Executive Bio - Lee Calhoon

Lee Calhoon is Founder, President & CEO of Lee Calhoon & Co., headquartered in the Greater Philadelphia Area. Having founded his firm in 1970, Lee has been a pioneer in the search industry and a recognized leader in placing executives in the healthcare industry. His firms national recognition is validated by the fact that it has conducted over 3,000 healthcare searches.

Covering the entire sector of healthcare, his clients include payer, provider, pharma, managed care, population health improvement, disease management, wellness, information systems, technology, utilization management, medical device, workers comp & disability management, behavioral, CDHC, PBM, TPA, patient safety & quality, consulting, and web-based enterprises. Lee has worked with a diverse healthcare client base including Fortune 500 companies, small and mid-size public and private companies, as well as venture capital backed start-ups, conducting search assignments for mid and senior functional roles. Combining a unique perspective as an entrepreneur, Lee can identify the resources needed to grow a business, and because of his almost 40 years of experience, has the insights and assessment skills to identify and recruit candidates that truly make a difference for his clients and their businesses. His consultative style and approach have distinguished Lee as a trusted advisor, and has resulted in him being asked to serve as a strategic consultant to companies looking to gain marketshare within their sector.

In addition, Lee has conducted workshops, written articles in trade and national publications, and is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences and symposiums. He lectures on executive recruiting practices and trends as well as the strategic role between search firms and startup and early stage companies in the healthcare space. He is the firm's delegate to numerous healthcare associations, and has traveled internationally with the Presidents and senior executives of the leading HMOs and allied Pharmaceutical companies to research and study the healthcare systems of different countries. Recognizing the value of human capital in relationships, Lee was one of the first recruiters to see how you could leverage these underutilized networks into the creation of new businesses. He expanded this concept beyond his personal equity interests in start-up companies, by putting this principle to work in 1997 by co-founding The Nantucket Group, LLC, an early stage healthcare venture capital fund. Several of the funds portfolio company investments were I-trax, Beansprout Networks and EduNeering. As a founder and general partner, Lee was responsible for staffing the portfolio companies, and also opened up his firm’s networks to introduce executives who would become strategic business partners, board members, and customers.

A long-time resident of Pennsylvania, he resides with his wife in Birchrunville, Pennsylvania. Lee majored in Textile Marketing & Management at The Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science and has held board positions with organizations and companies in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.

This Pennsylvania “bank barn” is the corporate headquarters of our company. Originally built in 1792, the barn was renovated into an office building in 1978. Farmers used the barn for almost 200 years to store their most valuable assets – their grain, equipment, and livestock. Keeping with this theme, we chose the barn as our corporate logo because it continues to house our most valuable assets – the extensive information in our resume databases, our information technology systems, and most importantly – the intellectual capital shared among our consultants.