Summary

• 20+ years operating experience in new ventures and turnarounds
• Expertise in healthcare technology, analytics and interactive media

Matt sees substantial opportunities for disruption in the healthcare ecosystem.  He is focused on applying best practices and talent capital management to help investors scale businesses in the healthcare technology and services space.  As Managing Partner of Chasm, Matt is focused on driving HCIT enterprise value growth through innovative talent capital models working as “partners” with venture capital and private equity investors and their portfolio companies. 

Matt brings over 20+ years of experience as a business leader in both large and small companies, where he led the qualification, launch and commercial expansion plans of 19 B2B and B2C business ventures across 14 countries.

Before serving as a Partner at Oxeon Partners, Matt was a change agent as SVP and Head of Marketing (CMO) for WebMD consumer businesses such as the company’s website, magazine and mobile assets.  Prior to WebMD, Matt was Founder & Managing Director of Nielsen Health (formerly a start-up business unit of The Nielsen Company) and subsequently President & CEO of Deutsche Ventures, where he conceived and commercialized first ever data integration methods and analytic solutions that help healthcare marketers, payers and providers optimize their patient communication campaigns in a HIPAA regulated data environment.  

In this endeavor, he founded Ecosys Consumer Analytics, a healthcare patient targeting and marketing ROI analytics platform that eventually merged with Crossix Solutions.  Earlier in his career, Matt spent 8 out of his 10 years at Procter & Gamble in Frankfurt and Geneva developing and leading commercial expansion plans for several global packaged goods and consumer health brands.  Matt started his career in the group employee benefits space at Unum.

Matt graduated from Colby College where he started two businesses, one of which he sold before graduating and received an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He is an investor and board member of various privately held ventures in the healthcare technology space. Matt is a member of Stamford Hospital’s Patient and Family Partnership Council as well as a Manager and former Commissioner of Darien Little League Baseball.

Summary

• 20+ years experience in turnarounds –  operations, marketing and sales
• Expertise in leadership, organizational development and delivering P&L results

Kristy found her niche as a global turnaround specialist in organizational development and operations. She has been a proven catalyst for change while leveraging the right people and leaders to achieve breakthrough results. After 25 years helping international companies in pharma and consumer products grow through challenging circumstances, she sees significant opportunity in helping healthcare technology & services companies scale by applying these experiences. 

As an international business leader throughout her career, Kristy evolved as an accomplished leader and management consultant following 8 years at Procter & Gamble.  While at P&G, Kristy managed the P/L and growth strategies of several global brands in Western Europe and South East Asia, with particular focus on consumer health.  While at P&G, she led her organization successfully through the Thai currency crisis. Subsequently, Kristy took on several leadership roles as Chief Operating Officer of Axicorp Pharma and Chief Purchasing Officer of ACA Mueller, both of which were privately held European pharmaceutical distribution companies based in Germany.  In these roles, Kristy led significant restructuring and turnaround efforts during the German health care reform and following new private equity funding, leading to record profits.  Kristy also took on several projects in consulting and training for international clients, advising them on disruptive strategies to achieve growth.  Some of those clients include BRITA GmbH, Tivall Europe, AC Nielsen, Aventis Pharma, Amneal Pharma, and Constantia Flexibles. 

Kristy graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and received her Master of International Management from Thunderbird Global School of Management.  She is fluent in German and enjoys globetrotting with her husband and two tri-lingual teenagers. She is active in the outdoors, especially since moving to Salt Lake City, Utah.  She is committed to making the community a better place and is a member on the Road Home Homeless shelter services committee.

Summary

•  20+ years in executive search, client management, and business development roles
• Expertise in placing C-suite and VP level executives across multiple functions in healthcare technology and services

David believes that in order for healthcare to transform from fee-for-service to value-based care, the Healthcare Information Technology industry will continue to face disruption and require “best in class” human capital to provide a competitive advantage. His view is that top talent in key functional areas like sales, marketing, operations, finance, and engineering will be necessary for venture backed companies in this space to not only win the sprint but keep pace in the marathon.

At Chasm Partners, David leverages his 20+ years of experience as an executive search professional in advising clients, and coaching candidates. He specializes in recruiting commercial oriented executives for early and later stage high growth clients, leveraging his experience from a broad range of client sectors including private equity, venture capital, healthcare, technology and consumer products.

Prior to joining Chasm Partners, David specialized in retained search focused venture backed healthcare technology companies at Ross & Company. Earlier in his career, he served in several senior recruiting roles at Lindsey & Company and O’Keefe & Partners, where he specialized in the recruitment of senior marketing, sales and general management executives. He brings experience having worked directly with senior leaders at clients ranging from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Visa, Domino’s Pizza, and Victorinox Swiss Army, while also partnering with Private Equity and Venture Capital clients including Summit Partners, General Catalyst, Hellman & Friedman, Frontier Capital, Harvest Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Northbridge Venture Partners, and Venrock, among others.

David graduated from Babson College with a BS in Management and was a two-time All-American in Ice Hockey. He is an active investor and a Limited Partner in a number of funds focused on healthcare technology and services. He lives in Fairfield with his wife and two children and enjoys ice hockey, boating, fishing, golfing and hitting the beach. He is an active member in the Catholic Club, Roxbury Club, and Fayerweather Yacht club. He still enjoys playing hockey in a men’s league and maintains his Level 4 coaching certification.

Summary

•  20+ years in global executive search and experience as a human resources executive for blue-chip public and not-for-profit companies

•  Expertise in placing C-Level and VP-level executives in business-to-business information and professional services, financial services, strategy and innovation, consumer analytics, retail healthcare, and pharmacy benefits management industries

Susan sees the disruptive potential of the HCIT sector as critical to the development of new ways to prevent and treat disease and to drive imperative improvements in our healthcare delivery systems. As a Director of Chasm Partners, Susan is focused on delivering to our clients HCIT executives who are both strategic and operational thought leaders with proven abilities to drive VC and PE-backed growth companies to sustainable and notable levels of enterprise value. 

Throughout her career in search, Susan has placed C-Suite executives who have the critical mix of bold business accomplishments, long-term vision, and laser-sharp operational focus. She is skilled in identifying and assessing candidates who possess a hunger for success, and outstanding leadership experience in emerging and rapidly transforming businesses. Her diverse experience enables her to quickly learn the dynamics and critical issues of businesses and to operate with a sense of urgency to consistently deliver an initial slate of candidates within 30 days. In addition to the United States, Susan has completed searches in Europe, South Asia, and South America.

For nine years prior to joining Chasm, Susan served as Senior Vice President of a high-end boutique executive search firm where she executed engagements for some of the world’s largest and best-known companies in industries such as Consumer (retail grocery, retail health care, pharmacy benefits management); Information, Business and Marketing Services; Professional Services; Financial Services; and Media & Entertainment.

Earlier in her search career, Susan founded Hayden Resources, an executive search firm that largely served clients in startups and industry-leading businesses in Media and Entertainment. She was one of six founding partners of The Cheyenne Group, a nationally known media, entertainment, and communications search firm.

Susan began her career in corporate Human Resources, where she held leadership positions with The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, The Perrier Group, Pepsi-Cola USA, and The Continental Group. A graduate of Syracuse University, Susan received a B.S. Degree in Special Education and Elementary Education and completed graduate coursework in organizational development. Throughout her career, she has held leadership positions in several human resource professional organizations, as well as Families with Children from China, and her local synagogue. In addition to her family, Susan’s passions include deep-water jogging, elliptical and treadmill workouts, strength training and mindfulness movement.

•  20+ years in data science, advanced analytics and management consulting

•  Successful career locating and attracting senior and executive talent in big data, advanced analytics, data science and strategic consulting

Sharad understands well the pace and accelerating velocity of change with her finger on the pulse of both disruption and advances in data sciences and life sciences’ emerging talent pool. The transforming healthcare ecosystem is inundated with Big Data challenges, forcing established companies to rapidly adopt new practices. Sharad sees healthcare as one of the key sectors where the data-driven action will be key in the near future and the demand for next-gen talent will be competitive and insatiable. 

Over her 20+ year career, Sharad has successfully mastered the challenges of hiring on “both sides of the desk.” As an executive and line manager, Sharad built and led large Analytic and Data Science teams for MasterCard, Omnicom/Rapp Collins, Guardian Life, New York Life, New York Times, Cendant, AT&T and more. As an Executive Recruiter, she has built a successful and eclectic track record of sourcing and delivering the rare blend of talent that corporate clients seek for leadership roles. She has successfully placed senior executives with a diverse list of clients including Cox Communications in Telecom, Colgate Palmolive in Manufacturing, AIG and Zurich in Insurance and several Symphony group of companies in Healthcare, Loyalty Marketing, CPG, and Media. 

Sharad has a Master’s degree in Nuclear Physics and an MBA from Delhi University. Given her science background it is no surprise that she loves Science Fiction and dabbling in a concoction of astrophysics, universe, consciousness, time dimension, and wormholes. As Einstein said, “The more I study science . . . the more questions I have!” She also loves bike riding and communing with nature.

Summary

• 20+ years in analytics and management consulting working with the world’s top consumer health, lifesciences and medical device companies
• Expertise in patient, provider and payor dynamics impacting outcomes

One year into her 11-year tenure at Nielsen, Suzanne was hand-selected to join a group tasked with building capabilities to predict pharmaceutical sales for the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. From that juncture on, her aptitude and passion for healthcare analytics quickly established her as an expert in the rapidly growing and ever-changing life sciences, medical device, and consumer health sector.  

Suzanne brings over 20 years of experience as a healthcare and international business advisor. While at Nielsen, she served as Director of both the Pharmaceutical Practice at BASES (the gold standard in forecasting and launch management for new Pharmaceutical brands) and the Nielsen Health (healthcare big data analytics) business units, generating new business and servicing clients such as Abbott, Alcon, Boehringer-Ingelheim, GSK, Janssen, LifeScan, Merck, Novartis, Otsuka, Perrigo, Pfizer, and Reckitt Benckiser, among others. In these roles, she developed and implemented cutting-edge analytics to offer unique, data-driven, actionable solutions and business recommendations to client portfolio management challenges. She has proven expertise in patient engagement, adherence, provider acceptance, and payor dynamics.

Suzanne’s therapeutic experience spans acute, chronic, and lifestyle conditions, including allergy, asthma/COPD, dermatological, diabetes, gastrointestinal, HIV/AIDS, neurological, pain management, and psychotherapeutics as well as medical devices. Before joining Chasm Partners, Suzanne ran her own consulting practice for 5 years, advising healthcare and technology companies on patient/consumer and provider insights impacting outcomes and well-being.

 Suzanne graduated from Bucknell University with a BA in Economics & French, and subsequently earned an MBA in Pharmaceutical Management from Rutgers University. She lives Southwestern CT with her husband and two sons, and keeps active by volunteering with the PTA, serving on the board of a local education foundation, and coaching Little League. A health-conscious technologist herself, Suzanne can often be found tracking her duration, distance, and speed as she runs her way through scenic New England.

Summary

• 20+ years in executive search, client service and marketing leadership roles
• Expertise in placing C-suite and VP-level executives across multiple functions in technology and consumer engagement related sectors

 Valerie believes that the transformation of healthcare and other industries facing similar disruption requires the continued advancement of talent particularly in mission critical functions like marketing, sales and client service to achieve commercial expansion and consumer/customer adoption for new technologies.  She views her expertise in this area as a way to meaningfully advance such a transformation through executive search.

 At Chasm Partners, Valerie leverages her 20+ years’ experience as both an experienced operator and executive search professional in advising clients and coaching candidates.   She specializes in recruiting commercial oriented executives for early and later stage high growth clients leveraging her experience from a broad range of industries including healthcare, media, advertising, marketing services, technology and consumer products.  

 Prior to joining Chasm Partners, Valerie was a Partner at two boutique recruitment consulting firms, counseling venture backed and public companies  on how to align talent with business objectives, assess existing leadership teams, manage recruiting needs and approach succession planning.  Her expertise in human capital was further refined serving as the Director of Human Resources for ClubMom, one of the first social media communities on the internet.   In this role she owned responsibility for human capital and was responsible for recruitment and talent acquisition, training and development, performance management, employee engagement, workforce planning, leadership development, compensation and benefits.  

Previously, Valerie oversaw customer marketing programs for Consumer and Financial Services clients at Affinion, developing new channel marketing strategies.  Early in her career she held key Client Partner positions in Media and Sports.   At the United States Tennis Association she was in a brand management and client services role for the US Open Tennis Championships and at MTV Networks, she was a member of the production team on the first “Choose OR Lose” presidential campaign special and many other innovative series programs and live music specials. 

Valerie received an undergraduate degree from Boston College in Human Development and Counseling. 

Summary:

     •  10+ years in executive search, sales and operations leadership, and client services

     •  Expertise in placing VP and above level candidates across multiple functions in technology driven industries

Ted is thrilled to be involved in Healthcare Technology during such a transformative time. He knows that the opportunity to make a positive impact through executive search is amplified by the ongoing changes in the industry, and he is excited to leverage his experience in technology recruiting to the advantage of Chasm’s clients.  

Prior to Chasm Partners, Ted was a consultative full-cycle recruiter, working primarily with startups and venture-backed early growth companies to achieve their business objectives with careful talent selection. He specialized in recruiting for senior management and above, as well as strategic individual contributors in industries including healthcare, software, market research, and advertising. 

Previously, Ted was responsible for several high-traffic retail businesses, including a men’s department with more than 25 direct reports, and annual volume exceeding $7M. There he was able to refine his skills in areas like talent assessment and acquisition, training and development, and employee engagement, in addition to broader business tools like P&L management, customer service, and conflict resolution. Realizing he had an affinity and aptitude for talent and human resources, Ted made the decision to transition into a career as an executive recruiter, and hasn’t looked back.

Ted received an undergraduate degree from Providence College in Business Management, where he also competed for their storied track team. Today his only running is in pursuit of his young son and two dogs at the home he and his wife have in Southern Connecticut. 

Summary

• 20+ years in retained search and corporate recruiting
• Expertise in healthcare, consumer package goods, finance, and marketing

Tracey has tremendous enthusiasm for the ever-changing healthcare landscape and for helping young companies solve the challenges of filling essential roles within their growing organizations. Her experience in placing top talent in executive roles within the healthcare space has given her a unique perspective on what clients need for success.

Prior to joining Chasm Partners, Tracey specialized in retained search focused on venture-backed information technology companies in healthcare technology, information services and consumer products at Fairfield Partners and Ross & Company. Tracey also held various corporate recruiting roles with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Martha Stewart Living, Omnimedia, and US Interactive.

Tracey graduated from the University of Maryland with a BA in English. She lives in Westport, CT with two her children. Tracey enjoys spending time with her rescue dog “Buddy,” relaxing at the beach, driving her 1970 Vintage VW bug convertible, and volunteering for local organizations dedicated to the historical preservation of the town’s architecture.

Gavin is a member of the Chasm Partners leadership team actively managing C-Level searches and leading certain aspects of Chasm’s Talent Management Advisory Services, while also serving as CEO of Talent Driven Value.

Summary

• 20+ years experience leading global human resource teams
• Expertise in recruiting, leadership development and organizational effectiveness 

Gavin understands how leadership and organizational development are critical to scaling high performing organizations and a key enabler to existing teams facing the challenges associated with commercial growth.

Gavin has over 20 years of experience delivering commercially impactful talent solutions in multiple business sectors worldwide. In addition to his extensive Human Resources background, he also has other operating experience across a variety of business areas including Quality Assurance Management, Sales Management, P&L management and organizational mergers.  He coaches executives and leadership teams, designs and implements talent management plans, solutions and related communications approaches. The goal is to achieve lasting impact through these solutions for businesses.

He is able to articulate key business insights that are relevant to each client’s specific needs by using effective diagnostic tools, frameworks and conversations.

Prior to joining Chasm Partners and founding Talent Drive Value,  Gavin was the Global HR Director for Synovate, a global billion dollar professional services firm that was eventually acquired by Ipsos.  Gavin was the key enabler and driver for an organization-wide restructuring of Synovate, covering leadership, teams, communication and organization design that led to the business outperforming its peers. Gavin joined Synovate following 9 years leading HR worldwide at Pentland brands representing 2,500 employees for this privately held sports and leisurewear business based in London.  Prior to Pentland, Gavin held a of HR and QA positions at Clariant, a global specialty chemicals company based in Switzerland.  

Gavin received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Natal, South Africa followed by an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.  He has accreditation in psychometrics from the British Psychological Society and as an ICF Coach.  He is on the Board of Directors for VolunteerSquare.com.

After a series of adventures taking her from Branson, Missouri to Provo, Utah, then from Boston to San Francisco, Monique settled in Salt Lake City. She worked as Assistant to the CFO at Arco Packaging where she managed HR processes and internal recruiting. She then took on a Project Manager role where she had the opportunity to manage client relationships and the design and creation of custom cosmetics packaging & training materials for Sephora and other clients.

Prior to joining Chasm Partners, Monique was the Human Resources & Investor Relations Manager for Sundance Bay, a Salt Lake City-based private equity fund specializing in multifamily real estate. Here she established HR processes, managed internal recruiting, and oversaw all other HR functions for 60+ employees across 7 states. She also assisted with quarterly reporting, distribution preparation, and investor communications.

Monique graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in English and performed with the Cougar Marching, Pep, and University Bands all four years of college. She currently sings alto with the Mountain West Chorale and serves on the board of the Wasatch Dart Association. She is also a member of the Society for Human Resources Management. Her two active sons keep her busy and spends her precious free time hiking, golfing, reading, and seeking out the best local bands.

Ginny’s enthusiasm for working with high growth, entrepreneurial organizations led her to Chasm Partners where she brings over 20 years of experience in operations and human resources management. She enjoys building and working with a team of people, and using her administrative and operational strengths to contribute to the overall success of the organization.

Prior to joining Chasm Partners, Ginny’s background was in corporate Human Resources where she focused on all levels of financial and technical recruitment for high growth organizations, including Oxford Health Plans and Priceline. Her passion for working with entrepreneurial organizations led her to project management and administrative roles for a several innovative non-profit organizations that leverage technology to address social issues. Most recently, she was National Site Administrator of Food Rescue U.S., an organization that uses a web-based platform to address food waste and hunger. 

Ginny graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in English and a MS in Human Resources Management. She is an avid runner, looking to do just one more marathon, and has been a women’s literacy tutor for over ten years. She lives in Fairfield, CT with her husband and two sons.

Laura is a former ballet dancer with nearly a decade at top schools based in San Francisco, Boston, the Midwest, and New York City. Her artistic career included instruction and coaching, performances at the world’s largest international ballet competition, and work as a Principal Guest Artist in New York.

After injury sidelined her performing career, she transitioned into administration for the non-profit sector. Working at Chasm Partners is the ultimate intersection of her interests: advocating for the value-based healthcare that enabled her successful recovery, and the opportunity to support growth of technology designed for people. When away from the office, she can be found buried in a good book or at work on her next creative project.