Mr. Mannion will serve as the Chief Executive Officer and a director, building on his own illustrious career in investment management. Mr. Mannion is a Senior Advisor and former Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer with Summit Partners, a global growth equity firm. He is also currently Chair of the Board of Managers of Summit Partners, LLC. Mr. Mannion joined Summit Partners in 1985, and he has led investments in and served as a board director of more than 35 companies, including eight public companies. He is currently a director of CareCentrix, Champion Windows, and Rockefeller Capital Management. His prior directorships include ABILITY Network (acquired by Inovalon), AdvaCare (Nasdaq: AVCR, acquired by Medaphis), American Dental Partners (Nasdaq: ADPI, taken private), Bartlett (acquired by Harvest Partners), Clinical Pathology Laboratories (acquired by Sonic Healthcare), Employee Benefit Plans (Nasdaq: EBPI), ImageAmerica (became MedAlliance, Nasdaq: MDAL), Lincare (Nasdaq: LNCR, later acquired by The Linde Group), Liquidnet, MDVIP (acquired by Leonard Green & Partners), Pharmaco Dynamics Research (merged with Applied Bioscience International Inc., Nasdaq: APBI), Sparta Systems (acquired by Thoma Bravo) and Sun Trading.

Prior to Summit Partners, Mr. Mannion worked as a Systems Engineer at IBM Corporation. He holds an AB in economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Mannion currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Up Academy, a charter school management company, as well as Chair-elect of Berklee College of Music and sits on the board of Regis High School in NYC. He has previously served on the boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay, Children’s Hospital Trust of Boston, Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors, and The Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts.

In 2015, the Healthcare Private Equity Association (HCPEA) presented Mr. Mannion with its Russell L. Carson Award for lifetime achievement in healthcare investing.