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Work Experience

2019 – Present

General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer

REVCYCLE, INC.

RevCycle provides revenue cycle management, extended business office services, and consumer collections for major healthcare systems and providers nationwide.

Member of the Senior Leadership Team (senior executive team), reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and Owner. Enterprise executive responsibility for all legal, regulatory, compliance, quality assurance, and government affairs matters across the company and its affiliates. Executive oversight of the Company’s Compliance, Quality Assurance, and Litigation Support functions within a highly regulated healthcare and consumer financial services environment.

Leadership Scope

  • Enterprise legal and regulatory strategy
  • Corporate compliance and risk oversight
  • Government and regulatory affairs
  • Quality assurance governance and operational integrity
  • Executive partnership with CEO and ownership on strategy, growth, and risk

 

2013 – 2019

Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary

SIMON GROUP HOLDINGS

Diversified family office holding company overseeing operating subsidiaries and investments across oil & gas distribution, oilfield services, transportation, private equity, and venture-backed technology businesses. Flagship subsidiary Atlas Oil reached approximately $2 billion in annual revenue at peak.

General Counsel to CEO/Owner and member of the Executive Team. Enterprise leadership across Legal, Environmental Health & Safety, Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, and Information Technology. Strategic mandate evolved to enterprise turnaround, portfolio rationalization, private equity platform formation, and venture development.

Selected Impact & Leadership Highlights

  • Enabled premium divestiture of retail fuel supply platform through negotiated resolution of major commercial dispute, including penalty waiver
  • Led legal and transaction execution for three strategic divestitures totaling $130M+ in aggregate value
  • Structured tax-efficient reinvestment strategy through 11% equity participation in MLP acquirer
  • Founded private equity platform; served on Investment Committee overseeing acquisitions and portfolio governance
  • Structured and negotiated multiple portfolio company acquisitions, including management equity and incentive alignment; led recovery in post-transaction claims
  • Organized and capitalized venture-backed technology startups, including founder ownership architecture and long-term incentives
  • Directed patent litigation strategy and intellectual property portfolio development tied to proprietary technologies
  • Rebuilt Environmental Health & Safety into a performance-based enterprise function aligned with operations
  • Established Financial Planning & Analysis capability to strengthen forecasting discipline, performance visibility, and capital planning

 

2006 – 2013

Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Secretary

ASSET ACCEPTANCE CAPITAL CORP.

Nationwide publicly traded consumer financial services company; acquired in 2013.

Reported to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors. Executive Team and Investment Committee member with governance, regulatory, and transactional leadership responsibilities. Enterprise oversight of legal affairs, compliance and quality assurance, government relations, and corporate secretary functions.

Selected Impact & Leadership Highlights

  • Led legal strategy for leveraged recapitalization transaction
  • Resolved legacy investigation by the Federal Trade Commission through favorable consent decree; led enterprise compliance and operational reforms
  • Strategic partner to Board on company sale and transaction execution
  • Designed and implemented enterprise Compliance Management System; positioned company for supervision by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  • Reengineered litigation management to materially reduce external spend and improve outcomes
  • Led acquisition and integration of technology company to establish proprietary digital operating platform

 

1998 – 2006

Equity Partner

SHUMAKER, LOOP & KENDRICK, LLP (WERNER & BLANK, LLC)

Co-founded and scaled the Financial Institutions Practice Group within an Am Law 200 firm. National practice advising boards and executive leadership on mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, securities offerings, capital formation, corporate governance, and SEC reporting.

Selected Impact & Leadership Highlights

  • Key contributor to doubling Werner & Blank, LLC firm revenue and increasing profit per partner by 85% over five-year period
  • Lead counsel on numerous public and private bank and thrift mergers and acquisitions nationwide
  • Trusted advisor to boards on governance, regulatory strategy, and complex transactions

 

1997 – 1998

Senior Vice President & General Counsel

CFX CORPORATION

Public bank holding company with ~$800M market capitalization at acquisition.

Recruited to establish legal function and serve as senior executive partner to CEO. Leadership focus shifted to strategic sale of the company.

 

1994 – 1997

Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary

VALLICORP HOLDINGS, INC.

Senior executive reporting to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer with leadership responsibility for Legal and Human Resources.

Selected Impact & Leadership Highlights

  • Executive leadership role in five acquisitions over three years, doubling institutional scale
  • Active negotiator and strategic leader in premium company sale
  • Built and institutionalized legal and compliance infrastructure

 

Education

 

JD

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

 

BA

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME