Eric McCafferty
@ericmccafferty
I build AI-enabled healthcare businesses, strategy, and transactions that turn complex systems into measurable value.
What I'm looking for
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
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
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
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
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.
• $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
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.
Executive leadership for portfolio companies backed by Carlyle, Silver Lake, Hellman & Friedman, and Audax.
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
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Finance, General
McKinsey offered immersion program across Corporate Finance, Managerial Accounting, etc,
University of Pennsylvania
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Haverford College
Dual B.S., Biochemistry
completed in 3 years
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Certificate of Undergraduate Studies, Accounting and Finance
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
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
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
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Studied biochemistry and molecular biology.
Haverford College
Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry
Completed dual B.S. in Biochemistry in 3 years.
Availability
Location
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Website
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Skills
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