An Experienced Leadership Team
Our founders, David Crane and Dennis Kelly have built their careers on a simple, dual strategy:
Develop customized partnerships with physicians focused on a specific area of medicine.
Identify a fast-growing disease category driven by technological innovation.
With over four decades of combined healthcare experience, they have learned a lot about what works, and what doesn't. And they have left behind a track record of building two companies from scratch into enterprises with a combined value of more than a half-billion dollars.
Dennis I. Kelly
President and Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Dennis Kelly is a co-founder of NewHope Bariatrics, Inc. and served as the Chief Operating Officer prior to assuming his current role in June 2008. Prior to founding NewHope, Dennis was the Chief Operating Officer for MedCath Corporation, where he had previously served as Executive Vice President of Development and Government Relations and later Chief Operating Officer for MedCath Corporation, was responsible for building relationships with leading cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons and developing potential markets for the company across the United States. When Dennis arrived, MedCath Corporation was operating four heart hospitals. At the end of his tenure five years later, MedCath Corporation had 10 operating hospitals and three more under development, driving MedCath Corporation's annual revenues from $237 million to more than $600 million.
As COO Dennis helped MedCath Corporation grow to more than 4,000 employees with approximately 600 physician partners.
Prior to joining MedCath Corporation, Dennis spent 15 years with Siemens Medical Systems. As the Vice President of Government & National Accounts, Dennis was responsible for developing the national account program for all of Siemens Medical Systems' products.
Dennis received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Westminster College and his RT.R from the University of Utah Medical Center.
David W. Perry
Chief Financial Officer
David Perry joined NewHope Bariatrics in January 2007 and is responsible for the company’s financial and treasury areas. Most recently, David served as Senior Vice President and Hospital Division Chief Financial Officer at MedCath Corporation where he was primarily responsible for the operational finance areas of the company’s portfolio of hospitals, which represented over ninety-percent of its operations. Prior to serving in that role, he served as MedCath’s Chief Accounting Officer from 2001 to 2004 during which time the company completed an initial public offering of equity, a private placement debt issuance and a public debt offering.
Prior to Medcath, David was a Senior Manager in the Charlotte office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he served in various positions from 1994 to 2001. David served some of the firm’s largest clients with audit and securities transaction services across several industries including healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
David received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia and is a certified public accountant by the state of North Carolina.
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