John Connaughton is an American business executive. He is a co-managing partner of

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-based investment firm

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. He manages Bain Capital’s global private equity business, and is known for his investments in the healthcare industry. __TOC__

Professional life and education

Connaughton received a B.S. from the

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and an M.B.A. from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA ...

. In 1989, Connaughton began working at

, transitioning from

Bain & Company Bain & Company is an American management consulting company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides advice to public, private, and non-profit organizations. One of the Big Three management consultancies, Bain & Company was fo ...

. Connaughton ran the firm's global private equity business and became co-managing partner in April 2016. In 2002, Connaughton, along with several other

partners, joined with a larger group of private equity and finance executives to acquire the

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Board memberships

In 2003, Connaughton was appointed to a supervisory board membership at

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, a German broadcasting group. Connaughton joined the Board of Trustees for

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

in 2005. In 2008, he became director of Quintiles Transnational Corp, a healthcare company in the field of clinical research. In 2016, Quintiles merged with

IMS Health IMS Health was an American company that provided information, services and technology for the healthcare industry. IMS stood for Intercontinental Medical Statistics. It was the largest vendor of U.S. physician prescribing data. IMS Health was fou ...

, a health IT company, to become

IQVIA IQVIA, formerly Quintiles and IMS Health, Inc., is an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technology and clinical research. IQVIA is a provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outs ...

. Connaughton became a director of IQVIA in October of that year. Connaughton was appointed to the board of HCA Healthcare for a term through 2014. He was also appointed to the board of trustees of the

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for boys for a term through 2022. In September 2019, Connaughton joined the board of directors of the University of Virginia's Investment Management Company. He has also served on the Board of Trustees at the university's

McIntire School of Commerce The McIntire School of Commerce is the University of Virginia's undergraduate business school and graduate business school for Commerce, Global Commerce, Accounting, Management of Information Technology, and Business Analytics. It was founded in ...

. In 2021, he was appointed to the board of GreenLight Fund, a nonprofit fund in the Boston area.

Philanthropy

Connaughton donated to the development of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, which opened in 2010. In 2019, Connaughton and his wife donated $5 million to the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia to create the Connaughton Alternative Investing Professorship Fund.

Personal life

In 2012, Connaughton lived in

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with his wife Stephanie.

References

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