Who We Are

Carleen Hawn, CEO

Carleen is CEO and Co-Founder of Healthspottr and leads the convening and consulting practices. Previously, she was an Associate Editor with Forbes and later Senior Writer and West Coast Bureau Chief for Fast Company magazine. With Forbes, Carleen created the well-known Midas List, an index of leading venture capital dealmakers, currently in its 21st year of publication. Carleen is a Board Director of Newtopia, a publicly traded habit change platform based in Toronto, Canada. Previously, she served five years as a Board Director of CureSearch for Children’s Cancers, a national non-profit that accelerates development of innovative therapies for children with cancer. She also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of TEDMED. Carleen now focuses her philanthropic efforts on advancing cures for neurodegenerative diseases with a special focus on NBIA disorders.  She holds a BA in political science from Barnard College, an MS from Columbia Journalism School and attended Columbia Business School as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow. carleen@healthspottr.com

Tom DeLay

Tom serves as COO of Healthspottr and leads Healthspottr Capital. He has extensive experience setting up operating entities for financial and technology firms, working with partners and customers to develop new products and business strategies, and identifying and closing investment opportunities for financial and strategic buyers. Prior to joining Healthspottr, Tom held senior operating roles in three startups in technology (Bang Networks and BeNotified Software) and financial services (New Capital Markets). Tom is the CEO and Co-Founder of iHealth Analytics, a comparative analytics and resource utilization platform for payers and providers. tom@healthspottr.com

Larry Leisure

Larry Leisure is a CoFounder  of Healthspottr and Chicago Pacific Founders, (CPF) where is a managing partner. CPF a private equity firm focused on senior living, provider services, value-based care, and technology enabled services. He has a distinguished career in healthcare, serving in senior venture capital, private equity, management consulting, and industry operating roles. Organizations where he has held senior leadership positions include Accenture, Price Waterhouse, Towers Perrin, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans, and UnitedHealth Group. He co- founded several organizations, including ADVI, the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable, and NearWater Growth LLC. Larry Leisure is also a member of the Board of Directors for several venture-backed companies and has been involved in various healthcare innovation initiatives globally.

George Rehm

George has been a Board Advisor to Healthspottr since its inception and plays key roles in both our consulting and capital raise activities. He is a founding partner of aeris CAPITAL AG. He has over 30 years of experience as a lawyer and executive in international licensing, technology transfer, and investment and privatization transactions in the US, Europe and Asia. George has held board or observer positions in numerous transformational healthcare companies, including Crescendo Biosciences, Adamas Pharmaceuticals, and Ion Torrent, Inc. Currently, from a base in Northern California, George continues to manage the aeris Life Science portfolio and serves as a director of GenomeDx Inc., PFS Genetics, Butterfly Networks, LAM Therapeutics Inc., Solstice Biosciences, G2i and Jiff Inc. He received his BSFS from Georgetown University, and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in parallel to graduate studies in City Planning at the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley and served as graduate assistant at the Earl Warren Legal Institute, UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall.