| James
V. Millar, a FOCUS Managing Director, has over 20 years of
financial and business expertise plus extensive management
and business development experience as a senior executive
with both large and earlier stage companies. Mr. Millar
has advised, managed or led over 40 transactions with an
aggregate value of over $1 billion. His expertise includes
private placement of debt and equity, mergers, acquisitions
and divestitures, valuation services, business formation,
strategic planning and corporate finance.
Before joining FOCUS, Mr. Millar was
founder and Managing Principal of The Vine Group, a business
advisory firm focused on the early-stage and middle market
healthcare and medical device industry. There he led more than $150 million
in private placement activities as well as both buy side
and sell side transactions. Some of Mr. Millar’s
completed transactions include a $5 million financing for
an early stage life science company with an innovative cardiovascular
tissue regeneration technology and the sale of a healthcare
technology and services company to Aetna. Although
the focus of the firm was on healthcare services and life
sciences, Mr. Millar also successfully completed several
sale and financing engagements for middle market companies
in the manufacturing, distribution, software and recreation
industries.
From, 1993 to 1998, Mr. Millar served
in various senior financial and operating positions with
TheraTx, Inc., a fast growing healthcare services company. His positions
included Corporate Vice President of Strategic Development
where he was involved in the identification, valuation and
integration of strategic acquisitions for the company. In
this role, he assisted with the company’s successful
IPO in 1996 that fueled the rapid growth of the company via
acquisitions. The company completed several key transactions
included the purchase of a large senior care facility operator
and management company. Mr. Millar also played a lead
role in launching a staffing services division for the company,
which provided both cost savings and incremental revenue
to the company.
Prior to 1993, Mr. Millar held various senior level corporate
development positions with private middle market companies
with the primary responsibilities of strategic planning,
acquisition and divestitures and growth financing.
Mr. Millar received his B.A. in Economics from the University
of Virginia and both a Masters of Health Administration and
a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration
in Finance from The University of Chicago.
Contact Information:
Jim Millar
3353 Peachtree Rd., NE
Suite 1160
Atlanta, GA 30326
Direct: 404-963-8254
Main: 404-504-8620
Cell: 770-330-1593
Fax: 404-504-8629
jim.millar@focusbankers.com |
