John is a Managing Director of H.I.G. Growth Partners.  Since joining in 1996, John has led or had a significant role in more than forty H.I.G. investments in technology, media, healthcare, consumer oriented, and business service companies.  His investments have supported management in the development and implementation of their growth strategies in a wide range of transaction dynamics including owner-operated/family business recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, take-private transactions, consolidations and minority growth equity investments.  John is responsible for H.I.G.'s U.S. Growth Equity business.

Prior to H.I.G., John was a senior professional with several leading firms working with lower middle market businesses to identify and implement operational initiatives to enable the businesses to realize their full growth potential.  John has held several executive level management positions including chief operating officer and chief financial officer. John began his career in the Corporate Finance Group at Ernst & Young.

John received his Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics - Economics from Harvard University.

Greg is a Managing Director in Windjammer Capital’s Waltham MA office.  Greg has over 20 years of investment experience including 15 years of private equity investing since he joined Windjammer in 2000.  At Windjammer, Greg is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, structuring, and closing new investments and has a primary role in monitoring portfolio company performance and managing portfolio company divestitures.  

Greg currently serves on the boards of Heritage Food Service Group, Component Hardware Group and HealthSTAR Communications.  Prior to joining Windjammer, Greg was with Prudential Capital's Corporate Finance Group in Dallas, Texas, where he was responsible for originating, structuring and managing private debt and equity investments in companies located in the Southwest United States.  At Prudential, Greg was involved in over 40 transactions, including buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations and growth financings spanning a variety of industries and aggregating approximately $2 billion.  Greg received his  BBA from The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

John Gargiulo currently serves as an independent consultant and board advisor to a number of healthcare businesses and private equity firms. He was the President, CEO and Chairman for Daiichi Sankyo’s US business, after joining the business in 1995 as its first employee and subsequently growing it to 2,500 employees and $2B in revenues over an 18-year period. He has a proven track record of building profitable businesses and turning around underperforming companies with a common vision, mission and strategy that energizes and engages team members to achieve outstanding levels of performance in both sales and profit. John is a results oriented leader with a continuous improvement mindset, committed to developing people and creating a performance culture.

John holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he was named a Fuqua Scholar. He also holds a BA in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, from Boston College.

Craig is a Principal in Windjammer Capital’s Waltham MA office.  Craig has almost 20 years of investment experience, including 16 years in private equity since joining Windjammer in 2000.  He is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, performing due diligence, structuring, negotiating and closing transactions, and monitoring portfolio company performance.  

Craig currently serves on the boards of Component Hardware Group and HealthSTAR Communications.  Prior to Windjammer, Craig was a Vice President at FleetBoston Financial (formerly BankBoston) in the corporate lending group providing financing to a variety of public and private multinational and high-tech companies.  In 1995-96, he was an Associate with KPMG Barents Group engaged on capital markets development projects in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.  

Craig received his BA from the University of Western Ontario and completed graduate studies in economics and international relations at the University of Cambridge and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

Bill is a Managing Director based in H.I.G.'s Boston office.  Since joining the firm in 2003, he has been responsible for all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, transaction structuring, financing, and execution of post-closing growth strategies.  Bill has led investments in a number of industries including distribution, healthcare, business services and manufacturing, and currently serves on the board of directors of several H.I.G. companies.

Prior to joining H.I.G., Bill was with Bain & Company, a leading management and strategy consulting firm.  While at Bain, Bill advised a variety of Fortune 100 and Private Equity clients across a range of industries including consumer products, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing.  His clients' needs included revenue growth initiatives, cost savings programs, acquisition analysis, and merger integration.  Prior to Bain, Bill spent a number of years with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, where he advised lower middle market companies across a variety of industries on operations and technology initiatives.

Bill earned an MBA from Harvard Business School with High Honors as a Baker Scholar.  He earned his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Villanova University.

John is an accomplished senior executive and entrepreneur who has led the growth of two national healthcare consulting and turnaround management practices, Cambio Health Solutions and FTI Consulting.  He has significant experience in business development, project management, mergers and acquisitions as well as litigation support.

Early in his career John excelled in business development for pharmaceutical and biotech companies and held various positions with Schering Laboratories and Genentech, where he helped to launch new products.  John was a leader of Cambio Health Solutions that was initially a new venture within the nation’s largest hospital management company for whom John led business development.  John and his partners later acquired Cambio and within eighteen months, sold Cambio to FTI Consulting in a transaction netting an ROI of more than 8X.

After completing his five-year commitment with FTI as a Senior Managing Director, John founded Global Health Transformations.  GHT is an early stage company whose integrated clinical and economic model focuses on driving, measuring and rewarding patient medication compliance through mobile technology, aggregation and distribution of big data to key healthcare stakeholders, and alignment of stakeholder incentives.

Currently, John is a leader of business development for MedeAnalytics, a healthcare analytics and performance management software company.  He joined MedeAnalytics upon its acquisition of onFocus Healthcare where John played a key role in expanding onFocus’ operations team and client base helping to accelerate onFocus’ revenue growth during the critical years preceding its acquisition.

John holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University.