AMG Executive Chairman Sean Healey Dies from Battle with ALS
Posted on 05/28/2020
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (AMG), a global asset management company, announced with sadness the passing of Sean M. Healey, Executive Chairman from 2018 through 2020, and Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2018. Healey joined AMG in 1995 as a founding principal, and passed away following a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS, also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a disease that causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. Healey was diagnosed with ALS in May 2018. Healey, together with his colleagues and friends, established the Sean M. Healey and AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General) to focus on finding a cure for this disease.
Healey was born in 1961 in San Rafael, California and attended Harvard College, and eventually graduated from Harvard Law School. Healey then joined Goldman Sachs as an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department. In 2006, Healey was appointed by then U.S. President George W. Bush to serve on the President’s Export Council. Healey was married to Kerry M. Healey, the former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. In 2018, Healey remarried Amy Broch.
“For the past 27 years Sean was my friend, mentor, and an inimitable leader, always exhibiting an indefatigable entrepreneurial spirit and unwavering dedication to friends, colleagues, and Affiliate partners. His deep intellectual curiosity and creativity, delivered with a penetrating wit, were inspiring and created tremendous value for AMG stakeholders over the decades,” said Jay C. Horgen, President and Chief Executive Officer of AMG in a press release. “Sean transformed AMG from a nascent start-up into a leading global asset manager with an innovative partnership approach and unmatched track record of partnerships, providing solutions for independent, partner-owned investment firms from growth capital, to strategic support initiatives such as marketing and distribution, to succession planning – all while preserving their entrepreneurial spirit and culture.”