Jon Gordon
Founder & Chief Evangelist
Jon Gordon is an entrepreneur, investor and executive with 20 years of experience in healthcare at the intersection of strategy, innovation and policy. He is currently Founder, and Chief Evangelist of F|42, a nonprofit designed to rethink and remake healthcare at scale. Prior to launching F|42, Jon was Co-Founder & Managing General Partner at HC9 Ventures, an $83 million early-stage venture fund that provides deep healthcare expertise to emerging healthcare companies through an engaged LP network of leading healthcare executives and entrepreneurs. Prior to HC9, Jon served as Senior Vice President for Innovation at Commonwealth Care Alliance, a non-profit health plan focused on caring for vulnerable populations, and Managing Director of Winter Street Ventures, their corporate venture arm. He simultaneously was interim CEO of the Winter Street portfolio LifePod, a proactive voice-based remote patient monitoring and engagement digital health company.
Previously, Jon founded and secured $40 million for NYP Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of NewYork-Presbyterian. In that role, Jon led investments in eleven digital health businesses, built strategic partnerships with leading national healthcare companies, and managed the hospital’s intellectual property portfolio. Jon co-founded the Strategic Venture Group, a collaborative network of more than twenty health system-based venture funds. Jon was also a Director in NYP’s Office of Strategy, where he worked on projects ranging from launching the hospital’s Medicare accountable care organization to building the system’s telehealth program. Jon was also co-founder and Director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Health Policy Center, which advocated for the role of Academic Medical Centers in addressing the challenges facing the US healthcare system. Before joining NYP, Jon was Co-Founder, President & COO of EveryDay Medical, an e-commerce-based provider of durable medical equipment.
Jon is an adjunct faculty member at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, was previously faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine, and serves as a board member of Costs of Care (Treasurer) and Woodstock Day School (President). Jon is an avid cyclist and hiker, having completed challenges such as the 3,000-mile Race Across America, the WOW Cyclothon around Iceland, and the Catskill 3500 High Peaks. He holds a BA cum laude from Princeton University and an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School.
