Meet the Team

Laura Hill leads the investment program for Advocate Health, a mission-driven non-profit healthcare system headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a combined footprint across six states – Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and Wisconsin. Advocate strives to help people live well, with a focus on clinical safety, health equity, affordability, next generation workforce development, learning, and sustainability.

Laura joined Advocate Health Care in 2014 to help build out Advocate’s in-house investment team and to oversee the alternative investments portfolio, comprised of private equity, real assets, and hedge funds. Laura also co-founded the organization’s diverse investment manager program. Prior to joining Advocate in 2014, Laura was a Vice President at Denali Capital LLC, where she managed a portfolio of senior secured bank loans, with an emphasis on middle market sponsor-backed transactions. Laura joined Denali from the Transaction Advisory Services group at Ernst & Young LLP.

Laura was born at Ball Hospital and spent her school years next door at Burris and the Indiana Academy, before attending Indiana University, where she received a B.S. in Business Economics & Public Policy. She received her MBA from Northwestern University and spent nearly 20 years in the Chicago area before recently choosing to return to Muncie with her family.

Laura currently resides in Muncie with her husband Adam, three children, a golden retriever, and a grumpy tomcat.