Global private equity firm Permira, has appointed Jon Maschmeyer as a partner in its New York office to drive the firm’s US healthcare sector efforts. Permira has, to date, deployed over €4bn in healthcare investments.
With over 20 years of experience in healthcare investing, Maschmeyer brings a wealth of knowledge and a proven track record to Permira, including most recently serving as Senior Partner and Co-Head of Healthcare at The Vistria Group, where he focused primarily on sourcing and executing investments in pharmaceutical services.
Prior to joining Vistria, he served as a Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders, a strategic healthcare investment fund focused exclusively on healthcare services, where he was instrumental in identifying and driving value for the firm’s first investments following its launch. He was previously a healthcare investor with Pritzker Group and RoundTable Healthcare Partners. Earlier in his career, Maschmeyer held investment banking roles at Merrill Lynch and Greenhill.
At Permira, Maschmeyer will help identify new strategic investment opportunities and work closely with the firm’s portfolio companies to execute on their strategic growth drivers and generate value.
Current investments from the Permira funds in the shealtcare ector include Ergomed, Kedrion Biopharma, Neuraxpharm, Cambrex, Quotient Sciences and I-Med.
