Richard Stowe

Richard Stowe is a General Partner of Health Enterprise Partners (HEP), a healthcare services-focused private equity fund. He co-founded HEP after serving as a Senior Advisor to two predecessor funds. He has been active in the private equity business since 1970. 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, Stowe was also a Senior Advisor to Capital Counsel, LLC, a firm managing approximately $1.0 billion in marketable securities. From 1970 to 1979, he was a principal of New Court Securities Corporation (now Rothschild Inc.), a large venture capital firm at the time.

Stowe is a trustee emeritus of Bowdin 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 Partner companies), HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY), and Chamberlin Edmonds Holdings, Inc.

Stowe holds a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.