DR. KINGSLEY R. CHIN
Founder | Managing partner | CEO
Dr. Kingsley Chin is a new breed of doctorpreneur being a board certified orthopedic spine surgeon with 30 years of unique healthcare industry and executive leadership experience at the intersection of medicine, business and information technology. He is the Founding Partner and CEO of KICVentures headquartered in Boston. Reknown for his research on disruptive spine innovations, Dr. Chin has 80+ scientific publications and 40+ issued patents and was the sole inventor of the MANTIS, a minimally invasive spine technology, which was immediately acquired by Stryker Spine in 2005 as a 100X return on investment.
Faced with extreme poverty in Buff Bay Jamaica, Kingsley graduated from Titchfield High School then immigrated to the USA on a soccer scholarship to attend Columbia College then Columbia School of Engineering before working with Fortune 500 companies including AT&T Bell Labs, Andersen (Accenture), Cigna and Goldman Sachs within management information system consulting. He is a two-time graduate of Harvard University, earning a degree in medicine (honors) and another as an orthopedic resident before completing a fellowship in spine surgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland at Case Western University which led to his unprecedented appointed as a young Chief of Orthopedic Spine Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.