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Rob Jardeleza

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Partners First Cardiology

Austin, Texas, USA

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A repeat physician-practice rollup operator — cardiology twice, behavioral health now — freshly installed as CEO of Beacon Behavioral Partners as of July 2026.

Background

Rob Jardeleza is a healthcare executive who founded Partners First Cardiology, an Austin, Texas-based cardiology physician-practice-management platform, and led it as CEO through Varsity Healthcare Partners' November 2020 growth equity investment. In June 2023 he moved to lead Aligned Cardiovascular Partners as CEO following RC Capital's investment in James River Cardiology, then pivoted out of cardiology in 2024 to join Beacon Behavioral Partners, a psychiatric-practice consolidator, as COO — a role from which he was promoted to CEO in July 2026. Earlier in his career he was COO of National Cardiovascular Partners (a Bain Capital Ventures platform sold to Fresenius Medical Care in 2014) and president of BPL Plasma.

Notable deals

  • 2020
    Varsity Healthcare Partners growth capital investment in Partners First Cardiology, the platform Jardeleza founded and led as CEO
  • 2023
    RC Capital growth equity investment in James River Cardiology to form Aligned Cardiovascular Partners; Jardeleza joined as CEO to lead the new platform
  • 2026
    Promoted from COO to CEO of Beacon Behavioral Partners as Sean Wendell moved to Executive Chairman

Call-prep brief

Background

  • Founded and led Partners First Cardiology (Austin, TX) as CEO from founding through Varsity Healthcare Partners' Nov. 2020 growth investment.
  • June 2023: named CEO of Aligned Cardiovascular Partners, the RC Capital-backed roll-up formed around James River Cardiology (Richmond, VA).
  • 2024: pivoted out of cardiology to join Beacon Behavioral Partners (psychiatric practice consolidator, Plano, TX) as COO.
  • July 2026: promoted to CEO of Beacon, succeeding Sean Wendell (now Executive Chairman).
  • Earlier: COO, National Cardiovascular Partners (Bain Capital Ventures platform sold to Fresenius Medical Care, 2014); President, BPL Plasma.

Current focus

  • Running Beacon's next growth phase — the company closed a Michigan/Ohio expansion (Pure Psychiatry deal) within two weeks of his promotion, signaling an active M&A cadence he now owns.

What he cares about

  • Physician-first partnership models and operational scaling of multi-site specialty practices — a consistent thread across all three platforms he's run.

Recent moves

  • Rapid platform-hopping: cardiology (2x) → behavioral health, stepping into each CEO seat shortly after a PE growth investment.

Sensitivities

  • No longer affiliated with Partners First Cardiology or Aligned Cardiovascular Partners — outreach addressed to "Founder & CEO, Partners First Cardiology" will read as stale.
  • Weeks into a new CEO role — likely internally focused with limited bandwidth for outside calls.

Questions to ask

  1. What made three different PE sponsors bet on you to lead each platform?
  2. What's transferable from scaling cardiology roll-ups to a psychiatric-practice platform — and what isn't?
  3. With Pure Psychiatry just closed, what's next on Beacon's acquisition roadmap?

Outreach draft

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Question on Physician Roll-up Playbooks Across Sectors
Hi Rob, Congratulations on stepping into the CEO seat at Beacon Behavioral Partners — quite a run from building Partners First Cardiology through the Aligned Cardiovascular chapter and now leading a psychiatric-practice platform through its next growth phase. I'm on a deal team studying physician-practice consolidation across specialties, and your experience sitting inside three different PE-backed roll-ups (Varsity, RC Capital, and now Beacon's sponsors) is exactly the perspective we're missing. We'd value 20-30 minutes to hear what's transferable across specialty platforms versus what's specialty-specific, particularly around physician retention and de novo development. Would you have time for a short call in the next couple of weeks? Best, [Your Name]

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