Chris Harris

Chris Harris is a Managing Partner at FFL Partners, a San Francisco-based middle-market private equity firm focused on healthcare and tech-enabled services. FFL says Harris joined the firm in 2008 and is responsible for overall management of the firm while leading its healthcare investment activities.

Before FFL, Harris worked at Berkshire Partners and Bain & Company. He earned a BS in Management Science & Engineering and an MBA from Stanford. FFL lists his hometown as Salem, Oregon.

At FFL, Harris’s portfolio coverage is concentrated in healthcare companies, including Apex Infusion, Autism Learning Partners, Community Medical Services, Janus RX, Johnson County Clin-Trials, New Look Vision Group, One Senior Care, Perlman Clinic, and U.S. Orthopaedic Partners.

• FFL is not an angel or seed investor based on current verified sources; it is a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle-market companies.
• FFL focuses on two core sectors: healthcare and tech-enabled services. Harris specifically leads the firm’s healthcare investment activities.
• FFL describes its proprietary sourcing and value-creation process as Sector Exploration and Expertise Development, or “SEED,” an intensive multi-year approach to identifying target subsectors and building relationships before investing.
• FFL says it invests in “healthy, growing North American businesses in healthcare and tech-enabled services” and generally commits $50 million to $200 million per transaction.
• FFL seeks companies with above-market performance, strong service quality, scalable management, effective human-capital practices, potential for tech enablement, and an opportunity to accelerate growth with FFL.
• Harris’s healthcare comments in FFL’s Janus RX release emphasized the firm’s SEED strategy: “a multi-year approach that allows us to identify and invest in high-performing businesses like Janus.”