Session Details
Date:
12:00 PM
Where:
Trammel Devore Dodd
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Join DLA Piper for a conversation on the interplay between the Healthcare and the Technology sectors. Panelists will share insight as to why Healthcare IT is one of the fast-growing industries here in Atlanta and the region. Attendees will gain knowledge on trends and how technology considerations continue to drive healthcare investment, performance and liquidity.
Brian Gordon - DLA Piper
Moderator Brian Gordon assists companies, investors and funds with strategic transactions. He has extensive M&A experience, representing both strategic and financial buyers, as well as privately held companies and their shareholders in liquidity transactions. As outside corporate counsel to multiple venture-backed technology companies, he negotiates acquisitions, financing transactions and credit facilities and advises management on corporate governance, employment and equity compensation matters and the resolution of day-to-day legal issues. Brian also has a sub-specialty in representing restaurant and retail groups in private equity and acquisition transactions.
Andrew Goldberg - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Panelist Andrew Goldberg is a Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking group within SunTrust Robinson Humphrey where he focuses on coverage of the benefits management, distribution sectors and healthcare staffing sectors. Prior to covering the aforementioned sectors, Andrew focused his time covering healthcare software companies in the payer, provider and pharmaceutical spaces. Prior to joining SunTrust in 2010, Andrew worked for NYSE Euronext where he focused on corporate strategy and business development. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Andrew worked in equity research sales and healthcare public policy. Andrew graduated from the University of Delaware in 2001 with a B.S. in Economics and graduated from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in 2010 with an MBA in Finance & Accounting. In his spare time, outside of spending time with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs, Andrew volunteers as a board member for the Brighter Dekalb Foundation.
Jim Hall - Ingenious Med
Panelist Jim Hall serves as Chief Revenue Officer, bringing over 35 years of healthcare experience to Ingenious Med. Having sold healthcare IT services, EMRs, and ancillary software solutions, Hall is an expert in the complexities and needs facing healthcare IT consumers. Additionally, he has extensive experience across the healthcare space including the health system, physician, and payer markets. Prior to joining Ingenious Med, Hall served at Leidos Commercial Health as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Throughout his career Hall has held senior roles at a number of leading healthcare information technology companies including McKesson and IMNET. Currently, Mr. Hall is on the board of the Technology Association of Georgia-Digital Health Hall holds a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University.
Stephen Kendig - Leverage Health
Panelist Stephen Kendig is a serial entrepreneur, healthcare expert and part of a health catalyst firm (LHS) helping PE/VC backed companies scale across the US healthcare marketplace. Over his career he has driven functional areas in sales management, finance, corporate strategy, business development, oversight of daily operations,as well as start-ups, raising capital, and product development. His companies have raised nearly $100mm in capital, and scaled across the US healthcare marketplace. He excels at masterminding growth strategies and building teams to implement and take them to scale, for venture-stage and Fortune 500 companies. At LHS, Stephen guides efforts to grow a portfolio of young entrepreneurial organizations into meaningful, large, and self-sustaining companies. Most recently before LHS, Stephen was the CEO, founder and Chairman of illuma Care Connections. Before illuma Care Connections, he was a founder and COO of SoloHealth, the provider of 40-million-plus health screenings annually, and a long career at Novartis. A dedicated father of three, Stephen is also an avid runner, golfer, and skier.
