Rich Whitney

Biography

Rich has spent virtually his entire career in healthcare services, where he has a long track record of leading, founding and/or investing in healthcare organizations that have led meaningful change in their segments. Prior to Radiology Partners, which he co-founded with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Rich was a lead executive in the financial and operating turnaround of DaVita Inc. (now DaVita Healthcare Partners), which created more than $3 billion of equity value between 2000 and 2003. As CFO and senior advisor to the CEO of DaVita at various times between 2000 and 2012, Rich was integral in the growth of the company to its current $14 billion of revenue and $25 billion of enterprise value. He most recently led DaVita's acquisition of Healthcare Partners, one the nation's largest physician practices providing integrated/capitated care to more than 1.5M patients. Since the mid-2000s Rich has been an investor, director and/or chairman of entrepreneurial healthcare companies in areas such as pathology, physician services, clinical laboratories, dialysis, hospitals and behavioral health. He has also served as a venture partner and venture advisor to NEA since 2007. Rich earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Penn State University and his Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Harvard Business School.

Research Interest

Health care services, Business management