Ansley Capital Group

Russell D. Burks, Principal

Russell Burks is a co-founder of The Ansley Capital Group, LLC and has significant experience in healthcare information technology and technology enabled healthcare business services. While initially focusing on raising capital from venture capitalists, he has represented several firms as the sell-side financial advisor in mergers & acquisitions transactions with strategic and financial parties. In addition, Russ has gained operating experience while providing interim CFO services for some of Ansley’s clients.

Prior to founding Ansley, Russ was a Vice President at BT Alex. Brown, the broker-dealer subsidiary of Bankers Trust Corporation, New York (acquired by Deutsche Bank). He joined Bankers Trust in 1987 and spent the majority of his career there in Private Equity and Leveraged Finance. Russ’ significant transactions included: Bankers Trust’s investment in the buyout of Northwest Airlines, refinancings of American Restaurant Group and Playtex Family Holdings, leveraged ESOP of the largest Avis franchisee and financing of Public Storage Management Inc.’s management fee income stream. In these capacities Burks gained broad experience in company valuation and capital structure optimization. Prior to business school, Burks worked at Rockwell International’s North American Aircraft Operations Division in the Thermodynamics Group on the B-1Bomber program.

Russ holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, with Distinction, from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Chicago.

Please contact Russ at: russburks@ansleycapital.com; (630) 579-1683

Donald P. Carson, Principal

Don Carson is co-founder and Principal of Ansley Capital Group and Ansley Securities. Carson is based in the firm's Atlanta office. Carson also is President of RFA Management Company LLC, an Atlanta based financial advisory firm and an officer and director of LOR, Inc, a privately owned investment management company. Carson's most recent experience includes the structuring of private investments in the medical technology device industry, a firm developing software applications for the server virtualization space, and in restructuring of investments in the hospitality industry.

Carson serves on numerous boards of privately held companies. His previous corporate experience includes over twenty years with Wachovia Bank, N.A, now Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., where he lead the firm's investment banking and global commercial banking businesses. He is a trustee of Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Carson has a BA from Beloit, a Master of International Management from American Graduate School of International Management, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Please contact Don at: doncarson@ansleycapital.com; (404) 808-8782

Orlo L. “Spike” Dietrich, Managing Director

Following five years as a pilot in the United States Marine Corps, Mr. Dietrich joined Baxter Healthcare Corporation in 1974. During his eleven years with Baxter, Mr. Dietrich developed and implemented a workers’ compensation management program, developed and taught labor relations training programs to all domestic manufacturing facilities, and developed and implemented a community-based managed care program for Baxter’s domestic manufacturing facilities which replaced the existing employee benefits program.

Mr. Dietrich left Baxter in 1985 to start his own company, Burgett & Dietrich. From 1985 until 1992, the Company developed and managed 140 managed care networks in 33 states for over 100 clients including 45 Fortune 500 companies, developed a third party administration (TPA) designed to function in a managed care environment, a medical management function, a workers’ compensation subsidiary, and a data integration/data warehouse function designed to support the managed care initiatives.

In 1992, he merged his Company with CoreSource, a national TPA and workers’ compensation Company with 24 offices and 1,500 employees and served as the Chief Operating Officer. In 1995, he was instrumental in retracting his original company from CoreSource and selling it to CNA Insurance Company. He served as the President and CEO until 1998. Since 1998, Mr. Dietrich has been involved in numerous small companies in a variety of roles including investor, board member, or advisor. Mr. Dietrich holds a BA degree from the University of Arkansas and a Commercial Pilot’s License.

Please contact Spike at: orlodietrich@ansleycapital.com; (970) 708-0607

Paul T. Sheils, Managing Director

Prior to joining The Ansley Capital Group, Mr. Sheils was President & CEO of DocSite, LLC, an award-winning healthcare quality improvement and performance management company. Mr. Sheils successfully engineered the strategic acquisition of DocSite by Covisint, a leading health information exchange company and a subsidiary of Compuware Corporation, in September 2010. Prior to DocSite, Mr. Sheils was Founder and Managing Partner of Silverado Health Partners, LLC, a digital health management consulting firm, whose clients included GE Healthcare, J&J, UnitedHealth Group, Hearst Digital Media and several private companies developing disruptive digital health technologies.

Prior to Silverado, Mr. Sheils was CEO of Aetna Health Information Solutions, Inc., responsible for leveraging Aetna’s assets to deliver more personalized decision support tools to Aetna’s 15 million members. Mr. Sheils’ team developed Aetna’s pioneering CareEngine®-Powered Personal Health Record, which is revolutionizing the way consumers interact with the US healthcare system. Prior to Aetna, Mr. Sheils was Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of InterCure, Inc., an innovative medical information and technology start-up with offices in Israel and Princeton, NJ. Prior to InterCure, Mr. Sheils was CEO of MayoClinic.com and Mayo Health Ventures, the venture capital division of The Mayo Foundation.

Mr. Sheils was Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of Medscape, Inc., one of the nation’s leading eHealth companies, now owned by WebMD. Medscape's highly successful web sites, Medscape.com and CBSHealthwatch.com by Medscape won numerous 'Best of Web' awards from Fortune, Forbes, Money, Yahoo! and eHealthcare World. Mr. Sheils was ranked #15 in Silicon Alley Reporter's 1999 Top 100 Executives, and has made numerous appearances on CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV and CBS TV. Mr. Sheils led Medscape’s successful IPO in 1999 and sold the company for over $860 million to MedicaLogic, Inc., a leading supplier of electronic medical records, in 2000. Mr. Sheils served as co-Chairman of the combined public company, MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc.

Prior to Medscape, Mr. Sheils was Vice President of Dow Jones Interactive Publishing from 1994 to 1998, and was Executive Director from 1993 to 1994. In these roles, Mr. Sheils was responsible for all of Dow Jones' corporate and consumer online businesses, including Dow Jones Interactive, now Factiva, the award-winning online business intelligence and research service. Mr. Sheils led the team that in 1996 launched The Wall Street Journal Online, which is among the most successful subscription-based publications on the Web.

Before his business career, Mr. Sheils was a corporate attorney, serving as General Counsel of Dow Jones Information Services and as an attorney at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, a leading New York City law firm. He holds a BA from Williams College and a JD from Fordham Law School. He serves on the Board of Directors of Healthline Networks, Inc., a health-focused information and search engine company, and Voxiva, Inc., a mobile health technology company.

Please contact Paul at: paulsheils@ansleycapital.com; (267) 907-2200