Chase Michalek
Co-Founder & CEO at SMU Cox School of Business
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChase Michalek is a founder-CEO and private equity-backed operator with eight years of experience building and scaling veterinary services businesses across the U.S. He co-founded Family Vet Group, grew it into a 17-location platform of 200+ employees and led its integration after acquisition by Heartland Veterinary Partners, and now runs VSx Veterinary Surgery while managing concentrated investments through Chase R. Companies. Chase blends deal-making experience from J.P. Morgan and Cressey & Company with hands-on operational leadership, giving him fluency across M&A, integrations, and practice-level operations. He also contributes strategic perspective to industry and academic institutions as a YPO member, SMU Cox advisory board member, and Nashville Entrepreneur Center director. Based in Nashville, he pairs a Kellogg MBA and SMU finance background with a clear focus on building durable healthcare businesses rather than pursuing broad diversification. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who leverages investment discipline to scale specialty veterinary care.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance with a specialization in Alternative Asset Management Applied Physiology, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance with a specialization in Alternative Asset Management Applied Physiology at SMU Cox School of BusinessKellogg School of Management
Github Skills (156)
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flutter9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sunwaytechclub/hacktoberfest-2019
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 24 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
VenatusSimpleX/scoop-extras
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
"Extras" bucket for Scoop
Contributions:7 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 10 months
extrasscoop
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