fnGlobal Keynote & Roundtables with Erin Fulton (April 25, 2024)

Join Erin Fulton, an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare space, as she shares her inspiring startup journey in a Founders Network global keynote on April 25.

Erin co-founded Caravan Health where she played a pivotal role in scaling the managed services organization from inception to a $250M acquisition by Signify Health in 2022. As the COO of the startup, Erin spearheaded the growth of Caravan Health, implementing cost-effective strategies that transformed it into a best-in-class service delivery entity. From overseeing HR functions to optimizing client delivery processes, Erin's approach to efficiency paved the way for success.

In her global keynote, Erin will share valuable insights into her startup journey, from the initial concept to securing a $35 million grant. Learn how she successfully optimized Caravan’s operations and navigated the complexities of people, processes, and technology.

Opening Remarks @ 9:30am PT

Join us for opening remarks with Dina Fattom, Member Success Manager at Founders Network, to get the latest updates from the Network and opportunities for getting involved.

Keynote Speaker @ 9:40am PT

Erin Fulton takes a company’s vision and optimizes the processes, technology and people that brings the vision to life. She is an inspirational leader setting new standards of excellence in the healthcare services and technology space for two decades. Utilizing a servant-leadership approach, Erin is a trusted partner in organizations brimming with disruptive approaches and innovative solutions.

Erin is widely regarded as a preeminent culture-builder. Her gift for connecting with and mentoring management, elevating both individual and team strengths, and enabling companies to optimize staff engagement to enhance KPI performance, has proved to be a highly fruitful strategy at any firm where she has served. She intuitively sees how people, process, and technology challenges can be opportunities when woven together into a cohesive system that drives results. She loves exploring new ways to create cultures that encourage a heightened level of enthusiasm, energy, and passion for improving the services and products they offer.

Throughout her career, Erin has built unparalleled expertise in implementing effective and efficient business growth and operations strategies and solution delivery methodologies from the ground up. As co-founder/ COO of Caravan Health, a managed services organization setting up and managing MSSP ACOs, her operational expertise coupled with human capital initiatives helped grow the organization from inception to a high-performing, successful company when acquired by Signify Health in 2022 for $250M. While overseeing the HR function, the company earned a spot on the coveted award list “Becker’s 150 top places to work in healthcare, 2022”. Prior to Caravan, in her roles as V.P. of Operations (CynergisTek) and V.P. Performance Solutions (T- System), Erin was invaluable to both companies’ success by steering performance-driven solutions in technical and operational workflows while identifying and implementing new service and product solutions and optimizing existing ones. Currently, Erin is serving on a board, providing factional executive services and strategic advisory to start-up and high growth organizations.

For Erin, building and leading a company is about so much more than simply improving margins. She is passionate about creating a community that is meaningful and beneficial to everyone it reaches.

Erin earned her bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University, Commerce and has certifications from several executive-level courses on leadership, project management, process improvement, change management. When she’s not in the office, you can usually find her wandering the beach or participating in coastal conservation efforts. She is also an avid collector and supporter of the arts.

Stage-Based Roundtables @ 10:30am PT

Community Partners:

Jeff Erickson

Jeff leads the Partnerships Team at Forecastr — a leading FP&A software company that helps startups create kick-butt financial models to impress investors, confidently raise capital, and effectively run their businesses better.

Jeff serves on the advisory boards of several startup companies and is an active angel investor. He's passionate about startups and enjoys working with founders and mentoring entrepreneurs.

Jeff is an experienced entrepreneur and was the founder and CEO of a successful consumer goods company that he rapidly grew from $1M in sales its first year to over $40M in annual revenue in its fourth year of operations and was ranked #138 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies.

Prior to founding his own company, Jeff was a partner at Beanstalk Partners where he led the sales and business development activities. He also served as the National Sales Director for a venture-backed tech startup where he generated over $45M in client contracts and developed the company’s channel partner program.

Jeff has a degree in accounting and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah. After receiving his MBA in Finance from the University of Utah he served as the Vice President of Investments for Sentry Financial Corporation.

Cathy Keeler

Cathy is the Managing Partner at FullScope Growth, a global consortium of elite Fractional Executives and Business Acceleration Partners that provide the exact combination of experts that organizations require.

She has cross-functional experience in sales, management, marketing and business planning, client services, network development and operations. Delivers strong results within highly competitive markets.

Guests Are Welcome!

Please bring a guest! Every member can bring one (1) guest to each event. Each guest must be a full-time tech startup founder so they can bring new perspectives, skillsets, and experience to your chapter.

All guests must be full-time tech startup founders and you can register them directly on this function page. See How to Register a Guest here.

Confidentiality Policy:

All information shared within Founders Network is strictly confidential. We are built on a foundation of trust, and the community takes confidentiality seriously. Investors, members, and staff all share experiences and opinions off the record. In this roundtable forum, we continue to model our fnValues of Reciprocity, Humility, Authenticity and Inclusivity.