James Sohr

In 2009, Sohr, now 54, was among founder-owners who sold AIM Healthcare Services to UnitedHealth Group's Ingenix technology subsidiary. The AIM transaction brought sellers $430MM in cash, according to media reports at the time. Sohr told Venture Nashville that his personal experience across AIM's history, plus his experience investing via his Five Star Venture Funding LLC, led him to realize that a venture services company could significantly help executives mired in distractions within other healthcare startups. Sohr confirmed some of the companies in which he holds personal majority or minority equity stakes. They include, in addition to Powered Health: Advent Health Partners | Interoptex | Maize Analytics | MedArchon | Perception Health | Relatient | Vatica Health | xSolis. Sohr and his wife Leah Eskind Sohr also personally fund Sohr Grants of $25,000 each, with no equity takes or other strings, for candidates with entrepreneurial plans they plan to pursue upon completing their MBAs at Sohr's alma mater, the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Sohr also earned his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt in electrical engineering (1986). Sohr's earlier career included experience as AVP-Operations at Marine Midland Bank. He was also director of marketing and new business development at Hobart/Tafa Technologies in Concord, N.H.