Christina Novicki

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Biography

Ms. Christina Novicki is the Founder & serves as Partner at Upstream Capital (Boston). Christina has been active in the private equity industry for over 20 years and has held senior level positions in independent and institutionally-backed private equity funds. For BancBoston Capital, BankBoston's $3 billion private equity arm, she oversaw all marketing and communications efforts in the U.S., London, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, and Hong Kong. For Capital Resource Partners and, later, Brown Brothers Harriman's 1818/BBH Capital Funds, she created the business development function and ran the firm's deal origination initiatives. At MedEquity Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm, she served as a principal and then VP of Sales for one of the firm's portfolio companies LiceGuard, a globally-distributed consumer health products business. As a founder of Upstream Capital, she actively works with portfolio companies to grow organically and through add-on acquisitions and consolidation strategies. She served as interim CEO for two years at Upstream portfolio company OJ Medtech, a New York-based medical supply business before leading the company through a merger that tripled its size. She has extensive board-level and strategic planning experience. Christina served on the board of directors of Upstream portfolio companies OJ Medtech and later OJ Charm through a merger with Charm Medical Supply. She currently serves on the board of directors of Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based Spiro Health Holdings and Jackson Hole, Wyoming-based TravelStorysGPS as well as an adviser to the board of Austin, Texas-based Longhorn Health Solutions. Prior to entering the private equity field, Christina was a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine, the Harvard Business Review spin-out backed by U.S. News & World Report. Christina is a graduate of Amherst College, cum laude, where she was a two-sport captain in field hockey and lacrosse.