Faraz Karbasi founded Aesthetic Partners in 2018 as he completed his MBA at Harvard Business School. Most recently, he was a Private Equity Associate at Persistence Capital Partners where he focused on platform investments in healthcare including dental, optometry, and diabetes care clinics.

Prior to attending Harvard, Faraz held several roles in healthcare consulting and operations including Corporate Strategy and M&A at Pharmascience, and Management Consultant at ZS Associates where he focused on sales and marketing strategies for various global healthcare clients including Allergan, Pfizer, Roche, Amgen, and Gilead. Additionally, Faraz has been advising various startups in the healthcare space on product design, branding, and go-to-market strategy.
Faraz received a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia.

Courtney Ellenbogen founded Aesthetic Partners in 2018 as she completed her MBA at Harvard Business School. Prior to attending Harvard, she invested in businesses across healthcare at the Carlyle Group in New York, investing out of the company’s flagship $13 billion US Buyout Fund with nearly $10 billion in transaction value.

Courtney previously worked at Deutsche Bank on the Healthcare investment banking team. She has additionally held roles at Johnson & Johnson in Digital Health Partnerships and at Victress Capital, a seed venture capital firm focused on investments in female-founded digital brands.

Courtney received a B.S. in Economics from Duke University while playing on the golf team and competing in several US Opens and LPGA events. Now that she’s ‘retired’ from competition, in her free time she enjoys biking, skiing, attempting to keep up her golf game, and backpacking through national parks in remote parts of the United States and the world.

Chanda Fulgium has over 20 years of executive operations’ leadership across multiple specialties in healthcare. Recently, she was the President of Benevis, a dental practice management firm, where she leads a large multi-state team providing dental services to primarily underserved communities – her goal – to create a world of happy healthy smiles.  Prior to her service at Benevis, Chanda has experience in the health care sector, developing emerging leaders from the wound care space to the orthodontia space.

Chanda Fulgium is an expert in communication and leadership training.  Speaking both
nationally and internationally, Chanda focuses on understanding the personality traits of both yourself and others to expertly communicate and lead.  Her goal is to elevate “people leadership” to optimum levels so they can grow and change the world.

A published author, Chanda holds an MBA, an MS, and a BS all in the Communication Studies disciplines.  Her greatest joy, however, is spending time with her two sons and fiancé in Texas.

With over 27 years of skincare experience, Anna Churchill began her career as a professional makeup artist and licensed aesthetician in South Florida.

Anna continued her career as a beauty industry consultant, teaching innovative skincare and business development to dermatologists, plastic surgeons, aestheticians and spa owners in Asia, Canada and the US. In 2004, she moved to Raleigh to found Synergy Face & Body, which began with a team of 10 providers. It has since grown to over 70 full-time employees with two locations, and through her medical service organization (MSO) company, she now oversees a state-of-the-art Plastic Surgery Practice with a private operating facility.

Stephanie is responsible for optimizing marketing across the portfolio in terms of SEO, managing advertising campaigns as well as social media.

Previously, Stephanie was the Chief Marketing Officer of growth-stage companies Alto and Mizzen+Main. She has also held brand management roles at Pepsico Frito-Lay and LVMH Moet Hennessy, so she can tell you all about potato chips and Champagne!

Stephanie started her career as a consultant within Accenture’s strategy practice. She holds an undergraduate degree from Rice University and a MBA from Harvard Business School. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, running more slowly than should be humanly possible, and attempting to cook.

Crystal is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) as well as a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). She currently serves as the Vice President of People Operations as an executive team member for Aesthetic Partners.

She is an innovative Human Resources leader with a demonstrated success in implementing proactive human resource-based initiatives resulting in a business partnership achieving the company’s goals and vision.

Crystal has a long history in the health care industry and is a strategic human resources leader. Crystal joined Aesthetic Partners in 2022 and has experience leading Human Resources in both private and public sector organizations. She is skilled in mergers and acquisitions, labor and employee relation management, legal compliance, change management, compensation and benefit design-planning, development of policies and procedures, training and career development, and ongoing development of best-in-class HR strategies.

Prior to joining Aesthetic Partners, Jessica held the Controller position for one of the largest privately owned and operated multi-site senior living providers in the Gulf South. Jessica previously worked at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY as the Manager of Retail Accounting, supporting the University’s 7 retail locations and e-commerce operations.

A Minnesota native, Jessica became a Saints fan after meeting her husband, Wilson. They live in New Orleans, LA where Jessica is an active volunteer with the local Boys Hope Girls Hope chapter. She is an avid podcast listener and a newbie to fly fishing.

Jessica completed her Master of Accounting degree at Tulane University in 2013 and earned her CPA designation in 2016. Jessica received a BS in Finance and Management from Tulane University while an athlete on the Cross Country and Track & Field teams.