GE Capital’s Former Managing Director, Michael Horton, Joins StartUp Health as Chief Financial Officer
Horton’s World-Class Experience Will Support StartUp Health’s Global Army of Health Transformers and Mission to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Everyone in the World
We’re excited to announce that Michael Horton, CPA, former Managing Director at GE Capital, has joined StartUp Health as Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Horton brings more than 30 years of enterprise experience to the company, where he will be responsible for overseeing and leading all finance and accounting efforts, helping the company scale and expand globally, and play a crucial role in supporting and developing business models with StartUp Health’s nearly 400 entrepreneurial Health Transformers as they work to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world.
Over the last 15 years, Mike Horton has held prestigious senior executive roles within GE Capital, the financial services unit of General Electric. Most recently, he served as Managing Director of a joint venture between GE Capital and the Abu Dhabi government, where he oversaw the creation of the company and closed over $10B in assets. Prior to GE Capital, Horton was with JER Partners, a $2B real estate opportunity fund, where he held both Controller and CFO roles.
“Throughout his career, Mike has forged new pathways with wisdom, vision and boundless energy,” said Steven Krein, CEO of StartUp Health. “His unstoppable energy, ‘batteries-included’ attitude and get-it-done-right mindset is an enormous asset for StartUp Health’s entire army of Health Transformers and every enterprise in our growing network. We are enormously excited to have him join our leadership team.”
“It wasn’t a singular idea like finding a cure for cancer that grabbed my attention when I first met Steven Krein and heard about StartUp Health,” said Michael Horton, the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer. “It was the big picture, the StartUp Health Mindset━a truly unprecedented worldview that has the potential to change the way the world thinks about and experiences health. StartUp Health is building a platform to tackle major challenges including curing cancer, longevity, and women’s health by empowering entrepreneurs to achieve 10 Health Moonshots that touch billions of lives around the world━and they’re doing it now at lightning speed.”
Mr. Horton is based at the StartUp Health Village in New York City and resides in Connecticut, where he is involved in a variety of philanthropic endeavors and works to support the community around him. He is actively involved and volunteers with the renowned Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, CT, an organization that is dedicated to providing “a different kind of healing” to seriously ill children and their families.
