Dr. Bochner leads the Healthcare Private Capital and For-Profit Healthcare Sector. He is an established industry expert bringing years of experience recruiting senior healthcare executives and investors. He is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and is focused on the recruitment of investment professionals and senior operating executives to financial sponsor-backed and for-profit healthcare companies. Dr. Bochner has served as an investment advisor to private capital firms and as a consultant to several public and privately financed companies. He is a member of numerous medical associations and serves on the Board of several companies. Steve McAndrew is currently the Deputy Regional Director of the Americas for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). From 2012 until 2019 he was the Head of Emergency Operations for the IFRC. For his role in leading the Red Cross response to the 2015 Ebola outbreak in Africa, Steve was awarded an MBE medal (Member of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II for Services to Humanity. Steve is one of a small group of Americans whose special achievements have been recognized by the British Empire.
Besides leading the effort to stop Ebola, in his work with the Red Cross, Steve has managed some of the largest and most challenging crises facing the planet over the last decade, including the 2016 Syrian refugee crisis, the devastating earthquake in Nepal in 2015 and the 2010 Haitian earthquake, in which a quarter of a million of people lost their lives.
In 2017, Steve also served as Chief Executive Officer of GER, a newly formed US-based non-profit organization that assists crisis-affected persons in rebuilding following disasters with smart and efficient recovery projects. GER (Global Emergency Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction) has carried out projects in Nepal, Puerto Rico, Barbuda, Haiti, and Houston.
Mr. McAndrew has also worked in the United States Government Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) in Latin America and Africa and was also a founding partner of the Global Emergency Group consulting firm in 2008.
Between missions, he shares his experiences and has lectured at the RAND Corporation, the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles, the University of Virginia, and various academic institutions.
Mr. McAndrew also serves on the board of Relief Applications, a European-based non-profit organization striving to improve humanitarian operations through data management and technology.