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What IF?
Imagine your fertility practice with greater efficacy, more support, and better technology.
Innovation Fertility is a network of leading IVF clinics and laboratories. A thousand small decisions go into making one life – we’re experts in helping practices make them.
Innovation is more than what’s new – innovation is what works.
As industry leaders, we believe innovation in the reproductive field is as much about optimization as it is about discovery. Leverage our expertise to streamline internal processes and improve outcomes for your patients.
"Working with Innovation Fertility helped me design a premiere boutique REI practice. They helped with everything from clinical and laboratory design, purchasing all equipment, and providing trained staff."
"Working with the Innovation Fertility team helped us make a smooth transition from a hospital to a private practice setting. They took care of everything from site evaluation, lab design and management, bank financing, equipment and staff planning, marketing strategy and practice management."
"Innovation Fertility is the perfect partnership for our practice. We have been working with Dwight and Kathy for over 10 years, overseeing our IVF laboratory operations. Now we have completely integrated the entire practice with the creation of Innovation Fertility. What is unique to this group is their dedication to a patient first focused mind set, providing all the key components to build and maintain a successful IVF practice. With this partnership, I am able to focus more time on my patients and strive to bring the best possible success rates to southeast Michigan."
"Innovation Fertility has been a forward-thinking support system helping us to build a sustainable, scalable and successful practice model. Through supportive and mindful implementation of operational paradigms to execution of an evidence-based IVF Laboratory practice, Innovation Fertility has allowed me to focus my energy on my patients and improve my work-life balance."
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Dwight P. Ryan
Executive Chairman
Dwight Ryan is a seasoned executive with extensive finance, accounting, and operations experience in healthcare and technology with early-stage start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Ryan was formerly the VP and Chief Financial Officer from 1987-1998 of the first-of-its-kind infertility services company and took them public in 1991 on the NASDAQ. He developed a revolutionary infertility case management company to streamline patient care and contain medical and pharmacy costs for leading healthcare insurance companies.
Mr. Ryan has spent the majority of his career in the area of infertility. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMA-NJ) and most recently at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA-NY). Mr. Ryan founded MedTech For Solutions, Inc in 2006, which provides Group Purchasing, laboratory, clinical, risk management/legal, practice development, and marketing services to the fertility industry. MedTech has built or retrofitted more IVF practices and laboratories than any company in the industry. Mr. Ryan is currently a board member on the national board of RESOLVE, having served over ten years as its treasurer and executive committee member.
Kyle Francis
CEO
Kyle Francis is a seasoned healthcare executive with a robust finance, M&A, business development, and healthcare management background. Mr. Francis has held a range of executive and advisory roles across a range of companies, including serving as CFO and Chief Business Development Officer for Spring Fertility, a national network of fertility clinics, CFO for Digital Transformation Opportunities Corp's, a special purpose acquisition corporation, and its acquisition of American Oncology Network, CEO and CFO of Southern California Reproductive Center, a prominent chain of fertility clinics, which was sold to a national OBGYN network. Before that, he co-founded and served as Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc's Chief Financial Officer and Strategy Officer.
Mr. Francis began his career as an investment banker at CIBC World Markets Inc., In addition to his executive roles, Mr. Francis serves on the board of directors for RaceRocks, a Canadian technology company specializing in virtual reality training and remote learning for the defense industry. He also acts as an executive advisor to various private healthcare companies. Mr. Francis holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University.
Kathleen Miller D.H.Sc.
CSO
Dr. Kathleen Miller is the author of more than 100 abstracts, papers and chapters on fertility and assisted reproduction technologies, Dr. Miller is well known for research advances in the field of blastocyst culture and pre-implantation genetics as well as a leading expert in laboratory management, quality improvement programs, and single embryo transfer. She continues to be actively involved in research projects focusing on time-lapse technology, artificial intelligence integration and pre-implantation genetic screening to select embryos that have the best chance of developing into a successful pregnancy and birth.
She has been the managing editor of the IFFS Surveillance since 2014, a triennial survey, initiated in 1998 by Drs. Howard Jones, Jr. and Jean Cohen, assessing practices of assisted reproductive technology at the global level.
Dr. Miller is also the Vice President of MedTech For Solutions and leads the laboratory division’s team specializing in the implementation of cutting edge assisted reproduction technologies, laboratory management and state of the art laboratory design and build out. In 2017, Dr. Miller created the OvaTools Training Institute. The Institute provides academic and theoretical knowledge in Assisted Reproductive Technology and Genetics with the best technical, hands-on training available today in a highly focused and supervised learning environment at the ART training facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Rita Gruber
Human Resources
Rita Gruber has more than forty years’ experience on a senior executive level in both retail and healthcare management. Her credentials in Reproductive Medicine are supported by twenty-eight successful years in HR and operations’ administration as IntegraMed’s first Director of Human Resources, followed by VP of Human Resources at RMA of New Jersey. Rita is now President of the Gruber Group, LLC doing consulting work with MedTech for Solutions, serving RE practices and clinics across the country.
Rita received her BA from the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY and her Paralegal degree from Mercy College, White Plains, NY.
As a senior executive in NY retailing, she acquired strong operations and process improvement competencies that complement and bring increased value to her HR administration skills.
During her career in Reproductive Medicine, Rita has hired and onboarded executives and staff in all the RE disciplines; chaired PG Courses and Symposia for ARM at several ASRM conferences and other professional meetings; coached and mentored Physicians, Managers, and staff in leadership and performance competencies; served at the Rutgers University Career Development Center, volunteering her expertise to help students prepare for their job search and interviews, and was a client advisor to Total Compliance Solutions (TCS/MedSafe).
Resham Saeed
VP Operations
Resham Saeed is a strategic and detail-oriented Vice President with extensive experience in both government and corporate environments. She excels in project management, vendor negotiation, procurement, resource allocation, cost savings, strategy, and corporate development, consistently driving successful initiatives.
At US Fertility, Resham served as the Executive Project Manager, where she led company-wide standardization efforts, successfully integrated the Center of Reproductive Medicine in Houston, and managed the acquisition and integration of NextGen Genetics. Additionally, she played a crucial role in centralizing key departments such as Finance & Accounting, HR, Marketing, Operations, and IT. Her focus on negotiations, contract management, and innovative solutions consistently delivered substantial cost savings without compromising quality, fostering operational efficiency and growth.
Resham's career began at Deloitte as a Senior Consultant for the Defense Health Agency. In this role, she managed the transition from a legacy system to a cloud environment, resulting in interoperability between the VA and DoD.
Resham holds a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University and a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from The George Washington University.
Jessica Dutton
Controller, Accounting and Finance
Jessica joined the Albaron team in 2022 as a fractional Controller across the Albaron portfolio. As Controller, she is responsible for the day-to-day operations within the accounting and finance departments at the companies she works with. This includes accounts payable/receivable, bookkeeping, cash management, and the creation of financial statements.
Prior to joining Albaron, Jessica was the Manager of Financial Reporting and Consolidation at IntegraMed, a private equity backed management services organization specializing in reproductive medicine. Before entering the private equity space, Jessica was at KPMG LLP in the Financial Services Audit Practice. At KPMG she specialized in Banking and Capital Markets, serving some of the industry’s largest financial institutions.
Jessica obtained both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from CUNY Queens College.
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