[Contact Ken at 'kseymens2004@kellogg.northwestern.edu']
Ken is approaching a transition period at Duff & Phelps. His desire is to take advantage of this time to explore opportunities in the Private Equity community, preferably those residing in Northern California or on the East Coast. Ken is interested in leveraging his operational experience and deep domain expertise in healthcare and technology; this should make him a viable asset to private equity firms interested in or focused on investing in Healthcare/IT and Biotech. Ken is a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps national investment banking and financial advisory firm focused on providing merger & acquisition, private placement, valuation, financial opinion and restructuring services. Ken heads the firm's healthcare and technology practice. Ken has comprehensive experience in senior-level business development, strategic planning, risk analysis, business process re-engineering, product innovation, and contract negotiation and budget administration with full P&L responsibility. He is well versed in the creation and development of new partnerships, market research processes, including competitive analysis, and development of new products. Prior, Ken was Senior Vice President of Strategic Technology & Business Development, and the first Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the American Hospital Association (AHA). As Chief Technologist he had executive level responsibility to lead and manage Internet and off-line technology-based business development for the AHA, its subsidiary the Health Forum and fourteen personal membership groups (PMGs). A key member of the American Hospital Association’s senior executive team, Ken provided overall information technology leadership and vision developing an enterprise-wide information technology and eBusiness infrastructure strategy. Ken and his team were chartered with the development of key strategic business relationships, and partnership negotiations.
Ken spent the previous seven years at Apple Computer, Inc. In his most recent Apple role, Ken directed the Apple Medical Informatics Group forging strategic alliances with the nation's medical schools and academic medical centers and medical standards organizations. Ken has assisted in the design and implementation of numerous academic medical center technology assessments and initiatives. Ken was responsible for fostering strategic business relationships with healthcare information systems (HCIS) developers who design and deliver products using Apple's handheld and other core desktop technologies. Ken’s other works includes: The Medical Informatics Advisor on the President’s Economic Advisory Committee of the National Medical Association, a contributing editor of Medical Informatics for the Harvard Journal of Minority Health. A Fellowship at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Geriatric Education Center Ethnogeriatrics. Ken studied computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco. Ken received a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.