Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology venture capital firm, has promoted Ian Chiang and Vic Lanio to Partner and Margaret Malone to Principal.
“We are thrilled to acknowledge the accomplishments of Ian, Vic and Margaret,” says Bill Geary, co-founder and partner. “We are delighted to recognise the role each has played alongside the rest of our Flare Capital team members, in helping our portfolio companies.”
“When Bill and I set out nearly seven years ago to build Flare Capital, our goal was to attract an incredibly talented and passionate investment team. These promotions reflect how important we view each of them and how impactful their contributions have been,” says Michael Greeley, co-founder and partner.
Chiang has focused on the transformation of healthcare throughout his career. Prior to Flare Capital, he served as a Senior Vice President of Product & Innovation and a founding member of CareAllies, Cigna’s family of multi-payer value-based care enablement, population health management, and home-based care businesses. While at CareAllies, Chiang was responsible for developing new technology-enabled services, evolving existing solution and service lines, and providing ongoing product management across the businesses of CareAllies. After starting his career at McKinsey & Company where he advised healthcare clients globally, Chiang was a cofounder of XcelDx, which ultimately partnered with Scanwell Health, a smartphone-enabled venture-backed diagnostics company. Ian also worked for Becton, Dickinson & Company where he led new product innovation and development initiatives. Chiang earned his BS degree in biological engineering from Cornell University, where he graduated with honors and was a Cornell Presidential Research Scholar. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Lanio joined Flare Capital in July 2017 as a Senior Associate, having also been a member of the Flare Scholar Class of 2016. Prior to joining Flare Capital, Lanio was a Product Strategy Manager at naviHealth, responsible for enterprise product strategy during the integration of the naviHealth, Curaspan and RightCare businesses. Earlier in his career, Lanio was at McKinsey & Company serving healthcare providers, where he helped build Objective Health, a technology-enabled consulting model for small to midsize health systems. After college, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Health Industries Advisory Practice, focusing on operational improvement, revenue cycle, and personalized medicine. Lanio obtained his BS from Boston College, with majors in Physics and Finance. He also holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Throughout her career, Margaret has similarly focused on transforming the healthcare industry. Starting her career as a clinical operations consultant at Huron Consulting Group, Margaret partnered with leading academic medical centers to develop and implement patient access, case management, and care coordination programs to improve quality and care experience. After Huron, she joined Oxeon Partners. Here, she recruited leadership teams and designed the human capital infrastructure for technology and tech-enabled service companies transforming the healthcare system. Additionally, she gained a wealth of relevant knowledge in venture capital through her roles with 7wireVentures and B Capital Group.
Malone earned her MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she received the Madelon L & Richard N Rosett Merit Scholarship and the Hyde Park Angels Venture Capital Award. She also holds a BA in Medicine, Health, and Society from Vanderbilt University. While in business school, she was a Flare Scholar, and alongside colleagues Parth Desai and Lanio, she is the third Flare Scholar to join the Flare Capital investment team.
