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 and CEO of NewHope Bariatrics, Inc. Prior to founding NewHope, Dennis was the Chief Operating Officer for MedCath Corporation, where he had previously served as the Executive Vice President for Development & Government Relations and 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.
Angel Rattay
Director of Marketing
Angel Rattay is responsible for the Company’s overall marketing and patient acquisition strategy. In addition to her responsibilities at NewHope, Angel continues to work with Malley Surgical Weight Loss as the Practice Administrator.
In 2005 Ms. Rattay started Malley Surgical Weight Loss, a single surgeon Bariatric Surgery practice with Dr. Stephen Malley and three employees. To grow MSWL and given the consumer directed nature of Bariatric Surgery, Angel created a comprehensive branded business development program. Through an aggressive multi-media and online marketing campaign driven by measurable results, within two short years, she built Malley Surgical Weight Loss into one of the largest Bariatric Surgery practices in the Midwest U.S. region primarily performing Lap-band® surgeries on patients suffering from the disease of morbid obesity. The practice has consistently grown and is now recognized as one of the leading Bariatric surgery practices nationally. As of August 2010 the practice has grown to three surgeons with twelve FTE’s and is a now generating $2 million a year in net revenue. Angel is frequently asked to speak at industry events and advise other Bariatric Surgery practices on marketing and business development best practices.
Prior to Malley Surgical Weight Loss, Angel worked for a large multispecialty physician group in Leawood, Kansas, focusing on; orthopaedics, neurology, neurosurgery, pain management and rehabilitation. Her responsibilities included marketing, developing a referring physician program and overall business development. In this capacity, she doubled the overall leads from referring physicians. The practice included multiple physician offices, a physician owned hospital and two Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Rochelle Deardorff
Corporate Controller
Rochelle Deardorff joined NewHope Bariatrics in June 2011 and is responsible for the company's financial and treasury areas. Most recently, Rochelle served as Medical Facility Accountant for ten different ACS's over the past five years with Nueterra Healthcare. She was primarily responsible for monthly financials and cash management. Prior to Nueterra, Rochelle was a Financial Analyst for Laidlaw Transit Services, Inc.
Rochelle received her bachelor of science in business from Emporia State University, master in business administration from Baker University and is a certified public accountant by the state of Missouri.
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