Dana L. Jacoby

Dana Jacoby is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vector Medical Group, an advisory firm that partners with private equity sponsors, boards of directors, and executive teams of middle-market and growth-stage companies on strategy, transactions, and value creation. She has more than 20 years of experience working with investor-backed organizations and has advised on strategic initiatives and transactions totaling billions of dollars in enterprise value across healthcare services, multi-site operating platforms, and specialty care businesses.

Ms. Jacoby works closely with sponsors and management teams on platform formation, buy- and-build execution, governance structure, leadership alignment, and exit preparation. She is often engaged in situations involving rapid growth, recapitalization, founder transition, or
operational underperformance, where clear board-level decision making and disciplined execution are required.

Her background combines operating leadership, commercial strategy, and transaction advisory experience. Prior to founding Vector Medical Group, she held leadership roles at GE Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson, where she led growth initiatives across U.S. and international markets. Earlier in her career, she worked in strategic consulting, advising corporate and investor clients on market entry, competitive positioning, and long-term growth strategy.

Ms. Jacoby currently serves on advisory boards and industry committees and is a frequent speaker on private equity, middle-market governance, and scaling founder-led and physician- led organizations. She brings to the boardroom a practical, performance-oriented perspective with deep experience aligning investors, management, and operators to drive enterprise value.

Dana has also committed to a life practice of philanthropy. Her charity is the international healthcare organization Project C.U.R.E. Founded over 30 years ago in a garage in the mountains of Colorado, Project C.U.R.E. has saved lives and eased suffering by delivering medical relief to people in over 130 countries. She invests her spare time as well as money by traveling to recipient hospitals in the developing world and personally helping to deliver medical supplies and equipment to the people who need it most. Ms. Jacoby graduated from Louisiana State University, holds a Master of Management from Tulane University, and a Master of Health Systems from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She is a Wharton Fellow Inductee from Wharton University, and the author of several books and numerous articles and white papers. She is regularly a featured keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator. Dana makes her home in Denver, Colorado.

• Wharton Fellow Inductee from Wharton University
• Author of several books and whitepapers, including Power to the Patient: Navigating the American Healthcare System and The Exclusive Guidebook to the World of Medicine
• Regularly featured keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator at industry events, including The Medical Group Management Association, The Healthcare Financial Management Association, and The Association for Corporate Growth
• Member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
• Member of Women in Healthcare

• Bachelor of Science in Political Science/Public Relations from Louisiana State University
• Master of Management from Tulane University
• Wharton Fellows Program
• Master of Health Systems from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey

An avid runner, Ms. Jacoby is a Boston Marathon qualifier and has run 68 marathons, one in each of the States in the United States and on each of the continents except for Antarctica.