John Pappajohn was born July 31, 1928 in St. Luke's
Greece to George and Maria Pappajohn. His father
was a U.S. citizen and thus he is a U.S. citizen by
birthright. He immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 9
months with his mother and they joined his father in
Mason City. Iowa.
In 1961, he married Mary L. Limberis of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the
two of them have a daughter, Ann Pappajohn, who resides in New York.
Mr. Pappajohn attended Mason City public schools and then attended the
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and received a bachelor's degree in
business in 1952.
Upon graduation from college, he started his own insurance business. In
1962, he moved to Des Moines and organized the Guardsman Life
Insurance Company. He was Chairman of the Board of Guardsman
Insurance from 1962 to 1969, at which time he sold his interest and
dedicated himself full time to venture capital investments.
He organized Equity Dynamics Inc. in 1969 and continues as its President
today. He also organized Pappajohn Capital Resources (a venture capital
fund) in 1969. Pappajohn Capital Resources is well known on Wall Street
as a venture capital fund primarily investing in high tech, medical and
healthcare projects. He has over 35 portfolio companies in his fund and has
averaged over 68% annual return on investments for over 25 years.
At the present time, he serves as director on the following company Boards:
Radiologix, Inc., Dallas, TX
PACE Health Systems Inc., Des Moines, IA
Allion Healthcare, Inc., Huntington Station, NY
Logisticare, Atlanta, GA
Patient Infosystems, Inc., Rochester, NY
MC Informatics, Inc., Irvine, CA.
He has served as director in over 40 public companies and ...