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Texas, United States

Rubicon is an entrepreneurial healthcare investment firm focused on building and growing transformational companies. Rubicon seeks to both invest and partner to build meaningful businesses that create enduring value by transforming the way people receive healthcare.

Building America's largest innovative healthcare merchandising platform by partnering with hospitals, ambulatory care, payors, and service partners to enable greater and faster access to high-quality convenient care for consumers. We do in 10 simple clicks what takes most discharge planners all day to complete.

San Francisco Bay Area

While MedSetGo was still in stealth mode, I joined the team in a growth consulting role and helped them build something new and generatively disruptive. After I formally joined the co's C-Suite, we moved past our Angel Round and we were invited into a Globally sought-after Accelerator. Along the way, I have also served as an Advisor to multiple start-ups, including those in the Augmented and Virtual Reality spaces, as well as Autism Spectrum Disorder marketplace disruptors, digital and real-world.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Texas Health Resources (THR) is a faith-based, nonprofit health system. As the market's share leader, our Team of 28,000 employees offer 400 points of access, which include, 29 hospitals (20 acute care), 32 surgery centers, 22 imaging centers, and other outpatient, urgent care, primary care and specialty physician practices, behavioral health and fitness centers. In 2021, we provided over $900 million of charity care and community benefit, more than any other health system in the area.Texas Health Resources has more CMS-ranked 5-stars hospitals than any other system in North Texas. Texas Health is home to Level I and Level II Trauma facilities and Comprehensive Stroke Care facilities. We are also the only facility offering the highest NICU trauma services in the fast-growing Collin County. Texas Health also offers, in partnership with University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a Clinically Integrated Network known as "Southwestern Health Resources". Additionally, under the brand "Texas Health Aetna", Texas Health offers health insurance in partnership with Aetna. Texas Health was listed #1 on the Fortune 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care and Biopharma list, every year between 2015-2021. Fortune 100 named THR #7 on the 2021 Best Companies to Work For list.

New Orleans

Proudly headquartered in New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward, BCHS is a multi-site non-profit US Government designated community health center (HRSA.H80), specializing in care among medically underserved populations. BCHS services include: Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. BCHS enjoys numerous health focused partnerships with hospitals, academic institutions, governments and NGOs. BCHS is contracted with the University of Queensland (Australia), to provide 'Medicine in Society' rotations, where emerging doctors work under BCHS Physicians in the care of patients and assist BCHS Research in Clinical Quality Initiatives. In 2019, BCHS hosted a public health fellow from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who served onsite at BCHS helping advance BCHS led public health initiatives.BCHS is proudly an approved Health Resources and Services Administration 340B Pharmacy Designee and a federally recognized National Health Service Corps member. Through its partnerships with Pharmaceutical Corporate Social Responsibility organizations, BCHS distributes millions of dollars of in-kind pharmaceuticals to patients who cannot afford their medications. BCHS also provides free patient care programs, including those which support the medical and behavioral health needs of survivors of human trafficking and domestic abuse.BCHS’ CEO serves on the boards of four medical and NGO organizations, including the Louisiana Primary Care Association and Houston’s internationally focused Medical Benevolence Foundation, which assists in the establishment of surgical residency programs in developing nations. A leading goal of BCHS is to transform the lives of children, women and men and to help them thrive physically, mentally and spiritually. As a non-profit, BCHS welcomes donations from individuals, companies and foundations.

China-Usa

With a specialization in assisting developing markets, FMS globally links medical expertise and resources. As a partner, I enjoyed leading projects in Asia, Europe and North America focused on innovation, healthcare systems design and technology. In 2020, I participated as a consultant to one of the United States’ largest health systems. In 2019, I consulted with Shell in Europe. Between 2017-2019, I consulted in Asia. In 2017, I served as plenary session speaker at the annual conference of the Beijing General Practitioners Association. My work with FMS demonstrated that healthcare globally is the great equalizer. Every country on earth wants high quality healthcare solutions for their citizens.

Beijing

CrossPoint, a registered consultancy company, controlled a network of SME companies in Mainland China and Hong Kong. With a diverse staff team from across China and more than a dozen countries, our Scope of Work included: Consultancy focused on market entry; In-China management concerns; C-Suite and Board level roles within multiple companies, including a Chinese Digital Media Company focused on APP development and delivering content to Mainland People's Republic of China audiences; Conference hosting and special events in China's Tier One Cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou; As well as philanthropic / CSR initiatives in the PRC. With a Governing Board deeply entrenched in China, we worked at various levels with companies and NGOs, as well as Beijing Area, China National and North Korean government agencies. While serving with CrossPoint, one experience I enjoyed was the privilege to lead a multi-nation consultancy team to work in the North Korean (DPRK) capital, helping support the development of the DPRK's first children's cerebral palsy rehabilitation center. In other work, I was honored to directly manage the incubation of American, Australian, and UK start-ups as they migrated their operations into Mainland China.

Us, Canada, Caribbean

One of eight vice presidents directing the work of this 5,000 person multi-national organization. With a significant focus on humanitarian, medical, disaster relief initiatives, church development and faith-based initiatives, NAMB is the largest provider of skilled personnel deployed through the American Red Cross in times of emergent crisis. NAMB held seats on the Homeland Security / FEMA Disaster Preparedness Roundtable. Through an extensive network of partners, NAMB conducted and coordinated regional, national and international projects. It was my privilege to provide leadership to numerous foci, including: 1) The establishment of a new healthcare platform among federally defined medically underserved communities; 2) Strategic agency to agency partnerships (B2B), which focused on the development of strategies and allocation of resources to support those strategies; 3) Oversight of personnel and operations in a multi-state region. At different times during my 12 year tenure with NAMB, I provided direct leadership to development initiatives, including for a time holding the additional title of Interim Chief Development Officer. During my work at NAMB, I was also a member of a multi-agency end-user workgroup which partnered with Carnegie Mellon University's ABBY Project, which is an advanced online artificial intelligence translation platform. At the time of my engagement, ABBY allowed people to converse in real time across 28 languages; which accounted for 95 percent of the world's population. In written and audible mediums, ABBY corrects errors, clarifies colloquialisms, understands cues and learns through interaction to perform real-time interactive dialogue between two or more parties ABBY was originally developed for DOD, but today it and its protégés are leading AI transformation globally.

Us, Canada And Caribbean

One of seven Regional Directors leading professional multi-national staff teams in strategic planning and coordination of agency activities with field partners. Responsible for: budget; strategy alignment; formation of objectives, metrics and management of personnel and programs; including Human Resource oversight of six state area with 500 related personnel. Developed and led agency pilot projects, including Security Planning, Policy and Protocol development for personnel serving along US-Mexico Border and other potentially hostile environments. Led multi-year New Orleans Workgroup which included merger and acquisition activities impacting personnel, properties and other assets. Coordinated workflow of outside legal counsel. Responsible for annually hosting 14 strategic planning meetings with external key partners.

Us, Canada And Caribbean

With a professional background in financial consulting and investment advisory, I served as a key strategy consultant for NAMB to more than 45,000 member organizations in the US, Canada and Caribbean. Traveling full-time for seven years, I completed 1,000+ documented client consultations. Advisory topics included: organizational capacity building and health; key program evaluation; strategy development and implementation; financial consultation; personnel evaluation and selection; crisis management concerns and more. During this period I was also responsible for key relationships with supporting foundations. Additionally, I published articles on a wide variety of topics ranging from asset investment policy to contingency planning. Furthermore, I chaired multiple agency committees and taskforces.

Dallas, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City

Before and after graduate school, I served a total of five years with Bank of America's Investment Groups. As a licensed Series 7, 65 and 63, I was responsible for the solicitation and management of client investment portfolios. At my peak, I managed nine figure USD client investment accounts. During my first year of employment, I worked in the capital markets division, but quickly transitioned to a new line of business BAC was opening in retail investing and related client services. My clients included high net worth individuals, corporations, non-profits, and educational institutions. Daily my work involved domestic and foreign trading activities. During my tenure, I was for a time directly involved in the company's regional regulatory and compliance oversight, as well as related training processes for all levels of trading personnel.

Oxford Scenarios Programme, Strategic Foresight

Fellow cohort participants included those from UK Space Agency, Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, Royal Dutch Shell, Finnish National.

Master'S Degree

Program included East African humanitarian and medical projects

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba

Activities and Societies: President, Student Government Association; Vice President, Pi Gamma Mu, the oldest and preeminent.