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Kent Fannon joined
D’Antoni Partners in 2007 and has completed C-level engagements
in physician management, facilities, home health, healthcare
staffing, and managed care. Prior to joining D’Antoni Partners,
he spent 5 years as an Operating Partner in the private equity
field, where he served as CEO of HealthLine Management, a
physician management company, CEO of WIN Healthcare, a managed
care company, and as a Board member of Home Healthcare
Laboratory of America.
Mr. Fannon has
previously held senior positions in multiple industries, ranging
in size from start-up ventures to large, corporate
organizations. At EmCare, Inc., the nation's largest emergency
medicine physician and hospital services company, he was
initially Senior Vice President Corporate Development, where he
led the doubling of the company’s size through acquisitions,
including the purchase of Spectrum Emergency Care, Inc., a $170
million competitor. He assumed the Chief Operating Officer role
at Spectrum to manage the integration of that company’s
operations into EmCare. Mr. Fannon was then named EmCare’s
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer to develop
the infrastructure, processes and senior team needed to manage a
rapidly growing, decentralized organization. His
responsibilities included financial operations, billing and
reimbursement, corporate and strategic planning, information
systems, mergers and acquisitions, risk management and overall
corporate administration. Prior to EmCare, Mr. Fannon was
Operations and Planning Officer of EPIC Healthcare Group, Inc.,
a diversified healthcare company which owned and operated 34
hospitals in 10 states, as well as outpatient surgery and
diagnostic centers, home health businesses, and other healthcare
services. EPIC, created as an employee-owned company in 1988,
grew from $540 million to over $1 billion in revenues before
being sold to HealthTrust, Inc. in 1994.
Mr. Fannon’s
non-healthcare experience includes serving as Chief Financial
Officer of a multi-city, multi-state wholesale and retail
start-up venture, and as Senior Vice President Finance and
Planning of a television and radio broadcasting and production
company. He began his career at American Airlines, Inc., where
he held financial, business development, and management
positions in the airline and its foodservice division.
Mr. Fannon holds an MBA
in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business, and a BS in Accounting from the University
of Rhode Island. He is currently on the Board of Advisors for
the College of Business Administration at URI, and has served on
the Alumni Board of Directors for the University of Chicago GSB,
the Board of Directors for the North Texas Chapter of the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation, and as a Board member and President of the
Cottonwood Valley Home Owners Association. He and his wife
Diane, an advertising executive, reside in Irving, Texas.
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