James Elrod ‘17 M.A.R. (ex-officio)

Jim is Senior Advisor at Vestar Capital Partners, focused on Healthcare investments where he brings operational experience in the healthcare sector. He is the former Executive Vice President at Physicians Health Services, where he also served as corporate CFO, CEO of the New York and New Jersey subsidiaries, and President of the New Jersey insurance subsidiary. Before that, he was a partner at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., a private investment bank, where he created and ran the firm’s healthcare investment group, and served as co-head of equity issuance.

Jim graduated with an AB, cum laude, in English from Colgate University, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MAR ’17 from Yale Divinity School.

Jim is a Trustee Emeritus of Colgate University and serves on the board of Yale New Haven Hospital. Jim is also the Chairman of the Board of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.