Eric Jon Larsen

Eric Jon Larsen serves as President of TowerBrook Advisors and as a member of the healthcare leadership team of TowerBrook Capital Partners, a $30 billion AUM investment management firm headquartered in New York and London. TowerBrook is the first mainstream private equity firm in the world to be awarded B Corp certification.

Eric’s work spans healthcare, artificial intelligence, private equity, and venture capital, with a particular focus on the implications of frontier AI for healthcare. He is a healthcare strategist, investor, author, speaker, and advisor to CEOs, boards, capital allocators, and policymakers.

Prior to TowerBrook, Eric spent 25 years at The Advisory Board Company, including five years as President, and now serves as President Emeritus. Following Optum’s acquisition of The Advisory Board in 2017, he held several senior leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group, including Executive Vice President, Market Strategy.

In venture capital, Eric serves as Venture Partner to Thrive Capital, a global technology investment firm with $65 billion in AUM, and SignalFire, an AI- and data-driven venture capital firm focused on early-stage healthcare and technology companies, with $3 billion in AUM.

Eric writes extensively on artificial intelligence, healthcare transformation, labor economics, private equity, and venture capital. His recent monographs include The AI Juggernaut: U.S. Healthcare Is Not Prepared and Healthcare’s Oppenheimer Moment: The Industrialization of Intelligence and the Future of U.S. Healthcare. He is the host of the podcast Incumbents and Insurgents in Healthcare, featuring conversations with AI leaders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor, Vinod Khosla, healthcare CEOs, policymakers, and technology entrepreneurs.

Eric serves on the boards of R1 RCM, eMed Population Health, and Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global. He has also served on the boards of Somatus, Contessa Health, and other technology-enabled healthcare innovators.

Eric is Chairman of the Board of the Washington National Opera and a former Trustee of The Washington Ballet. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, he has traveled to 100 countries across all seven continents.

Eric and his wife, Susi, have three children, now teenagers and young adults, and divide their time between Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco.