Darren W. Lee

Prior to joining Crely Healthcare, Darren spent seven years as the President and CEO of two acute-care hospitals and a skilled nursing facility in California, all part of the Dignity Health System.

In all, Darren spent over 20 years with Dignity Health (now CommonSpirit Health) serving in various system-level roles, including operations, legal, employee and labor relations, and human resources. He has been a member of various boards and associations including Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Hospital Association of Southern California, the Board of Directors of Identity Management Service Organization and the Ventura County Medi-Cal Managed Care Commission.

He started his professional career as a Deputy City Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco and later became the Assistant Director of Labor Relations for the University of California, Office of the President where he negotiated the first ever collective bargaining agreement between the University of California (all campuses) and over 10,000 Teaching Assistants who were represented by the United Auto Workers Association

Darren has an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a law degree from the University of San Francisco where he was selected as a judicial extern for the Federal District Court in San Francisco. He has also completed a post-graduate program in General Management at Harvard Business School and is fluent in Spanish. Darren enjoys spending time with his wife and four children.