Conference Co-Chairs
Iain Briggs
Managing Director
FTI Healthcare
Iain Briggs is a managing director in the FTI Healthcare (formerly Cambio Health Solutions) and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee. Mr. Briggs has 25 years of experience in turnaround management, financial restructuring and mergers and acquisitions.
Brian McGough
Managing Director
BMO Capital Markets
Mr. McGough manages BMO Capital Markets not for profit healthcare investment banking practice. Mr. McGough is directing and implementing the structuring and delivery of investment banking products and services to clients across the nation.
Keynote Speakers
Jack Ablin
Chief Investment Officer
Harris Private Bank (a BMO affiliate)
Jack Ablin is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer with Harris Private Bank. He is responsible for establishing investment policy and strategy within the Personal Investment Management Group of Harris Private Bank.
Anthony Helton
Administrator
Cleveland Clinic
Mike Rock
Senior Associate Director Federal Relations
American Hospital Association
Rock worked on Capitol Hill as staff assistant to Nebraska Republican Senator Roman Hruska from 1975 to 1977. He served as legislative assistant to Nebraska Republican Representative Charles Thone from 1977 until 1978, when Thone was elected Governor of Nebraska.
John C. Ruckdeschel, M.D.
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Nevada Cancer Institute
Dr. Ruckdeschel brings an impressive track record of success as a physician-scientist and an administrator. An internationally renowned lung cancer physician and researcher, Ruckdeschel has successfully led two National Cancer Institute (NCI) Designated Cancer Centers to achieve dramatic and significant milestones.
Featured Speakers
Santino Bibbo
Vice President
Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC
Santino Bibbo coordinates Cabrera Capital Markets not for profit healthcare investment banking practice. Mr. Bibbo’s experience includes strategic capital planning and creation and implementation of all types of financing mechanisms, including fixed rate, variable rate, advanced refundings, letters of credit and additional innovative credit structures.
Bedford W. Boyce, Jr.
Senior Vice President
Loop Capital Markets LLC
Bedford Boyce is a Senior Vice President with Loop Capital and works out of the firm's Charlotte, NC office. His responsibilities include leading all of the firm's business development efforts in the mid-Atlantic region as well as its healthcare efforts throughout the United States.
Patricia Hunt Holmes
Partner
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Pat's principal areas of practice are healthcare finance, healthcare system affiliations and acquisitions, non-profit finance, counsel in default and workout situations, utility finance, and electric cooperatives.
Steve Hunt
Sr. Account Executive
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Steven is a Senior Account Executive at the Office of Insured Health Care Facilities, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC. Steven has underwritten several hospital financing transactions totaling over $1 billion during his career at HUD.
Robert Junqua
Director
Merrill Lynch
Mr. Junqua has over 22 years investment banking and public finance experience. Prior to re-joining Merrill Lynch’s Health Care Finance Group in June 2008, Rob served as Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank from 2004 to 2008.
Kit A. Kamholz
Senior Vice President
Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc.
Kit Kamholz, Senior Vice President of Kaufman Hall, directs the firm’s mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) practice. With more than 15 years of M&A experience focusing on the healthcare industry, Mr. Kamholz provides services related to merger, acquisition, divestiture, joint venture, and investment transactions, strategic options assessment, valuations, fairness opinions, and other strategic financial advisory services.
John M. Kirsner
Partner
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
John M. Kirsner acts as both counsel and advocate for insurance companies, health plans, managed care organizations, hospitals, other health care providers and governmental organizations.
Dennis L. Laraway, MBA
Chief Financial Officer
Scott & White Healthcare
Mr. Laraway presently serves as Chief Financial Officer for Scott & White Healthcare (“Scott & White”), located in Temple Texas. Scott & White is the primary teaching affiliate to the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, including a full 4-year program in Temple TX.
Andre Maksimow
Director
FTI Healthcare
Andre Maksimow is a director in the FTI Healthcare group of FTI’s Corporate Finance practice and is based in New York City. Mr. Maksimow has over 13 years of professional experience including investment management, health care services operations, investment banking and public accounting.
Robert F. Mattix
Managing Director – Corporate Finance
FTI Healthcare
Robert Mattix is a managing director in the FTI Healthcare group of FTI’s Corporate Finance practice and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee. With 14 years of industry experience, Mr. Mattix uses operational and financial expertise to implement complex improvement initiatives and assess strategic options for FTI Cambio Health Solutions clients.
Lawrence E. McManus, CPA
Senior Vice President - Chief Operating Officer and
Chief Financial Officer
Saint Raphael Healthcare System Inc.
McManus is a senior healthcare executive with 30 years of leadership experience in Healthcare and Finance operations including 11 years in public accounting (4 years as Audit partner) and 19 years as a healthcare executive.
Christopher J. Mier, CFA
Managing Director/Head of Analytical Services Group
Loop Capital Markets
Chris Mier brings over 30 years of experience to his role as the Municipal Strategist for Loop Capital Markets. In addition to providing market analytics to our sales, trading and underwriting professionals, he is charged with generating client-specific ideas for issuers of municipal debt.
Alan P. Richman
President and Chief Executive Officer
InnoVative Capital
Mr. Richman is the founder of InnoVative Capital, a HUD-licensed FHA mortgage bank and healthcare financially advisory firm, where he serves as its President and CEO. Over the course of his career, he has accumulated 28+ years of experience in the fields of hospital finance, public finance and real estate banking, while working with hospitals and healthcare providers in over 40 states.
Ellen G. Riley
Senior Vice President
Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc.
Ellen Riley is a Senior Vice President of Kaufman Hall, working from the firm’s Los Angeles office since 1988. With more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, her areas of expertise include financial and capital planning, development and implementation of capital allocation processes, and financial advisory services in support of debt transactions and business valuations.
Matthew Roggenburg
Managing Director
Cityview Capital Solutions, LLC
Mr. Roggenburg’s career has spanned 25 years in the municipal market, including public finance investment banking, municipal derivatives marketing and structuring, and credit enhancement. Prior to co-founding Cityview, he spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and UBS Securities.
Anthony J. Taddey
Managing Director
Lancaster Pollard
Anthony J. Taddey is a Managing Director of Lancaster Pollard and Regional Manager of the firm’s California Regional Offi ce located in Los Angeles offi ce. His extensive public fi nance background extends over 25 years, including having previously served as a Managing Director and head of the Healthcare Finance Department while at Merrill Lynch in New York City.
Dennis M. Tupper
Vice President, Municipal Structuring
Deutsche Bank
Dennis Tupper joined Deutsche Bank’s Municipal Structuring Group in July 2006, having spent three years in the public finance department of Citigroup. He focuses on structuring derivative transactions, credit facilities and complex high yield transactions for municipal clients throughout the country. His clients have included some of the largest municipal and non-profit issuers in the country. Dennis graduated summa cum laude from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics.
Robert A. Vento
Senior Vice President, Operations
Quorum Health Resources
Bob Vento is responsible for management operations and consulting service delivery for QHR. In addition, he oversees the AHFD business unit. Prior to this position, Bob served as president of the QHR Management Division. Bob brings more than 30 years of progressive healthcare experience, from nurse to administrator to chief operating officer, understanding and meeting client needs, creating new business opportunities and developing successful management teams.