About Kermit - Kermit PPI

Kermit is now part of Genesis Automation Healthcare — a unified healthcare technology organization formed through the combination of Genesis, Kermit, and Meperia. Together, the organization delivers a connected Clinical Lifecycle Management Platform that helps healthcare providers manage supply chain operations, clinical utilization, inventory, procurement, data governance, and savings initiatives through a single integrated ecosystem. By combining the strengths of all three companies, Genesis Automation Healthcare provides healthcare organizations with greater visibility, automation, and intelligence across the entire clinical and financial supply chain.

Originally, Kermit was built on the idea that better PPI spend management requires a better way to build partnerships between administration and surgeons. We created Kermit, an analytics platform that does just that, with a team that draws on its deep understanding and experience in the medical device industry where it counts; clinical expertise, supply chain management, procurement, cost control and the appreciation for the intricate worlds of the surgeon, hospital administration and suppliers.

Formed in 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland, we’ve implemented our solution within hospitals across the country who now use a collaborative approach and our evidence-based framework to bring control of PPI spend back where it belongs. We now manage 40% of the implant spend transacting in our home state and provide services to a national customer base.

Jason E. Smith, RN, MBA
CEO & Co-Founder

Jason is an energetic leader known for his ability to create successful outcomes in complex situations. He has over 17 years of progressive management experience in health care, both as a sales executive in the PPI industry and also a critical care provider. Jason's tenure in the medical device industry exposed him to all facets of the operating room environment, where he found a proclivity toward systems and efficiencies. Jason has a high degree of clinical knowledge. This has suited him well in the development of demographic and categorization systems and proprietary algorithms used within Kermit.

Prior to his time in the medical device industry, Jason was a critical care nurse in a number of cardiac and intensive care units. His attention to detail and calm approach under crisis are welcome additions in managing the operations of a healthcare technology company. As if that doesn’t occupy the majority of his waking hours, Jason is a dedicated year-round coach for youth athletics and enjoys playing golf.

John P. Owens
CGO & Co-Founder

John brings two decades of executive sales experience and hundreds of pricing round negotiations as a hospital vendor to his role as Director of our Services offering. Kermit gets a significant boost from the countless hours John spent in hospital operating rooms and with surgeons as an Account Executive within the PPI industry. The stewardship and trust he developed with hospital administration and surgeons is the guiding force behind his desire to see changes in the way the PPI category is managed. John and his group use Kermit's powerful categorization and analytic features to drive supply chain cost reduction and spend management projects for his clients.

John carries the banner for Kermit’s mission, vision and brand promise, which he uses to drive every new Kermit feature and client interaction. John is an avid outdoorsman who loves golf, hiking and fishing.

Matt Stover
Board of Directors

As a two-time NFL Super Bowl champion, Matt knows how to take a disciplined approach and long-term focus to everything he does. The NFL’s fourth-ranked all-time leading scorer, his talents carry off the gridiron in a number of endeavors. Matt founded Player's Philanthropy Fund (later re-branded as Cobalt), a back-office solution for the establishing foundations and the creation of donor-advised funds, and also formed the Matt Stover Foundation, which is dedicated to improving Baltimore through a variety of programs. Matt has a successful track record of picking winning ideas and teams to invest in. One of his early investments in CreditCards.com was sold for $144 million.

Sean Melnick
Senior Vice President, Provider Growth

Sean is a healthcare technology executive with over two decades of experience and a proven track record of growing organizations. He has worked in seed-round, VC- and PE-backed companies, publicly traded organizations, and has contributed to multiple successful mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.

Sean began his healthcare journey studying physical therapy, building a strong foundation of clinical knowledge and a firmly ingrained mentality of always putting the patient first. Drawn to emerging technologies and the future of healthcare innovation, he earned an MBA from Northeastern University before starting his career in medical devices. As a spine implant representative in the OR, and later progressing into sales management, he supported over 3,000 orthopedic spine and neurosurgery procedures, gaining a front-row perspective on how technology can directly improve patient care. More recently, his focus has been on digital health, including value-based care, surgical services, enterprise SaaS, AI, ML, and advanced analytics.

Known for his hands-on approach and talent for building strong teams, Sean is passionate about solving complex problems, driving meaningful change, and delivering value for patients and providers. Outside of work, he enjoys playing, coaching, and cheering on his three children in lacrosse, cooking for family and friends, and spending time outdoors hiking, golfing, or chilling on the beach with a history book in hand.

Brendan Kelly, MBA
Vice President, Business Development

Brendan is a positive and proven executive leader with a healthcare career that began in 1996. Throughout his career, Brendan has been worked in and led teams in healthcare manufacturing, sales and sales leadership.

Brendan’s previous position was Regional Orthopaedic Director for Zimmer Biomet, where he led negotiations in the area of PPI spend with several of the largest IDN’s and health systems in the Mid-Atlantic region. Prior to that position, Brendan was an orthopaedic device manager and has spent countless hours alongside top surgeons in support of orthopaedic surgery.

Brendan joins the Kermit team in a leadership role with a drive and motivation to make a positive impact and transform the way hospitals approach and manage the PPI spend category. Brendan’s passion and values are directly aligned to Kermit’s mission of “returning the balance of power back to the hospital for the management of PPI, leading to reduced costs and improved patient care."

Brendan is married with three children and enjoys volunteering as a board member of Operation Walk Maryland and is involved with the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s wheelchair lacrosse program. Brendan was Team Captain of the 1989 Johns Hopkins Men’s Lacrosse team and was a starting mid-fielder on the Blue Jays 1987 NCAA Division 1 Lacrosse Championship team. Brendan also co-leads a small group at his local parish.

Kimberly Alvord
Vice President, Services

Kim is a critical liaison between the hospital users of Kermit and the product roadmap, ensuring that vital user feedback makes its way into the product. Because the category of PPI spend management is complex, the role requires a professional that has walked many miles in the shoes of the users she's supporting -- with Kim, that's certainly the case.

Kim comes to Kermit with nearly two decades of healthcare experience in supply chain, materials management, orthopaedic operating room, healthcare finance, third-party reimbursement and revenue cycle experience. Kim has the unique vantage point of being a Kermit user well before she was part of the team as a daily user of the system while in the role of national director of materials management for National Surgical Hospitals and later as the materials manager for one of the NSH facilities, Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital. During her time at NSH, she was a champion for transparency in orthopaedic and spine utilization and leveraged Kermit to provide reports and dashboards for surgeon engagement and spend management.

Kermit’s in-depth knowledge of capitated construct billing gives me the tools and support to prevent and detect overbilling from reps. They most recently helped catch 6 discrepant invoices from one vendor."

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Perioperative Services Business Manager of a Maryland Health System

Kermit has been very helpful in identifying non-contract items being used. With this data, we have been able to identify items needed for contract addenda, potentially reducing our long-term costs of previously non-contracted items."

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OR Implant Coordinator at a Maryland Level-1 Trauma Center

The real-time data and analytic capabilities of Kermit are a game changer for the management of the PPI spend category."

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