Russ Carson

Since 1978, Russ Carson has been a general partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), one of the country’s largest private investment firms, which he co-founded. WCAS has raised over $20 billion of capital in 16 limited partnerships over the past 37 years and specializes in investing in companies in the information technology and healthcare industries.

From 1967 to 1978, Mr. Carson was employed by the Citicorp Venture Capital subsidiary of Citicorp and served as its chairman and chief executive officer from 1974 to 1978.

Mr. Carson received a BA degree in economics from Dartmouth College in 1965 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1967.