Physicians Capital founding principals

D. Shannon LeRoy - CEO and Managing Director

Shannon LeRoy has extensive experience with financial service companies, including two successful start-up banking operations. He started and managed the Nashville commercial loan production office for Dominion Bankshares of Virginia. During this tenure, he made a number of early stage healthcare loans to Surgical Care Affiliates, HealthTrust and American Healthcorp. In the late eighties, he joined First Union Corporation in the formation of a new bank in Tennessee and became responsible for all retail and commercial banking activities. He led the growth of this bank to over $250 million by focusing on high-growth service businesses, healthcare and private banking.

Since 1995, Mr. LeRoy has been active in a number of private equity and venture capital investments; has served on numerous company boards; and has been a partner in Rodgers Capital Group, a boutique merchant bank in Nashville.

He earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978.

Douglas B. Lewis - Managing Director

Using his diverse and in-depth healthcare industry experience, Doug Lewis is responsible for business development. Formerly an HCA hospital administrator and vice president of development, he has completed over thirty development projects within the not-for-profit sector. He collaborated with three partners as a founder and vice president of development and acquisitions of OrNda HealthCorp. He was a founder and chief development officer of Psychiatric Solutions.

Mr. Lewis holds a BA and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi and an MHA from Virginia Commonwealth University (MCV). He is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives and a member of the Mississippi Bar Association.