Health 2049: Nancy-Ann DeParle, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Consonance Capital Partners
Jason Helgerson co-hosts the Health 2049 podcast with Bisi Williams of the Massive Change Network.
With decades of experience designing and implementing health policy at the state and federal level, Nancy-Ann DeParle brings wisdom, realism and fact-based optimism to our discussion of future health.
Nancy-Ann DeParle is a managing partner and co-founder of Consonance Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in innovative health care companies in the lower middle-market. She is a director of CVS Health and HCA Healthcare, as well as Consonance portfolio companies Psychiatric Medical Care and Sellers Dorsey.
From 2011- January 2013, she was Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to President Barack Obama. A health policy expert, from 2009-2011 DeParle served as Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, where she spearheaded the Obama Administration’s successful effort to enact the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and managed the initial implementation of the law.
From 2006-2009, DeParle was a Managing Director of CCMP Capital Advisors, and a senior advisor to its predecessor, JPMorgan Partners, LLC. She was also a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a trustee or director of several corporate and non-profit boards, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. From 1997-2000, DeParle was Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She directed Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provide health insurance for more than 147 million Americans at an annual cost of $1.4 trillion.
Earlier in her career, she served as Associate Director for Health and Personnel at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as a litigation lawyer in private practice, and as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services.
A native of Rockwood, Tennessee, DeParle received a B.A. with highest honors from the University of Tennessee, where she was Student Body President, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She also received a B.A. and M.A. in Politics and Economics from Balliol College of Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
