Managing Partner – Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan has more than 40 years of entrepreneurial experience in healthcare business development, sales, marketing, mergers, and acquisitions. Jonathan joined Paragon Ventures in 1999 as a Managing Partner and became CEO in 2004. Paragon Ventures has successfully completed over 300 M&A advisory transactions in 45 states across the USA.
In 1979 Jonathan founded PRN – The As Needed Company, a capital equipment rental and asset management services company and a master distributor for MEDIQ, Inc. Jonathan later founded Medtech Biomedical Services Inc. a biomedical equipment maintenance and repair business. Medtech was subsequently merged with PRN and in 1990 the combined companies were sold to Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) an international healthcare company (PKA Acelity and today it resides within 3M Health Care Service Group). The merged companies were then sold to MEDIQ, Inc. in 1994. Today, the business resides within Hill-Rom, formerly a Hillenbrand Industries company.
In 1995, Jonathan also co-founded Associated Resource Management Services, LLC (ARMS), a capital asset management firm serving hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare providers nationally.
Jonathan is a member of the American Marketing Association, American College of Healthcare Executives, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. Jonathan frequently writes articles for healthcare trade journals, newsletters and presents seminars on asset management, business development, mergers, and acquisitions. Jonathan is a judge for several healthcare industry competitions including the HME Excellence Awards, Provider of the Year, the M&A Advisor Awards, the Emerging Leader Awards and the International M&A Awards.
Jonathan has guest lectured on healthcare marketing practices at Baruch College in NYC and provides course materials to the Harvard Business School’s M&A program on Entrepreneurialism Through Acquisitions in Cambridge MA.
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