KIC Global Reach: Our Investor & Business Partners
KIC, a prominent investment firm, specializes in acquiring and expanding a cohesive portfolio of successful healthcare companies with a focus on medical devices for spine surgery and digital health. The firm actively seeks opportunities to initiate Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) in order to leverage strategic business transactions in key international locations
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.
Kingsley continues to invest in personal leadership development to be successful at the highest levels, build a legacy of innovative companies and mentor young leaders with life lessons through books, music, and public speaking engagements.
Aditya Humad is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at KICVentures with management responsibility over the firm’s investment strategies and corporate structuring. Under his management since 2009, KICVentures has organically grown $250M+ in portfolio revenues, raised $30M+ in equity and debt capital, and closed key M&A deals. Aditya also serves as CFO for the portfolio companies overseeing financial operations. Aditya began his career on Wall Street at J.P. Morgan in New York focused on healthcare M&A. Aditya grew up in Kuwait and India, and earned a Bachelors in Finance from the Wharton Business School and a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Established in 2009, the Less Exposure Surgery Society is leading the charge to prove through bench and clinical outcomes research. Less Exposure Surgery (LES) treatment is the best solution to lowering the cost of healthcare improving outcomes, and patient satisfaction. By encouraging surgeons to believe that LESS is MORE, we are also driven to grow our membership to ensure that we maintain a quality treatment standard through education, collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship. Learn more at LESSociety.org.
