Donny Patel

Business Scaler. Complexity Decoder. Technology Operator.

Donny Patel

The pattern is consistent across every role — enter complexity, build clarity, scale the business.

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$650M
Global P&L owned
at Baxter International
3,200+
Employees led across
16 countries
$15B+
M&A deal value shaped
across multiple transactions
2.5M+
Connected devices
supported globally
6K+
Sites across 16 time zones
24/7 global operations
Organizations
Amedisys
NYC Health + Hospitals
Mount Sinai
MIT Sloan
Baxter International
KKR

About

Built for scale.
Engineered for growth.

Twenty years of entering environments where complexity is the default and scale is the mandate — and leaving them with platforms that perform, margins that hold, and teams that deliver. The work has spanned municipal health systems, global MedTech, international joint ventures, and pre-seed startups. The discipline has never changed.

The through-line is commercial outcomes — not just technology delivered, but revenue grown, margins expanded, and organizations rebuilt to sustain both. That combination is rare, and it travels. The right organization will know it when they see it.

Full P&L Ownership M&A Integration Platform Architecture Commercial Strategy Regulatory & Compliance Board & Advisory Engagement AI & Connected Health Global Team Leadership
Currently
CTO at a Pre-Seed AI Startup
Building vertical AI for Home Health & Long-Term Care
Advisor
PE Due Diligence
KKR
Division Revenue Growth
3% → 9%
Growth trajectory within Connected Care division, 13% YoY expansion in 2023–24
Margin Expansion
$49M+
$24M operating margin expansion + $25M structural efficiency gains

The Pattern in Practice

Four problems.
One consistent approach.

Case 01

The Device Is the Door. The Platform Is the Deal.

Devices commoditize. The integration layer does not. Built one connected care platform across every Baxter product line, so health systems bought an ecosystem instead of a box.

$8B+ connected product revenue · 2.5M+ devices
Case 02

Legacy Customers Become Platform Customers

A legacy portfolio, renewed on habit, became a data-backed platform relationship. The same data models and interoperability layers carried the Hillrom integration.

13% YoY growth · $10B Hillrom integration
Case 03

Selling a Workflow, Not a Gadget

Clinicians don't buy devices, they buy fewer steps. Voalte Linq, an AI voice gateway, turned a hardware conversation into a workflow conversation, in a regulated environment at enterprise scale.

Industry-first AI voice gateway · 2025 launch
Case 04

The Buy Side: Where Capital Is Paying Now

Across platform-and-services MedTech deals, the same three questions decide value: who owns the data, who owns the workflow, who owns the renewal.

MedTech platform diligence · 2026

The details are a conversation. Let's have it.

Career

Experience

2026 – Present
Owle Ai
Chief Technology Officer
Pre-Seed · Home Health & LTC
"Building a vertical AI product for the most underserved segment in U.S. healthcare — where the stakes are high and the technology gap is even higher."
3Active pilots
Pre-SeedStage
2026 – Present
KKR
Advisor
Global Private Equity
"Bringing 20 years of operator experience to the table — helping one of the world's largest PE firms separate signal from noise on complex healthcare technology investments."
MedTechSector focus
2019 – 2026
Baxter International
President, Connected Care
NYSE: BAX · $650M P&L · 3,200+ People · 16 Countries
"Owned the full P&L — $650M spanning services, connected care, and platform revenue — while building the technology organization that tied it all together across 16 countries and 3,200 people."
$650MP&L owned
$24Mmargin expansion
13%YoY growth
2.5M+devices connected
2013 – 2019
Mount Sinai
Division CIO, International Business
Mount Sinai Health System · New York, NY
"Integrated an 8-hospital acquisition into one unified platform — then took the same playbook international."
8hospitals integrated
$60M+IT budget managed
200+orgs connected
2011 – 2013
NYC Health + Hospitals
Senior Director of Technology
New York, NY · Consultant
"Managed a $22M state health IT grant and a parallel systems migration across 11 hospitals simultaneously — for the largest municipal health system in the United States."
$22MHEAL NY grant led
22sites connected
Sandyfailover executed
2001 – 2011
Earlier Roles
Amedisys · Ellkay · NYC Metro
Integration · Migration · Consulting
"The decade that built the foundation — 350+ EMR migrations, 8+ acquisitions per month, and enterprise system builds for some of New York's largest health systems."
350+EMR migrations
40+states covered
50+offshore developers led

Expertise

Core Competencies

Platform Leadership

  • Platform Commercialization
  • Complete P&L Leadership
  • Enterprise Portfolio Ownership
  • Capital Ecosystem Strategy
  • Portfolio Rationalization

Enterprise Technology

  • Enterprise-Scale IT Operations
  • Software Monetization
  • AI Healthcare Platforms
  • Cloud-Native Architecture (AWS)
  • SaaS / PaaS Strategies

Organizational Scale

  • Organizational Scaling
  • M&A Integration
  • Leadership Architecture
  • Enterprise Alignment
  • Value Creation

Clinical Technology

  • Epic, Cerner, Eclipsys
  • HL7 / FHIR Integration
  • Connected Care Platforms
  • Ambient Sensing & Monitoring
  • HIPAA Compliance

Growth Strategy

  • Growth Strategy
  • Strategic Planning
  • Commercial Execution
  • Supplier Rationalization
  • Margin Expansion

Global Operations at Scale

  • 6,000+ Sites across 16+ Countries
  • 2.5M+ Connected Devices Managed
  • 51 Call Centers Overseen
  • Applied AI & IoT at Edge
  • Real-Time Clinical Decision Support

Thought Leadership

Speaking & Engagements

November 2025
Reuters MedTech USA
Speaker
September 2025
LSX USA Congress
Speaker
June 2025
Premier Breakthroughs 25
Speaker
April 2025
DGTL Voices Podcast
Guest — with Ed Marx
March 2025
HIMSS25
Speaker
February 2025
ViVE 2025
Speaker
October 2024
HLTH Conference
Speaker
May 2024
DeviceTalks Boston
Speaker
April 2024
Becker's Digital Health + Health IT Forum
Speaker

Leadership in Action

In the Room.
On the Stage.

Leadership isn't just a title — it's being present with your team, on the stage, and in the field.

Education

Academic Background

MBA, Finance & Leadership
Oklahoma Christian University
MS, Mechatronics Engineering
University of Wollongong
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Gujarat University
Executive Education — Systematic Innovation
MIT Sloan School of Management
Donny Patel
Donny Patel
Business Scaler. Complexity Decoder. Technology Operator.

Get in Touch

Let's build something
extraordinary.

Open to executive leadership opportunities in healthcare technology, board advisory roles, and PE/VC due diligence engagements.

Donny.patel@gmail.com LinkedIn