Executive leadership for complex, regulated, people-driven organizations

 

Roo Partners works with private equity and growth equity firms backing healthcare services, provider platforms, and healthcare-adjacent businesses at critical inflection points. These environments demand leaders who can operate under regulatory scrutiny, evolving reimbursement models, and heightened expectations from patients, boards, and investors.

 

We place executives who understand how to lead through complexity, align clinical and operational priorities, and build cohesive leadership teams capable of executing a sponsor’s growth strategy under active board oversight. Our network includes leaders with experience navigating technology adoption, multi-site operations, and organizational scale in highly regulated settings.

 

Our healthcare work spans platform growth, integration, transformation, and performance improvement. We are often engaged when mandates are ambiguous, markets are constrained, or leadership decisions carry real downside risk. Our role is to bring clarity, judgment, and disciplined execution, and to remain closely involved until the decision holds in practice.

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Healthcare Leadership

 

This work is led by senior leaders with deep healthcare pattern recognition, direct involvement, and long-standing executive relationships.

Doug Smith
Managing Partner
Jeff Kahn
Partner