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Industry Leaders to Discuss Trends Impacting Investment in the Global Healthcare Markets

Posted on: Monday, 28 November 2005, 12:00 CST

Market leading firms that influence global investment in healthcare will gather to share their respective views on emerging trends that drive change in the healthcare markets at The Executive Forum's "Leadership in the Healthcare Markets" forum, to occur on Tuesday, November 29th at The Harmonie Club in New York City. Proceeds from the exclusive gathering will benefit the leading health and human rights organization, Doctors of the World.

Keynotes presenters include: Joel Ackerman, General Partner and Managing Director at Warburg Pincus; G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Co; and Mark Blatt, MD, Director of Global Healthcare Strategies in the Digital Health Group at Intel; with Tim Race, Healthcare Editor from The New York Times, interviewing keynote Stanley Brezenoff, CEO of Continuum Health Partners. A special presentation by Chad Floe, Head of Healthcare Sector, Corporate Finance & Origination at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein will look at the European Healthcare Markets and "advise on the current conditions in the public and private markets for investment and exits."

The day's event could not be more timely. In referring to the current state of the industry, Steven Elek, the Partner leading the Healthcare Practice in the Transaction Services Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers reported, "The healthcare M&A market continues to experience a significant increase in deal volume. This has been driven in large part by the growing interest of private equity in a sector that is expected to grow from $1.8 trillion or $15.4% of GDP in 2004 to $3.4 trillion or 18.4% of GDP in 2013." PricewaterhouseCoopers Healthcare Transaction Services, Apax Partners, The Carlyle Group, GE Healthcare Financial Services, Bank of America Securities, and Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin will collectively speak to the topic of mergers and acquisitions and the financing of the global healthcare markets.

The forum's second panel will delve into trends impacting real estate financing in the healthcare markets which ultimately determine improved accessibility to care and affect the end-user of healthcare services. "As demands on the healthcare system increase due to shifting demographics and treatment options, it is vital that the capital resources of the providers of these services be used in the most efficient way. The objective of this program is to help demonstrate some of the approaches that can be used to better focus the assets of the healthcare providers for the treatment of the public. Newmark is happy to participate in a program that promotes the effective delivery of healthcare services to the public" stated Peter Kozel, Executive Managing Director of Research & Real Estate Strategies at Newmark.

Doctors of the World will receive proceeds from this high-level gathering that is set to convene 175 senior professionals that work within the global healthcare markets. Thomas Dougherty, Doctors of the World Executive Director stated, "Doctors of the World is the perfect beneficiary of an event like this, because our work is all about investment in local doctors and communities. It's an investment that pays off with sustainable solutions that save the lives of mothers and children, prevent and treat killers like AIDS and TB, keep children out of institutions and rebuilt lives of people who've been trafficked or tortured."

The Executive Forum produces receptions for the senior operating executives and Board members of private and public firms, private capital investment professionals, as well as members of the endowment and plan sponsor community. The receptions are by invitation only. The Executive Forum has hosted a variety of industry leaders for its receptions. 2005 speakers include Sam Zell, Chairman, Equity Group Investments; David E. Shaw, Chairman, D. E. Shaw & Co.; Steven Rattner, Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group; Scott C. Malpass, Chief Investment Officer, University of Notre Dame; Alan Patricof, Co-Founder, Apax Partners; and Arthur Segel, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. The Executive Forum currently works with over 500 of the world's leading trade associations, alumni clubs, and other business organizations to produce its events. Collectively, this network of top associations and organizations is referred to as The Executive Forum Syndication Grid(TM). For more information on The Executive Forum, please visit: www.execforum.net.

Source: Business Wire

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