Michael Stroup
Chief Development Officer
Michael is an accomplished healthcare executive who is passionate about partnering with physicians and caregivers to offer high-quality, cost-effective care to patients as well as exciting growth opportunities to providers. Michael has 20+ years of healthcare experience, including 12 years building successful development teams and driving growth for private equity backed companies.
Prior to Geode, Michael served as Chief Growth Officer of Southern Veterinary Partners, continuing the company’s rapid rise with Shore Capital to becoming the 6th largest owner of veterinary hospitals with $90+ million in EBITDA.
Prior to Southern Veterinary Partners, Michael spent 11 years with United Surgical Partners, partnering with leading health systems and surgeons to buy and build short stay surgical facilities. As Head of Strategy and Senior Vice President of Development, Michael helped grow company EBITDA to over $1B dollars as a private company backed by Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe and then as a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare.
Michael also spent 9 years as an investment banker with RBC Capital Markets and JPMorgan and several years as a Healthcare Strategy Consultant with Mercer and A. Foster Higgins. Michael earned an MBA for The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. Michael lives in Dallas, Texas and heads to the lake or mountains to water and snow ski whenever possible with his wife and three children.