CEO, Connolly LLC & Racehorse Owner
Larry Connolly spent most of his professional career as the CEO of Connolly LLC. Connolly LLC worked with large healthcare payers and retailers to identify and recover client overpayments to their providers/suppliers. Since assuming his CEO responsibilities in 1991, the firm expanded rapidly by entering new markets domestically and internationally while introducing new lines of business and differentiated analytics to become the largest audit recovery firm. Larry built a powerful team of experienced, tenured executives and aligned the Company’s decentralized structure with a shared vision and values that helped to drive high growth, client retention, and satisfaction rates. Connolly, LLC was sold to Advent International in 2012. The company has since been rebranded as Cotiviti, a publicly traded company where Larry served on the board until 2017.
Larry Connolly graduated from W&L in 1979 with a BA in History and earned an MBA from Tulane University in 1982. Larry has two adult children and three grandchildren and resides in Atlanta, GA. He also participates on the board of several start-ups as well as several non-profits.
Larry Connolly has been involved in horse racing since 2014. He is a member of both Donegal Racing and Starlight Racing syndicates. In 2019, he co-founded West Paces Racing in Atlanta with Keith Mason. Their stable includes two horses that competed in the 2024 Kentucky Derby, Dornoch, and Society Man. Notably, Dornoch went on to win the 2024 Belmont Stakes.