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Meet the Management Team

Meet the leaders who manage the clinical and business wings of our Virginia practices.




 

Linda Nash

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Linda Nash has consistently demonstrated a talent for identifying business opportunities and growing these concepts from scratch into thriving enterprises.

With only a few hundred dollars, Linda started the first exclusively school-age childcare program in Richmond in 1983. Which she ran for 15 years. Linda opened the first office park childcare center in Richmond, partnered with Henrico Doctor’s Hospital, and afterwards opened six more workplace childcare centers in Richmond and Northern Virginia. These childcare centers were characterized by much lower than industry staff turnover and much higher than industry profit margins. After her development of this, Linda then began a national consulting practice helping preschool start-ups and chains with curriculum, design, business models, and acquisitions. She also helped a chain of eight schools successfully find a national buyer by partnering with a merger and acquisition firm. Then Linda designed and started the Compass Schools, a private preschool and kindergarten, where she served as CEO and Chairman of the Board for three years.

While vacationing in the Rockies, Linda was thrown from a horse and quickly learned firsthand the importance of being able to reach her doctor and have her medical records readily available.

Upon her return to Richmond, she put the experience to good use, researching local family practices, evaluating them on accessibility and the amount of time doctors were able to allocate to each patient. She also recognized the demographic trends showing a coming shortage of family doctors. Her instinct told her that many families would budget more for 24/7, full doctor access and in-depth physical exams if they had a choice.

In 2003, with 40 patients and one physician, Linda opened the doors to PartnerMD, a membership medical practice that gives patients unparalleled round-the-clock access to their doctors, emphasizes prevention and wellness, and maintains medical records electronically so they’re readily available.

PartnerMD is now the largest concierge medicine operation nationally under one roof. It has shown steady growth and a 95-96% patient retention rate even through the recession. The practice has over 4,000 individual and corporate clients, a staff of 50, and offices in Richmond, McLean and Midlothian, Virginia. Its Executive Physicals were featured in Fortune Magazine. The company was awarded the Companies to Watch Award and Linda received the 2010 Executive Women in Business Achievement Award by Style Weekly.

Linda is a major stakeholder in Track and Field News and Track and Field Tours, her family company. She is a Board Member of the United Way of Greater Richmond and has served on the University of Richmond Business School Entrepreneur Advisory Board, The Visual Arts Center, The Children’s Museum of Richmond, the Venture Forum and the Powell Economic Endowment. Linda has served as a mentor and consultant to start-ups, family-run companies and preschools, including Collegiate Schools, Nobel Education Dynamics, and a variety of other companies. She also served on Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine’s Healthcare Commission charged with reducing the costs of health care.

Linda graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and has a master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has three children and resides in Richmond with her husband Steve Nash, Professor in the Journalism Department at the University of Richmond.

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Steve Nardo

Chief Financial Officer

In this role as CFO, Steve Nardo oversees and directs all significant aspects of the company’s finance, information technology and sales operations.

Steve has held management positions throughout his career in a variety of industries, including: healthcare, tobacco, manufacturing and recreation. Before joining the PartnerMD team, he directed the internal controls and loss prevention department for AMF Bowling Centers, and he has previously held director positions in finance, strategic planning and information technology for Swedish Match North America. Steve also became involved in CFO consulting for small entrepreneurial growth businesses in the Richmond area prior to his current post.

Steve earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University with a concentration in Business and Economics. He currently lives in Midlothian with his four children.

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Lynne Geisz, CPA

Chief Operating Officer

Lynne Geisz officially joined PartnerMD in 2010. In reality, though, she’s had a lengthy affiliation with the practice’s innovative patient care dynamic, business model, and management team.

Lynne first met Linda Nash in 1998 when Linda hired her as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of The Compass School, now a multi-state childcare business. Two years later, Lynne became the school’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), charged with helping Linda hone her vision for growing the high-quality educational enterprise. Lynne located new school sites and managed entire construction projects through openings.

Prior to her tenure at The Compass School, Lynne worked for a Fortune 500 financial institution, helped develop a business plan for a start-up national small ticket leasing company, and was the CFO of a staffing agency where she forged partnerships with local social service agencies and private businesses to enable “welfare to work” participants to gain financial independence. This program was considered a model for the nation.

Lynne holds a bachelors degree in business administration and is a certified public accountant.

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Lynda Lattimore

Membership Director

Lynda has been Membership Director with PartnerMD since 2003. Lynda has a long career of sales experience having held management positions on the regional and state level. Lynda’s record of rapid sales growth is through a very effective and personal sales approach. She is challenged by aggressive goals and goes the extra distance to succeed. She has continued this record of success while at PartnerMD.

Lynda attended Radford University. Lynda’s outside interests includes a devotion to ministry and missions and has served as the Virginia State Director of Champions for Life Prison Ministry. Lynda’s mission interest includes the Spanish Riviera, Pre-Pyrennes Mountains, Costa Rica and the Lakota Sioux of South Dakota.

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James Mumper

Medical Director

Dr. Mumper helped found PartnerMD in November 2002 as the next step in an already impressive career.

Before joining PartnerMD, Dr. Mumper was a highly respected family physician for 17 years in the Richmond-based offices of Virginia Physicians.

“Transitioning from a traditional practice gave me the opportunity to develop a new medical model that could focus on early disease recognition and prevention,” he says.

During that time, Dr. Mumper served for 13 years as Clinical Investigator for the practice and in 1997 was named Medical Director of the group's Department of Clinical Research. Dr. Mumper has been the principal investigator in more than 25 Phase II, III, and IV clinical trials dealing with several of his areas of particular expertise, including: diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and infectious diseases. He served as Chairman of the Institutional Review Board for Virginia Physicians from 1994 to 1997, and Chairman of the Department of Family Practice for McGuire Medical Group in Richmond from 1991 to 1997. He also was a member of the Board of Directors for McGuire Medical Group from 1994 to 2000.

Dr. Mumper received a B.A. in 1979 from Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA, and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1983. He completed his residency at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA, serving as Chief Resident from 1985 to 1986.

Dr. Mumper is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians. He is licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia and certified by the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. Mumper lives in Richmond with his wife Pamela and two grown children, Laura and John.

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