INVESTMENT TEAM - Richard H. Stowe
Leadership 
Richard H. Stowe
General Partner
Health Enterprise Partners
Mr. Stowe co-founded HEP after serving as a Senior Advisor to CB Health Ventures two funds. He has been active in the private equity business since 1970. He currently serves on the board of MobileMD Inc. He was a General Partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe from April 1979, shortly after the firm’s formation, until December 1998. From 1999 until 2005, Mr. Stowe was also a Senior Advisor to Capital Counsel, LLC, a firm managing approximately $1.0 billion in marketable securities. From 1970 to 1979, Mr. Stowe was a principal of New Court Securities Corporation (now Rothschild Inc.), a large venture capital firm at the time.
Mr. Stowe is a trustee emeritus of Bowdoin College, where he served as Chairman of the Investment Committee from 2001 to 2004, and an Adjunct Trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also a former member of Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors, Harvard Business School’s Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board and Harvard School of Public Health’s Health Policy and Management Executive Council. He is a director of Brim Holding Company, Inc. (a CBHF II company) Behavioral Centers of America Holdings LLC and Principle Pharmacy Group (Health Enterprise Partners’ companies), HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY), Chamberlin Edmonds Holdings, Inc., and MobileMD, Inc.
Mr. Stowe holds a BSEE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1965) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1970), where he was a Baker Scholar.
Representative Investments:
- Behavioral Centers of America Holdings, LLC – Owner/operator of behavioral centers
- Brim Healthcare – Owner/operator of community acute-care hospitals
- Behavioral Healthcare Corporation (Name changed to Ardent, psychiatric operations acquired by Psych Solutions in 2005) – Owner/operator of behavioral centers
- EmCare Inc. (IPO December 1994; Acquired August 1987) – Outsourced emergency physician staffing and administrative services
- HMS Holdings Corp. (IPO December 1992; NASDAQ: HMSY) – Cost containment services for government-funded and commercial healthcare payors
- MedQuist (Control acquired by Philips Electronics December 2000) – Electronic transcription and document management services
- Medaphis (Name change to Per Se Technologies, acquired by McKesson in 2007) – Business services and technology solutions for physicians and hospitals
Joined HEP/CBHV: 2002








