About Us
Impel Physical Therapy
We want to use our experience financing and running healthcare businesses and investing in companies (both large and small) to partner with you in building your vision for your patients, your fellow clinicians, and your career.
Clinic & Fellowship Partners
Our incubator program only accepts highly-skilled and well-qualified therapists because we realize that great physical therapy businesses start with truly great PTs. That’s why we’ve partnered with MTI and Accelacare Physical Therapy to offer this opportunity.
PRITHVI MURTHY
Co-CEO
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TREY BLACK
Co-CEO
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PIETER KROON
DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
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DR. ANGELA M. REICH
DPT, FAAOMPT
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DR. ANGELA M. REICH
DPT, FAAOMPT
Angela is the Owner of Accelacare Physical Therapy and has been an integral part of the business since 2010 when she was hired as a staff physical therapist. Angela’s management role has grown along with the clinic, as she became the clinic operations director in 2013 and eventually took ownership of the clinic in April 2022. In her role, she has strived to create an environment that capitalizes on people’s talents and encourages innovation and collaboration to improve the business’ overall health.
A Garden City native, Angela graduated from Kansas State University in 2006 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology. She got her Doctorate Physical Therapy Degree from Creighton University in 2009, and in 2013 became a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists after completing her fellowship coursework and mentoring through The Manual Therapy Institute.
Angela has extensive experience in orthopedics and is trained in mobilization and manipulation techniques of the spine and extremities. Angela has also focused her studies on women’s pelvic health since 2011 when she realized a significant need for the community and built a program from scratch. She treats a wide array of problems including incontinence, pelvic pain, prolapse, pregnancy related pain, diastasis recti, and postpartum rehab. Education is an important component of her approach, as many of her patients don’t realize they have a common, treatable condition and dismiss their symptoms as “normal.”
Accelacare has given Angela the opportunity to help address rural healthcare needs and pursue her passion of educating and empowering people. She has a constant need to invest in the community and intertwine other businesses and resources to improve the quality of life for everyone in the community and surrounding areas.
She created Accelacare’s award winning clinical education program that includes the top PT programs across the nation and has grown the program from 1-2 students per year to 15 students per year. Her resume also includes being a faculty mentor for The Manual Therapy Institute Fellowship, James Dunning Spinal Manipulation Institute, and Regis Orthopedic Residency and Fellowship. She has mentored numerous fellows and residents over the years and hopes to increase learning opportunities in the years to come.
PIETER KROON
DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
Pieter graduated from the Haagsche Academie voor Fysiotherapie in the Hague, the Netherlands, in 1986. He completed his manual therapy fellowship training at Gulf Coast Graduate Physical Therapy Institute in 1992. He is Board Certified in Orthopedic Physical Therapy. He started the Manual Therapy Institute in 1998, together with Tim Kruchowsky, where he functions as senior faculty and Program Director. He is a co-owner of Mondo Sports Therapy in Austin, TX.
PRITHVI MURTHY
Co-CEO
Prithvi Murthy is the co-CEO of Impel Physical Therapy.
Prithvi has most recently served as the CEO of Accelacare Physical Therapy (now an Impel affiliate clinic), where he was brought on to refine Accelacare’s operations, finances, and clinical mentorship model with the goal of growing Accelacare into a broader healthcare platform serving patients throughout the Midwest and across clinical settings.
Prithvi’s interest in Accelacare stemmed from his curiosity around how to create a patient-centric healthcare system that benefits clinicians, employees, financial stakeholders, and patients. Prior to working in healthcare, Prithvi worked in various roles in investments and finance. He worked in Hedge Funds and Private Equity with the goal of understanding how markets, companies, and the investment process function. In these roles, he held responsibility for deploying and managing hundreds of millions of investable assets.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Southern California and completed a one-year General Course program in Economics at the London School of Economics.
TREY BLACK
Co-CEO
Trey is the Co-CEO of Impel and has over seven years of experience across multiple roles in healthcare – from lending and investment to operations consulting. He started consulting with Accelacare in 2021 to advance the business’s goals of patient care, mentorship, and lifelong health alongside Prithvi because they shared the belief that business and finance should allocate resources to meet people’s needs and maximize their growth potential.
Trey’s varied experience includes supporting the $6 billion+ Infrastructure Private Equity strategy at CIM Group, where he is an Associate Vice President on its portfolio of Digital Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, Transportation/Social Infrastructure, and Waste/Water Management investments. He joined CIM Group’s Infrastructure team because of its philosophy of community-oriented investment in the sectors that support the underlying health and growth of the economies they serve.
Prior to joining CIM Group, Trey worked at Wells Fargo for five years, rising to the level of Vice President in the bank’s Middle Market Banking group. He brings significant experience financing healthcare businesses, including for acquisitions and growth of clinician-owned practices similar to those that will comprise Impel’s clinic portfolio. During his time at the bank, Trey was also responsible for junior banker development, for which he constructed and led training processes and lessons to teach junior bankers about finance and underwriting, which informs Impel’s approach to its clinic startup incubator.