Panels and Roundtables

Debt Market Update: Liquidity, Optimism, and the Rise of Resilience

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Frank H. “Bo” Briggs, Croft & Bender

Mr. Briggs’ investment banking practice is focused on merger & acquisition and private debt and equity advisory services. Since joining Croft & Bender in 1998, he has completed numerous M&A and private capital transactions for middle market companies. Mr. Briggs’ primary banking focus is on the industrial, business service industries, and consumer, and his clients include private equity funds, public and private companies and family-owned businesses. As a member of the General Partner of C&B Capital, the private equity affiliate of Croft & Bender, Mr. Briggs also has experience on the principal investing side of the business, including serving on the board or as a board observer for multiple C&B Capital portfolio companies. Prior to joining Croft & Bender, Mr. Briggs worked in the corporate banking division of SunTrust Banks, Inc. and at the Breckenridge Group, Inc., an Atlanta-based M&A boutique. Mr. Briggs received a B.S. in Commerce with a concentration in Finance from the University of Virginia.

Hazen Dempster, Troutman Pepper

Hazen Dempster has more than 30 years’ experience in structuring, negotiating and closing corporate financing transactions in a broad range of matters, including asset-based financings and multinational syndicated financings. Hazen’s finance experience includes asset-based loans, factoring facilities, crossborder financing, loan restructurings and workouts, debtor-in-possession loans, mezzanine loans, syndicated loans, and term and revolving loans, among others. He has represented banks and other financial institutions, as well as borrowers and issuers across diverse industries, including energy and natural gas, manufacturing, paper, telecommunications, restaurant and food, retail, and media. His lender representations focus on asset-based lending while his borrower representations focus on broadly syndicated revolving credit and term loans. His understanding of financings from both the lender and borrower perspectives enables him to find practical solutions to issues that result in favorable outcomes for all parties to the transaction. Hazen received his B.A and Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia.

Reese Henson, Cadence Bank

Reese Henson is a Senior Vice president with Cadence Bank. He has 10 years of banking experience, the majority of which have been spent working with companies in the lower middle market. His primary focus at Cadence Bank is provide working capital and/or growth capital to companies with $50-500 million in revenue in a variety of industries. Reese has extensive experience with private equity sponsored transactions, cash flow lending, and acquisition financing.

Kenneth Saffold, Blackrock

Kenneth Saffold is a Director and South Region Head of the U.S. Private Capital Group at BlackRock, the largest institutional asset management firm in the United States. In this role Kenneth provides private equity and debt to middle-market companies for M&A transactions throughout the region. He was part of the team at Tennenbaum Capital Partners that sold to BlackRock in 2018. Prior to his current role Kenneth spent 8 years as a Senior Vice President at GE Capital and prior to that worked in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup where he started his career. Kenneth currently serves as a Member of the Atlanta Zoo Council and serves on the Board of Directors for Northside Youth Organization (NYO). He has formerly served on the Emory Board of Visitors (Chair) and a Member of Leadership Atlanta. Kenneth is a frequent speaker and panelists for various finance organizations including the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Health South Connect, and Capital Roundtable of New York. Kenneth received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BA from Morehouse College. Kenneth lives in Atlanta with his wife Akilah and two kids, Kenneth (KJ) and Eva, age 10 and 6.

Moderator: Mary Beth Coke, Truist Securities

Mary Beth Coke is the head of the Commercial Community Bank Syndicated & Leveraged Finance (SLF) Team. Mary Beth joined Truist Securities in 2004 and was most recently a Director in AFES where she focused on underwriting leveraged finance transactions for healthcare clients. Prior to joining AFES, Mary Beth was in Portfolio Management, and she also worked with the predecessor team to AFES which supported middle market, sponsor-backed companies and covered multiple industries including Consumer Retail, Financial Services, Post-Secondary Education, Transportation and Business Services. She brings 16 years of deep experience in credit analysis, along with existing knowledge of the leveraged finance market. Mary Beth is a Georgia Tech graduate where she received a B.S. in Management with a concentration in International Affairs. As a Georgia native, Mary Beth likes being active, playing guitar and spending time on two wheels when she’s not enjoying time with her family.

Corporate Development: Strategic Acquisitions are Zooming Along

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Gary Denning, GCP Applied Technologies

Gary Denning is currently the Interim Head of Corporate Development for GCP Applied Technologies, a global provider of construction products and technologies that include admixtures and additives for cement and concrete and high-performance waterproofing and specialty construction products. He has had interim and advisory roles for a variety of chemical, building product and packaging companies over the last four years. He previously was the VP and Head of Corporate Development and M&A at Axiall Corporation, a $5 billion revenue Atlanta-based public company that produced chemicals and building products. Gary was a member of the executive team that led the sale of the company to Westlake for $3.8 billion. Prior to the sale of the company, Gary led the refining of the portfolio by selling off four non-core divisions. Gary also worked with Lone Star Funds to acquire Arclin Inc., a $500 million industrial company in Roswell, GA and has been on the Board for the past three years. He has served on three other Boards in recent years. Prior to joining Axiall, Gary spent 17 years in investment banking at Chase Manhattan Bank, Bear Stearns and Houlihan Lokey. He has worked on over 170 M&A transactions over the past twentyfive years. Gary has a BA from Duke University, an MBA from Fordham University and a MA from Emory University. Dax Jarnagin, Argenbright Holdings

Dax Jarnagin leads M&A at the Argenbright Group, a domestic workforce solutions platform with current focus on aviation services and facilities maintenance. Prior to a recent divestiture, the Argenbright Group managed +$1B in revenue at the end of 2020, over 3X its revenue in 2018. Before joining the Argenbright Group, Dax worked in middle market M&A advisory on deals of a variety of industries and sizes, after starting his career with a Big 4 Accounting firm. Dax has 3 children, and has lived abroad in both France and Madagascar.

Jonathan Lanken, Cox Communications

Jonathan Lanken is an Executive Director of M&A at Cox Communications, the largest private telecom company in America, serving six million homes and businesses across 18 states. He is responsible for developing and executing strategic transactions for Cox Communications covering a wide variety of TMTrelated verticals. Prior to joining Cox, Jonathan was senior financial advisor to clients in the TMT sector at a number of leading international advisory firms, including Perella Weinberg Partners, Lazard Freres and Nomura International. Jonathan holds a BA from Harvard College.

Dustin Renn, Paya

Dustin Renn has a wealth of experience establishing and leading accretive M&A strategies and execution, in addition to deep knowledge of integrated payments and software. As Head of Paya’s Corporate Development and M&A function, he supports Paya’s growth strategy though the identification, evaluation and execution of strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions. Dustin has more than 20 years of payments and software experience across strategy consulting, investment banking, private equity and corporate development roles and served in senior roles at Cardlytics, Greater Sum Ventures, Equifax and Global Payments. His early career includes Financial Institutions investment banking with Goldman Sachs & Co and strategy roles with Capital One, and Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Moderator: David Phillips, Eversheds Sutherland

David Phillips has more than 20 years of experience—both in private practice and as a senior legal officer for a large, publicly traded manufacturer of chemicals and building products. Mr. Phillips advises clients on a broad range of corporate governance matters and complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, strategic investments, capital formation, debt and equity restructurings, and securities offerings. David’s extensive experience includes counseling companies operating in the manufacturing, technology and distribution sectors on their most strategically significant matters, including advising some of the nation’s leading chemical, building products and consumer goods companies in connection with their acquisitions and dispositions. He also regularly represents private equity funds in their portfolio investments as well as sponsors in connection with fund formation and regulatory matters affecting funds and fund sponsors.

M&A Deal Trends Update: Deal Flow During a Season of Distinction. Who will Come Out on Top?

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Stephen Carr, Citizens M&A Advisory

Stephen joined Bowstring Advisors, which was acquired by Citizens Capital Markets, in 2011 and is a member of the IT & Professional Services and Software team. Prior to joining the team, Stephen was at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Stephen is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.

D’Andre Davis, Select Interior Concepts

D’Andre leads Corporate Strategy, M&A and Supply Chain/Transportation at Select Interior Concepts, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIC). At SIC, he has sourced, structured, and led due diligence of M&A targets. Prior to SIC, D’Andre was responsible for leading operational improvement and restructuring and turnaround engagements at Huron (Nasdaq: HURN) - serving in interim management roles and project management office (PMO) leader. He holds certifications as a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) and Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA). Prior to Huron, D’Andre worked as a management consultant at Morris Anderson & Associate, where he served in advisory and interim management roles including interim Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations. Previously, D’Andre worked at InterContinental Hotels Group underwriting and structuring hotel investments in North America. He also worked at Citigroup in its Corporate and Investment Bank as part of the Financial Entrepreneurs Group, where he structured leverage buyouts for private equity clients across a variety of industries. He began his career at Ford Motor Company as a product design engineer for the Ford Explorer and Lincoln car programs. D’Andre holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton Business School.

Anthony Hauser, MSouth Equity Partners

Mr. Hauser re-joined MSouth as a Vice President in 2017 and was promoted to Principal in 2019. Prior to re-joining MSouth, Mr. Hauser was most recently Chief Financial Officer at OmniTrail Technologies, a venture-backed telecommunications start-up. Prior to OmniTrail, Mr. Hauser was employed by MSouth where he worked for four years. Before joining MSouth in 2011, Mr. Hauser was an Associate at Genstar Capital. Prior to joining Genstar Capital, Mr. Hauser was an Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at JP Morgan.

Phil Theodore, McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc

Phil Theodore joined McGriff after practicing law as a transactional and corporate lawyer for more than 40 years. He practiced with King & Spalding in Atlanta from 1981 through 2003. After leaving King & Spalding, he served as the General Counsel of three well-known Atlanta public companies. During his career, Mr. Theodore participated in scores of public and private M&A transactions, either as outside counsel or as the General Counsel of his company. His experience includes buy- and sell-side transactions for public and private companies in a wide variety of industries.

Brendan Thomas, Troutman Pepper

Brendan Thomas represents public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions in a broad range of industries. He has significant experience with private equity financings and representing financial institutions in capital raising activities, mergers and acquisitions, and bank regulatory matters. Brendan assists clients, including public and private companies, private equity investment firms, financial institutions, fintech and other financial services companies with mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law matters. As part of the full range of services he provides, Brendan advises clients on structural issues and reviews, as well as prepares and negotiates purchase agreements and various ancillary documents in connection with mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he focuses on assisting community banks with bank regulatory matters, assisting publicly and privately held businesses with public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, and representing public companies in SEC reporting, corporate governance and compliance matters.

Moderator: Mike Dunkle, Riveron

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Cross Border M&A: Globalization In Reverse, Hitting The Brakes, or Accelerating...Where Does International M&A Go From Here?

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Yelena Epova, Aprio

Yelena is the partner-in-charge of Aprio’s International Services practice. She specializes in advising domestic and international companies on international tax issues and tax planning strategies regarding inbound and outbound operations. She also assists clients with domestic tax issues by providing tax planning and compliance services. Yelena is an active member in many professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, where she participated in the Leadership Development Program. She also sits on the Board of Trustees for the Atlanta Ballet and is a member of the Aprio Board. Yelena is former chair of the board of the Georgia Council for International Visitors and chair of the 2013 Consular Ball. She is a graduate of the 2011 Leadership Atlanta program and received the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s 2011 Global Impact Award for Service Providers on behalf of Aprio.

Rob Hong, Sapling Financial Consultants

Rob Hong is a co-founder and the CEO of Sapling Financial Consultants, a Toronto based consultancy providing financial modelling and data analytics services to private equity firms and midmarket businesses. Sapling works closely with entrepreneurs and C-suite executives across North America to create robust financial models and KPI dashboards tailored to their needs, to enable leaders to make decisions with clarity and confidence. Previously, Rob worked at Artemis Investment Management, a $2 billion Bay Street investment firm, where he developed deep financial modelling skills through researching over 100 publicly-traded companies. He also oversaw more than $150 million of client money. After three years at Artemis, Rob joined KPMG LLP as a Senior Consultant in their Strategy & Operations group. There, he applied his modelling skills to a high profile engagement while deepening his expertise in database analytics. Later, Rob joined Bell Canada Finance, supporting the Wholesale business unit, where he helped build many of the financial models setting wholesale pricing on big deals with telecom resellers. Rob is a CFA charterholder and holds a Master of Finance from Queen’s University.

Sean McKinnon, Novacap

Sean joined Novacap as the Head of Business Development in 2018 and leads origination efforts for the firm’s three sector focused fund strategies. Sean received his BA (Honours) from Queen’s University, his LL.L and J.D. from the University of Ottawa Law School. Sean was called to the bar in Ontario and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Prior to joining Novacap, Sean was the Co-Head of the M&A Practice at BFL Canada. Sean also worked as a lawyer in the Business Law Group at a global law firm, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and public and private financings. Sean then transitioned to the insurance industry where he worked for a large global insurer. Sean is very active in the Private Equity and M&A space in Canada and sits on the ACG Toronto Board, Co-Chairs the ACG Young Professionals Committee and is Vice Chair of the CVCA Awards Committee.

Allen Raines, Cambridge Global Payments

Allen is a National Accounts Manager with Cambridge Global Payments. He has worked in the cross-border payments and currency risk management industry for 10 years, helping companies create more efficient processes and protecting their bottom lines with innovative risk management solutions. Based in Atlanta, Allen’s focus is on helping clients and partners grow their businesses internationally, and to streamline their payment and risk management process.

Mark Woods, Cathay Capital Private Equity

Mark Woods is a Partner of Cathay Capital, a leading international investment platform focused on the expansion and transformation of middle-market companies in North America, Europe and China. Mark is Head of North American Private Equity at the firm, and he has originated, executed and led post-closing activities for many of Cathay’s pioneering North America private equity transactions while deepening Cathay Capital’s presence in the North American market. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Innovative Ergonomic Solution, Innovation Motion Technologies, while serving as a Director of several other portfolio companies including Artisanal Brewing Ventures. Prior to joining Cathay, Mark was at Chartwell Investments and at JPMorgan’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group where he executed transactions across various sectors. Mark started his career with Procter & Gamble in various operational finance positions. Mark graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a B.S. in Finance and Human Resources Management. He also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Moderator: Rett Peaden, Smith, Gambrell & Russell

Rett Peaden is a Partner in the Corporate Practice of Smith, Gambrell, and Russell LLP, where he focuses on helping clients with mergers and acquisitions. He serves as a counselor and strategist at each step of the M&A process, from the letter of intent through post-closing integration, to help clients buy, sell, form, and fund businesses. He has successfully represented clients in a diverse range of industries including manufacturing, professional services, health care and technology, and has extensive experience working with international clients, especially from Canada, Australia, Germany, and Japan. In addition to a traditional law school degree, Rett earned an advanced degree in Taxation. His expertise in tax strategies helps his clients achieve their goals, whether forming an investment partnership, structuring a deal, advising a closely-held family enterprise, or setting-up an international in-bound investment opportunity. Rett earned a B.A. degree in philosophy from Emory University, where he was in the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society and won the Byzantine History Award. He received a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was President of Colloquy, a student organization that invites outside speakers to campus. His LL.M. in Taxation is from the University of Florida.

The Human Factor: Optimizing Portfolio Returns with Disruptive Approaches to Human Capital

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Susan Beth, NRD Capital

Susan E. Beth, CFE, CM&AA, is Chief Operating Officer of NRD Capital. As such, she is primarily charged with fund management, portfolio company oversight, executive recruitment and deal sourcing. Susan was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Super Wash, Inc., the nation’s largest franchisor of self-serve car washes. Susan is a past member of the Board of Directors of the International Franchise Association (IFA), and she is a professional motivational speaker. Susan has been immersed in business operations for 30+ years. She took her leap into business ownership when she bought her first franchise at the age of 19. She went on to acquire two more locations and was a multi-unit franchisee for 9 years. In 2012, Susan founded the Franchise Capital Exchange event. Susan received the IFA’s prestigious Bonny LeVine Award in 2012; she is the proud recipient of the 2013 Crystal Compass presented by the Women’s Franchise Committee; she was featured in the January 2011 issue of Franchise Times as one of the “20 to Watch”; was named by 1851 Magazine as a “Young One to Watch” in 2016; was named a 2017 “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor; Susan was named a 2018 “Influential Woman in Business” by the Chicago Daily Herald; and was selected as one of 2019’s “Most Influential Women in Middle Market M&A” by Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine.

Keith Schroeder, High Road

Keith Schroeder is the founder and CEO of High Road Craft Ice Cream, the nation’s largest and fastest growing craft ice cream manufacturer, with products distributed nationwide. His company has been recognized on the Inc 5000 for five consecutive years, along with numerous press accolades and awards for entrepreneurial excellence. Keith is also an accomplished chef and cookbook author, having won a James Beard Award for his recent cookbook, Mad Delicious, The Science of Making Healthy Food Taste Amazing. High Road was born in 2010, on the heels an Executive MBA business plan project at Kennesaw State University, and Schroeder has emerged as a passionate mentor to emerging and early stage entrepreneurs. Schroeder is a voice for authenticity, craftsmanship, and celebration of global cultures and cuisines, and integrates this passion into High Road every day. He enjoys playing guitar with the amp cranked up, and challenging the status quo. He is a father of two: a son Jackson, who studies opera at Boston Conservatory, and a daughter Madison, who is a fellow entrepreneur and graduate of Georgia State University. Schroeder’s wife, Nicki, is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of High Road.

Dan Udoutch, RSquared

Dan Udoutch is a passionate chief executive officer (CEO) and multi-time industry leader who has brought multiple successful technology innovations to market. Dan has deep experience in enterprise sales, marketing, professional services, and partnerships. He has led organizations ranging from startups to enterprises with annual revenues of more than $250 million. Currently co-founder and CEO of RSquared, an artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer in the Workforce Intelligence market, Dan was previously CEO of Alpine Data Labs, an AI/ML platform firm he positioned for a successful exit via M&A to Tibco. Prior to that, he was CEO and president of Code Green Networks, a data-loss prevention company that he established as a leader in the healthcare vertical and led to a successful M&A to Digital Guardian. Dan has held prior executive roles at NavTeq, Netscape and Commerce One.

Moderator: Michael Lipe, Insperity

Michael Lipe is the Managing Director of Brand & Marketing Strategy at Insperity. He joined Insperity in 2012 and has the privilege of serving an outstanding team of marketing professionals charged with generating value-based sales opportunities, driving customer engagement, and elevating the overall Insperity brand in the marketplace, all guided by a deep commitment to market research and analytical decision-making. He also serves as an industry director on the board of the Employee Services Assurance Corporation (ESAC) which serves the PEO industry as the Gold Standard for accreditation, best practices and financial reliability. Passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation and continuous learning, Michael is committed to Insperity’s mission to help businesses succeed so communities prosper.

Healthcare: Corporate Ventures and Partnerships are Rising to the Occasion

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Jeff Graff, Advent Health

Jeffrey E. Graff, CFA serves as Vice President of Treasury and Strategic Investments for AdventHealth (“AH”), a multi-state, not-for-profit health system based in Altamonte Springs, FL. In this role, Mr. Graff has responsibility for managing AH’s capital structure and debt issuance strategy, managing investor and rating agency relationships, providing oversight and management of all commercial and investment banking relationships, and leading the treasury operations and merchant services team. In addition, Mr. Graff leads AH’s strategic investment team and portfolio, which includes equity investments in healthcare related companies. Mr. Graff currently serves as a board member for Ascension Ventures, a St. Louis based strategic healthcare venture fund, serves on the Limited Partner Advisory Committee for Alta Partners, a San Francisco based healthcare venture fund, and is on the investment committee for Lift Orlando, a community based non-profit aimed at breaking the trend of chronic poverty in downtown Orlando. Prior to joining AH in March 2014, Mr. Graff was a senior vice president with the Healthcare and Institutions group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In addition, he previously served in the capacity as a healthcare portfolio manager with SunTrust’s Corporate and Investment Banking division and began his career as a restaurant analyst at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Graff graduated with honors from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and is a Charter Financial Analyst charter holder. Mr. Graff and his wife, both native Floridians, reside in Maitland and are the proud parents of Alexis and Brandon.

Todd Latz, GoHealth Urgent Care

Todd Latz has been the CEO of GoHealth for the past 6 years and together with his team has grown it from 7 to approximately 160 on-demand care centers across 10 states through a unique, partnership-oriented model. GoHealth offers a true omnichannel experience utilizing its award-winning, efficient and highly accessible centers alongside its fully integrated virtual care platform to both consumers and a fast-growing number of employers. GoHealth centers deliver unparalleled experiences through an innovative and effortless customer journey that is seamlessly integrated into the broader continuum of care through its partnerships with leading health systems, such as Northwell Health in New York, Dignity Health in California, Mercy in Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, Hartford HealthCare in Connecticut, Novant Health in North Carolina, Legacy Health in Oregon and Washington and most recently ChristianaCare in Delaware. Prior to joining GoHealth, Todd was the CEO of MedQuest, Inc., a leading owner, operator and manager of diagnostic imaging facilities, with over 75 centers in 8 states and multiple health system joint ventures. Under Todd’s leadership, MedQuest also provided management and billing services to integrated health systems, physician practices and ambulatory surgery centers. Over the past 15 years, Todd has led over 40 acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. Before joining MedQuest, Todd practiced law at King & Spalding LLP in Atlanta, Georgia, where he focused on public and private company securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and capital raising transactions. Todd graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and was awarded a post-graduate Fulbright Scholarship where he was affiliated with the Universität Leipzig in Germany. Todd received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law and was a member of the Virginia Law Review and Order of the Coif.

J. Mark Ray, Alston & Bird

Mark Ray is chair of Alston & Bird’s Health Care Group, which includes teams of corporate, FDA, health policy, and health care compliance lawyers. He concentrates his practice primarily on complex public and private company mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing transactions for clients in the health care sector. While Mark is an experienced corporate transactional lawyer, he has developed additional proficiency in the unique laws, regulations, risks, and market pressures affecting health care companies. In particular, he is experienced in structuring public and private transactions and joint ventures to comply with the federal Stark II law, the anti-kickback laws, federal and state licensure requirements, and the corporate practice of medicine doctrine. When representing medical device and pharmaceutical companies, he applies an understanding of the intersection of FDA regulation, IP law, and health care regulatory issues affecting these companies. In addition to his transactional practice, Mark also advises clients on a broad range of legal issues, such as formation, securities law compliance, corporate governance, and fiduciary duties.

Moderator: Rich Bayman, H2C

Mr. Bayman has assisted many prominent healthcare organizations across the country in the design and execution of strategic advisory and capital financing assignments. His direct financing and advisory experience includes both public and private debt and equity offerings, as well as acquisition, divestiture and joint venture transactions for health systems, home health organizations, laboratory businesses, imaging companies and other ancillary service providers. Mr. Bayman has completed mergers and acquisitions engagements totaling over $10 billion and over $5 billion in capital markets transactions. His current and recent clients include, among others, Novant Health (NC), Bon Secours Mercy Health (OH), Catholic Health Initiatives (CO), AdventHealth (FL), Seattle Children’s Health System (WA), Prisma Health (SC), Henry Ford Health System (MI) and Sentara Health (VA). Prior to the formation of H2C, Mr. Bayman spent almost eight years with Shattuck Hammond Partners, where he was most recently a Managing Director. Mr. Bayman started his investment banking career with SG Cowen & Company in the Mergers & Acquisitions group. Prior to attending graduate school, Mr. Bayman worked for over seven years for GE Capital, where he completed the Management Development Program and held various roles in operations, risk management, marketing and business development. Mr. Bayman received a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut and a Masters of Business Administration from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, where he graduated beta gamma sigma. Rich resides with his wife and two children in Atlanta, Georgia.