Chris Sweeney joined RTI’s board of directors in October 2015. Sweeney is a partner with Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. Sweeney has invested in the health care industry for his entire career. During his tenure at Water Street, he has been instrumental in building a leading group of companies that specialize in designing, manufacturing and distributing a range of diagnostic devices and medical products. Prior to founding Water Street, Sweeney was a principal with Cleary & Oxford, a middle-market health care investment banking firm. In this role, he represented numerous companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Medex and B. Braun. Sweeney currently also serves on the boards of directors of Breg, a premier provider of sports medicine products and services, and Sarnova, the nation’s leading specialty distributor of health care products to the emergency medical services and acute care markets. He received bachelor’s degrees in economics and history from Williams College.

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