Curtis Lane

Curtis Lane is a founder of Elements Health Investors and previously founded MTS Health Partners and WindRose 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.  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 businesses: investment banking advisory services and private equity investing. The two businesses are now independent and the private equity business, which manages over $2.5 billion, has been rebranded as WindRose Health Investors. Today MTS is dedicated to investment banking through a differentiated model with over 60 professionals that 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.

Mr. Lane is the Founder and Chairman of Navigator Healthcare, Inc. which helps Substance Use Disorder (“SUD”) patients get to the most effective, evidence based treatment.  Philanthropically, he has been active in numerous charitable organizations.  Mr. Lane is on the Board of Trustees and Governors of the American Jewish Committee.  AJC is the leading global Jewish advocacy organization, with unparalleled access to government officials, diplomats, and other world leaders.  He was a Founder’s Council Member of United States of Care.  USofCare is a bipartisan, grassroots effort to determine how to provide access to healthcare for all Americans.  Mr. Lane is actively involved with the Family Heart Foundation, a patient-centric nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of all forms of Familial Hypercholesterolemia through education, advocacy, and research.  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.

Mr. Lane graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and earned his Masters of Business Administration from The Wharton School in 1980.