Rick Ferreira

Rick Ferreira is an Operating Team Member at 1315 Capital, a healthcare expansion and growth equity firm. Rick is a serial entrepreneur and currently President & CEO of Innovative Health, a medical device reprocessing company he co-founded focused on cost containment, particularly in the cardiology space. Prior to Innovative Health, Rick was President & CEO of Intralign, a company he co-founded to help hospitals and surgeons reduce costs and improve efficiencies around joint replacement surgery. Prior to Intralign, Rick founded Alliance Medical in 1997, the first major medical device reprocessing company. Alliance Medical merged with Vanguard Medical Concepts in 2005 to become Ascent Healthcare Solutions (acquired by Stryker for $525 million). Rick previously served on the Board of Directors of Centurion Service Group (acquired by Trimedx, LLC in 2020).

Rick started his first company, International Managed Healthcare, a Canadian company engaged in the provision of rehabilitation services, in 1990. The company was sold to Liberty Mutual Insurance in 1994. Rick began his career with the Royal Bank of Canada.

Rick received a BA in Business Administration from the University of Toronto.