Rajesh Kothari

Bio

Mr. Kothari draws on over two decade of experience as an investor, a financial advisor, and an entrepreneur. Mr. Kothari is a co-founder and Managing Director of Seneca Partners, a merchant banking and private equity firm that assists companies with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and corporate finance activities. In addition, Seneca Partners makes are variety of control and non-control investment in companies in the industrial, business service, technology and healthcare sectors. The firm invests in emerging healthcare companies through Seneca Health Partners, a venture capital fund dedicated to emerging healthcare companies. To date, Seneca Health Partners has invested in seven healthcare companies located throughout the United States. Prior to founding Seneca Partners, Mr. Kothari was a Director at Beringea (formerly GMA Capital), a boutique investment-banking and venture capital firm. Mr. Kothari led numerous divestitures, recapitalizations, acquisitions and other strategic transactions for clients in the automotive, heavy truck, healthcare, technology and other industries. In addition, he co-managed the firm’s $70 million healthcare private equity fund, InvestCare Partners where he was responsible for identifying, evaluating, structuring and providing on-going development of investment opportunities for the fund. He represented InvestCare as a member of the Board of Directors or Board representative for several of the Fund’s investments. Mr. Kothari has also served as an Investment Officer for ProVen Private Equity in London, England, a venture capital affiliate of Beringea. Mr. Kothari began his investment career as a money manager, most prominently for Masco Corporation where he was responsible for a portfolio of $130 million in pension assets. He left Masco to found Cranbrook Capital Management, a $650 million money management firm, where he was Treasurer and Director of International Investing. Currently, Mr. Kothari serves on the Board of Priority Health, MedBio, Inc., and Providence Health Foundation as well as a board observer for Critical Signal Technologies and RedPath Integrated Pathology. In addition, he sits on the Investment Committee for Automation Alley and Civil Air Patrol, and the Finance Committee for Priority Health, Providence Health Foundation and the Village of Wolverine Lake, MI. Mr. Kothari is an active member of a variety of trade and community organizations, including past service on board of TiE Detroit, Michigan Venture Capital Association and the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs Quest and former Councilperson for the Village of Wolverine Lake, Michigan. Mr. Kothari is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, a volunteer auxiliary of the United States Air Force, in which he has served for nearly 30 years. Additionally, Mr. Kothari is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Notre Dame at the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and honored as one of Crain’s Detroit Business’s 40 Under 40 honorees. Mr. Kothari, a Chartered Financial Analyst, earned both a Bachelors of Arts and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Career

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Seneca Health Partners Managing Director Email: [email protected]