Jeanne Hecht

Jeanne Taylor Hecht, CEO of JTH Consulting, LLC, commands broad knowledge and deep expertise in the Life Sciences arena. She has dedicated much of her career to guiding international companies through healthy growth—thoughtfully, strategically, and with unyielding integrity. Jeanne builds and empowers successful teams in mature and emerging markets, and across numerous product and service sectors.

Jeanne serves as a Non-Executive Director on five Board of Directors, across private equity and venture backed organizations. She enjoys supporting these companies as they drive breakthrough growth and scale their businesses internationally.

Jeanne’s industry career spanned over twenty years. In 2018, she joined Ora as a member of the Board of Directors and was later named Chief Executive Officer supporting her teams’ excellent delivery of full-service pre-clinical and clinical ophthalmic drug and device development, motivated, as always, by the relief Ora can bring to patients. Under Jeanne’s guidance, Ora expanded its international presence, introduced new lines of businesses, and furthered its goals along numerous strategic paths.

Before joining Ora, Jeanne was responsible for launching and expanding a Life Sciences consulting practice that supported companies with sales, marketing, and market growth strategies as well as advisory and board work. Prior to that, Jeanne was a member of the Board and Chief Operating Officer of Median Technologies, where she was responsible for leading, implementing, and driving the company’s global strategy.

Earlier in her career, Jeanne held many senior roles at Iqvia (formerly Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc.), an international company that provides biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services. She was a Member of the Quintiles Executive Committee, and President of the Quintiles WIN (Women in Networking) group.  Prior to this, she held several leadership positions of increasing responsibility with the company. She also was Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Decision Biomarkers, Inc. and Regulatory Affairs Officer for the UNC Oncology Protocol Office.

Jeanne is an active Advisory Board Member for the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler’s Business School Industry Health Council and lecturer at the business school. She contributed to the creation of Wake Forest University’s master’s in clinical research program and remains an active industry advisor to the school.

She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from that university’s Ross School of Business. She earned a Certificate of Project Management from the Project Management Institute.

Joseph Boorady

Dr. Joseph Boorady is currently the Global CEO of Euclid Vision Corporation based in Northern Virginia. Dr. Boorady was the Vice President, Ocular Surface Disease at Johnson and Johnson Vision. Prior to Johnson and Johnson Vision he was the President and CEO of TearScience, which was acquired by Johnson and Johnson Vision.  Prior he was Senior Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing at Zeiss Meditec, Inc. where he oversaw Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, ENT, Spine and Breast Cancer devices in North America.  Dr. Boorady has spent over 25 years in the ophthalmic industry as an eye care professional, educational leader, entrepreneur and corporate executive. Dr. Boorady graduated with honors as a Doctor of Optometry from the SUNY-College of Optometry Class of 1993 and in 2010 he became an alumnus of the Harvard Business School.

Terry Kim

Terry Kim, MD, is Professor of Ophthalmology at Duke University School of Medicine and serves as Chief of the Cornea and External Disease Division and Director of the Refractive Surgery Service at Duke University Eye Center. Dr. Kim’s clinical and surgical expertise has resulted in continual annual listings by America’s Best Eye Doctors (Newsweek), Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors in North Carolina, America’s Top Ophthalmologists, and The Ophthalmologist Power List as well as featured stories on the Discovery Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and Sports Illustrated.

Dr. Kim’s academic accomplishments include over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles, textbook chapters, and scientific abstracts, over 400 invited lectureships, and 5 well-respected textbooks on corneal diseases, corneal transplantation, and cataract surgery. His clinical and research accomplishments have earned him honors and grants from the AAO, ASCRS, National Institutes of Health, the Fight for Sight/Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation, and the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation.

Dr. Kim serves on the Executive Committee of ASCRS as Past President, the Annual Program Committee of the AAO, and the Board of Directors of the Cornea Society. He also sits on the Editorial Board for several peer-reviewed journals and trade publications, including Cornea, Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Ocular Surgery News, Eyeworld, EyeNet, Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today.  Dr. Kim serves as Consultant to the Ophthalmic Devices Panel of the FDA, Consultant Ophthalmologist for the Duke Men's Basketball Team, and Consultant to numerous ophthalmic companies.

Vern Davenport

Vern is responsible for transaction origination and execution, portfolio company value creation initiatives, and investment policy. Mr. Davenport is a member of the Private Equity investment committee.

Before joining QHP Capital, Mr. Davenport was CEO and Board Member at Medfusion. He was instrumental in the carve-out of the company from Intuit and returning its core portal solution to a market leadership position. Prior to Medfusion, Mr. Davenport was Chairman and CEO of Medquist, a leader in transcription services before and after the privatization of the company. Mr. Davenport facilitated a transformation of the business through the acquisition of a speech technology company, rebranding the company M*Modal and leading the take-private process.

Mr. Davenport’s previous experience also includes his time as President, Allscripts; CEO, Misys Healthcare; GM & EVP, Kodak Health Group (now Carestream Health), and executive leadership roles at Siemens and Shared Medical Systems. Mr. Davenport started his career at IBM where he spent 11 years in sales, sales leadership, and executive management positions.

Jeff Edwards

Jeff is responsible for transaction origination and execution, portfolio company value creation initiatives, investment policy, and investor relations. Mr. Edwards is a member of the Private Equity investment committee.

Prior to joining QHP Capital, Mr. Edwards co-managed the Principal Investment Private Equity program at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, leading the efforts in the healthcare and industrial sectors across a variety of geographies. In that role, he was responsible for making investment decisions, deal origination, portfolio construction and portfolio management.

Mr. Edwards’ previous experience also includes M&A advisory work for Raymond James Capital Markets focusing on middle-market companies. Mr. Edwards also worked as a consultant for State Street Global Advisors. Consulting in Boston and Austin, his efforts were focused on the private equity industry including fund formation, portfolio management, and investment due diligence. Before moving back to the Capital Markets sector, Mr. Edwards worked in finance and administrative roles in the healthcare industry with Carolinas HealthCare Systems and HCA, Inc. He started his career with the middle market investment bank RW Baird.

Matt Jenkins

Matt is responsible for transaction origination and execution, portfolio company value creation initiatives, investment policy, and investor relations.

Prior to joining QHP Capital, Mr. Jenkins established and led the private equity investment portfolio at RTI International where he focused on precision medicine, clinical research, real world evidence, genomics, population healthcare, and consumer-oriented diagnostics. Matt led and managed investments including BioIQ (acquired by Let’s Get Checked), PierianDx, Seven Bridges Genomics, Clinical Ink, and SPH Analytics (acquired by Press Gainey).

Matt served as SVP, Strategy & Corporate Development and General Manager at M*Modal a healthcare technology firm (acquired by 3M) and was a Corporate Vice President at Allscripts (MDRX), a digital healthcare technology organization serving providers, payers, and biopharma clients with annual revenues exceeding $1.4 billion where Matt led corporate development (M&A) and held executive roles in strategic planning, product marketing, and business development.

Prior to Allscripts, Mr. Jenkins was one of the three founding members of Cellective Therapeutics (acquired by Medimmune), a biopharmaceutical firm focused on the development of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that target B-cell antigens to treat autoimmune diseases and lymphomas.  Matt also worked at one of the most active venture capital firms in the Southeast where he focused on technology and life science equity investments.

Matt began his career at Ernst & Young, where as a Consulting Manager he helped grow the Washington, DC practice by leading and delivering performance improvement and strategic advisory engagements for technology sector clients.