Navigating the Start-up world is complex and ever-changing. Centered within the Boston Healthcare ecosystem, ValueCurve is a boutique consulting and early stage investment firm focused on helping industry disruptors in the Healthcare, Life Science and Consumer industries.
ValueCurve specializes in creating enterprise value by developing differentiated products and services, accelerating workflows with digital technologies, implementing new operating models to disrupt markets and industries.
We work with companies and management teams that share a passion for growth and value creation. We have developed a Speed to Value Framework and a curated network of industry subject matter experts that bring the best solutions to clients to Invest, Improve, and Grow their businesses.
We have worked with many of the leading Healthcare and consumer companies within the Fortune 500 including:
Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, Abbvie, Pfizer, Mead Johnson, Amgen, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Penn Medicine, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, Penn State Health, Bassett Healthcare, Maimonides Medical Center, PepsiCo, Proctor & Gamble, Estee Lauder, Unilever, St. Gobain, Cytec, Bausch & Lomb
Jeff Berman
Founder & Managing Partner
Previously, Managing Partner of Grant Thornton as the National Leader of the Digital & Business Transformation practice across Healthcare, Life Sciences, Consumer & Industrial Products industries. Prior to that was Vice President & Partner of IBM leading multiple service lines across Business Transformation & Strategy. He also held executive roles at PwC and was an Entrepreneur and Founder of a SaaS cloud platform that exited through M&A.
Over a 35-year career, Jeff has focused on building leading businesses and organizations from the ground up and advising C-level clients on creating revenue uplift, profit unlock and return on investments which has realized over $1.5B in cost efficiency savings. Jeff specializes in building and deploying strategic platforms that accelerate workflows and transform businesses and markets. He has expertise in due diligence and a multitude of technology platforms as well as operational improvements for processes within Supply Chain, Finance, Human Capital and Customer/ Patient front ends. This lends itself well to helping Industry Disruptors, New Ventures, and PE Operating companies achieve investment goals, market launch roadmaps, and EBITDA unlock.
Strong hands-on business operator that has managed P&Ls of $250M and global staff over 275. Jeff has been a member of executive leadership teams at division and global levels and responsible for large-scale global, complex and strategic business transformation programs for Fortune 500 companies. Published author of Maximizing Project Value and thought leader with works on reading lists for NASA, UC Davis, Project Management Institute, American Management Association. Best known for being a collaborative cross-functional leader, having strong communication skills and developing strategies that influence and elevate teams to drive results.
Education: B.S. Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University; M.B.A., D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University; Strategy & Transformation Certificate, Harvard Business School; Advanced Leadership Program Certificate, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management