Richie Hosein

Richie Hosein is an award-winning executive, serial entrepreneur, visionary connector, and global healthcare leader with more than two decades of experience building, scaling, and advising high-growth businesses across healthcare, life sciences, AI, hospitality, media, and consumer brands. Operating at the intersection of strategy, commercialization, and culture, he has led initiatives that have collectively generated over $1 billion in sales, earning a reputation as a disciplined operator with exceptional execution velocity and relationship depth.

Richie’s entrepreneurial journey began early. While still in college, he founded and launched a sports marketing company that generated more than $1 million in revenue in its first year, setting the foundation for a career defined by early opportunity recognition, speed of execution, and durable business building.

He began his formal healthcare career at Pfizer, where he rapidly rose to national prominence. Richie ranked #1 in the country in sales, earned the prestigious Vice President’s Cabinet Award, was named Rookie of the Year, and was selected as a District Sales Trainer and Assistant District Manager, establishing himself among the top commercial leaders in the organization.

Richie later joined the sports medicine division of Johnson & Johnson through the New York–based distributor Empire Surgical. Joining as the sixth team member, he played a central role in the company’s rapid expansion, led the distributorship in sales, and helped establish Empire as the fastest-growing sports medicine distributor in the country, consistently earning top national sales honors.

Working closely with key opinion leaders, academic surgeons, and major healthcare systems including Northwell Health, Richie aligned clinical leadership, hospital administration, and distributor strategy to drive system-wide adoption. His leadership led to his promotion into the managing partner group, where he served as Regional Sales Director overseeing Long Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. Under this leadership, Empire Surgical scaled from approximately $2 million to over $60 million in under four years and later successfully exited back to Johnson & Johnson, following the growth phase Richie helped lead and operationalize.

Following this chapter, Richie helped scale a compounding pharmacy to $10–12 million in annual revenue, supporting a second successful exit of approximately $15–20 million. These experiences further sharpened his expertise in scaling revenue engines, professionalizing operations, and preparing businesses for strategic acquisition.

In 2004, Richie founded TRE Medical Technology Consultants, a healthcare commercialization and advisory firm that has served as a foundational architect in the healthcare industry for over 20 years. TRE supports medical technology, diagnostics, digital health, and life sciences companies with go-to-market execution, fundraising strategy, and national sales leadership. Through TRE, Richie has advised and invested in multiple ventures, built enduring relationships with C-suite hospital executives, and helped bridge educational, clinical, and technological divides across healthcare systems.

Through TRE, Richie also co-founded Baseline Health, a mobile healthcare platform delivering on-site clinical services to employers, unions, municipalities, and underserved communities. Built to improve access while capturing downstream specialty and diagnostic referrals, Baseline Health bridges community-based care with large health systems. The platform scaled into a multimillion-dollar operation, supported tens of thousands of patient encounters, and became a proven engine for population health access, revenue growth, and system-wide care integration.

From March 2024 through August 2025, Richie served as Chief Growth Officer at Thinkhat Venture Studio, where he led growth strategy, commercialization, partnerships, and capital formation for a portfolio of AI companies across healthcare and life sciences. During his tenure, he curated and led Thinkhat’s first $1 million raise, helped architect the venture studio’s market positioning, and drove commercialization across AI scribing and medical education platforms. He also ideated and co-founded FORMD.ai, an AI-powered medical simulation and education platform enabling real-time clinical training, OSCE preparation, and personalized learning for healthcare professionals, including originating an enterprise deployment with Touro University.

Today, Richie is launching his own venture studio, purpose-built across three core verticals: healthcare, hospitality, and marketing and business architecture. Designed to ideate, build, scale, and capitalize category-defining companies, the studio combines deep operator experience, disciplined commercialization, and cultural relevance. Current portfolio companies include FreeHealth.ai, an AI-driven digital health companion unifying diagnostics, intake, labs, imaging, and insurance navigation into a single predictive health intelligence system, and 1nfluenc3 Media, a full-stack creative marketing and media agency integrating media, talent, social, events, PR, and digital growth under one platform.

Richie is also the founder and president of the Global Healthcare Leaders Foundation, an invite-only nonprofit leadership community launched at the Harvard Club of Boston. Originating as his capstone project from the Harvard Medical School Global Healthcare Leadership Program, the Foundation brings together over 100 of the world’s leading healthcare executives, clinicians, innovators, investors, and policymakers and is often described as the “Soho House of Healthcare.”

Beyond healthcare, Richie has extended his influence into hospitality, nightlife, and culture. He is a co-founder of Etiquette Management Group, an investor in 1OAK Southampton, and the founder of AM Southampton, widely regarded during its time as the largest nightlife venue in the Hamptons. In 2019, Richie was brought in to help reposition the struggling Playboy Club NYC, where he led a 1200% revenue increase in just 11 months, setting new benchmarks for experiential hospitality. He has been quoted by Forbes contributor Michael Alpiner for elevating standards of excellence in nightlife and guest experience.

Richie’s leadership and impact have earned national recognition, including being named by Yahoo Finance as one of the Top Entrepreneurs to Watch.

Richie’s commitment to leadership and community development began early. His high school formally recognized his leadership, and for more than 15 years has awarded the Rich Hosein Leadership Scholarship, supporting student-athletes who demonstrate excellence and leadership both academically and athletically. He has also supported and helped build mission-driven organizations including the Global Healthcare Leaders Foundation and PrayForHumanity, reflecting a long-standing dedication to service, mentorship, and community upliftment.

Richie holds a Bachelor in Management from St. John’s University, where he graduated #2 in his class as a Silver Key Award recipient, served as President of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee, and captained the varsity football team as a four-year starter. He was selected to participate in the NCAA Leadership Conference. He completed the Harvard Medical School Global Healthcare Leadership Program (2023–2024), receiving advanced training in health system leadership, digital transformation, innovation ecosystems, and global health strategy.

Across every chapter of his career, Richie Hosein remains driven by a single mission: to build meaningful companies, elevate leaders, and deploy capital, technology, and culture to create lasting impact across healthcare, business, and society.