LEADERSHIP

 

Carabiner was founded by Cabot Brown who previously headed healthcare investment banking groups at Prager & Co;  GCA Savvian; Seven Hills Partners, which he co-founded; and Volpe Brown Whelan, which he joined at its founding.  He also co-founded Brown, McMillan & Co., a private equity firm.  He began his career in finance at Lehman Brothers.

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Cabot served as a director of GW Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ: GWPH), a specialty pharmaceutical company based in the UK, until it was acquired by Jazz Pharmaceuticals in May 2021 for $7.2 billion.  He currently is a Senior Advisor to Prager & Co. and is on the Board of Advisors of Epic CleanTec, a developer of wastewater treatment systems, and Earth Knowledge, a sustainability informatics company.  Previously, Cabot served as a director of several other private companies.

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He is Trustee Emeritus and former Board Chair and Trustee of The Thacher School and had similar roles at Town School in San Francisco.  He also served as a Director of the BASIC Fund, an educational foundation.   Cabot has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and the Haas School, UC Berkeley.  He has been a guest columnist for Climate & Capital and  worked as a journalist at the Los Angeles Times, ABC News, and Rolling Stone magazine. 

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Cabot earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1987 with high distinction as a George F. Baker Scholar and an AB cum laude from Harvard College in Government in 1983.

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