Team
We’re investors, founders, engineers, marketers and researchers with one common goal – to MAKE SOMETHING BETTER® in health
Meet Our People
Vic Gatto
CEO
Krystin DeVita
Director of Program Management, Jumpstart Insight
Shannon Emley
Senior Director of Finance & Accounting, Jumpstart Health Investors
Meet Our Partner & Advisor
Marcus Whitney
Founder & Managing Partner, Jumpstart Nova
Marcus Whitney is a Founding Partner of Jumpstart Health Investors (JHI), America’s most active early-stage healthcare venture capital firm. Marcus is also a Founder and Managing Partner at Jumpstart Nova, JHI’s institutional, strategic seed fund.
Marcus is also co-founder and minority owner of Major League Soccer team, Nashville Soccer Club.
Marcus is the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling book “Create and Orchestrate“, about claiming your Creative Power through entrepreneurship. His work has been featured by Entrepreneur, CNBC, Inc., NPR, Fast Company, and The Atlantic.
Marcus is an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow, and a member of the board of the Healthcare Finance Management Association, Celtic Bank, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corporation, OZ Arts, and Scott Hamilton CARES.
Our Philosophy
We believe in leveraging a systematic approach to successfully empower founders to launch scale and monetize impactful innovations
Repeatable. Proven. Effective.
Shannon Emley
Senior Director of Finance & Accounting
Shannon is the Vice President of Finance & Accounting at Jumpstart Health Investors (JHI), where he leads financial operations across the firm and its funds. He oversees financial planning and analysis, manages audit and tax processes, and guides quarterly valuation activities. Before joining JHI, Shannon served as Controller at Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, where he helped steer the organization through key financial and compliance initiatives. His career spans public accounting, entertainment, and the nonprofit sector, giving him a broad foundation for strategic and operational finance leadership.
Originally from Western New York, Shannon now lives in Nashville with his wife, Margaret, and their two sons, William and Thomas. He is a licensed CPA and holds an MBA from Duke University, an MS in Accounting from Liberty University, and a BS from Houghton University.
Vic Gatto
CEO
Vic co-founded Jumpstart Foundry in 2014 to create a new type of healthcare investment platform. Vic has been an investor in healthcare and technology since 2001 and has made over 200 investments in early-stage innovation companies in the areas of healthcare services, medical devices, diagnostic tools, technology, and data analytics.
He has a MBA from Vanderbilt University and a BA from Amherst College, and currently lives in Nashville with his wife and two sons.