Chris Bird currently serves as a board member and the Chief Executive Officer of Reliant Rehabilitation, a leading provider of rehabilitation management services (physical, occupational and speech therapy) to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, acute care hospitals, and other long-term post-acute care facilities spanning over 40 states and 9,000 employees nationwide.

Previously, Mr. Bird was the Chief Operating Officer of FastMed Urgent Care, the second largest privately-held multi-state/site independent single-specialty provider of urgent care clinics with over 1,200 employees. FastMed was a private equity sponsored portfolio company owned by ABRY Partners that subsequently sold to a large hospital system.

Mr. Bird was the Chief Operating Officer for Phoenix Baptist Hospital (renamed Abrazo Central Campus) and the Arizona Heart Hospital (Abrazo Heart Hospital), two hospitals owned by Tenet Healthcare, one of the largest for-profit hospital chains in the United States. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bird joined Tenet to create and run the Outpatient Services Division, a dedicated operating division responsible for developing and managing over 50 free-standing Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASC's) and Diagnostic Imaging Centers (DIC's). The division has since grown to over 200 entities.

Before returning to Tenet, Mr. Bird served as Chief Executive Officer of ReachOut Healthcare America, a private equity portfolio company of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. ReachOut is the largest provider of mobile dental services (preventive and basic restorative oral healthcare services) with operations in 24 states and over 10,000 schools.

Prior to ReachOut, Mr. Bird served as President of Rehabcare (previously President of Peoplefirst Rehabilitation before the merger of the two therapy companies) , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kindred Healthcare, the largest multi-billion post-acute provider in the U.S. RehabCare was the largest contract therapy provider in the U.S. at that time with over $1.3B in annual revenues and over 23,000 employees in over 2,000 hospital and skilled-nursing customer sites spanning 46 states.

Prior to RehabCare, Mr. Bird was the Western Division Vice President for DaVita Healthcare Partners, the largest end-stage renal disease management company in the nation. Mr. Bird had P&L responsibility for a $200M multi-state operating division with over 2,000 employees comprised of dialysis centers, peritoneal and acute hospital programs.

Mr. Bird spent the early part of his career in healthcare consulting roles with Deloitte Consulting, A.T. Kearney, KPMG, and West Hudson & Company. He has been an adjunct professor in USC’s Price Public Policy school and ASU’s Executive MBA program. He earned a bachelors degree in business from Colorado State University, an MPH in Health Policy & Management from Columbia University, an MBA from Harvard University, and an Executive Master's in Leadership from the University of Southern California.