QHP Capital
TOP 50 PE Winner
2023
Primary Address
4509 Creedmoor Road, Suite 403, Raleigh, North Carolina 27612
Website
www.qhpcapital.com
Phone Number
919-261-5266
Which best describes the firm?
Traditional | LP Funded
Firm Inception
2016
Leadership
Vern Davenport – Owner, Partner
Jeff Edwards – Owner, Partner
Ashton Poole – Owner, Partner
Michael Sorensen – Owner, Partner
Matt Jenkins – Partner
Rob Knox – CFO, CCO
Silvia Cruz – Head of Strategic Operations
Team Members
18
Firm Overview
Our vision is to be the world’s best healthcare private equity firm by creating long-term value for our investors and our portfolio companies. We focus on providing capital and partnering with management teams to build leading healthcare companies in the middle-market. We focus on tech-enabled life sciences and pharma services companies at an inflection point, whose service and product offerings help reduce the total cost of care, fulfill unmet medical needs, diminish unnecessary procedures, improve efficiency, and elevate patient quality of life. We see ourselves as a strategic capital partner that can help accelerate growth through our transformational value creation engine.
Why do prospects want to do business with the firm?
Our deep industry expertise gives us credibility when we sit down with founder/owners and CEOs of target investment companies. We have heard countless times from founder/owners of middle-market healthcare businesses that we are their partner of choice because we truly understand their business and have a clear plan for accelerating growth. We understand their business models and can go a “mile deep” in content on relevant topics. We understand their business challenges and especially those that emerge at strategic, operational, and financial inflection points. We ask the right questions, and founder/owners and CEOs feel they can trust us to deliver growth, profitability and value creation for all constituencies. We are also tenacious partners. After close of deal, we do not send in a handful of consultants to help figure out how to scale a business. We are hands-on investors, actively working with our management teams to help them build out their executive teams, identify gaps and skills in their organization, upgrade their processes and technology, reduce costs, win new customers, and truly create exceptional long-term value.
Why do intermediaries present opportunities and want to conduct transactions with the firm?
Intermediaries as a group represent an important business development and execution partner for QHP. Whether law firms, accounting firms, investment banks, business brokers, insurance brokers or other related service providers, they all appreciate and respect our deep industry knowledge and expertise, the benefits of our unique strategic platform, and last but not least, our hands-on operational approach to value creation. Our partners know and understand that if they bring an investment opportunity to us, we are well equipped to assess it, due diligence it, execute upon in, and post-closing make the right strategic and operational decisions that will facilitate growth and profitability. Our track record gives our partners the confidence they need to show proprietary opportunities to us, which in turn enables us to create value for our investors, management teams, customers and the communities in which portfolio company employees live and work. As we continue to grow as a firm, partnership with our intermediaries will play an important role in our future development, and those that have been most helpful and constructive to date will certainly have a preferred seat at the table when it comes to transactional assignments.
Contact
4509 Creedmoor Road, Suite 403, Raleigh, North Carolina 27612
Call 919-261-5266 | Visit www.qhpcapital.com