Mr. Heise leads the investing activities of MemorialCare investment fund. Over the last 30+ years, Mr. Heise has accumulated a broad range and scope of healthcare experience within both the nonprofit and for-profit arenas. His accomplishments include business development and operating experience in entrepreneurial start-up companies, physician organizations, community hospitals and academic medical centers.
Mr. Heise’s experience also includes participation on the Board of Directors for several privately held, venture capital funded companies, including Accenx Technologies (acquired by Initiate Systems), Arista MD, Ascender Software (acquired by Matrix Medical Network), Aventura (acquired by Phillips), Care Team Connect (acquired by The Advisory Board Company), Foldax, Healthcare Dataworks (acquired by Health Catalyst), MD Insider (acquired by Accolade), PerfectServe (acquired by K-1 Investment Management), Phynd, Prescient Surgical, Radianse (acquired by BL Technologies), Silversheet (acquired by AMN Healthcare), ThromboVision, Twitter and Wellist. In addition, Mr. has currently (or formerly) holds board observer rights with Advanced Practice Strategies (acquired by Relias Learning), BabyScripts, ForHealth Technologies (acquired by Baxa Corporation, Gauss Surgical, Hyp3r, Ivantis, MedVentive (acquired by McKesson), MindFrame (acquired by Covidien), SilverCloud and Skylight Healthcare Systems (acquired by GetWellNetwork).
In addition to his role at MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Mr. Heise is also senior managing Director at summation health ventures and vice president at National Healthcare Services. Prior to those roles, Mr. Heise has held several operational roles with several start-up companies and was clinical administrator at Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center.
Mr. Heise has a Masters of Healthcare Service Administration from the University of Michigan, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Grinnell College.