R. Keith Ferrari

Keith, a co-founder and principal of CUREX, is an experienced investor and serial entrepreneur having founded and sold four medical technology companies to Fortune 500 firms. Keith founded Contour Medical Technology, Inc in 1985. Contour was an early innovator in the development and production of cardiology and temperature monitoring products specifically designed for neonatal and pediatric patients. Keith sold Contour in 1997 to Tyco Healthcare, now a division of Medtronic. Prior to launching Contour, Keith founded Novacom Systems, a company focused on emergency medical communications systems. Keith also founded Clintech, a biomedical engineering services company providing systems support to hospitals in the Mid-West and Southeast. For the past twenty-five years Keith has been managing the Ferrari family office overseeing diverse investments across real estate, energy, private equity, and public equity portfolios. Keith is an inventor on more than ten issued patents and is a graduate of Southern Illinois University with a degree in Medical Physiology and a minor in Chemistry.