Approach

A Trusted Partner for Building High-Performing Healthcare Companies

We invest in healthcare businesses with meaningful potential. Leveraging our deep industry expertise and network, we actively collaborate with our portfolio companies to accelerate growth and maximize value creation. With a disciplined investment strategy, our goal is to deliver superior outcomes while making a positive impact on the future of healthcare.

Playbook

When we partner with business owners, creating value becomes our collective goal. We’ve developed a proven playbook to help companies and their management teams build bigger, better, and faster.
Fostering a resource rich environment for accelerated growth​

Fostering a resource rich environment for accelerated growth

Making sure our portfolio companies have the right resources to grow is a key priority during the early days of our investment period. Augment talent. Increase sales and marketing spend. Implement technology. Like the power of compound interest, we know that early investments will position the business for exponential future growth.

Limited use of leverage so our portfolio companies aren’t constrained by their capital structure

When it comes to the use of leverage, we truly take a conservative approach—the same can’t be said of many of our industry peers. This affords our portfolio companies more operating flexibility than typical private equity investors. We don’t overburden our portfolio companies with debt in order to generate a return. Instead, we seek to create value the old-fashioned way—building businesses by investing in them.
Embracing a partnership-first mentality

Embracing a partnership-first mentality

There’s a reason the word “Partner” is in our name. We win together. We recognize that people are at the core of what we do, and that building trusting relationships is the bedrock that creates a strong foundation for growth and success. Challenges are inevitable, and sometimes we won’t see eye to eye. A partnership-first mentality enables us to emerge stronger from challenging times and draw from differing opinions to benefit from the best of all perspectives. We see ourselves as stewards of the businesses in which we invest, and as your partner for success.

Big company knowhow that meets our portfolio companies where they are

We know that growth is a journey—our team and network have what it takes to help you get there. We have worked across a variety of situations, sub-sectors, and at companies big and small. That means we have the right breadth and depth of experience and expertise that we tailor to the specific needs of our portfolio companies, whatever those may be. Our capabilities extend across areas such as strategic planning, corporate governance, human capital management, cost optimization, supply chain management, product/service line extensions, sales and marketing, channel management, technology, and M&A.
Big company knowhow that meets our portfolio companies where they are

A few delivery frameworks in our playbook include:

  • Operating partner model

  • Our operating partner team includes leading senior executives from backgrounds across the healthcare continuum. Each of our portfolio companies receives support from a dedicated operating partner resource that becomes an integrated part of their team. Operating partners are matched to a particular portfolio company based on their complementary skillset, experience, and network. These individuals help our portfolio companies unlock transformational value and navigate what it means to be private equity backed.
    Operating Partner Model
  • Leadership Summit

  • We host an annual summit where our investment team, operating partners, and key portfolio company leaders gather together with subject matter experts to connect, learn, and grow. We believe strongly in the value of shared learning and seek to create development opportunities for our portfolio companies to benefit from each other’s perspectives and experiences.
    Leadership summit and other cross-portfolio connection opportunities
  • Strategic Planning

  • Our strategy workshops and collaborative development of 100-Day Plans are important components of our value-creation toolkit. Leveraging a variety of resources and inputs, including external advisors and feedback from our due diligence process and industry research, we work together with our portfolio companies and their management teams to coalesce around shared goals and build and execute the optimal strategy for achieving them.
    Strategic planning session and 100-Day Plan facilitation
Our operating partner team includes leading senior executives from backgrounds across the healthcare continuum. Each of our portfolio companies receives support from a dedicated operating partner resource that becomes an integrated part of their team. Operating partners are matched to a particular portfolio company based on their complementary skillset, experience, and network. These individuals help our portfolio companies unlock transformational value and navigate what it means to be private equity backed.
Operating Partner Model
We host an annual summit where our investment team, operating partners, and key portfolio company leaders gather together with subject matter experts to connect, learn, and grow. We believe strongly in the value of shared learning and seek to create development opportunities for our portfolio companies to benefit from each other’s perspectives and experiences.
Leadership summit and other cross-portfolio connection opportunities
Our strategy workshops and collaborative development of 100-Day Plans are important components of our value-creation toolkit. Leveraging a variety of resources and inputs, including external advisors and feedback from our due diligence process and industry research, we work together with our portfolio companies and their management teams to coalesce around shared goals and build and execute the optimal strategy for achieving them.
Strategic planning session and 100-Day Plan facilitation

Partnership Insights

Core Values

The ability to build value is built on strong values.

Here are some of the ones that are important to us.

Above all, we enjoy what we do and who we do it with. Life is too short to approach it any other way. We are passionate about helping businesses become the best versions of themselves and making healthcare a better place for it. Our goal is to do right by all stakeholders—our management teams, their employees, and the patients they serve.

Continuous Improvement

Shared Success

Continuous Improvement

Shared Success

Servant Leadership

Shared Success

Servant Leadership

Collaboration

Servant Leadership

Collaboration

Intellectual Curiosity

Collaboration

Intellectual Curiosity

Teamwork

Intellectual Curiosity

Teamwork

Authenticity

Teamwork

Authenticity

Accountability

Authenticity

Accountability