James B. Hoover

Prior to founding Dauphin Capital Partners in 1998, Mr. Hoover was a General Partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe.
Before WCAS, he was a General Partner of Robertson, Stephens & Co. (now BankBoston Robertson Stephens & Co.).
He joined Robertson, Stephens in 1984, establishing the firm's New York office, initially serving as the senior research analyst following the medical services industry.
In 1987, he assumed responsibility for the health care corporate finance group.
During his association with the firm, He was involved with 33 health care company public offering transactions that raised an aggregate of $1.4 billion.
Mr. Hoover was a Vice President of the Investment Management Group at Citibank N.A. from 1977 until 1984.
He is a director of Quovadx Inc., a publicly traded company, as well as a director of several private health care companies.
He is a member of the Special Projects Committee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center which raises funds and evaluates funding proposals from physicians interested in pursuing cancer research projects.
Mr. Hoover received his MBA in Finance from the Graduate School of Business at Indiana University.
He holds a BS degree from Elizabethtown College (Pennsylvania) where he presently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees and is responsible for the management of the College's endowment.