Mr. Coticchia is vice president of corporate innovation at Baptist Health South Florida, where he has built a high-velocity, process-driven innovation engine spanning technology transfer, commercialization and external codevelopment. Since joining in 2019, he converted innovation from a pilot effort into an operating business unit and established the system’s first intellectual property policy, among the most generous royalty-sharing agreements in U.S. hospitals. He launched an innovation fund, executed major codevelopment collaborations with partners including Philips and Fujitsu, and generated Baptist Health’s first commercial intellectual property licenses and revenues within 18 months. Under his leadership, the Knight Foundation Fellowship in Healthcare Technology Innovation, which was funded through the largest-ever Knight Foundation grant to a healthcare institution, has trained more than 145 participants, with nearly 150 Knight fellows to date. Outcomes include nearly 50 license deals and codevelopment collaborations, millions of dollars in cumulative licensing revenue, and 36 patents and patents pending, alongside Baptist Health’s first startup company and first international know-how license. Mr. Coticchia also led the development of HealthChain, an internally developed AI-enabled supply chain platform now used by other health systems to improve procure-to-pay performance, vendor relations and product availability.
