David W Jahns

Bio

Mr Jahns is a Managing Partner of Galen Partners, a leading healthcare growth equity investment firm founded in 1990. With over 20 years of experience in building healthcare companies, he is passionate about working collaboratively with quality management teams to create novel and innovative solutions that improve healthcare. With experience in over 70 growth equity investments, Mr Jahns has developed substantial expertise and leadership in working with entrepreneurs to build market-leading healthcare companies in the areas of: technology-enabled services, medical devices, medical robotics, diagnostics, consumer driven healthcare, telemedicine, clinical decision support, and health information technology and SAS solutions. Prior to joining Galen in 1993, Mr Jahns was an investment banker and financial advisor to healthcare companies. He worked in the Corporate Finance Department at Smith Barney, Inc. in New York, specializing in public offerings and mergers and acquisitions, as well as public debt financings. As an investment banker and venture capitalist, Mr Jahns has worked on more than 20 initial public offerings, including 11 Galen portfolio companies’ IPOs. Additionally, he has extensive M&A experience including 19 portfolio companies’ sales to financial and strategic buyers. Mr Jahns has served on numerous public company Boards of Directors and currently serves on several of the following Galen portfolio companies’ boards: CBL Pathology, Dakim Brain Fitness, Unisyn Medical Technologies, PeriGen, InTouch Health, and US HIFU. He is an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, where he is a guest lecturer on private equity and venture capital case studies. He is a frequent speaker at various healthcare industry conferences on healthcare market trends and the healthcare technology-enabled outsourcing industry. He also serves on several non-profit Boards of Directors for various community and philanthropic corporations. Mr Jahns earned an MBA from the Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, where he specialized in Health Services Management. He earned his BA in political science and economics from Colgate University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.