Lucinda Stewart is a leader in the Healthcare and Private Equity practices and helps drive growth of our Healthcare IT Practice. Her career spans private equity investing, investment banking and operating experience in the healthcare and technology sectors, and as such she brings a unique skillset and set of insights to her clients. Lucinda specializes in the CEO, P&L/GM, board and CFO roles for leading companies in both healthcare and technology.
Experience in management and operations
- Prior to Spencer Stuart, Lucinda was a general partner at OVP Venture Partners, focusing on software and healthcare investments over her 10 years at the firm. While at OVP, Lucinda launched the TMT Advisory Board of leading CTOs in the market, was the lead investor on six companies and a second seat on another 10. Lucinda helped her companies scale to exit by helping drive the sale process, raise capital, and recruit board members and management. OVP was a $500M AUM growth stage fund backed by top institutional investors.
- Prior to OVP, Lucinda was an associate the investment team at Frazier Healthcare, a $1.8-billion healthcare focused leading private equity firm. She was also on the investment banking healthcare deal team at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York.
- Prior her investment career, Lucinda started her career as a private equity backed operator and was part of the startup team at National Surgery Centers, backed by Welsh Carson. She was on the development team and partnered with the CEO and CFO to identify and close acquisition targets in this fast growing roll up platform. While Lucinda was at NSC, the business grew to $500M revenue, 80 surgery centers, went public and sold to Health South.
Lucinda was named one of the "40 Under Forty" by Puget Sound Business Journal, served on the Boards of Mercy Corp, Evergreen School and several other nonprofit organizations focused on helping support ambitious under privileged youth. She earned her M.B.A. from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and her B.A. from University of Puget Sound, where she was also the captain of the women's soccer team.