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Russell Burks, Principal & Co-Founder russburks@ansleycapital.com
Russell Burks is a co-founder of the Ansley Capital Group, LLC and has significant experience in healthcare and outsourced business services. While focusing on raising capital from venture capitalists, he has represented several firms as the sell-side financial advisor in mergers & acquisitions transactions with strategic parties. In addition, Russ has gained operating experience while providing CFO services for some of his client companies.
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. |
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Donald Carson, Principal
& Co-Founder
doncarson@ansleycapital.com
Don Carson is co-founder and Principal of Ansley Capital Group and
Ansley Securities and serves as the firm's Financial and Operations
Principal. Carson is based in the firm's Atlanta office. Previously
Carson was President and Chief Executive Officer of Wachovia Capital
Markets, Inc. (currently Wachovia Securities).
Carson's recent transaction work includes representing a client in
the sale of a pre- revenue medical device business to a leading
international medical technology firm and the sale of a corporate
printing business to a private buyout fund. Carson also led the
re-capitalization of a luxury hotel property in the Caribbean and
has extensive real estate buy and sell side experience.
While at Wachovia, Carson served as President of Wachovia
International Banking Corporation, Wachovia Leasing Corporation, and
Executive Vice President of Wachovia Bank, N.A. In addition to
heading Wachovia's investment banking business, Carson served as
Division Executive of the Global Banking Group. Carson held
numerous positions in the Global Bank and has extensive experience
in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Carson serves on numerous boards of privately held companies and one
public company. 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."
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Orlo L. “Spike” Dietrich, Managing Director
orlodietrich@ansleycapital.com
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
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Larry Schor Managing Director
larryschor@ansleycapital.com
Larry Schor has over 25 years experience as a senior executive officer with extensive operations, technical, sales, start-up and turn-around experience. Schor is a frequent national speaker and a recognized thought leader and visionary in eHealthcare, informatics, strategic marketing, and business development.
Most recently, Larry was the President | Business Development Group for PerfectServe, an early-stage venture backed clinical communications company.
Schor was the founder, President & CEO and major investor in Helus, Inc., one of the first connectivity and application solutions providers to offer a clinical workflow and collaboration solution to independent physicians and healthcare organizations.
Larry was the Senior Vice President & CIO for CoreSource, Inc., a national roll up of 24 employee benefits and workers compensation benefit administrators serving 1,200 self-funded employers and the largest developer and management services organization for 140 non-metropolitan healthcare networks (55,000 physicians and 500 hospitals) serving 300,000 members.
Previously, Schor was President & CEO of Corporate Health Strategies (CHS), the healthcare informatics/decision support subsidiary of Metropolitan Life. Larry executed a financial turn-around of the Company, secured the first investment from MetLife since CHS was acquired, rebuilt the management team, and doubled revenues to $10MM by the end of 1992.
Larry holds a Bachelor of Science in Comparative Anatomy and a Bachelor of Arts in American Literature from Allegheny College and a Master of Public Health, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, with honors, from Boston University. |
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James D. Long Managing Director
jameslong@ansleycapital.com
Jim began his career at “Big Eight” consulting
firms, Price Waterhouse and Touche Ross in Connecticut, and
Nightingale and Associates, a boutique turnaround consulting
firm, where he focused on healthcare, corporate finance,
managing financial restructurings, and interim management.
Mr. Long joined CoreSource as the Interim CFO to
assist in centralizing the financial and management organization
and later became the Company’s Senior Vice President and CFO.
He was part of the senior management team, including Mr.
Dietrich and Mr. Schor, which restructured operations of this
third party administrator prior to the sale of three divisions
to strategic investors.
In 1998, Mr. Long joined Splitrock Services, a
$70 million start-up, nationwide wholesale Internet Services
Provider, where he raised $261 million in public debt for the
build-out of technically advanced network, developed and managed
finance organization and provided general financial analysis and
management. From 1999 until 2002 Mr. Long served as the Vice
President and CFO of Rodeer Systems, an Atlanta-based outsourced
healthcare services Company where he returned the Company to
cash-flow-breakeven before selling the Company in a series of
transactions to strategic investor. Since then Mr. Long has
assisted a number of emerging healthcare services, informatics
and software firms with financing and interim management
services.
Mr. Long has a BA in Economics and Latin
American Studies, with honors, and an MBA, Finance and
Accounting, from the University of Texas at Austin. |
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