Managing Director & Head of Venture Capital and Private Equity, First Trust Capital Partners
Health Evolution Partner Committee

Jonathan Phillips has over 25 years of experience in healthcare information technology, healthcare services, investment banking and private investing. Mr. Phillips has served as Managing Director and Head of Venture Capital and Private Equity for First Trust Capital Partners (FTCP), headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, since November 2016.

Mr. Phillips is also the founder and Managing Partner of First Health Capital Partners, LLC, a healthcare technology and services investment firm founded in January 2016. Mr. Phillips has led investments in a broad range of healthcare technology and services companies, including Vivify Health (acquired by UnitedHealth Group in 2019), Lightbeam Health, AVIA, RxAnte, and Wellvana Health.

Before his role at FTCP, in 2005, Mr. Phillips founded Healthcare Growth Partners, LLC, a provider of strategic and financial advisory services to healthcare technology companies, and he served as its Managing Director until November 2016. Prior to founding Healthcare Growth Partners, Mr. Phillips was a member of the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at William Blair, an investment banking firm. Prior to William Blair, he served in various roles in the healthcare practice of Deloitte Consulting.

Mr. Phillips has led over 40 healthcare investments, completed over 115 transactions involving healthcare companies and has completed over 40 strategic advisory engagements for healthcare technology and services companies.

Mr. Phillips earned his MBA in Finance, Marketing and Health Services Management from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and his BA in Economics and Management from DePauw University, where he is on the Board of Trustees.