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, 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.
Carole S. Guinane
Chief Clinical Officer
Carole S. Guinane is the Chief Clinical Officer for NewHope
Bariatrics. In this capacity, she is responsible for clinical
operations, quality initiatives, and regulatory compliance. She
was named to this position in July, 2006.
Guinane began her career in 1976 and has held a variety of
healthcare leadership positions including: Vice President Applied
Business Science and Clinical Education for MedCath Corporation; Director
of Clinical Improvement for Quorum Health Resources, Inc.,
Nashville, TN; and, Vice President/Senior Management Team Member
of Parkview Episcopal Medical Center in Pueblo, Colorado. In
addition, she held nursing and management positions in critical
care, surgery, intensive care, physician and nurse recruitment,
and education.
Guinane is an accomplished author of several books and articles on
clinical pathways, Six Sigma, patient focus care and quality tools
and methodologies. She received her MBA and nursing degree from
Colorado State University, Pueblo and is a practicing Master Black
Belt in Six Sigma.
Holley P. Malia
Chief Marketing Officer
Holley P. Malia serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for NewHope Bariatrics with responsibility
for the strategic oversight and day-to-day management of the company’s patient acquisition and
brand management programs. Malia is a 15-year marketing veteran with a unique mix of medical
and consumer experience.
Before her work with NewHope Bariatrics, Malia served as the Director of Global Brand Management
and Director of Marketing for Allergan Medical, a division of Allergan Corporation specializing
in obesity interventions. There she was responsible for the overall vision, direction and
implementation of all marketing and communications programs around the LAP-BAND® System.
In 2006, Holley was named Medical Marketer of the Year by the Medical Marketing Association
for her innovative direct-to-consumer campaign geared to educating patients about the LAP-BAND System.
Before joining Allergan, Holley worked in the product management, marketing and public relations
areas for several publicly traded medical device companies. She also worked with marketing
communications agencies, working with clients in the consumer goods, hotel and resort, technology,
and insurance sectors.
She holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Studio Art from Washington and Lee University
in Lexington, VA.
Noel E. "Wynn" Searle
Chief Development Officer
Wynn Searle serves as the Chief Development Officer for NewHope
Bariatrics with responsibility for identifying and developing new
markets and managing the development activities associated with
the formation and opening of new surgery centers utilizing the
company’s physician-partnership model. He brings over 20 years
of experience in the healthcare industry to the organization.
Wynn began his career as a healthcare design architect and was
responsible for the design of numerous facilities around the
United States. In 1994 he was instrumental in the design and
implementation of a new heart hospital model for MedCath
Corporation which revolutionized the delivery of cardiovascular
care and helped spur wide scale development of heart hospitals
and other specialized service hospitals around the country.
In 1996, Wynn joined MedCath Corporation to develop the new heart hospital
model nationally. As Vice President of Operations/Hospital
Development, he was directly responsible for 500 million in new
facility development and the opening of 11 heart hospitals.
During that time he developed extensive experience interacting
with physician partners, medical staff members, community leaders
and other internal and external stakeholders involved in the
development of healthcare ventures.
Wynn has served on the Board of Directors of several hospitals,
is a registered architect, and received his Bachelor of Architecture
from Texas Tech University; Lubbock, Texas.
Joseph A. Venturelli
Chief Information Officer
Joseph Venturelli serves as the Chief Information Officer for NewHope Bariatrics with responsibility for design, development and deployment of the information systems, infrastructure and support operations. He brings over 21 years of information systems experience to the organization.
As Senior Director of Information Services for MedCath Corporation Joseph was responsible for all aspects of technology initiatives including the planning and management of the information systems infrastructure in six newly constructed hospitals as well as two centralized business offices. Joseph also managed over forty successful technical system implementations as well as a successful data center and operating environment consolidation.
Prior to his tenure at MedCath Corporation Joseph was with the Novant Health Hospital System for nine years. As Operations Manager Joseph was responsible for network operations, system infrastructure and centralized server operations.
In 1988 Joseph founded Accunet Inc. system integration and consulting firm where he was the President and Chief Executive Officer until its purchase by a regional telecommunications firm in 1991.
Joseph received his bachelor’s degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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