Board of Directors

Charlie Mills has served as the Chair of the board of directors since 2018 and as a member of the board of directors since 1985. Mr. Mills served as Medline’s Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2023. He joined Medline in 1986 as a sales representative and has since held various positions within the company, including sales management, Vice President of Marketing, and Vice President of Manufacturing. Prior to joining Medline, Mr. Mills was a sales representative with IBM. Mr. Mills received both his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and his M.B.A. from Cornell University. He also serves as a Director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and was recognized by Modern Healthcare in 2021 as one of the 100 most influential people in healthcare.

Joseph Baratta has served as a member of the board of directors since 2021. Mr. Baratta is the Global Head of Blackstone Private Equity Strategies and a member of Blackstone’s Board of Directors. He is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee and serves on many of the firm’s investment committees. Mr. Baratta joined Blackstone in 1998 and in 2001 he moved to London to help establish Blackstone’s corporate private equity business in Europe. Since 2012, Mr. Baratta has served as the firm’s Global Head of Private Equity and is located in New York. Mr. Baratta has served on the boards of many past Blackstone portfolio companies and currently serves as a member or observer on the boards of Ancestry, Candle Media, Merlin Entertainments Group, and SESAC. He is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of Georgetown University; is a trustee of the Tate Foundation; and serves on the board of Year Up, an organization focused on youth employment. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Baratta was with Tinicum Incorporated and McCown De Leeuw & Company. Mr. Baratta also worked at Morgan Stanley in its mergers and acquisitions department. Mr. Baratta graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University.

Jacob Best has served as a member of the board of directors since 2021. Mr. Best is a Partner at H&F, where he leads health care investing activities in North America. Mr. Best joined H&F in 2009 and re-joined the firm in 2016. He is active in H&F’s investments in PointClickCare and athenahealth. Mr. Best was formerly a Director of Associated Materials, Goodman Global, Snap One, and Ellucian, and was active in H&F’s investments in Verisure. Prior to re-joining H&F, Mr. Best worked as the Chief of Staff at Change Healthcare (formerly Emdeon) and the Head of Medical Networks at Grand Rounds. Prior to H&F, Mr. Best worked at Bain & Company in New York. Mr. Best received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Todd Bluedorn has served as a member of our board of directors since 2025. Mr. Bluedorn served as Vice Chair of Madison Industries, a privately held industrial company, from 2022 to 2023. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Lennox International Inc. ("Lennox"), a climate control solutions provider, from 2007 to 2022 and served as chair of the board of Lennox from 2012 to 2022. Prior to Lennox, Mr. Bluedorn held several senior management positions at United Technologies Corporation from 1995 to 2007 and started his career with McKinsey & Company, where he worked from 1992 to 1995. Mr. Bluedorn served on the board of directors of Eaton Corporation, a global power management company, from 2010 to April 2020. He has served on the board of directors of Texas Instruments, a global semiconductor company, since 2017, where he is the chair of the governance and stockholder relations committee, and Samsara Inc., a connected cloud operations software company, since 2023, where he is a member of the compensation committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee. Mr. Bluedorn received his B.S. in electrical engineering from The United States Military Academy at West Point and his M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

Jim Boyle has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2023 and as a member of the board of directors since 2023. Prior to his current role, Mr. Boyle was an Executive Vice President from 2018 to 2023, managing Medline’s customer base of healthcare providers across the continuum of care. In that role, Mr. Boyle was responsible for the strategic direction and execution of all commercial functions across all healthcare sales divisions, as well as the operations and logistics organization. In addition, he oversaw Medline’s distributed products business and the customer support infrastructure to meet the unique challenges of Medline’s customers and their patient communities. Mr. Boyle joined Medline in 1996 as a sales representative in San Antonio, Texas. Since joining, he has held roles as a Sales Trainer, Senior Account Manager, Division Vice President, and Senior Vice President. Mr. Boyle received his B.S. in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University.

Richard Galanti has served as a member of the board of directors since 2025. Mr. Galanti was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale Corporation, a multibillion-dollar global retailer, from October 1993 to March 2024, and Executive Vice President of Costco Wholesale from March 2024 to January 2025. Mr. Galanti joined Costco Wholesale in March 1984 as Vice President of Finance. Mr. Galanti currently serves on the board of directors of Affirm Holdings, Inc., and he served on the board of directors of Costco Wholesale from January 1995 to January 2025. Mr. Galanti received his B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Patrick Healy has served as a member of our board of directors since 2025. Mr. Healy is the Chief Executive Officer of H&F. He is also a member of H&F’s Investment Committee, and the Chairman of its Compensation Committee. Mr. Healy joined H&F in 1994. He is currently a Director of Verisure (Securitas Direct) and Global Music Rights (GMR). His previous investment activities include: Action, Allfunds, AutoScout24, Axel Springer, CarProof, Digitas, DoubleClick, Formula One, Gartmore Investment Management, Gaztransport & Technigaz, Hostelworld (Web Reservations), Iris Software, Mondrian Investment Partners, Nasdaq, National Information Consortium, Nets, Neverfail Springwater, Nielsen, PowerBar, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Scout24, SimpliSafe, TeamSystem, VoiceStream Wireless, Wood Mackenzie, and Young & Rubicam. Prior to H&F, Mr. Healy was employed by James D. Wolfensohn Incorporated in New York and Consolidated Press Holdings in Australia. Mr. Healy started his career stocking paint and sundries at Schoening’s Paint and Wallpaper in Rockford, IL. Mr. Healy received his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Andy Mills has served as a member of the board of directors since 1985 and served as Medline’s President from 1997 to 2023. Mr. Mills is the Chief Executive Officer and General Partner of Council Ring Capital, LLC, a position he has held since 2021. He joined Medline as a sales representative in 1986. He then worked in Medline’s OR product division from 1989 to 1992 and went on to manage the Company’s marketing department from 1993 to 1996. He assumed the position of President in 1997 and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2023. Mr. Mills holds 22 granted patents and has three pending. Before joining Medline, he worked in brand management for Procter & Gamble. Mr. Mills received his B.S. from Tulane University and his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He currently serves as a trustee of the Vivo Foundation and the Rush University Medical Center board and was recognized by Modern Healthcare in 2020 and 2021 as one of the 100 most influential people in healthcare.

Robert Schmidt has served as a member of the board of directors since 2021. Mr. Schmidt is a Partner and Global Co-Head of Healthcare at Carlyle. He joined Carlyle in 2011 and has been involved in a number of the firm’s investments globally. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Included Health, MedRisk, Resonetics, Unchained Labs, and Vantive, and he previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of One Medical and QuidelOrtho. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Schmidt worked at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm focused on healthcare and technology investments, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, focused on buyouts in North America. Mr. Schmidt received his B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He currently serves as a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s External Advisory Board at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Anushka Sunder has served as a member of the board of directors since 2021. Ms. Sunder is a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and Head of Healthcare Private Equity North America. She leads investments in the Business Services and Healthcare sectors and previously spent time in technology and consumer. Ms. Sunder joined Blackstone in 2013 and is a Director of Advarra, Allied, CoreTrust, Precision Medicine Group, TeamHealth, and Optiv and previously served as a Director of Blue Yonder and HealthEdge. She has also been actively involved in Blackstone’s investments in Signature Aviation and NCR. She is Executive Sponsor of Blackstone’s Women’s Initiative. Before joining Blackstone, Ms. Sunder was at TPG Capital and at Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions Group. Ms. Sunder received her B.A. from Harvard College, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Thomas Sweet has served as a member of the board of directors since 2024. Mr. Sweet was Chief Financial Officer of Dell Technologies, a global information technology company, from 2014 to August 2023, overseeing all aspects of the company’s finance function, including Dell Financial Services and Dell Technologies Capital, as well as global business operations and corporate strategy. He joined Dell in 1997 and held leadership positions in finance, sales, and in various corporate business units before being named CFO in 2014. Prior to joining Dell, Mr. Sweet was vice president of accounting and finance for Telos Corporation, a cyber, cloud, and enterprise security company, and before that he spent 13 years with Pricewaterhouse providing audit and accounting services to the technology industry. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of 3M and Trimble Inc., as well as the Salvation Army Central Texas Advisory Board and the Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee for the University of Texas System. Mr. Sweet received his B.B.A. in Accounting from Western Michigan University and is a CPA.

Stephen Wise has served as a member of the board of directors since 2021. Mr. Wise is a Partner and Co-Head of Americas Corporate Private Equity at Carlyle. Previously, he was the Global Head of Healthcare at Carlyle. He joined Carlyle in 2006 and has led or been a key contributor to several investments including CorroHealth, Curia, Grupo Qualicorp, HCR Manorcare, Healthscope, Medline, MedRisk, Millicent Pharma, MultiPlan, OneMedical, PPD, QuidelOrtho, Rede D’Or São Luiz, Resonetics, Sedgwick, TriNetX, Unchained Labs, and WellDyneRx. He has also led Carlyle’s broader life sciences efforts, including the acquisition of Abingworth in 2022. Mr. Wise currently serves as a Director on the boards of Launch Therapeutics, Resonetics, Sedgwick, and Vantive. He serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors for Harvard Business School, the Board of Dean’s Advisors for the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Board of Trustees for Bucknell University. He also serves on the advisory board for the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Wise worked with JLL Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, where he focused on healthcare-related investments. Previously, he worked with J.W. Childs Associates, a Boston-based private equity firm, and prior to that, in the leveraged finance group of Credit Suisse. Mr. Wise earned a B.A. in economics and finance from Bucknell University and received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.