Meet the Team
Our accomplished team of executives is here to support your success
Chris S. Smith | Founding Partner
Chris is a healthcare and life sciences executive possessing +20 years’ experience as a successful senior leader (CEO, CCO) with companies providing diagnostic services, device, med-tech, and OTC products. Chris is co-founder of Sprout Healthcare Advisors and founder of Lysi Advisors, a private equity advisory service. He has a track record of transforming companies to rapidly scale and generate profitable organic growth. He is highly experienced working alongside financial sponsors. A principled, inclusive, and ethical leader whose company’s achievements include: 5X revenue growth, 7-year CAGR on EBITDA of +20%, 4 consecutive companies holding #1 market share position, implementing Lean/Six Sigma to lower COGS year over year by double digits. A key executive in shareholder value creation that has resulted in outstanding liquidity events.
Lisa McDonald | Founding Partner
Lisa is a recognized and admired leader within the personalized medicine market. She is co-founder of Sprout Healthcare Advisors as well as the founder of the highly successful Integrated Connections, a healthcare recruitment and human talent advisory firm. Both companies are dedicated to revolutionizing the landscape of healthcare through the application of systems biology and personalized medicine. With over two decades of experience in talent management and development across various industries, and 14 years of close collaboration with diverse healthcare organizations in personalized medicine, Lisa has a nuanced understanding of the industry’s pulse and challenges. She is a recognized and awarded leader for her impact and contributions to the evolution of healthcare practices.
Max Poritzky | Partner
With a career spanning 25 years in the integrative and functional wellness sector, Max has held diverse roles as a commercial executive, founder, and consultant, collaborating with a spectrum of startups and some of the most well recognized legacy companies in the space. His engagements have encompassed the provision of nutraceutical and medical device products as well as diagnostics and practice management services across various channels.
With a deep history in the healthcare professional (HCP) channel, Max has guided clients through transitions in omni-channel strategies, following market trends and consumer demands. His expertise encompasses executive leadership coaching, commercial strategy, business development, product-market fit, and organizational development.
Serving as the Managing Director and a Principal at Sprout, Max leverages his extensive experience to drive tangible results and nurture organizational growth. Grounded in a pragmatic and results-oriented approach, Max’s work product is distinguished by a profound understanding of industry intricacies and adept navigation of challenges.
Patrick Hanaway, MD | Chief Clinical Advisor
Patrick is a family physician trained at Washington University. Dr. Hanaway served on the Executive Committee for the American Board of Integrative Medicine and is Past President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. After 10 years as Chief Medical Officer at Genova Diagnostics, Dr. Hanaway became the founding Medical Director at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. Today he sees patients and consults with health care organizations around the world.
Brian Carey | Partner
Brian Carey is a healthcare executive, entrepreneur, and investor with experience launching and scaling companies in roles ranging from hands-on founder to senior advisor. He is a co-founder of Aligned Modern Health, a pioneering business he conceived, led as CEO, and grew at a compound annual growth rate of 40%+ for more than a decade.
Prior to Aligned Modern Health, Brian was a Managing Director at LaSalle Capital Group where he made control private equity investments and served on the boards of multiple portfolio companies with EBITDA between $2 and $10 million. Earlier in his career, he co-founded a sound identity business that sold to private equity and was an Associate at Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based private equity group, where he had his first exposure to healthcare investing via acquisition of a 30-clinic physical therapy business. He began his career as an analyst in the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers.
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