Paul F. Brown holds the James Lee Sorenson Presidential Chair and is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the David Eccles School of Business. He has over 20 years of healthcare and healthcare investing experience. In addition to teaching, Paul is an Advisory Partner with Granite Growth Health Partners, a healthcare services venture capital fund. He serves on the boards of or advises CleanSlate Centers (multi-site outpatient addiction treatment), Central Logic (patient flow software for health systems), QualDerm Partners (multi-site professional dermatology practice management), Advantia (multi-site women’s health), and Vytalize Health (senior primary care).
He has served as a volunteer judge or mentor for Healthbox, Village Capital, The American Dream Ideas Challenge, and Bench2Bedside. Paul is an active angel investor. Prior to teaching, he co-founded and co-managed the $300 BlueCross Blue Shield Venture Partners healthcare fund. He was also a managing director of Sandbox Industries, a Chicago-based venture capital firm. Prior to that, Paul was a vice president in the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield organization for ten years. Previously, he practiced law at the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP for ten years, where he was a partner. Paul earned his undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah and a law degree from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
