Thomas McKinley

Thomas McKinley has a track record of helping entrepreneurs create significant and successful enterprises. His focus, along with his partners at Cardinal Partners, has been to identify early new market opportunities in health care and work with entrepreneurs, scientists, clinicians, engineers and inventors to grow great companies from great ideas. The result has helped improve the lives of millions, while also rewarding investors with extraordinary returns. Since 1997, companies funded by Cardinal have a cumulative market valuation exceeding $6 Billion.

Thomas is the Chairman of the Board of Prealize and West Coast Representative for Cardinal Partners. Prior to joining Cardinal, Thomas was the Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Partech International. His investments include Ascend Communications (ASND acquired by Lucent Technologies), Automated Healthcare (acquired by McKesson), Medicode (acquired by United Healthcare) and VISICU (EICU acquired by Philips). He is currently on the boards of lifeIMAGE, a cloud-based medical imaging sharing platform for hospitals, physicians, and patients; and Teladoc (public), a telehealth services providing doctor consults to consumer.

Thomas has also served on several other boards and is a member of the Health Management Academy, and a founding member of Healthcare IT Advisory Group to the State of California.

Thomas received his BS in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Accounting from New York University and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.