Larry Aldrich

Aldrich named Ariz. head of Newport Board Group

Larry Aldrich was named Arizona managing director for the Newport Board Group, a national professional services firm made up of experienced CEOs who advise middle-market companies and their private-equity investors on growth, complex transitions and business performance.

Aldrich has had a 30-year career as a leader of for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Most recently he was the founder, chairman and executive director of the Arizona Business Coalition on Health, a nonprofit membership coalition that addresses health and health-care-system issues.

He previously was president and CEO of University Physicians Healthcare, parent company for a physician group that is now part of the University of Arizona Health Network. Before that, Aldrich was chief operating officer of the Critical Path Institute, a nonprofit drug research partnership of the University of Arizona and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Earlier he founded his own venture-capital firm, Tucson Ventures, which he later merged into Valley Ventures in Phoenix. He also was president and CEO of Tucson Newspapers Inc. and a former corporate attorney and federal prosecutor.

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