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Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe

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This New York-based private equity firm was founded in 1979 and focused on growing businesses within healthcare and information services.

The firm prefers promoting from within: “WCAS prefers to build its organization internally by hiring, developing, and promoting the most talented and successful professionals possible. The last seven appointed General Partners at WCAS were all promoted from within the Firm. WCAS continues to hire and develop other outstanding private equity professionals, who will move into higher levels of responsibility and authority during the investment period for WCAS XI and beyond.”

The firm has 15 General Partners.

Recent investments include Bausch & Lomb (2007), MedAssets (2008), Viant (2007), Asurion (2007), Mobile Mini (2008).