Private equity expert to speak at Whitman April 15

Private equity expert to speak at Whitman April 15April 08, 2008Amy Schmitzaemehrin@syr.edu

The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host a guest lecture by Doug Present ’86 B.S., CEO of Managed Health Care (MHC) Associates, on Tuesday, April 15, at 5:15 p.m. in Room 102 of the Whitman School building. The lecture, titled “Private Equity: How to Structure a Private Equity Deal,” is free and open to SU students, staff and faculty.

Present graduated from the Whitman School in 1986 with a degree in marketing. He went on to earn his M.B.A. at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Present spent three years with Deloitte & Touche before being appointed senior vice president of Medsite (later acquired by WebMD).

MHC is currently the largest group purchasing organization in the country serving long term care and home infusion pharmacies. MHC focuses on alternate site/non-acute settings with more than $4 billion in pharmaceutical sales.

For more information, contact Amy Mehringer, Whitman School communications manager, at (315) 443-3834 or aemehrin@syr.edu.