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Water Street, JLL Partners name chairman, CEO of life sciences services group

Healthcare-focused private equity investment firms Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners tapped Mark Thierer as chairman and Jim Lang as CEO of their global life sciences services platform.

The platform comprises healthcare service providers Dohmen Life Science Services, The Access Group, Alliance Life Sciences, Health Strategies Group, Triplefin and Patient Experience Project. The group employs close to 1,500 global professionals serving more than 300 biopharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Lang is transitioning to the CEO post from executive chairman of the expanding company, while Thierer is a healthcare industry veteran most recently serving as CEO of OptumRx. Lang was also the former CEO of Decision Resources Group, among other affiliations.