Bio

Vern Davenport, Partner, has over 30 years of executive experience in building and transforming healthcare technology and services companies. Before joining NovaQuest, Mr. Davenport was CEO and Board Member at Medfusion, a leader in healthcare consumerism technology. In this role, he was instrumental in the carve-out of the company from Intuit and returning its core portal solution to a market leadership position. Operationally, he created a culture where the company was awarded “Best Places to Work” by the Triangle Business Journal. In less than 12 months, the company developed and released two new products in patient payments and consumer patient record integration leveraging both cloud and mobile technologies. Prior to Medfusion, Mr. Davenport was Chairman and CEO of Medquist, leader in transcription services before and after the privatization of the company. As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Davenport facilitated a transformation of the business through the acquisition of a speech technology company, rebranding the company M*Modal and leading the take private process that resulted in the sale of the business to One Equity Partners. Mr. Davenport’s previous experience also includes his time as President, Allscripts; CEO, Misys Healthcare; GM & EVP, Kodak Health Group (now Carestream Health) and executive leadership roles at Siemens, Shared Medical Systems. Mr. Davenport started his career at IBM where he spent 11 years in sales, sales leadership and executive management positions. Mr. Davenport received an MBA from East Carolina University as well as a BSBA in Business. Mr. Davenport currently serves on the East Carolina Board of Trustees as well as the WakeMed Health and Hospitals Board.