Izzy worked in consumer investing at Advent International, where she spent time on several sectors including women’s health and restaurants. She also worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Izzy received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB, cum laude, from Harvard University. At Harvard, she was the captain of the Varsity Women’s Squash Team and won several national championships.
A Connecticut native, Izzy grew up around entrepreneurship, investing, and healthcare - her grandfather built the first ophthalmology practice in the state of Rhode Island. She currently lives in New York with her husband.
Ria has worked for several medical spa practices across the US, helping them with initiatives from improving customer experience to building out new sites. Ria previously worked in private equity at GI Partners and in growth strategy consulting. Ria received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and BA, cum laude, in Math and Economics from Dartmouth College.
Ria grew up in a family rooted in medicine- her father is a physician who started a multi-site primary care practice in the Southeast alongside her mother, who manages clinic operations. Ria saw how managing back-office functions can overwhelm providers and founded Athena to relieve providers of these burdens while helping them scale.
Kent Weaver is the founder, CEO and Managing Member of Granite Point. Kent has invested in over 75 middle-market companies as an individual investor and with Granite Point. Kent has partnered with entrepreneurs to build successful businesses such as VRI (remote patient monitoring), Discover Outsourcing (HR outsourcing), Fieldedge (field technician software), mTab (database tool), Neuro International (brain trauma residential), Integra (health provider network), and CALO (teen mental health), among many investments.
In addition to Granite Point, Kent is currently Executive Chairman and former CEO at a Northern California-based home health care company acquired using a self-funded search fund model. Previously, Mr. Weaver held executive positions in marketing and product management for a VC-backed marketing automation startup, as a regional CFO and business analyst in Pepsico’s Pizza Hut Division, and as a management consultant at Ernst & Young. He received his MBA at the University of California, Los Angeles and BS in finance from the University of Southern California.
Juliane Park is the former Chief Transformation Officer of Olaplex Holdings, Inc., and was previously the Chief Strategy Officer at Hudson’s Bay Company, a global retailer whose portfolio includes Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth, and Hudson’s Bay from 2018 to 2020. She served as the Head of Merchandising at Bluemercury, a premium specialty beauty retailer from 2016 to 2018 and held various leadership roles in Merchandising at CVS Health, including Chief Merchant, Hispanic Formats and DMM, Front Store Healthcare from 2013 to 2016. Prior to CVS, Ms. Park served as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, focusing on growth strategy within the consumer and retail sectors.
Ms. Park earned an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Commerce from the University of Toronto.
Noah Riner is a partner at Search Fund Partners, which he joined after acquiring, leading as CEO, and successfully exiting NeuroInternational Healthcare, a company he sourced through the search fund model and grew from 93 to 550 employees. NeuroInternational provides specialty rehabilitation services to people with brain injuries and developmental disabilities. He currently serves on the boards of Bio Behavioral Institute, Apollo Behavioral Health, Roll-A-Shield, Pelvic Health Solutions, Big Box Storage, Greenback Expat Tax Services, Athena Aesthetics, DHA Laboratory, and Energy Ogre.
Noah’s prior experience includes consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, business development at Palantir Technologies, and a deployment to the Middle East as part of a Special Operations Task Force with the US Navy.
Noah holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in History and Government, where he was Student Body President and rowed on the varsity Heavyweight Rowing Team. Noah serves on the board of a foster care non-profit, All Star Children’s Foundation. Noah and his wife Britt have five children.
Steuart is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive for Northstar Fertility, which is focused on bringing together the very best people and companies in the surrogate and donor-assisted reproduction field. He works each day to improve the security and quality of services provided to all stakeholders in third-party reproduction and move towards a world where all people have the ability to grow their family. He oversees all aspects of Northstar's operations including both the shared-services and company portfolio.
Prior to founding Northstar, Steuart was a management consultant at Bain & Company in Boston and taught elementary school in rural Mississippi with Teach For America. He earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and economics from Mercer University and an MBA and MS from the University of Michigan. He lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and three daughters. Between Northstar and his family there isn’t much time for hobbies, but he often daydreams about the time when he can do more scuba diving, fly fishing, and golfing.
Dr. Ahn is a Board-Certified Anti-Aging Regenerative Medicine Physician and Integrative Gastroenterologist.
Dr. Ahn completed a two-year fellowship in functional medicine through the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (the sub-specialty of bio-identical hormone therapy and primary disease prevention). Completing her Gastroenterology training at Boston Medical Center, she is board certified in Gastroenterology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Her studies have gained her extensive knowledge in gut health and how it affects the brain and immune system.
Dr. Ahn enjoys paddle-boarding, snowboarding, yoga, and long walks with her black lab.
Dr. Ahn is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in aesthetic facial rejuvenation. Dr. Ahn is a double board-certified surgeon in both Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Head and Neck Surgery.
Since opening his private practice in Boston over 20 years ago, Dr. Ahn has authored many publications and been invited to speak at plastic surgery meetings around the world.
Dr. Ahn trained in Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at the highly acclaimed University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Ahn earned his medical degree from George Washington University, graduating with distinction and his AB from Harvard University, graduating cum laude.
