Meet the Team
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Sydney Lehman
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Sydney Lehman founded Lineage with Diana as she completed her MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Prior to her time at Stanford, Sydney was the Director of Strategy and Operations at Sunrun (NYSE: RUN) where she managed the scaling of operations from 1 to 23 states. She has managed and scaled two surgical practices and co-founded a medical grade skincare company, Private Practice by Dr. Koo. Prior to her operational leadership in the consumer space, she was an investment banker in New York City.
Sydney leads Operations, Marketing, HR, Partnerships, Real Estate, New Build, and Growth at Lineage.
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Diana Ding
CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
Diana Ding founded Lineage with Sydney as she completed her MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Prior to attending Stanford, she invested in businesses across the consumer and services industry at Apax Partners in New York, investing out of the company’s flagship $9.5 billion Global Buyout Fund in businesses with over $2 billion in transaction value. She has over a decade of experience in consumer investing.
Diana leads M&A, Analytics, Accounting, Procurement, Finance, IT, and Legal at Lineage.
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Miles Collins
HEAD OF GROWTH
After receiving his MBA from Stanford University, Miles was the President and Owner of a multi-site fertility clinic and agency group in Los Angeles called Pacific Fertility Center of LA (PFLA). He focused on operations, organic and inorganic growth, and was able to triple revenue in a three year period.
After selling PFLA, Miles has now joined Lineage to lead growth in M&A, growth marketing, and organic growth.
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Ryan Sappington
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
Ryan was the Director of Paid Marketing at ConsumerAffairs where he oversaw $150m in digital adspend and activities related to paid advertising with Google, Yelp, & paid social media. He ran the full marketing team and multiple internal departments such as Product & Engineering, and Data & Analytics.
He is now Chief Marketing Officer for Lineage running Performance Marketing focused on ROI driven digital marketing and analytics.
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Caleb Maxson
HEAD OF DATA & ANALYTICS
Caleb is a finance, operations, and technology expert with a wide range of experience across strategic finance, management consulting, technology consulting, and planning software. He has lead organizations ranging from seed-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to build real-time centralized analytics.
He founded a data analytics consulting firm OVG in 2019 and led the Analytics teams teams at Gemini, Sunrun, and DocuSign.
Caleb now runs Lineage’s Data & Analytics team and has built out a real-time centralized data hub allowing for all financial, transaction, and ordering data be centralized and available at all times.
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Lorraine Luna
HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Lorraine has an extensive background in HR leadership throughout various healthcare systems. She recently lead HR for HCA Healthcare before joining Lineage.
Lorraine is an avid power lifter who competes all over California and a certified analytics professional. She brings extensive expertise in recruiting and benefits management to Lineage.
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Kent Weaver
BOARD DIRECTOR
Kent Weaver was the lead investor and Chairman of the Board for Aesthetic Partners after growing a home healthcare business that he ran and owned for over 30 years. After starting his family office, Granite Point Partners, Kent has invested across multiple long-term healthcare platforms and has been instrumental in their operational outcomes. Following his success with Aesthetic Partners, Kent now sits as the Chairman of the Board for Lineage and supports the business on operational expansion.
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Will Thorndike
BOARD ADVISOR
Will is the author of The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, a book that helped inspire the core operating philosophy of long term investment and platform leadership that Lineage lives by. Will is a board advisor for Lineage and works closely with Lineage’s M&A team on capital allocation and structuring. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he still teaches courses on investment and operational strategy.

Exceptional leadership from experienced investors and operators each with over 15+ years of experience in the healthcare expansion space. The second platform we have built in aesthetics, but with a unique focus on Plastic Surgery & KOL partners.
Our Physician Partners
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Kamakshi R. Zeidler, MD FACS
PHYSICIAN PARTNER
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Jane S. Weston, MD FACS
PHYSICIAN PARTNER
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Amelia K. Hausauer, MD FAAD
PHYSICIAN PARTNER
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Michele Koo, MD FACS
PHYSICIAN PARTNER
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Richard Lehman, MD FACS
PHYSICIAN PARTNER
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Shirley Liu, MD, MHS
ASSOCIATE PHYSICIAN