Curtis Lane

Curtis Lane is a Founder and the Executive Chair of Elements Health Investors. With  more than 40 years of experience, Mr. Lane has either invested in or advised hundreds  of leading healthcare and life sciences clients on their most sophisticated transactions. He is also the Founding Partner of MTS Health Partners, and previously founded  WindRose Health Investors. Mr. Lane founded MTS Health Partners in 1999, after  recognizing the value that a dedicated healthcare-focused financial services firm could  offer the market. At the time of the firm’s creation, MTS operated two independent  businesses: investment banking advisory services and private equity investing. WindRose  Health Investors manages over $3.0 billion today. MTS is dedicated to investment  banking through a differentiated model with over 85 professionals who provide aligned  strategic and financial advisory services distinguished by experienced, attentive, and  independent counsel in the context of long-term relationships. Prior to founding MTS,  Mr. Lane led the healthcare investment banking group at Bear Stearns and worked at  Smith Barney. 

Elements is focused on control investments in healthcare services companies in the  lower end of the middle market where its network of relationships can accelerate  growth and value creation for its portfolio companies.  

Mr. Lane is also the Founder and Chairman of Navigator Healthcare, Inc., which helps  Substance Use Disorder (“SUD”) patients get to the most effective, evidence based  treatment. He is also on the board of Carisk Partners, which manages catastrophic workers compensation cases. Philanthropically, he has been active in numerous charitable  organizations. Mr. Lane is Associate Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Jewish Committee. He was a Founder’s Council Member of United States of Care, which  is a bipartisan, grassroots effort to determine how to provide access to healthcare for all  Americans. He is the Former Chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the Leonard Davis  Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was a member of  the Wharton Undergraduate Executive Board and served on the Executive Committee of  the Board of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. 

Mr. Lane graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and earned his Masters  of Business Administration from The Wharton School in 1980. He and his wife Stacey live in New York City and have three adult sons and three grandchildren.