Tom Base
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Tom Base brings over 20 years of experience in growth strategies, investments and health care market knowledge to OPEN MINDS. Mr. Base has extensive experience in leading new initiatives that drive revenue growth, expand market share, and increase strategic advantage through partnerships, acquisitions, and financing.
Prior to joining OPEN MINDS, Mr. Base served as the Managing Director of Boomtown Healthtech Accelerator. In this position, Mr. Base lead the organization’s investments in and mentorship of 28 health care innovation startups.
Prior to his role at Boomtown Healthtech Accelerator, Mr. Base served as a Chief Business Development Officer of Mental Health Partners, where he led the organization’s first commercial managed care strategy and successfully negotiated contracts with their major insurance carriers. Mr. Base also led the organization’s acquisition of a county addiction recovery center to expand into substance abuse services. In parallel, he led Mental Health Partners successful award of the substance abuse state contract and established the first integrated care partnerships with two major health systems by structuring new business, legal and compliance frameworks. Before that work, Mr. Base served as Business Development Director of Mental Health Center of Denver, where he was responsible for developing and implementing new product and service lines to increase and diversify revenue streams.
Mr. Base has also held the positions in the financial services and pharmaceutical sectors. He served as Executive Director, Business Development of CHDI Foundation, an organization focused on Huntington’s disease research and Business Development Director of Ionis (Isis) Pharmaceuticals. He was also Vice President, Investment Banking for Frost Securities and an Associate at RBC Capital Markets where he focused on the life sciences sector.
Mr. Base earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and an MBA/MBI from RSM Erasmus Graduate School of Business, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.