Fairfield County Business Journal Profits & Passions Ted Huber: Cool, clear water
Ted Huber: Cool, clear water
Westport resident Ted Huber, a partner at Deerfield Management, was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, though his mark on the world is felt far from the Midwest.
Huber headed west initially, attending college at the University of Colorado and went on to business school at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
“Since Tuck, I’ve spent most of my career working in some different forms in the medical investment world,” said Huber. “For a while, I did that for a company out in California.”
In 1998 Huber traveled to Wall Street and began working as a sales side research analyst for a bank.
“Four years ago I joined what is called a buy-side investment firm called Deerfield Management,” said Huber. “We have a pool of capital and invest in healthcare companies. I specialize in medical technology investments for them.”
When Huber went to work for Deerfield he moved to Westport where he now lives with his wife, Selina and three children Katrina, Jack and Margaret.
“I’ve always had an interest in developing-world nonprofits,” said Huber. “I got involved with Uganda and Busoga Trust while working in the U.K. before business school in the late ’80s.”
While in the U.K., Huber befriended the Rev. Andrew Pearson who was then setting up an effort called Busoga Trust to bring water development to rural areas of Uganda. Busoga was the area of Uganda in which they began work.
“In 1987 he took a trip there and invited me to go along, so I went,” said Huber. “I spent about a week with him there bouncing around the bush in a Land Rover, going to see some places where they had put new wells in and places that they were going to; it was a very impressionable trip seeing that part of the world and seeing the impact that a new fresh water source has on communities that are there.”
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