James Katz
Managing Partner at Health Frontier Ventures
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Health Frontier Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Southern California. Our investment focus is US-based Direct to Patient (D2P) healthcare technology and services.
Mentor
2022
Thrilled to be working with such an outstanding group of founders that are passionate and committed to important innovations in Healthcare and Wellness.
Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator focuses on addressing the challenges and opportunities that exists in Physical Health.
Strategic Advisor
2020 - 2021
Health Frontier Advisors (HFA) is a specialized team of healthcare, technology, and marketing experts that deliver targeted consulting services for technology, product, and service companies throughout the healthcare ecosystem.
Advisory
2015 - 2020
Focused on delivering operational improvement transformation programs to large organizations.
Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Vice President - Global Corporate Services
2013 - 2014
Lead business development in Western US for global major account program. Supported Global Corporate Services (GCS) product development including Portfolio Advisory, Workplace Strategy, Project Management, Information Management, and related services. ► Performed Portfolio Strategy analysis for Fortune 500 corporations. ► Supported Sustainability and Energy Management programs. ► Provided Business Intelligence solutions. ► Developed and presented outsourced partnership models.
Director, WorkPlace Technologies & Information Management
2010 - 2013
Provided corporate operational technology solutions for major account business development. Represented Workplace Technologies line of business at industry trade associations and traveled nationally to present solutions and initiate new engagements. ► Directly sourced and closed new corporate clients for Workplace Technologies and Information Management line of business. ► Supported product strategy for web-based SaaS corporate technology. ► Participated in over 50 multimillion-dollar integrated service pursuits. ► Created CoreNet Summit industry trade show panel session, “Leveraging Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Workplace”, and presented for Johnson Controls.
Johnson Controls provides a a blueprint for construction products, technologies, software, and services.
Co-founder
2002 - 2010
Co-founder and operator. Titles included President, VP Sales, VP Operations, VP Corporate Development and VP Corporate Affairs. Our innovative culture and thought leadership allowed our team to participate in many of the most exciting design and construction projects worldwide. We created a new service offering in a new vertical market, raised venture capital, grew the company, managed through the economic downturn, and merged with Neilsoft Ltd. based in Pune, India in 2009.
Strategic Accounts
2001 - 2002
Level 3 Communications is an international communications company developing IP transit networks in North America and Europe.
Raised $13,700,000.00 from National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Partner Channel Executive
1999 - 2001
Education
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
1990 - 1994