​Lt. Colonel (Ret) Naishadh Buch, MBA, PharmD served 12 years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps (1983 - 1994), serving as Liaison Officer to UN forces, Operation Restore Hope, and retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He is currently Chief Operating Officer of the Lompoc Valley Medical Center. Buch began his duties at the Lompoc Valley Hospital District in early 2010.
He previously served as an Intern Pharmacist for Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles; Wal-Mart; Sav-On Drugs and Veteran's Administration and Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers and Scripps Mercy Hospital. Buch graduated from the University of Reading, and later received his PharmD and MBA from the University of Southern California.