Washington, DC (November
16, 2004)--FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., a national investment
banking firm providing merger, acquisition, and corporate
finance services to emerging growth, middle market, and small
companies today announced that Phil Scott has joined the firm
as a Partner working out of the San Francisco office but will
be based in San Diego. Scott brings more than 20 years of
executive level financial experience from companies that span
a variety of industries including healthcare, manufacturing,
real estate, software development, and services. He specializes
in mergers and acquisitions and management for turn-around
situations.
FOCUS has increased its number of partners in California
to three. Scott will join Bob Netter and Dave Roberts, Regional
Managing Partners, who joined the firm earlier this year and
who jointly manage the Southwestern Region. Netter and Roberts
are actively recruiting additional senior level talent and
hope to increase the number of partners to five to six by
the end of 2005.
“I am personally delighted that Phil has joined our
Western Region investment banking team. Phil brings to our
firm many years of operations expertise; he has completed
numerous transactions during his professional career and he
brings to FOCUS significant experience in the healthcare segment,
a market that is very important to our firm and to our clients,”
said Marshall Graham, FOCUS Chairman.
About Phil Scott
Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Scott was CFO of SurgiCare,
Inc. (SRG), a public ambulatory surgery center business. As
CFO in a distress situation, he raised interim equity and
debt capital, and sold non-performing assets. He negotiated
and structured acquisitions of two medical billing companies
and completed negotiations for permanent equity financing
and a merger with an additional healthcare company that created
a multi-dimensional healthcare company.
Formerly, Mr. Scott served as CFO for PSX, Inc., a manufacturing
company in a distress situation. He was able to raise debt
and equity financing, restructure operations, outsource production,
and complete a sale to a leader in the crafts industry. He
also served as CFO for a real estate development company acquiring
and constructing medical office buildings. Previously, he
served as VP of Development for HealthCare Partners, the largest
private primary care medical group in the country, and completed
over $60M in acquisitions in a two year period.
Mr. Scott also is a co-founder of The Camden Group, a healthcare
services business providing software solutions, billing and
collection services, and strategic planning and consulting
services for healthcare entities nationally. Mr. Scott, a
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), received a BA from the
California Institute of Technology and a MBA (summa cum laude)
from the University of San Diego.
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