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Mike Pehl

Mike Pehl co-founded Guidepost Growth Equity in 2007 and is an Operating Partner. He has served on the boards of more than a dozen private and public technology companies.

Previously, Mike was a Partner at Advent International, where he was involved in managing the technology portfolio. He has significant experience working with growth-stage businesses as both an investor and an operator.

Mike is a founder and multiple-time CEO with a deep understanding of the unique operational challenges that growth-stage companies face. Mike has built businesses of meaningful scale and taken companies public with minimal capital investment. Mike served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Razorfish following the merger of Razorfish and i-Cube. At i-Cube, Mike was CEO and Chairman and successfully took the company public. Previously, he founded and led International Consulting Solutions (ICS), an SAP implementation and business process consultancy that was sold to Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group. Mike is also a co-founder of SAP America.

Mike grew up in Germany and moved to the US in the early eighties.

Glenn Steele, MD, PH.d.

Glenn Steele is the former president and chief executive officer of Geisinger Health System. Steele previously served as the dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine and as vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago, as well as the Richard T. Crane Professor in the Department of Surgery. Before that, he was the William V. McDermott Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, president and chief executive officer of Deaconess Professional Practice Group, Boston, MA, and chairman of the department of surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital (Boston, MA). Widely recognized for his investigations into the treatment of primary and metastatic liver cancer and colorectal cancer surgery, Steele is past chairman of the American Board of Surgery.

Jim Denny

Jim Denny founded Navicure, Inc. in 2000 (now Waystar, a combination of Navicure and ZirMed) and has been its Chairman since 2000. Mr. Denny served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Navicure, Inc. He has more than fifteen years of leadership experience in the healthcare technology industry. From 1995 to 2000, he served in a variety of senior management positions with NDCHealth’s Provider Healthcare Transaction Group. Mr. Denny was responsible for a NDCHealth’s unit that supported 30,000 healthcare providers and processed more than 70 million transactions annually. During his six year tenure, he led NDCHealth’s unit to profitability for the first time in its operating history. Prior to NDC, Mr. Denny served with PepsiCo’s Pizza Hut division, where he oversaw operations for the Southeast Atlanta market. Prior to his employment with PepsiCo, he served in various sales and marketing roles with National Reference Laboratories and Bio-Analytical Technologies. He serves as Director of Navicure, Inc. Mr. Denny graduated from St. Lawrence University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature in 1985. He holds an M.B.A. degree from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with a concentration in Finance and Marketing in 1993.

George F. Lynn

George Lynn has more than 30 years of experience as a healthcare executive for provider organizations. For 21 years, he served as president and CEO of AtlantiCare, a clinically integrated health system serving Southeastern New Jersey. In 2009, AtlantiCare received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Mr. Lynn served two terms as chairman of the American Hospital Association. He is active in community service and sits on the Boards of Lourdes Health System and the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, both located in Camden New Jersey.

He is a member of the board of directors of Valence Health (Chicago, IL) and LHP Hospital Group (Plano, TX). He serves as an advisor to Lillibridge Healthcare (Chicago, IL) and several private equity firms.

Russell Smith

Chief Portfolio Officer

Russell Smith serves as Chief Portfolio Officer of Ingenious Med, bringing more than 25 years of enterprise technology, services, and business transformation experience to the company. He has extensive experience as a business operator and portfolio leader and has a documented record of increased sales, operating income, and market penetration, as well as improved customer service.

Prior to joining Ingenious Med, Smith served as Senior Vice President, General Manager for Enterprise Information Solutions (EIS) at McKesson Corporation. He also held the position of Senior Vice President, EIS Product and Portfolio Management while at McKesson. Before joining McKesson, Smith held leadership positions at AT&T, American Express Corp., Grant Thornton LLP, and SC Johnson.

Smith holds an MBA from Clark Atlanta University and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Alabama A&M University.

Doug Kingsley

Doug Kingsley co-founded Guidepost Growth Equity in 2007 and is a Managing Partner. With nearly three decades of growth equity investment experience, he has served on more than thirty boards of private and public technology companies.

Doug spent 15 years at Advent International, most recently as a Managing Director and Co-Head of US Investments, where he helped grow the firm from $300 million to $10 billion of assets under management. Doug also had operating roles at Teradyne, the world’s largest manufacturer of automatic test equipment.

Doug’s introduction to private equity came as a consultant to Alcan Aluminum’s venture capital arm during the late eighties. A native New Englander, Doug has worked and studied in Venezuela, Spain and France. He holds an M.B.A., with Distinction, from Harvard Business School, a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and a B.E. from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Doug is a trustee of Providence College.m, MA.

David McClellan

David McClellan co-founded Heritage Group, LLC in 1986 and has served as a Managing Director of the firm since 1989. Heritage Group is a privately-held investment and advisory firm focused on early-stage healthcare opportunities. Over the past 30 years, Mr. McClellan has served in numerous executive positions within Heritage Group’s portfolio of companies. In addition to his other activities, since 2002 Mr. McClellan has functioned in a corporate development capacity for several of the companies launched by the firm including Sourcemark, LLC and Theralogix, LLC.

From 1995-1998, Mr. McClellan served as founder and CEO of ProSeed, LLC. The company partnered with hospitals and radiation oncologists and urologists throughout the US to launch prostate brachytherapy centers. The company was acquired by a public company.

From 1992-1995, Mr. McClellan led Corporate Development for Surgical Health Corporation, a company engaged in the development and management of outpatient surgery centers. After acquiring and developing 37 ambulatory surgery centers in the US, the company was acquired by a public company in 1998.

From 1986-1991, Heritage Group developed and managed more than 50 physician/hospital outpatient ventures involving over 5,000 physician investors encompassing a wide array of surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.

Mr. McClellan holds a BS from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree in hospital and health administration from the Medical College of Virginia. He began his healthcare career as an associate administrator with Hospital Corporation of America in 1983. Mr. McClellan resides in Nashville with his wife and three children.

Ingenious Med is now part of Harris Novum. Learn more here.

Ingenious Med is now part of Harris Novum.
Learn more here.