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The Brydon Group

Acquires small businesses; guides ownership transitions

Operating Partner - Healthcare

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWashington, DC, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • 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 President, CEO, COO, or GM within healthcare technology, healthcare services, or multi-site healthcare businesses.
  • Deep healthcare domain expertise across healthcare buyer segments, including health systems, payers, provider groups, and life sciences, and operating models including healthcare software as a service, 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 judgment, responsiveness, and follow-through.
  • Broad fluency across strategy, go-to-market, pricing, product, finance, talent, and execution.
  • Comfort moving between board-level discussions and hands-on problem solving.
  • Willingness to travel regularly to portfolio companies, estimated at 20% to 35%.
  • Experience working in or with private equity-backed companies is strongly preferred; board leadership experience is a plus.
  • Strong executive presence, ability to influence, high emotional intelligence, credibility with operators and investors, and ability to work in lean, high-accountability environments.

Responsibilities

  • 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 Brydon.
  • Synthesize company performance, emerging risks, and key decisions for the investment team regularly.
  • 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 each company’s value creation plan, emphasizing profitable top-line growth.
  • Help companies improve go-to-market effectiveness across healthcare buyer segments, pricing and packaging, commercial infrastructure, product strategy, and AI 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, focusing on healthcare platform build-outs and tuck-in acquisitions.
  • Maintain an external orientation on relevant healthcare subsectors, competitive dynamics, regulatory trends, reimbursement shifts, and market developments.
  • 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, drawing on a healthcare-focused network.
  • Support leadership transitions, periods of underperformance, and major inflection points.
  • Support one to two healthcare-focused CEOs-in-Residence as they refine investment theses and evaluate acquisition opportunities during sourcing.
  • Partner with CEOs-in-Residence and the investment team during diligence to test hypotheses, assess clinical or operational fit, and shape the early value creation agenda.
  • Advise through diligence, acquisition planning, and early transition.
  • Represent Brydon and its portfolio companies in the healthcare technology and services ecosystem.
  • Build relationships with strategic acquirers, larger private equity firms, and other potential buyers ahead of exit processes.
  • Help portfolio companies remain exit-ready through financial discipline, documented processes, management bench development, and a compelling growth narrative.
  • Support the investment team and portfolio company leadership in preparing for 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 help follow through on priority opportunities.

About the Company

The Brydon Group

Acquires small businesses; guides ownership transitions

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.

Company size
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Company stage
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Total funding
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Headquarters
Greenwich, CT
Founded
2022

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