Richard Perlman is a Co-founder and Co-Executive Chairman of ExamWorks Group, Inc. the global leader in the independent medical exam industry. Since its founding in 2008, the company has grown revenues through organic growth and 87 acquisitions, to $2.0 billion and is the market leader in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. In 2016, Perlman and the Examworks management team partnered with Leonard Green Partners to take the Company, previously listed on the New York Stock Exchange, private in a $2.2 Billion transaction. Subsequently, the company was sold in 2021 to CVC Capital Partners.
Before that, Perlman was Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of TurboChef Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVEN), the world leader in speed cook technology, of which he acquired control in 2003 and sold to Middleby Corporation (NASDAQ: MIDD) in 2008, PracticeWorks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRWK), the world leader of dental practice management software and digital radiography, which he sold to Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) in 2003, and AMICAS (NASDAQ: AMCS) a leading medical practice management software company which was sold to in two transactions to Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN) and Merge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRGS).
Perlman is also the Chairman of Compass Partners, LLC a merchant banking firm specializing in middle-market companies which he founded in 1995. Perlman sits on the boards of various private companies in which Compass has invested. Mr. Perlman is also Chairman of the Board of Montrose Environmental Group (NYSE; MEG) of which he was a founding investor. Montrose is an environmental services Company executing a consolidation strategy in its industry that has made 70 acquisitions since its founding.
Perlman is a part-time faculty member at the Wharton School, the donor of the Perlman Grand Prize for the Penn Wharton Start-up Challenge and serves on The Executive Advisory Board of The Wharton School, The Wharton Entrepreneurial Advisory Board, is a Trustee of The James Beard Foundation, and is a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Sarasota where he sponsors The Perlman/Price Young Entrepreneur Program.
