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Eric McCafferty

@ericmccafferty

I build AI-enabled healthcare businesses, strategy, and transactions that turn complex systems into measurable value.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I'm building Veritas at the intersection of healthcare, AI, addiction recovery, and high-velocity operations, and I'm beginning seed discussions with interested investors and partners.

I'm building Veritas, an addiction-recovery technology company that uses biometrics, financial technology, and predictive AI to identify relapse risk and convert verified recovery behavior into real-world economic value.

Previously, I led strategy and corporate development at Cencora, including the $8B Alliance Healthcare acquisition, the $1B Asembia acquisition, and a home-health strategy estimated to deliver roughly $250M in annualized EBITDA uplift. I also restructured a portfolio serving about 20,000 retail pharmacy accounts, reducing operating costs by 22% while improving customer-service metrics by 15%.

At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, I led the design, strategic focus, and talent plan for a new division supported by a $1.4B startup investment. Across private-equity-backed healthcare companies including Patheon, Axia, AdaptHealth, PPD, and Mallinckrodt, I led growth, M&A, turnaround, and value-capture work.

My foundation includes a decade at McKinsey advising healthcare organizations on strategy, diligence, M&A, and transformation, as well as hands-on AI evaluation work at Mercor. I bring biochemistry, social theory, healthcare operations, investing, and technology together to address structural problems in healthcare.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Veritas logoVE
Current

Founder and CEO

Jul 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months)

We have entered "Fourth Wave" of addiction crisis that has already taken 1 million lives since 2000 in US—a lethal convergence of Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, and Xylazine. Unlike previous waves, crisis is not defined solely by overdoses, but by explosion of chronic, high-acuity disability that needs to better tracked, understood, and managed with data, insight, and AI.

Narcan availability keeps us

Mercor logoME
Current

Expert AI Writer and Reviewer for Leading Agentic AI Models

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)

- Promoted from Enterprise Prompt Writer to Expert LLM Agentic AI Reviewer within weeks of onboarding, taking on expanded QC audit, rubric calibration, and cross-pod review responsibilities across a large-scale LLM evaluation program
- Designed and authored expert-level enterprise prompt-and-rubric task pairs used to train and evaluate next-generation large language models, targeting induced model

JCM Advisory logoJA

Founder and CEO - Healthcare M&A Diligence & Value Capture Consulting

Jan 2023 - Jan 2026 (3 years)

Have the privilege and pleasure to serve, in an advisory and consultative capacity, various leading institutions across Healthcare (e.g., Big 3 distributors, managed care, pharmacies, hospitals, home health, substance abuse and recovery, medical product, etc.), Investment (e.g., hedge, PE, credit, family offices, sovereign wealth), and Non-Profits (e.g., Foundations, NGOs, Governments). Across o

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation logoBF

Senior Strategy Officer and Executive-in-Residence

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (11 months)

Involved in areas related to Climate Change, Healthcare, and innovative Private Sector partnerships and operating models. Led design, strategic focus, and talent development plan for new division at Gates Foundation, accompanied by $1.4 billion startup investment.

Cencora logoCE

Strategy and Corporate Development

Jan 2020 - Jan 2022 (2 years)

•    $8B Walgreens ex-US Acquisition (Alliance Healthcare):  Co-led this multi-jurisdictional cross-border transaction spanning 11+ countries across pharmaceutical wholesaling, retail pharmacy, and pharma services
•    $1B Asembia Specialty Pharmacy GPO Acquisition:  Led commercial diligence, strategic rationale to the Executive Committee, and integration planning; expanded specialty distribution

Private Equity logoPE

Head of Strategy, Corporate Development, and Turnaround

Nov 2011 - Oct 2019 (7 years 11 months)

Worked for various PE-backed operating companies (Patheon, Axia, AdaptHealth, PPD, Mallinckrodt) owned by different PEs (JLL, Carlyle, H&F, Audax, Silverlake, Blue Mountain) in various capacities (strategy, M&A, turnaround, operational leadership) to drive profitable growth and often prepare for sale or merger or IPO.

PE OPERATING EXECUTIVE logoPE

Head of Strategy and M&A

Jan 2011 - Jan 2019 (8 years)

Executive leadership for portfolio companies backed by Carlyle, Silver Lake, Hellman & Friedman, and Audax.

McKinsey & Company logoMC

Associate Partner

Sep 2001 - Aug 2011 (9 years 11 months)

Industry focus across various aspects of Healthcare ecosystem with Functional experience in strategy, diligence, mergers and acquisitions, and turnaround and transformation.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

TD

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Finance, General

McKinsey offered immersion program across Corporate Finance, Managerial Accounting, etc,

UP

University of Pennsylvania

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

HC

Haverford College

Dual B.S., Biochemistry

completed in 3 years

TD

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Certificate of Undergraduate Studies, Accounting and Finance

HI

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Undergraduate Research Fellow, Immunology and Oncology

2000 - 2001

One of 50 undergraduates globally to be awarded prestigious one-year research fellowship for full-time role, as had completed double-major at Haverford in 3 years already

HC

Haverford College

Bachelor of Science - BS, Double Major in Biochemistry (focus on cancer immunology); Social Theory (race

1997 - 2001

Completed dual degree in Biochemistry and Social Theory with minor in Physical Chemistry. Completed all academic work in 3 years.

Haverford College logoHC

Haverford College

Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry and Social Theory

1997 - 2001

Completed dual degree in Biochemistry and Social Theory with minor in Physical Chemistry. Completed all academic work in 3 years.

University of Pennsylvania logoUP

University of Pennsylvania

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Studied biochemistry and molecular biology.

Haverford College logoHC

Haverford College

Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry

Completed dual B.S. in Biochemistry in 3 years.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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