Increasingly, today's healthcare financers are inventing new investment models that equal the innovative
spirit displayed by their portfolio companies. These include incubators, accelerators, funds focused on niches, and private
equity funds. To put you at the epicenter of understanding this trend, we'll hear from the healthcare portfolio leaders
of some of the most creative of these firms about their unique approaches to capitalizing and growing companies that are leveraging
technology to provide Better and Smarter Healthcare. Our speakers will be:
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Our host, Barry Didato, is the Chief Investment Officer of The Innovation Institute.
Together with TII's Enterprise Development Group and the Growth Fund, the Lab is incubating companies
with transformational ideas, and commercializing them into valuable products and services.
Now funded by five major hospital systems, including St. Joseph's and Bon Secours, Barry brings to TII
his 14 years of global experience as the Director of Strategic Investment for the Saudi Royal Family.
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OCTANe's CEO Bill Carpou is building on the regional accelerator's
national reputation for fueling innovation and growing businesses by recently launching the Visionary
Venture Fund and Advisory Board, which is focused exclusively on accelerating ophthalmology innovation
in The OC and throughout the industry. OCTANe's LaunchPadTM has enabled over a thousand tech companies
to raise over $1 billion in investment capital, creating over 4,000 jobs in The OC. |
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Tom Giles, as Frost Data Capital's General Partner for Healthcare, is leveraging
his management experience with IBM's Watson for Healthcare, as Frost transforms the VC and incubator world.
By focusing on Big Data analytics companies, and partnering with multi-national Strategics who co-invest
time and money to create in-demand companies, Frost is creating one of the largest ecosystems
of related Big Data startups in the world. |
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Scott Hutchinson, with StoneCreek Capital, has learned to "de-risk the deal"
in the over 50 transactions he's shepherded through to a strategic exit or IPO. He'll share lessons
learned as an investor on his Journey with MediPacs, a med device company that he's financially nurtured since its
corporate life began through tech transfer, to financings with Friends & Family, High Net Worth Investors, and Series A, B, and C rounds.
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John Lanier, has leveraged his doctorate in Strategic Leadership as
a Partner with Excellere Partners, a Denver-based, middle-market private equity
firm with a "buy-and-build" approach to value-creation. Through examples of their current and
exited investments, John will share their healthcare investment priorities, and the entrepreneurial
traits they've found to be the most alluring to private equity sponsors.
John will be joined by Excellere principal Eric Mattson.
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Ed Gibson, CEO of Gibson Investment Group, Inc., is a serial entrepreneur/private
equity investor who formed GIG in 2005, to acquire, reinvent, and operate IT and healthcare services firms.
In 9 years, Ed transformed his acquisition of an insolvent group of five oncologists into the multi-specialty
Cancer Treatment Centers of Oklahoma, which he sold to US Oncology/ McKesson Specialty Health – for a 11x
cash-on-cash return. Doing it again, re recently purchased IQ Logic, an IT software firm.
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And, to see how these investors respond to a "pitch" in real-time,
Dirk Soenksen, CEO of Ceresti Health, will present this innovative company that
blends technology with expertise to improve the experience of family caregivers living with
Alzheimer's and other dementias in their home. With his last company, Aperio, Dirk raised
several rounds of financing before successfully exiting to a Strategic, Danaher's Leica
Biosystems (Danaher is #149 on the Fortune 500). |
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Register today to ensure your seat at this fast-paced, informative, and inspiring session!
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ABL Members |
FREE |
1st Registered Members Guest* |
FREE until March 22, 2016 |
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Open Registration |
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- Early Bird – payment
must be received by Tues., March 22, 2016 |
$195 |
- Payments received after Tues., March 22, 2016 |
$295 |
*Members' Guests must be a Board Member, Direct Report,
or Prospective Member (i.e., a President, CEO, COO, or
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