D. Robert Crants III
| D. Robert Crants III | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Employer | Pharos Capital Group |
| Title | Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer |
D. Robert Crants III is a managing partner of Pharos Capital Group, LLC with Kneeland Youngblood.
Early life
Crants graduated from Princeton University, where he received a bachelor's degree, Summa Cum Laude, in Economics in 1990. Crants was a member of Phi Betta Kappa, and while at Princeton was awarded the Halbert White Prize in Economics, as well as the John Glover Wilson Memorial award, and was a Pyne Prize nominee...[1]
Career
Crants worked for Goldman Sachs from 1990 to 1996. He was a founding member of the Special Investments Group where he helped develop and market equity derivative products, exchange funds, merchant banking funds, and more, totalling over 6 billion in funds raised. He was the recipient of the Goldman Sachs Banking Division Innovation Award in 1993.
Crants co-founded Pharos Capital with Kneeland Youngblood. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dallas and Nashville, Pharos Capital Group is a physician-founded asset management firm which invests in growing privately held healthcare companies that improve patient outcomes and/or lower the total cost of care and/or improve access to high quality care.
Crants was named on the list of Healthcare Leaders in Charge, by the Nashville Post in both 2017 and 2018
Philanthropy
Crants fundraised for the Louisiana Education Assistance Fund in order to help post-Katrina education and rebuilding effort.