Investment & transaction experience

Capital judgment
across the cycle.

Direct investing, structured credit, biotechnology, special situations, litigation finance, and operating finance—from origination and diligence through monitoring, restructuring, and exit.

Experience by platform

A consistent process across different markets.

Public & Private Investment Firm

Direct investing & special situations · 1998–2010

  • Managed approximately $550 million across public equities, PIPEs, private credit, venture capital, convertibles, and special situations.
  • Surviving records show 52 financings and more than $225 million of stated funded amounts, excluding structured equity-line throughput.
  • Worked directly with issuers on modeling, valuation, diligence, security design, negotiation, execution, syndication, trading, and restructuring.
  • Named examples include VaxGen, ChromaVision, Entelos, and a proposed Cerus senior-secured note and warrant financing.

Alternative Asset Manager

Structured & healthcare credit · 2011–2016

  • Developed credit-rating methods and surveillance processes supporting more than 500 regional-bank credits.
  • Managed approximately $250 million of healthcare-focused investments across hospitals, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, nursing facilities, and specialty providers.
  • Produced more than 250 investment-committee presentations covering investment, valuation, sizing, risk, monitoring, and exit.

Biotechnology Investment Partnership

Biotechnology & leveraged credit · 2016–2019

  • Managed biotechnology and leveraged-credit strategies in partnership with the firm’s founder.
  • Led scientific, clinical, commercial, and financial diligence across biotechnology and pharmaceutical opportunities.
  • Co-managed a biotechnology portfolio that nearly tripled over a two-year period through research and portfolio construction.

Middle-Market Direct Lender

Credit monitoring & valuation · 2019–2020

  • Senior member of the valuation and credit-monitoring team for technology, software, and healthcare credits.
  • Conducted fundamental credit analysis, portfolio surveillance, and valuation review across private borrowers.

Specialty / Litigation Finance Advisory

Portfolio advisory · 2021–present

  • Senior adviser to approximately $125 million of litigation-finance assets.
  • Work spans portfolio construction, valuation, acquisition strategy, diligence, risk management, investor communications, capital formation, audits, and reporting.
  • Named strategies include Camp Lejeune and AFFF/PFAS; counterparties and current marks remain confidential.

Current Operating Finance

Fractional CFO & executive leadership · 2025–present

  • Financial leadership for an integrated marketing and technology platform serving legal, healthcare, and mass-tort industries.
  • Advises ownership on strategy, capital allocation, budgeting, forecasting, KPIs, financing alternatives, organization, and profitability.

Selected transactions and strategies

Representative evidence.

StrategyTransaction / assetPlatformRole
Biotechnology PIPEVaxGenDirect-investment platform$15 million lead participation in a $20 million structured financing; active monitoring through changing clinical and corporate facts.
Medical-technology PIPEChromaVisionDirect-investment platform$5 million lead position in a $12.5 million preferred-and-warrant financing; trading, hedging, and restructuring.
Healthcare technology creditEntelosSpecial-situations platform$5 million senior-secured convertible debenture position; asset, covenant, and restructuring analysis.
Structured private creditCerus CorporationSpecial-situations platformDeveloped a proposed senior-secured note, warrant package, covenants, and follow-on option; detailed economics remain confidential.
Mass-tort case acquisitionCamp LejeuneAdvisory platformPortfolio acquisition, financing, valuation, risk monitoring, and investor communication.
Environmental personal injuryAFFF / PFASAdvisory platformInventory sourcing, exposure and disease underwriting, vendor assessment, and portfolio valuation.
Structured creditRegional-bank TruPS / CDOsAlternative asset managerUnderlying-bank analysis, cash-flow and recovery frameworks, ratings, and surveillance.
Healthcare leveraged loansAnonymized portfolioAlternative asset managerUnderwriting, monitoring, valuation, investment committee, sizing, and exit decisions.

Aggregate figures describe different and potentially overlapping scopes. Structured equity-line throughput is excluded from the recorded funded total. Certain borrower, client, counterparty, and transaction details are omitted for confidentiality.

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