Sep 19, 2023

September 19, 2023 NASHVILLE, TN – Council Capital is pleased to announce the addition of Alan Poenitske as Executive Partner. “Alan’s extensive success building risk-based solutions that help healthcare payors to manage cost and improve clinical quality, along with his long-term relationships with members of our CEO Council, make Alan an excellent partner for Council.” said Grant Jackson, Managing Partner of Council. Alan has joined Council to focus on payor solutions – an area of growing significance in the healthcare sector. Prior to joining Council, Alan served in various leadership roles at MedSolutions, eviCore and Evernorth (part of Cigna). During his tenure at eviCore, he helped to enable rapid growth and the successful management of eviCore’s risk-based business across nine different specialties, innovate new pricing models for payors and has spent a significant amount of time working in value-based care. Alan joined MedSolutions in 1995 as the benefit management business was being established. The MedSolutions business grew from a pre-revenue start up when he joined to approximately $900m in revenue when it merged with CareCore National to form eviCore. Over the next three years, eviCore grew to over $3.3 billion in revenue and over 5,000 employees when it was ultimately sold to Express Scripts for $3.6 billion. Alan Poenitske, a recognized leader in the healthcare sector, also served alongside Council Managing Partner, Grant Jackson, in the inaugural 2013 Nashville Health Care Council Fellows Class. ABOUT COUNCIL CAPITAL Council Capital is a leading healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. We invest in lower middle market healthcare companies ($10-100M enterprise value) on the ‘right side of change’ in the healthcare industry – where growth will accelerate as cost pressure and quality demands increase. Our unique model helps support management teams in growing their businesses by drawing upon the relationships and resources of our CEO Council, Strategic Healthcare Investors, and Value Creation Team. The Council network, anchored by its CEO Council of 34 senior private and public sector executives who have personally invested over $140M in our funds, has direct relationships with payers, providers, and employers who represent more than two thirds of the country’s managed care lives, numerous provider organizations, and millions of self-insured lives.