Executive Biographies | The Permanente Federation

Chris Grant

Senior vice president and managing director, Kaiser Permanente’s Venture Capital and Corporate Development Group

Chris Grant co-founded and oversees Kaiser Permanente’s highly successful venture investment program, which is designed to support the organization’s health care mission while generating venture capital rates of return. Additionally, Mr. Grant oversees corporate development and merger and acquisitions companywide.

Mr. Grant has a dual reporting relationship to Kathy Lancaster, chief financial officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Hospitals, and to John H. Cochran, MD, FACS, executive director, The Permanente Federation, LLC.

Mr. Grant is a board director or advisor to numerous medical device, service, diagnostic and IT portfolio companies. Prior to the formation of the venture fund in 2000, he was responsible for creating, developing and managing a portfolio of highly successful new products and business lines for the organization. Before joining Kaiser Permanente in 1995, he held several positions on the business development and financial management team of Rockwell International Corp. Additionally, Mr. Grant serves as president of the Board of Trustees of the Pleasanton (Calif.) Unified School District as well as two charitable foundations.

Mr. Grant has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has completed executive management programs at the Kenan-Flagler Business School (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), as well as Venture Capital Institute graduate and undergraduate programs.