The Professionals of Ponder & Co.

We believe no single professional can possess all of the knowledge and experience clients require. That is why we believe in the team-of-experts concept. A senior officer is in charge of each client relationship. As unique needs arise, other specialists in our company can be called upon to provide clients with the benefit of their expertise.

For example, in working with a healthcare system that was developing its plan for the future, we drew upon one expert to create a financial model and assess the system's credit, another to design an interest rate swap, another to price its bonds, and another to invest the funds it raised.

Our experienced professionals offer three other advantages:

• Clients always work with senior-level executives. Each relationship manager has a minimum 15 years of experience.
• We focus exclusively on financial services for the healthcare industry. This gives our staff a rare level of expertise, which they devote full-time to clients – free of conflicts of interests.
• Each of our staff specializes in one product or service: capital advisory work, derivatives, M&A or investment management. As experts in their areas, they save our clients time and money while adding value to the process.

We invite you to find out more by reading our professionals’ biographies, or by contacting us.

		Carlos Aro	Derivatives
		Mr. Aro joined Ponder & Co.'s Capital Markets Group in 2009. His day to day responsibilities include financial modeling and analytical... Read more »

		Dave Atchison	Mergers and Acquisitions
		Mr. Atchison has over 25 years of experience as a financial advisor and investment banker to the healthcare industry. He has provided advisory... Read more »

		Jake Aygun	Derivatives
		Mr. Aygun joined Ponder & Co.'s Capital Markets Group in 2004. His responsibilities include the quantitative analysis of the... Read more »

		Jennifer M. Brown	Capital Advisory
		Ms. Brown has over 20 years of experience in healthcare finance and investment banking. She joined Ponder & Co. in 2002 and currently serves... Read more »

		Britt A. Cesarone	Investment Management
		Britt Cesarone joined Ponder & Co. in 2002. His responsibilities include providing fixed income management to clients with an emphasis on... Read more »

		John E. Cheney	Capital Advisory
		Mr. Cheney has provided financial advisory services for more than 25 years to non-profit organizations. He specializes in healthcare services... Read more »

		Jennifer King Daugherty	Capital Advisory
		Ms. Daugherty joined Ponder in 2008 and has over 22 years of experience in providing investment banking and financial advisory services... Read more »

		Ken Downey	Capital Advisory
		Mr. Downey joined Ponder & Co. in 2003. His responsibilities include servicing the firm's existing investment management clients as well as... Read more »

		Julian R. Head	Derivatives
		Mr. Head joined Ponder & Co.'s Capital Markets Group in May of 1991. His primary responsibilities from the time he joined the firm until present... Read more »

		David Hiteshew	Investment Management
		David Hiteshew joined Ponder & Co. in 2004. His responsibilities include providing fixed income management on a separate account... Read more »

		Chuck Kirkpatrick	Derivatives
		Mr. Kirkpatrick joined Ponder & Co. in 2006. Responsibilities include quantitative analysis of derivative products and other financing tools... Read more »

		Eb LeMaster	Mergers and Acquisitions
		Mr. LeMaster has over 11 years of investment banking and corporate development experience. His corporate finance experience includes over 35... Read more »

		Gerry A. Means	Capital Advisory

		Patricia Moscatello	Capital Advisory
		Ms. Moscatello has over 25 years experience in healthcare finance. Prior to joining Ponder & Co. in June 2004, Ms. Moscatello worked for... Read more »

		Grant Ostlund	Capital Advisory
		Mr. Ostlund joined Ponder & Co. in 2001. He has provided services to the healthcare industry for more than 20 years. Mr. Ostlund started... Read more »

		David Pass	Mergers and Acquisitions
		Mr. Pass joined Ponder & Co.'s Mergers and Acquisitions Group in 2011. His day to day responsibilities include developing financial models... Read more »

		Chris Payne	Capital Advisory
		Mr. Payne joined Ponder & Co. in 1981. He brought five years of experience as a commercial banker specializing in healthcare finance at... Read more »

		Stacey Saunders	Capital Advisory
		Ms. Saunders joined Ponder & Co in 2002. She has day to day responsibilities supporting the Capital Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions and... Read more »

		Terry Shirey	Derivatives
		Mr. Shirey joined Ponder & Co. in 1994. As head of the Capital Markets Group, he directs the efforts of the firm related to fixed income investment... Read more »

		Frank Taylor	Capital Advisory
		Mr. Taylor joined Ponder & Co. in 2002 and opened the firm's New York office. He has provided capital financial advisory services to the healthcare... Read more »

		John Timmermann	Capital Advisory
		Mr. Timmermann joined Ponder & Co. in 1985. His primary responsibilities include supervising all accounting and financial aspects of the... Read more »

		Michael Tym	Capital Advisory
		Mr. Tym joined Ponder & Co. in 1997 as Senior Financial Analyst. He provides clients with debt capacity analyses, capital access plans... Read more »

		Duane Waugh	Mergers and Acquisitions
		Mr. Waugh provides merger and acquisition advisory services to the healthcare services industry. With more than 25 years of experience in... Read more »