Robert L. Crutchfield

Bob is a senior executive with over 30 years of leadership experience in healthcare services, healthcare IT, and surgical devices with major international companies, as well as entrepreneurial startups and venture capital. He is well recognized for creating value, with experience in mergers and acquisitions, public corporations, venture capital firms, and startups. Today, Bob is leveraging his healthcare industry and venture capital experience as the Managing Director of Hotspot Ventures, LLC. Hotspot Ventures only works with private capital backed healthcare companies as a strategic advisor, independent board member or executive chairman.

Bob is a venture partner with Good Growth Capital, a venture capital firm in Charleston, SC, the executive chairman of the board for OrbitalRx, a pharmacy shortage supply chain software company in Winston Salem, NC, a strategic advisor and operating partner for Bronze Valley, a CDFI focused on investing in companies founded and/or led by diverse entrepreneurs in Birmingham, AL, is a member of the board of directors for AllerVie, an asthma and allergy practice rollup company in Dallas, TX, is an executive in residence for HealPros, a HEDIS Stars gap closure company in Atlanta, GA, is the executive chairman for Pictor Labs, a digital pathology staining company in Los Angeles, CA, and a strategic advisor for Avanos, a publicly traded medical device company in Atlanta, GA.

Bob is a graduate of the University of Georgia and holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Political Science and Chemistry and resides in Charleston, SC.