Don Hebb
Chairman & Founding Partner
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"I enjoy working with bright, creative and hardworking people and seeing their strategies succeed as they build a significant growth company." |
Don is the Chairman and Founding Partner of ABS Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience span the business services, healthcare, media & communications and software sectors.
He currently represents ABS Capital on the boards of Control Point Solutions, Inc., and Sentient Flight Group, LLC. He is also an observer on the boards of Modular Space Corporation and Payformance Corporation.
He previously served on the boards of AMISYS Managed Care Systems, Inc., American Radio Systems, Inc., OTG Software, Inc., SBA Communications, Inc., Transaction Systems Architects, Inc.
Background
Prior to founding ABS Capital in 1990, Don spent more than 20 years with Alex. Brown & Sons Incorporated and was President and CEO from 1986 to 1991. In 1986, he took Alex. Brown public. He was the principal architect of Alex. Brown’s innovative industry-specific investment banking units. Don launched the firm’s health care, technology and media and communications investing groups, and also led its Investment Banking Division before becoming CEO. These focused industry groups became the firm’s hallmark and brought it to a position of national prominence among Wall Street investment banks. The firm brought hundreds of growth companies to the public markets under his leadership and he developed a keen sense of the capabilities required of high quality management teams as well as an understanding of how institutional investors and strategic buyers value these companies through varying market cycles. While running Alex. Brown, a growth company itself, Don encountered many of the management issues that his portfolio company CEOs often face.
Education
Kenyon College
Harvard Law School
Harvard Business School
Interests
Don is married with three grown children. He is a frustrated golfer, tenacious squash player and swimmer. Don is a director of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW) and Brown Capital Holdings, Inc., a former ABS portfolio company. Don is also a member of the Health Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, Don served as a director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) as well as a trustee of Kenyon College.