Operating Partner
Chad joined in October 2014 as an Operating Partner with responsibility for corporate finance and advisory activities with portfolio companies.
Over a career of more than 27 years in investment banking, Chad built and led international teams of up to 80, focused on healthcare and cross border advisory. He has advised clients in more than 200 M&A, equity, and leveraged finance transactions in Europe, the US and the Middle East, while at HSBC, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Lehman Brothers, First Boston and originally at Morgan Bank.
An international American now based in Dubai, Chad has been based in London since 1989. Chad’s GCC connections are long-standing, having lived in Dubai in 2008 while running HSBC’s MENA Advisory business, and covered Saudi Arabia for Morgan Bank in the early 1980s.
Chad has successfully transitioned from an established investment banking career to a plural healthcare industrial career, recently serving as International Director at HCA International (London’s leading private hospital group), responsible for evaluating, structuring and negotiating opportunities in the international clinical services space, particularly in the GCC and India.
Chad has also served since 2006 as board member and senior advisor to Ottobock Group GmbH (a private German company and global leader in prostheses and mobility) and on the Executive Committee of the Board of HealthRight International (an international not-for-profit organization providing long-term healthcare solutions in the emerging markets).
He received his MBA (with Distinction) from The Wharton School, and his BA in International Relations from Pomona College.