Oaklin Lane

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                • "text": "Chris Callander grew up in an underfunded school system in Louisiana, the kind of place where the support resources he now builds for a living simply didn't exist.",
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                • "text": "He's now CEO of Oaklin Lane, a pediatric therapy practice providing physical, occupational, and speech therapy to children and their families in the Dallas-Fort Worth community. Chris is a TBD CEO-in-Residence, meaning we backed his full search and remain his sole investor. It's the kind of bet Dmitri loves to make: on kids getting the care they deserve and on Chris being exactly the person to make sure they do.",
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                • "text": "On weekends, Chris is logging flight hours toward his private pilot's license in a Cessna 172. What started as a bucket-list item has become a genuine obsession. The focus a cockpit demands has a way of making everything else go quiet. It's not unlike what good pediatric therapy asks of a clinician—full presence, no shortcuts, a child counting on you to get it right.",
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                • "text": "He does all of this alongside his wife, Dr. Kate Callander, and their German Shepherd, Lola, who treats every new person she meets like she's been waiting her whole life to meet them.",
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    • "bio": "Chris Callander grew up in an underfunded school system in Louisiana, the kind of place where the support resources he now builds for a living simply didn't exist.\n\nHe's now CEO of Oaklin Lane, a pediatric therapy practice providing physical, occupational, and speech therapy to children and their families in the Dallas-Fort Worth community. Chris is a TBD CEO-in-Residence, meaning we backed his full search and remain his sole investor. It's the kind of bet Dmitri loves to make: on kids getting the care they deserve and on Chris being exactly the person to make sure they do.\n\nOn weekends, Chris is logging flight hours toward his private pilot's license in a Cessna 172. What started as a bucket-list item has become a genuine obsession. The focus a cockpit demands has a way of making everything else go quiet. It's not unlike what good pediatric therapy asks of a clinician—full presence, no shortcuts, a child counting on you to get it right.\n\nHe does all of this alongside his wife, Dr. Kate Callander, and their German Shepherd, Lola, who treats every new person she meets like she's been waiting her whole life to meet them."
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