Nancy-Ann DeParle is a managing partner and co-founder of Consonance Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in innovative health care companies in the lower middle-market. She is a director of CVS Health and HCA Healthcare, along with several Consonance portfolio companies, and a trustee of Duke University. She is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
From 2011-January 2013, she was Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to President Barack Obama. A health policy expert, from 2009-2011 DeParle served as Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, where she spearheaded the Obama Administration’s successful effort to enact the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
From 2001-2009, DeParle was a Managing Director of CCMP Capital Advisors, and a senior advisor to its predecessor, JPMorgan Partners, LLC. Earlier in her career, she served as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Associate Director for Health and Personnel at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services.