Stedman Stevens is a senior executive with a record of success leading new business strategies in multiple industries as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Stevens has served on numerous Boards from Hospital Systems with over a $1B in revenues to the New Hanover Community Endowment with over $1.3B in charitable assets.
Mr. Stevens has been on the front line of healthcare managing clinical trials, accelerating medical device development, building physician education programs for top pharmaceutical companies, leading strategy as Board of Directors for a $1B health system and working on aging issues for retirement care and senior living facilities.
Mr. Stevens has a proven record of innovation and strong ability to commercialize products, including creating new distribution channels in drugstores, developing new intelligence rules for physicians to detect opioid abuse, accelerating technical development of a diabetes mobile application, and building a completely new and first to market aviation sensor technology.
Mr. Stevens has a strong record of successful company turnarounds. Stevens is known as a strategic problem solver with significant experience in integrating acquisitions, and has been involved in 6 transactions as CEO, equity partner or professional management on the buy and sell side. Mr. Stevens has a history of successes in international business, negotiating production, sales and distribution agreements in several countries.
Mr. Stevens has degrees in Chemistry, Zoology, Forensic Science and Pharmaceutical Outcomes from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and George Washington University. He is the author of a Beautiful Life…The little things that help grieving families and is featured author on Opentohope.org. He and his wife, Susanna, live in Wilmington, North Carolina.