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Investor Insights: Strategies to Drive Transformative Growth in Healthcare

Investor Insights: Strategies to Drive Transformative Growth in Healthcare

Shayan Masoudpour

Director, Bow River Capital

Shayan Masoudpour leads healthcare services Private Equity at Bow River Capital, a diversified alternative investment firm managing ~$3.5 billion in AUM. In this role, Shayan is responsible for originating investment ideas and industry white papers, cultivating partnerships with executives and private businesses, collaboratively developing value-creation strategies with founders and management teams, and serving as a true partner that drives his companies to become strategic assets within their industries.

Over his investing career, Shayan has played a critical role in closing over 50 partnerships with doctor / provider organizations across specialties. Companies he served on the board of were successful in adding over 250 doctors / providers through enhanced recruitment and retention strategies, codifying clinical autonomy for their doctors / providers, maintaining sterling compliance track records, and securing improved fee-for-service and value-based payer Contracts.

Shayan currently serves on the board of Amazing Care Home Health Services, a leading provider of home healthcare services to pediatric and adult patients across Colorado, Texas, and Utah.

Prior to joining Bow River Capital, Shayan was a Principal at Chicago Pacific Founders, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on  various healthcare industries where he was responsible for sourcing, managing diligence, creating equity value, and achieving superior liquidity events. Prior to Chicago Pacific Founders, he worked at Waud Capital Partners in  a similar role.

Shayan received a B.S. in Finance with Honors from Robert H. Smith School of Business, as well as a B.S. in Economics from the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences, both at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Anna Haghgooie

Managing Director, Valtruis

Anna Haghgooie is a Managing Director at Valtruis, a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stow (WCAS) company and an Operating Partner at WCAS. Valtruis, is a unique platform that invests in and partners with disruptive leaders whose mission is to align and transform healthcare through value-based care. Valtruis is investing +$600M into companies and building portfolio support capabilities to help our companies take on and manage risk at scale. Previously, Anna was a Managing Director of the Blue Venture Fund and Sandbox Industries. The Blue Venture Fund is a unique collaboration between BCBS companies, BCBSA, and Sandbox, where she managed over $900M in capital across four funds.

Anna currently serves on the boards of Wayspring, InStride Health, Oncology Care Partners, and TailorCare. She previously served on the boards of Contessa, PWN Health, ExactCare, naviHealth, Change Healthcare, Quilted Health, Somatus, ZeOmega, and SonarMD. Anna earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Anna is a Fellow in the Health Innovators Fellowship at the Aspen Institute and lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and two children.

Steven Klopfer

Founder & Managing Partner, Kamyn Search

Prior to starting Kamyn Search, Steve worked as a Managing Director at Banister International, a Chicago area executive recruitment firm.  While at Banister, Steve focused on growing the healthcare and human resources practice areas.

Prior to returning to executive search where he started his professional career, Steve served as a human resources executive for nearly two decades. This included leadership positions at some of the world’s most recognizable companies and private equity-backed healthcare services firms.

Most recently Steve was the Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer at Press Ganey Associates, a leading provider of healthcare performance improvement insights and consulting. Under Steve’s leadership, Press Ganey was recognized as one of the “Top 150 Best Places to Work in Healthcare” by Becker’s Healthcare.

Prior to his time at Press Ganey, Steve served as Vice President of Human Resources at Accretive Health (now R1 Revenue Cycle), a leading provider of end-to-end revenue cycle solutions. Earlier in his career, Steve worked in executive HR roles within financial services at American Express and Standard & Poor’s, in addition to recruiting and HR leadership positions at The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Prior to his corporate career, Steve worked for Waveland International, a boutique executive search firm with offices in New York and Chicago.

Steve earned a B.S. from Union College and an M.Ed from Springfield College (MA).  He enjoys running, playing golf, cooking, and coaching his kids’ teams in baseball and soccer. He lives in the Greater Chicago area.

Naimish Patel

President and Partner,
Red Cell Healthcare Practice

Naimish Patel is the President of Red Cell’s Healthcare Practice and a Partner at the firm. Mr. Patel oversees Red Cell’s healthcare strategy and growth across incubation and investment verticals and recruits and partners with Incubation Leads to build companies that address problems primarily focused in the categories of health services, care delivery, and diagnostics and therapeutics.

Mr. Patel has vast experience as a healthcare executive, having led high-performing growth organizations in the digital healthcare space for more than a decade and spearheaded sales to payers, providers, employers, and consumers across market caps and market segments. He is a former Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Solutions at Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group, and was a founding member at Rally Health, a consumer-centric digital health company, which was acquired by UnitedHealth in 2017. At Rally, Mr. Patel held numerous leadership roles as the organization scaled to over $1B in revenue. A skilled entrepreneur, Mr. Patel is an active venture investor and advisor to several tech-enabled healthcare companies and currently sits on the boards of Red Cell companies TARA Mind and Savoy Life.

Mr. Patel has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Florida.

Investor Insights: Strategies to Drive Transformative Growth in Healthcare

Healthcare continues to be fertile ground, with investors spending large amounts of capital to drive growth and transformation in the sector. However, the question most healthcare solutions providers wonder about is what characteristics investors look for when considering adding a new company to their portfolio.

Our expert panel of healthcare investors will share how they are deploying resources, which sectors are projected to have the highest growth and how they’ve helped their portfolio companies grow and scale to improve health outcomes, cost savings, and operational efficiencies; hear their strategies for leveraging talent and empowering management teams.

Shayan Masoudpour

Director, Bow River Capital

Anna Haghgooie

Managing Director, Valtruis

Steven Klopfer

Founder & Managing Partner, Kamyn Search

Naimish Patel

President and Partner,
Red Cell Healthcare Practice

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