Kaiser Permanente CEO and Leadership

Chris Grant is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation. Grant supports the work of over 23,000 physicians and 80,000 employees across the Permanente Medical Groups, providing quality care to over 12.5 million members. As COO, Grant serves on the National Permanente Executive Committee. He has oversight for key functions including clinical quality, strategy, products and sales, corporate development, finance, ventures, external affairs, communications, brand and leadership. Grant is responsible for managing the operations, business relationships, and systems of the organization.

Prior to his role as COO, Grant served as SVP of Corporate Development, Strategy and Investments, and Executive Managing Director of KP’s venture capital group. He continues to oversee ventures. Grant co-founded the investment program in 1998 and has overseen multiple funds and more than 100 investments in medical technology companies. The highly successful function supports the company’s health care mission while generating venture capital rates of return. Prior to 1998, Grant was responsible for creating and managing a portfolio of new business lines. Before joining Kaiser Permanente in 1995, he held several positions on the Business Development and Financial Management Team of Rockwell International.

Grant served on the board of trustees of a large school district, as an executive adviser to the California Healthcare Foundation and Dominican University, on California Governor’s Job Creation Committee, and sits on the board of two charitable foundations. Grant is a frequent speaker on topics including strategy, leadership and innovation. Grant has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has completed executive leadership programs at the Harvard Business School and Kenan-Flagler School of Business (UNC at Chapel Hill) as well as Venture Capital Institute graduate program.

Dr. Bindman previously spent more than 30 years at the University of California, San Francisco practicing and teaching clinical medicine while conducting research in health access and outcomes that resulted in more than 180 published scientific articles. A policy specialist, he served as a core faculty member within the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies in addition to his role as professor of medicine, and of epidemiology and biostatistics.

Dr. Bindman was appointed as a policy fellow for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and senior advisor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where he participated in drafting and implementing the Affordable Care Act. He later served as director for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality where he was responsible for using data and analytics to improve health care quality and safety nationwide. He is co-leading an effort with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to develop quality measures for radiology and is a co-founder of Alara Imaging, which aims to improve the quality and safety of diagnostic imaging. At the state level, Dr. Bindman was the founding director of the California Medicaid Research Institute and currently leads a UC-based team in support of the work of Gov. Newsom's Healthy California for All Commission.

Dr. Bindman is a graduate of Harvard College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at UCSF and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. He is a board-certified general internist. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015 and serves on the organization's board for health care services.

Chris Grant is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation. Grant supports the work of over 23,000 physicians and 80,000 employees across the Permanente Medical Groups, providing quality care to over 12.5 million members. As COO, Grant serves on the National Permanente Executive Committee. He has oversight for key functions including clinical quality, strategy, products and sales, corporate development, finance, ventures, external affairs, communications, brand and leadership. Grant is responsible for managing the operations, business relationships, and systems of the organization.

Prior to his role as COO, Grant served as SVP of Corporate Development, Strategy and Investments, and Executive Managing Director of KP’s venture capital group. He continues to oversee ventures. Grant co-founded the investment program in 1998 and has overseen multiple funds and more than 100 investments in medical technology companies. The highly successful function supports the company’s health care mission while generating venture capital rates of return. Prior to 1998, Grant was responsible for creating and managing a portfolio of new business lines. Before joining Kaiser Permanente in 1995, he held several positions on the Business Development and Financial Management Team of Rockwell International.

Grant served on the board of trustees of a large school district, as an executive adviser to the California Healthcare Foundation and Dominican University, on California Governor’s Job Creation Committee, and sits on the board of two charitable foundations. Grant is a frequent speaker on topics including strategy, leadership and innovation. Grant has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has completed executive leadership programs at the Harvard Business School and Kenan-Flagler School of Business (UNC at Chapel Hill) as well as Venture Capital Institute graduate program.