Nashville’s Entrepreneur Center, a nonprofit that acts as the city’s technology hub, has picked a venture capitalist with strong ties to the healthcare industry as its new CEO.
Stuart McWhorter is co-founder of a Brentwood investment firm, Clayton Associates, that works with early-stage companies. The firm runs an investment fund which operates in the Entrepreneur Center.
McWhorter — who also founded OrthoLink, a management company for orthopedic doctors — acknowledges that healthcare is a cornerstone of the technology industry in Nashville.
“When healthcare is mentioned and entrepreneurship in the same sentence, I want people to think of Nashville,” he says. “That’s happening, but we can all do better, and I think the Entrepreneur Center can play a part of that.”
McWhorter is also on the board of Jumpstart Foundry, a tech accelerator now focusing on healthcare startups. He’ll be taking the helm of the Entrepreneur Center from Michael Burcham, who is stepping down to start — you guessed it — a healthcare company.
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