Bryan Cressey

Bryan Cressey is a pioneer in the field of private equity investing and co-founder to three of the largest private equity firms in the US. He has managed billions of dollars of private capital, spent his career investing in healthcare, is a co-founder of FCV and serves as a Senior Advisor to the firm.

Mr. Cressey is an acknowledged expert in healthcare, where he has invested for over 30 years, and his firms are well known for their consistently strong investment returns. He has been featured in Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine and is asked to speak nationwide on healthcare and private equity investing. He served as Chairman of a NYSE company, Belden, and is a Director of several others, and has been elected to Chicago's Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame and Chicago's Business Hall of Fame. Bryan recently created an addiction treatment center called Above and Beyond, on Chicago's West side, providing life transformation opportunities, free to the homeless and poor.

Mr. Cressey holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington, Phi Beta Kappa.