Healthcare Operating Partner - Healthcare
About the job
- At least 15 years of leadership experience, including at least 10 years of senior consulting or advisory experience at Partner or Managing Director level and P&L leadership as a President, CEO, COO, or General Manager within healthcare technology, healthcare services, or multi-site healthcare businesses.
- Deep healthcare domain expertise across health systems, payers, provider groups, life sciences, healthcare SaaS, revenue cycle management, clinical technology, multi-site platform operations, and healthcare services.
- A demonstrated track record of driving profitable growth in lower-middle-market businesses.
- Ability to support multiple companies simultaneously while maintaining strong judgment, responsiveness, and follow-through.
- Broad fluency across strategy, go-to-market, pricing, product, finance, talent, and execution.
- Ability to move between board-level discussions and hands-on problem solving.
- Strong executive presence and ability to influence.
- High emotional intelligence and credibility with operators and investors.
- An entrepreneurial, self-directed approach and comfort working in lean, high-accountability environments.
- Willingness to travel regularly to portfolio companies, with 20% to 35% travel.
- Serve as Board Chair for each assigned healthcare portfolio company.
- Partner with CEOs to set board agendas, lead board discussions, and maintain alignment between management teams and The Brydon Group.
- Synthesize company performance, emerging risks, and key decisions for the investment team on a regular cadence.
- Serve as the primary accountability partner to CEOs and senior leadership teams across four to five healthcare portfolio companies.
- Partner with management teams to develop and execute value creation plans, emphasizing profitable top-line growth.
- Improve go-to-market effectiveness across healthcare buyer segments, pricing and packaging, commercial infrastructure, product strategy, and artificial intelligence enablement.
- Monitor financial performance, key performance indicators, and operating health; identify risks and opportunities and drive management action.
- Support add-on opportunity evaluation, integration planning, and post-close execution for healthcare platform build-outs and tuck-in acquisitions.
- Maintain external awareness of competitive dynamics, regulatory trends, reimbursement shifts, and market developments in relevant healthcare subsectors.
- Build trusted relationships with portfolio company CEOs and provide operating support, pattern recognition, and counsel.
- Coach leadership teams on organizational effectiveness, execution discipline, and scaling through growth.
- Identify, recruit, and onboard key executives where leadership gaps exist.
- Support CEOs-in-Residence as they refine investment theses and evaluate acquisition opportunities.
- Partner with CEOs-in-Residence and the investment team during diligence to test hypotheses, assess clinical or operational fit, and shape the value creation agenda.
- Support diligence, acquisition planning, and early transition for portfolio companies.
- Represent The Brydon Group and its healthcare portfolio companies within the healthcare technology and services ecosystem.
- Build relationships with strategic acquirers, larger private equity firms, and other potential buyers before exit processes.
- Help portfolio companies remain exit-ready through financial discipline, documented processes, management bench development, and a compelling growth narrative.
- Support exit processes, including management presentations, positioning materials, and buyer diligence.
- Codify healthcare-specific playbooks, tools, dashboards, and templates across value creation levers.
- Create practical examples of effective practices at different stages of company scale and maturity.
- Partner with the Portfolio Operations team to improve the Brydon Operating System and consistency across the healthcare portfolio.
- Contribute insights to portfolio reviews and drive follow-through against priority opportunities.
- Experience working in or with private equity-backed companies is strongly preferred.
- Board leadership experience is a plus.
About the company
The Brydon Group helps small business owners by partnering with them to acquire their businesses and guiding the transition to the next generation of owners. It works by collaborating with entrepreneurs who want to sell or transition ownership, providing support during the acquisition and in the ongoing transfer of leadership and control to the next generation. The approach stands out from competitors by focusing on a buyer-partner model that emphasizes a smooth ownership transition and continuity of the business, rather than simply buying and operating the company. The goal is to ensure the business remains stable and successful as ownership changes hands, preserving legacy, jobs, and long-term value.
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Headquarters
Greenwich, Connecticut
Founded
2022
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What believers are saying
- NLign investment on 2026-09-25 expands aerospace-digital-twin software into defense programs.
- BOOST, CollegePlannerPro, TestAssure, and Micro-Dyn CMSPricer show steady 2026 deployment.
- Portfolio updates on 2026-09-22 show active operating support and continued acquisitions.
What critics are saying
- Brydon's model depends on replacing founders with hired CEOs, creating integration churn.
- Renesan's Satellite Healthcare litigation shows contract disputes reach court and distract management.
- If Brydon stops sourcing proprietary deals, the talent-first thesis collapses.
What makes The Brydon Group unique
- Brydon pairs acquisitions with operator CEOs, like Bridget Allen at GTG on 2026-02-24.
- Portfolio spans software, government services, healthcare, and business services on 2026-09-22.
- The firm buys niche, recurring-revenue tools, not broad-market rollups.
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Company News
NLign Analytics, a software company serving aerospace and defense organisations, has announced a strategic investment from The Brydon Group. The company's platform connects inspection, quality, engineering, manufacturing and sustainment data to mission-critical assets. NLign will use the funding to accelerate product development, expand its team and strengthen go-to-market capabilities. The company has supported aerospace and defense programmes for over 15 years, including work with the US Department of War and leading manufacturers. The platform addresses challenges faced by manufacturers and operators who manage fragmented data across multiple systems. NLign's software connects operational data directly to digital models of individual assets, creating what the company describes as a visual system of operational truth. The investment will support continued product development and expanded sales capabilities whilst NLign focuses on increasing adoption among aerospace and defense organisations.
Micro-Dyn, a leader in healthcare claims pricing software, announces its acquisition of CMSPricer. WILMINGTON, Del., June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Micro-Dyn Medical Systems, LLC (Micro-Dyn), an industry leader serving over 200 healthcare organizations in contract management and claims pricing solutions, announced its acquisition of CMSPricer, in partnership with The Brydon Group. CMSPricer, based in Dallas, TX, brings industry-leading technology solutions focused on payer and provider contract management, as well as commercial claims pricing, to the broader Micro-Dyn platform. This partnership enables Micro-Dyn to provide a wider suite of mission-critical software solutions to its customers, ensuring their full healthcare claims needs are met and expanding the integration footprint with partners. In addition, Clanton Lynch, Founder and CEO of CMSPricer, will join the Micro-Dyn team as Executive Vice President of Strategy, bringing decades of healthcare claims pricing experience and market strategy expertise. "I look forward to partnering with the Micro-Dyn team to build the industry's leading contract management and claims pricing platform. We are well situated to become the claims pricer of choice throughout the healthcare system and to continue expanding our partnerships across the claims ecosystem," said CMSPricer Founder and CEO, Clanton Lynch. Discover more Sean Zhao, CEO and Co-Chairman remarked, "We are honored to work with Clanton and his product and engineering team to integrate and continue to build upon his best-in-class solutions, expanding the capabilities of the Micro-Dyn platform." With the capabilities and resources provided by the acquisition, and the expansion of the executive team, Micro-Dyn will continue to execute its long-standing mission of simplifying the flow of payments in healthcare by enabling organizations to accurately and efficiently manage contracts, claims, and reimbursements. "We are extremely excited to demonstrate to our current customers and future partners, our broader capabilities with the launch of the consolidated Micro-Dyn contract management and claims pricing platform," said Steve Giattino, President and Co-Chairman. Micro-Dyn, founded in 1989, is an industry leader in healthcare contract management and claims pricing solutions serving over 200 healthcare entities. Holland and Knight served as legal counsel and Mowery and Schoenfeld served as accounting advisor to Micro-Dyn. The Brydon Group is a talent-first investment firm that partners with experienced, mid-career executives to acquire and operate industry-leading businesses across the healthcare, software, business-to-business, and business-to-government sectors.
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CollegePlannerPro, a practice management platform for independent educational consultants, has announced a strategic growth investment from The Brydon Group. The funding amount and valuation were not disclosed. Steve Sullivan has been appointed chief executive officer to lead the company's next growth phase. The investment will be used to advance platform capabilities, enhance customer experience and support independent educational consultants in managing their practices. CollegePlannerPro provides cloud-based tools used by thousands of independent educational consultants to manage students, streamline communication and simplify college admissions advising. The company plans to maintain its existing team whilst leveraging new resources to strengthen its technology platform and scale operations. Goodwin Procter provided legal counsel for the transaction, with Mowery & Schoenfeld serving as financial advisors.