Kerry Hicks currently serves as CEO and President of KMG Capital Partners LLC, a boutique healthcare venture capital company based in Denver, Colorado. As a successful, innovative healthcare executive, Kerry leverages his extensive healthcare and leadership expertise to provide strategic guidance and drive success within portfolio companies.
Prior to joining KMG Capital Partners, Kerry was Founder, Chairman (1998 – 2010) and Chief Executive Officer (1998 – 2012) of Healthgrades. He led Healthgrades through eleven years of consistent growth as a publicly traded company, and then facilitated the sale of the business to Vestar Capital Partners in 2010. Under his leadership, Healthgrades transformed into the premier destination for consumers seeking information on doctors and hospitals. Kerry built Healthgrades from a predecessor company, Specialty Care Network, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1995 to 1999. From 1985 to 1995 he served as Senior Vice President of LBA Healthcare.
Kerry currently serves as Executive Chairman of Circuit Clinical, Co-Chairman of Breakout Investment Partners, LLC, and serves on the boards of KMG Capital Partners LLC, Caduceus Medical Holdings, Inc. and TriSalus Life Sciences, as well as the Advisory Council of the Institute for Entrepreneurship at Colorado State University, and as a Senior Advisor to both Kitchen One- For-One and the SOX Place, which provide services to at-risk populations in the Denver area.