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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