Housatonic Partners aligns with industry veteran Dan Eckert to pursue acquisitions in healthcare products and services with a focus on diagnostics

March 22, 2024 - Housatonic Partners, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has formed a search partnership with healthcare industry veteran Dan Eckert. Eckert will join Housatonic as an Operating Partner and advisor and work collaboratively with the Housatonic team to identify and acquire healthcare companies.

Joe Niehaus, Managing Director of Housatonic said, “We are excited to partner with an experienced healthcare CEO like Dan to pursue investments in the emerging personalized diagnostics market.” Niehaus added, “Our track record of partnering with executives to build high value companies combined with Dan’s successful career, reputation and industry connections give us confidence we will build an industry leading company together.”

“I am excited to work with a leading private equity firm like Housatonic to identify opportunities to invest in healthcare products and services,” said Eckert. “We are particularly interested in the trend toward diagnostic testing anywhere that was accelerated by the COVID 19 pandemic. Early detection of infectious disease and monitoring of health markers associated with chronic illness is critical for health and wellness management. The challenge is that most of us fear going to the lab or don’t make the time to go get the tests done. Our investment thesis is focused on bringing new diagnostic testing technologies to market and delivering them wherever the consumer/patient is to enable them to take a more active role in managing their health and wellness.”

About Housatonic
Housatonic Partners is a private equity investment firm founded in 1994, with more than $1.5 billion in capital under management. The firm invests in growing, profitable businesses with highly recurring revenue. Housatonic Partners has backed exceptional management teams in more than 100 small to mid-sized companies over the last 27 years. For more information, please visit WWW.HOUSATOINCPARTNERS.COM.

About Dan
Dan has 40 years of diverse experience in the healthcare industry across distribution and logistics, technology enabled services, medical devices, diagnostics, venture capital and private equity. Dan’s leadership and governance experience includes Chief Executive Officer, Director and President and Chief Operating Officer of multiple private and publicly traded companies where he and his teams have delivered exceptional value to customers, partners and investors.

For questions, please call Dan Eckert at (509) 686-7980 or email at [email protected].