Christopher Ridgeway
CEO, Stone Clinical Laboratories,
Western U.S.
Christopher Ridgeway is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stone Clinical Laboratories. He is also an active member of YPO Lousiana. In his 20 years of professional practice, Christopher has held leadership roles in both Sales and Sales Management in the medical device industry, developing a specialized knowledge he used to establish a medical services-based company before joining a pharmacogenetic laboratory as General Manager.
Christopher’s commitment to bringing “boutique” provider/patient service, streamlining testing, improving the efficiency of molecular diagnostics, reducing patient and managed care cost, and increasing overall access to diagnostics and quality of patient care, motivated him to found Stone Clinical Laboratories in 2016. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Mississippi and has studied International Business Management in Innsbruck, Austria via the University of New Orleans. Via YPO Louisiana, he completed YPO’s Healthcare Leadership Academy at Columbia University.
He is a thought leader in the industry writing on sites such as Medium, Thrive Global, Newsbreak, Patch, Times of Israel and the Orlando Sentinel.