Our Team
Richard Johnston, Managing Member
Mr. Johnston has been Chairman of the Board of Camden Partners, Inc. since April 2000 and a Managing Member of Camden Partners Holdings, LLC since February of 2002. He has over 40 years of investment experience and is focused primarily on investments in the health care sector. He serves as Chairman of the Boards of Atricure, Inc., Biomedical Enterprises, Inc., and Picis and as a Director of Liposcience, Inc., Lombard Medical Technologies PLC, Medivance Inc., Wedmedx, Inc. and XLNT Veterinary Care, Inc., all of which are Camden Portfolio companies.
Previously, Dick was Vice President of Investments and a Director of The Hillman Company, an investment holding company with diversified operations, where he was employed from 1961 to 2000. Beginning in June 1970, he was responsible for deal origination and investor representative relations with numerous private equity financings, including HBO, Medical Care International and Rehab Services among many others in healthcare; Dial Page, Nextel, and Brooks Fiber among many others in telecommunications services together with a variety of other investments in capital goods, equipment rental and information technology. Additionally, Dick managed marketable securities portfolios for Hillman entities, including small-cap portfolios, and originated and/or monitored limited partnership holdings in numerous private equity funds including Brentwood Associates, Ferrer Freeman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Columbia Capital, Technology Crossover and Crosslink. He has been an Advisor to several private equity funds, including Bridge Capital, Health Care Capital Partners and T. Rowe Price Threshold Funds. He was Chairman of the Boards of The Western Pennsylvania Hospital from 1979 to 1999 and The Western Pennsylvania Healthcare System from 1984 to 2000, and was Chairman of the Board of West Penn Allegheny Health System upon its founding in 2000.
Dick earned a B.S. degree from Washington and Lee University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Telephone: 410-878-6840
