Chris Grant is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation with over 25 years experience as a corporate officer and executive leader. Grant coordinates and supports the work of over 24,000 physicians and 85,000 employees across the Permanente Medical Groups, providing quality care to over 12.6 million members. As COO, Grant serves on the National Executive Committee. He has oversight for key functions including clinical quality, strategy, clinical innovation, products and sales, corporate development, finance, ventures, external affairs, communications, brand and leadership. Grant is responsible for managing the operations, business relationships, and systems of the organization with deep expertise in corporate governance, systems transformation, organization-wide operations and executive leadership. Grant has served on the board of directors of over a 15 companies as well as non-profit organizations and academic institutions. He is currently a Board Director to multiple medical technology, services and healthcare delivery organizations.

Prior to his role as COO, Grant served as SVP of Corporate Development, Strategy and  Investments, and Executive Managing Director of KP’s venture capital group. He continues to oversee ventures. Grant co-founded the investment program in 1998 and has overseen multiple funds, over $700M in invested capital, and more than 90  investments in medical technology companies. The highly successful function supports the company’s health care mission while generating venture capital rates of return. Prior to 1998, Grant was responsible for creating and managing a portfolio of new business lines. Before joining Kaiser Permanente in 1995, he held several positions on the Business Development and Financial Management Team of Rockwell International.

Grant served on the board of trustees of a large school district, as an executive adviser to the California Healthcare Foundation and Dominican University, on California Governor’s Job Creation Committee, and sits on the board of the University of Miami health system and two charitable foundations. Grant is a frequent speaker on topics including strategy, leadership and innovation. Grant has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has completed executive leadership programs at the Harvard Business School and Kenan-Flagler School of Business (UNC at Chapel Hill) as well as Venture Capital Institute graduate program.