions resulted in some of the largest awards inFlorida against major insurance companies such as Allstate, Progressive, StateFarm, and Geico. The Geico case alone resulted in the settlement of over 80million dollars of reduced claims. In total, Mr. Ruiz has single-handedlycertified class actions against all major car insurers in the state of Florida,resulting in the current and potential redistribution of billions of dollars inimproperly paid claims spanning a period of more than 10 years.Hissuccessful career is distinguished by an unprecedented number of favorableresults against companies like American Home Products (Fen Phen), BayerCorporation (Baycol), Merck Pharmaceuticals (Vioxx), Shell, Toyota, ConagraFoods- Peter Pan Peanut Butter, and Chalk's International Airlines.Startingas early as 1996, Mr. Ruiz filed class-action lawsuits on behalf of more than30,000 Miami-Dade County residents against the Florida Department ofAgriculture for trespassing onto the private properties of homeowners andchopping down their citrus trees without any compensation. The case wasultimately certified and the Department of Agriculture directly compensated allmembers of the aggrieved class.In 2001,he represented frustrated consumers in a class action lawsuit against Firestonefor the poorly designed and manufactured tires that resulted in 63 fatalitiesand thousands of serious blowouts. Mr. Ruiz was also hired as local counsel bynumerous out of state law firms that had pending cases in Florida courts. Thecases in aggregate settled for more than 30 million dollars.Four yearslater, he represented the families of crash victims in a wrongful death suitagainst Chalk's International Ocean Airway. Mr. Ruiz was the first lawyer to filea limited fund class action. The case settled within 60 days of the lawsuit fora confidential agreed amount. The Miami Herald and other media outlets reportedthat the case settled for 51 million dollars. The survivors of those who passedaway in the accident collected within 364 days after the date of accident,which is unprecedented. Mr. Ruiz has also handled more than 225 appeals, whichinclude arguing before the Florida Supreme Court. He has also been involved inhundreds of arbitration cases that resulted in substantial monetary awards.John H.Ruiz prides himself on hard work and perseverance, lessons taught to him by hismother and father, Nelida and Emeterio Ruiz, Cuban immigrants who came to thiscountry with nothing but the hope of giving their kids a better life. And that,they did!Coming from those humble beginnings in Miami gave Mr. Ruiz themotivation to beat the odds and make his parents proud. He went on to be thefirst in his family to attend college and law school, built a hugely successfullegal practice, and blazed a new trail in data-analytics and healthcare.That drivecontinues today as he paves a new road, setting the same kind of example forhis three children, that his parents set for him. Mr. Ruiz dedicates himselfdaily to beating a different set of odds, going up against the largest primarypayers and auto insurers in the country, to secure financial reimbursements andinnovate life-saving technology for healthcare payers, providers and theirpatients.