NUECURA - Key Persons
Bill has spent 20 plus years practicing Ophthalmology. He and a partner founded Summit Eye Associates, PC in Nashville, TN. As lead of clinical services, Bill helped establish a highly efficient, friendly, patient centered medical and surgical experience. The practice was an early adopter of technology including excimer laser vision correction, high tech IOL's, and femtosecond cataract procedures.
Teaching and research have always been important, despite a busy private practice. As Course Director of the SERVA programs at ALCON labs in Ft. Worth, TX from 1998-2002, Bill lead the teaching and surgery mentoring program to senior resident physicians planning their careers. Additionally, serving as a member of the FDA Ophthalmic Advisory panel from 1999-2007, evaluating the clinical trials of Macugen (the first of its kind, injectable, VEGF inhibitor ophthalmic drug), Latisse, and Besivance.
Business and investing were important early on. Since the age of 12, Bill was involved in the family's marine dealership in Shreveport, LA. "Eye surgery was alway my love, but our small business paid the tuition". Now currently involved in early stage healthcare investing as Executive Director of Deal Evaluation with NueCura Partners, LLC and environmental/ clean tech ventures as Partner with Fortnum Capital Partners, LLC.
In addition to serving as a Director with NueCura supporting membership, the due diligence process and strategic alliances, Chris Taylor is the Founder and Managing Partner for Fortnum Capital Partners. Fortnum Capital advises and invests in IMPACT companies (clean energy/tech, healthcare and technology enabling social good).
Chris worked for 19 years with Magotteaux in international business with the last 4 in Europe as Director of Sales & Marketing to the Cement & Power industries in Asia, EMEA & the Americas with responsibility for $200 million annual sales. Chris has experience in technology & strategy development, sales and marketing, organizational growth and funding, including a leveraged buyout and partnering with a private equity player for the sale of the company to a publicly traded entity.
Chris also served as CEO for C-Tech, a company that developed technology for gasification solutions to create synthesis gas (syngas) from a variety of feedstocks including CO2, biomass, coal, methane, tires, etc.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Managing Partner
- Physician
Don is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association. Additionally, he served our country in the United States Army Medical Corps where he achieved the rank of Major.
Dr. Lazas is a physician leader specializing in care of digestive diseases with over 20 years of experience in patient care, health care delivery, management, and clinical research. Dr. Lazas is an owner/operator of a Nashville specialty medical practice (Associates in Gastroenterology, PLC) and endoscopy surgery center (Associated Endoscopy, LLC). His expertise includes training and education of medical sales forces and strategic business consulting. He is a seasoned investor and consultant in medical technology businesses and has focused expertise in realizing the impact and opportunity of technology as it pertains to the physician-patient encounter.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Advisor and Outside Council
Geof Vickers is a Partner in the Nashville office of the national law firm Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough, LLP. Geof focuses his practice in the areas business technology, information technology, and general business law. Mr. Vickers represents clients with matters related to intellectual property and technology issues in corporate transactions, business process and IT outsourcing, information technology, Health IT, sales and licensing arrangements, and transactions involving the development, commercialization, and sale of technology.
Geof is a volunteer and mentor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center and regularly counsels and advises entrepreneurs and startup companies. Geof is also a regular speaker for continuing education seminars and startup company programs on topics ranging from domestic and international electronic contracting and signature laws to the basics of angel investing.
Geof earned a BBA in Healthcare Management from Harding University and a JD from the Univ. of Mississippi.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Co - Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Raintree Oncology Services
Jeffrey Patton, M.D. serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for Nashville-based Tennessee Oncology, one of the largest community oncology practices in the U.S.
He is nationally recognized in the oncology community for his extensive clinical trial research and scholarly publications on advancing cancer treatment and bringing exceptional care to the communities where patients live. Dr. Patton has published eight manuscripts and nearly 20 clinical trial abstracts on cancer treatment research. He specializes in all adult malignancies and holds memberships in the Tennessee Oncology Practice Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where he serves on the ASCO Clinical Practice Committee.
Dr. Patton, a graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, completed his residency and fellowship at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he served as Chief Resident. He also holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia. He currently serves as Chairman of the Southern Oncology Board of Directors and is on the board of directors for PearlPoint Cancer Support. He previously served as Chief of Staff for Southern Hills Medical Center and on the board of directors for the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
Dr. Patton is also co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Raintree Oncology Services, a provider of comprehensive oral drug acquisition and management services to help community oncology practices improve and advance patient care.
Dr. Patton lives in Brentwood, Tenn. with his wife, Mary, and two children, Ashley and Evan. When he is not seeing patients, Dr. Patton enjoys golfing, reading and spending time with his family.
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer at Empyrean Benefit Solutions
- Co - Founder / Operating Partner
Ted has spent most of his career building operational teams and creating cost-effective, secure, and nimble technology solutions and organizations.
As Chief Technology Officer at Empyrean Benefit Solutions, Ted is responsible for the design and development of all application platforms, as well as the technical infrastructure and cyber security.
As President & Managing Partner at ParkIT Ventures, LLC and as Operating Partner at NueCura Partners, LLC, Ted is involved in Angel Investing with a focus on Healthcare and Healthcare IT companies.
Formerly, as SVP of Operations and Technology for Fleet One, LLC, a commercial credit card company based in Nashville, Ted helped grow the business organically for eleven years, resulting in the sale of the business to WEX, Inc. in October 2012. During his 11 years at Fleet One, LLC, he was an integral part of the management team which purchased the company from SunTrust with the aid of two private equity firms, then sold it four years later to a public company, WEX Inc.
From 2006-2011 Ted also served as CTO for change:healthcare, LLC (now Change Healthcare, Inc.) For 5 years, Ted was involved in all aspects of startups including: concept, technical design, deployment, and branding.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Founder
- Managing Partner
- Senior Executive
As founder and CEO, Mr. Corley has led Healthcare MarketMaker's disruptive business model to educate doctors and dentists about the value of their practices. From this education, comes the empowerment for a physician to make informed decisions about how to identify needs in their practice and shop on our platform for curated, trusted solutions.
Mr. Corley is senior executive with unique experiences working at large healthcare providers like Hospital Corporation of America, Big 4 healthcare consulting firms and startup companies.
Trey brings 25 years of business background with both strategic and financial decision-support expertise from his past roles in consumer goods, medical devices, and health care. He is a financial entrepreneur, angel investor and Principal of Fleur Capital.
Trey recently held senior role as CFO/Head of Operations for an early stage healthcare company responsible for capital raise, org design and development and customer operations. Prior healthcare experience was with McKesson for 9 years holding senior leadership positions managing large pharmaceutical relationships for specialty products, the federal government vaccine programs, pharmacy management organizations at hospitals and traditional supply chain operations.
Trey is a currently a leadership mentor in the Everwise program, Jump Start Foundry and Life Sciences Tennessee. He is NueCura's board representative to Everly and an advisor to Satchel Health, Maptic, and E3 Performance Group.
Trey earned two degrees from Southern Methodist University. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics and an MBA from the Cox School of Business.
He lives in Brentwood with his wife, Samantha and their 2 sons, Nicolas and Harry and enjoys golf, traveling and coaching youth football and baseball.