We fearlessly innovate, incubate, and invest in disruptive technologies that transform conventional paradigms of scarcity and impossibility, into abundance and advantage. We focus on the industries with the highest barrier to entry and greatest complexity, and disrupt them through innovative thinking, creating new business models and leveraging technologies to deliver simplicity within challenging markets.
Crown Holdings uniquely partners with founders to bring to market highly innovative technologies and services. The firm was originally founded in partnership with physician investors across key medical specialties, including plastic surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, cardiology, orthopedics and others.
– Daniel H. Pink
Our Team
With a focus on innovation and sustainability our team is dedicated to making a positive impact on the world through direct efforts and are constantly exploring new opportunities to advance the state of the art in their respective disciplines.
Robert E. Grant is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner of Crown Holdings LLC, a growth equity holding company based in Newport Beach, CA with a broad portfolio of company and asset holdings spanning healthcare, clean energy, social media, and financial technology.
In addition, he is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of CONCIERGE KEY Health, the first on-demand service to the world’s elite physician specialists. He is also the Founder and Vice Chairman of ALPHAEON Corporation (a subsidiary of Strathspey Crown Holdings LLC), a leader in the rapidly growing field of Lifestyle Healthcare and based in Irvine, CA. He served as the founding CEO of CONCIERGE KEY Health from April, 2017 until July, 2018. Likewise, he served as the founding CEO of ALPHAEON Corporation from February, 2013 until August 2016.
He was formerly CEO and President of Bausch and Lomb Surgical in June of 2010. Prior to this, he led Allergan Medical as President from 2006 to 2010.
Robert has served on several corporate boards. He served as an independent Board Director at Myoscience, Inc., Acufocus, Inc. and ReShape Medical, Inc and presently serves on the boards of ALPHAEON Corporation and Zelegent, Inc. Additionally, he serves as Chairman and Founder of Crown Sterling Ltd, a Fintech/Cryptography subsidiary of Strathspey Crown LLC.
Additionally, he serves or has served on the boards of the following university and charitable organizations: The Schmid College of Chapman University, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) CEO Roundtable Steering Committee, The School of Law at UCI, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, OCTANe (501-C3 non-profit entity) an economic development corporation for technology companies in Orange County, California where he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the Young President’s Organization (YPO/WPO) Southern California Chapter where he currently serves as Chairman of the Board.
An accomplished sculptor, artist, and musician, Robert Grant additionally holds several patents and various intellectual property in the fields of DNA and phenotypic expression, human cybernetic implantology, biophotonics, and electromagnetism. He has multiple publications in unified mathematics and physics related to his discoveries of quasi-prime numbers (a new classification for prime numbers), the world’s first predictive algorithm determining infinite prime numbers, and a unification wave-based theory connecting and correlating fundamental mathematical constants such as Pi, Euler, Alpha, Gamma and Phi.
Robert holds a BA from Brigham Young University and an MBA (graduating with Honors) from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. Additionally, he has attended the President’s Seminar at Harvard Business School (’09-’16). He has lived and worked in nine countries and speaks Japanese, French, Korean and German fluently.
In what he considers his finest achievement and crown jewels, Robert is father to two beautiful daughters and lives with his wife and youngest daughter in Orange County, CA.
Ed Inal is an Operations Executive with key expertise in strategic development in global markets in product launches and clinical expansion. Mr. Inal has Over 30 years of executive experience in, operations, supply chain, global sales, and customer relationship management in the highly competitive and rapidly changing Medical Device, Cosmeceuticals, and Consumer Electronics markets. Mr. Inal has the experience, vision, drive, and leadership skills to guide companies through critical challenges, growth, and customer retention by implementing sustainable/scalable operations in both private and public companies with excellent communication and interpersonal skills honed managing multinational clients, third party suppliers, and global operations teams.
Jared has served in various finance roles over the last 17 years delivering successful business outcomes through accounting and finance, treasury, operational and administration channels primarily in private companies focused on high growth. Jared also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and is a certified public accountant. Jared has a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California and am MBA degree from Brigham Young University.
Tim comes to Crown Holdings with over 7 years of experience in accounting and finance. As a senior accountant, he is responsible for the day-to-day accounting functions of the company. Tim also provides support to the Corporate Team, helping with compliance and payroll. Tim has always been fascinated by details. At first, he thought his penchant for nuts and bolts might translate into an engineering career, but then he found accounting—a profession that allowed him to also tap into his love of numbers. He graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting and finance from California State University of Fullerton and hasn’t looked back since. When taking a break from the numbers, Tim can be found helping his family’s restaurant business or tackling a home improvement project.