Merged into The Oncology Institute, ticker now TOI
DFPH

Completed

The Oncology Institute

TOI
First $9.70
Merger $6.03
38%
Merger +6mo $5.17
47%
Merger +1yr $0.72
93%
Recent $0.45
95%

DFP Healthcare Acquisitions Corp.

Sponsors: DFP Sponsor
Raised
$200M
CIK
1799191
SPAC Ticker
DFPH
Merger
The Oncology Institute
Merged Ticker
TOI
Focus
Healthcare
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

Richard Barasch has served as our Chairman since our formation and served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DFB from its formation until the closing of its initial business combination. Mr. Barasch currently serves as Chairman of AdaptHealth. Mr. Barasch was Chief Executive Officer of Universal American Corp., a publicly-traded health insurance and services company focused on the senior market and government programs, from 1995 until Universal American's acquisition by WellCare Health Plans in May 2017. Mr. Barasch has developed an extensive network of contacts throughout the healthcare industry and speaks regularly at industry conferences as a healthcare services expert. He is currently founding partner of RAB Ventures, formed to invest in growth healthcare companies, Chairman of HouseWorks LLC and Co-Chairman of ELMC Risk Management Inc. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Health Policy and Management program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he is also an Assistant Adjunct Professor, and the Brown School of Public Health. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Barasch graduated from Swarthmore College and Columbia University Law School. Mr. Barasch was selected to serve on the board of directors due to his significant experience managing and investing in healthcare companies.

Steven Hochberg has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since our formation. A partner in the private transactions group at Deerfield Management, Mr. Hochberg joined Deerfield Management in 2013 to work on structured transactions. Mr. Hochberg has been a co-founder and manager of many healthcare companies, including DFB, and he led the merger of two New York City-based hospital systems, which created a healthcare delivery system in New York City with revenues in excess of $5 billion. Mr. Hochberg has also led investments in more than 55 healthcare companies, including rollups of companies within the services and the medtech sectors. Since 2004, Mr. Hochberg has managed Ascent Biomedical Ventures, a leading venture capital firm he co-founded focused on early stage investment and development of biomedical companies. Since 2011, Mr. Hochberg had been the Chairman of the Board of Continuum Health Partners until its merger with Mount Sinai in 2013, where he is a Vice Chairman of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System, a non-profit healthcare integrated delivery system in New York City with over $7 billion in combined annual revenues. Mr. Hochberg serves on the board of Solar Capital and Solar Senior Capital, two publicly-traded business development companies and Solar's private Business Development Corporation. Mr. Hochberg is also a member of the board of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on advancing new technologies and education in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Mr. Hochberg graduated from the University of Michigan and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Hochberg was selected to serve on the board of directors due to his significant experience managing and investing in healthcare companies.

Christopher Wolfe has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since our formation. Mr. Wolfe was a partner of Capital Z Partners, a middle market private equity firm, from June 2003 until December 2017. He was responsible for sourcing, structuring, execution and monitoring of private equity transactions across a variety of verticals. Mr. Wolfe served on the board of directors of Universal American Corp. from 2009 to 2014. Prior to joining Capital Z in 2003, Mr. Wolfe worked in the mergers and acquisitions group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Wolfe graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Dr. Jennifer Carter will serve as a director as of the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Dr. Carter is a board-certified internist and healthcare entrepreneur, with over 20 years of experience evaluating existing and emerging markets, new medical technologies and early-stage companies in the health care field. Dr. Carter currently serves as the head of the Precision Health diagnostic and therapeutic platform at Integral Health and as a consultant at JLC Healthcare Strategies, LLC. Dr. Carter has served on the board of directors of Houseworks, LLC, an elder-care provider, since 2019, on the board of directors of Target Cancer Foundation, a non-profit organization, since 2018 and has been a member of the Founding Strategic Board of Xsphera Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology startup, since 2018. Dr. Carter has B.S. degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Yale University. She received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and an M.P.H. from The Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Carter was selected to serve on the board of directors due to her significant experience in healthcare technology and strategic consulting.

Dr. Mohit Kaushal will serve as a director as of the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. He has had an extensive career within investing, clinical medicine and public policy. Dr. Kaushal has served as a special advisor to General Atlantic since 2015. He was a partner in Aberdare Ventures from 2013 to 2014. During his time in the Obama administration, he was a member of the White House Health IT task force; a cross agency team implementing the technology aspects of the ACA and testified to Congress on the application of technology and payment reform to the Medicare population. He also built and led the first dedicated healthcare team at the Federal Communications Commission, where his team initiated collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration for the regulatory streamlining of converged telecommunications, data analytics and medical devices leading to the release of the mobile medical applications guidance by the FDA. In addition, his team reformed the Rural Healthcare fund to create the Healthcare Connect Fund, which aligned the funding mechanism with wider healthcare payment policy and technology reform. Dr. Kaushal is a lead investor, board member or advisor to numerous transformational healthcare companies. Dr. Kaushal is an emergency room physician, holds an MBA from Stanford and an MD with distinction from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. He is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University with a joint position within the newly created Biomedical Data Science Department and the medical school's Clinical Excellence Research Center. Dr. Kaushal was selected to serve on the board of directors due to his significant management experience in the healthcare and technology industries.

Dr. Gregory Sorensen will serve as a director as of the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. He served as the president and CEO of Siemens Healthcare North America from June 2011 to September 2015. Prior to Siemens, he served as Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard Medical School; a faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; and co-director of the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as a visiting Professor of Neuroradiology at Oxford University. Leading up to his appointment with Siemens, Dr. Sorensen was a practicing Neuroradiologist and active researcher with significant experience in clinical care, clinical trials, and translational research. His research and techniques are utilized by numerous centers throughout the world in phase II and III trials in cancer, stroke, and other illnesses. He holds a B.S. in biology from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, a M.S. in computer science from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Sorensen has served as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors for IMRIS, Inc., the leader in image-guided therapy solutions, the President and Chief Executive Officer of DeepHealth, Inc. since April 2017, the Chairman of Fusion Healthcare Staffing, LLC, and a member of the board of directors of Inviero LLC since December 2017. Dr. Sorensen was selected to serve on the board of directors due to his significant management experience in the healthcare and technology industries.