Ned Brown is a Managing Director and co-founder of Healthcare Investment Partners ("HIP"), a private equity fund focused exclusively on healthcare investments. Before HIP, Mr. Brown was a Managing Director in the Healthcare Group of CS First Boston, where he led the firm's West Coast healthcare effort and was one of the senior partners responsible for the firm's global life sciences practice. Mr. Brown has over 17 years of investment banking experience serving all sectors of the healthcare industry. During his career, he completed more than 150 strategic, advisory, and financing transactions. Prior to CSFB, Mr. Brown held leadership roles in building the healthcare practice of DLJ, Cowen & Company, and Kidder, Peabody & Co. Mr. Brown graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude with High Honors from Middlebury College with an A.B. degree in English and completed graduate studies towards a Masters of Philosophy degree at Oxford University. He received his MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. |