Justin Lynch

Justin Lynch is a Partner in Fountain Healthcare Partners and also serves as the CFO of the firm. He joined the team over a year prior to the launch of Fund I in 2008. Justin has a BA in Accounting & Finance from Dublin City University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He has over 25 years experience in capital markets, corporate finance, entrepreneurial and venture investing across multiple sectors, the latter half in life science.

Justin began his career as a research analyst at NCB stockbrokers in 1985. During this time, Justin had analytical responsibility for 13 companies accounting for 25% of the capitalisation of the Irish Stock Exchange. In 1988, Justin joined the Corporate Finance group of Fyffes plc where his activities included the execution of a number of M&A and financial transactions. He subsequently held a similar senior Corporate Finance role with the Jones Group plc for several years before returning full time to Trinity College to complete an MBA.

After completing his MBA in 1997, Justin co-founded Legend Care and developed a series of medical hosiery devices including a preventive foot care device for diabetic foot disease which is presently in a physician led 400 patient longitudinal multi-centre RCT in the US and the UK, funded by the NIDDK, US National Institutes of Health. Justin has a particular interest in the medical device sector. He led the firms investments in Vivasure Medical, Medical Microinstruments (MMI) and Neurent Medical and previously represented Fountain on the board of Neuravi (acquired by J&J, 2017)