Our Healthcare Team
With deep sector experience and unique regulatory insight, our Healthcare team is focused on building long-term, sustainable value.
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Brady Akman
Director of Business Development | Healthcare
Brady Akman is a Director of Business Development on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2021. Brady leads business development efforts by working directly with investment professionals across care delivery, healthcare technology, payor services and the pharma value chain to help identify new investment opportunities.
Mike Butler
Operating Partner / Consultant | Healthcare
Mike Butler is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2020. Mike works on investment opportunities in the health system provider space, focusing on ancillary clinical and physician services, administrative and technology services, and home and community services.
Adrian Cabrera
Principal | Healthcare
Adrian Cabrera is a Principal in the Healthcare Group. He joined WCAS in 2016 and primarily focuses on investments in the pharma value chain, having also invested in companies across healthcare technology and the broader healthcare ecosystem.
Megan Callahan
Operating Partner | Healthcare
Ms. Callahan is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2023. Megan focuses on investments in the healthcare technology sector.
David Caluori
General Partner | Healthcare
David Caluori is a General Partner, having joined WCAS in 2005. David primarily focuses on investments across payor services and risk-based care.
Caroline Dechert
General Partner | Healthcare
Caroline Dechert is a General Partner in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2012. Caroline primarily focuses on investments in the healthcare technology sector but has also invested in companies across healthcare services.
Emma DeRose
Associate | Healthcare
Emma DeRose is an Associate in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2023. Prior to joining WCAS, she worked in in the Global Healthcare Group at Lazard.
Renee DeSilva
Operating Partner / CEO, The Academy | Healthcare
Renee DeSilva serves as CEO of The Health Management Academy, partnering with top executives from the nation’s 150 largest and most innovative healthcare companies to shape the future of the industry.
Adaeze Enekwechi
Operating Partner, PhD, MPP / Consultant | Healthcare
Dr. Adaeze Enekwechi is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2021. Dr. Enekwechi focuses on a policy and regulatory environment that can have an outsize impact on healthcare investments.
Colin Fischer
Associate | Healthcare
Colin Fischer is an Associate in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2023. Prior to joining WCAS, he worked in the Healthcare Services Group at Guggenheim Securities.
William Frank
Operating Partner | Healthcare
Bill Frank is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2014. Bill works with portfolio companies to define and execute their Value Maximization Plans.
Jeffrey R. Gallant
Operating Partner | Healthcare & Technology
Mr. Gallant is an Operating Partner supporting the Healthcare and Technology teams, having joined WCAS in 2008. He is responsible for helping portfolio companies implement operational improvement initiatives through various cost management strategies, including supply chain, procurement, real estate, insurance and healthcare benefits.
Sam Ghorashi
Associate | Healthcare
Sam Ghorashi is an Associate in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2024.
James Grad
Associate | Healthcare
James Grad is an Associate in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2022. James focuses on investments across subsectors including pharma value chain, healthcare delivery, and healthcare technology.
Ting Gu
General Partner | Healthcare
Ting Gu is a General Partner in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2013. Ting primarily focuses on investments in care delivery but has also invested in companies across payor services and the pharma value chain.
Jenny Guyton
Operating Partner / Managing Director, The Academy | Healthcare
Jenny Guyton is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2021. Jenny also serves as a Managing Director of Health System Investments at The Health Management Academy, an affiliate of WCAS.
Ann Hickey
Principal | Healthcare
Ann Hickey is a Principal in the Healthcare Group. She joined WCAS in 2016 and primarily focuses on investments across payor services and risk-based care.
Jim Hinton
Operating Partner / Consultant | Healthcare
Jim Hinton is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2022. Jim has been a leader in the healthcare industry for more than 38 years.
Sean Hsu
Operating Associate | Healthcare & Technology
Sean Hsu is an Operating Associate, having joined WCAS in 2023. Sean works with healthcare and technology portfolio companies to execute Value Maximization Plan initiatives, including supply chain optimization, revenue operations and analytics strategy.
Patrick Hunt
Vice President | Healthcare
Patrick Hunt is a Vice President in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2022. Patrick primarily focuses on investments in the payor services, pharma value chain and medtech sectors.
Mia Jung
Talent Partner & Co-Head of Diversity and Inclusion | Healthcare
Mia joined WCAS in 2022 as a Talent Partner within the Healthcare team and also serves as Co-Head of Diversity and Inclusion. Her role primarily involves contributing to executive talent strategies and management to support WCAS’s healthcare companies in assembling effective leadership teams.
D. Scott Mackesy
Managing Partner
Mr. Mackesy is Managing Partner of the firm and a member of the Management Committee, having joined WCAS in 1998.
Michael McDonnell
Operating Partner / Consultant | Healthcare
Michael McDonnell is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2013. Michael works with portfolio companies to define and execute effective reimbursement strategies and risk-based arrangements with commercial and governmental payors.
Lawrence Miller
Operating Partner | Healthcare
Mr. Miller brings extensive leadership experience as a former Chief Technology Officer with a background in cybersecurity, finance, and fintech.
Edward Novinski
Operating Partner / Consultant | Healthcare
Edward Novinski is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined WCAS in 2013. He works with portfolio companies to define and execute effective reimbursement strategies and risk-based arrangements with commercial and governmental payors.
Nicholas O’Leary
General Partner | Healthcare
Nick O’Leary is a General Partner in the Healthcare Group. He joined WCAS in 2015 and primarily focuses on investments in the pharma value chain.
Brian T. Regan
General Partner | Healthcare
Brian Regan is a General Partner and a member of the Management Committee. Brian joined WCAS in 2002 and has invested in numerous companies across a broad range of healthcare subsectors, including healthcare delivery, pharma value chain, payor services, medical technology and healthcare technology.
Thomas A. Scully
General Partner | Healthcare
Tom Scully is a General Partner, having joined WCAS in 2004. Tom primarily focuses on investments in the care delivery and payor services subsectors but has also invested in companies across the pharma value chain.
Aditya Shah
Associate | Healthcare
Aditya Shah is an Associate in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2023. Prior to joining WCAS, he worked in the Global Healthcare Group at Barclays Investment Bank.
Evan Smith
Vice President | Healthcare
Evan Smith is a Vice President in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2021. Evan primary focuses on investments in healthcare delivery, payor services and medical technology sectors.
Edward P. Sobol
General Partner | Healthcare
Ed Sobol is a General Partner in the Healthcare Group and a member of WCAS’s Management Committee, having joined WCAS in 2010. Ed primarily focuses on investments in the healthcare technology subsector and has invested across a range of other subsectors, including healthcare delivery, medical technology, payor services and financial technology.
Jared Spector
Associate | Healthcare
Jared Spector is an Associate in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2024.
Cathy Sun
Vice President | Healthcare
Cathy Sun is a Vice President on the Healthcare team at WCAS, having joined in 2021. She is involved in many of the firm’s healthcare technology and pharma value chain investments.
Paul Taheri
Clinical Partner, MD / Consultant | Healthcare
Dr. Taheri is a Clinical Partner on the Healthcare team, having joined in 2019. He focuses on physician governance, leadership development, managing risk, and clinical delivery optimization, helping ensure that WCAS companies deliver outstanding care to the millions of patients they serve each year.
Mark M. Tomaino
Operating Partner | Healthcare
Mr. Tomaino is an Operating Partner on the Healthcare team and focuses on investments in the healthcare information technology industry, having joined WCAS in 2010. Mark was previously Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at The TriZetto Group.
Sean M. Traynor
General Partner | Healthcare
Sean Traynor is a General Partner in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 1999. Sean primarily focuses on investments in the healthcare delivery, payor services and medical technology subsectors.
Joseph Vasile
Associate | Healthcare
Joseph Vasile is an Associate in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2022. He focuses on investments across the healthcare subsectors, including pharma value chain, healthcare delivery, payor services and HCIT.
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