A Uniquely Rounded Team Offering a One Stop ‘Solution Shop’
Our founders, Dr. Anthony Russell and Mr. Alasdair Nicol form a well-rounded and skilful team with their combined experiences of health administration, medicine, athletics coaching, marketing consulting, mergers & acquisitions, and business management relevant to this industry.
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This combination of expertise is unique in the M&A space within this industry, providing an enhanced value over other organizations with similar business models. Our one stop 'solution shop’ is a unique selling point which allows us to provide business owners with a wholesome, well-rounded and customised solution to their needs.
Dr Anthony Russell
Founder
Dr Anthony Russell, MD MBA MPH is a healthcare specialist working in the healthcare industry for over two decades. He has foundational M&A partnerships in Australia, United States, and the United Kingdom. Dr Russell is also the chairman of two separate companies board of directors in the healthcare M&A space with one based in the US and the other focused on international healthcare M&A based in the UK.
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Dr Russell is a public health advocate and wellness minded physician. He advocates for a healthy low-carbohydrate diet and a lifestyle mixed with enjoyable exercise. Dr Russell lost 50 pounds over the past year on a keto based diet combined with intermittent fasting and moderate low impact exercise.
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Dr Russell is a healthcare executive in a senior leadership role at Community Memorial Health System and has served in large complex healthcare environments (i.e. Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, & UCSF), particularly focused on ambulatory outpatient care. He is determined to provide quality care and service by focusing on healthcare growth strategies finding synergies across all of the sub-sectors of healthcare. Dr Russell has grown organizational value through his experience in Health IT (EHRs/Telehealth), Population Health, Clinically Integrated Networks, and Accountable Care Organizations.
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Dr Russell is a passionate entrepreneur who acquired and exited businesses in his personal and professional career. He has a good business and entrepreneurial mindset as a proficient systems thinker with a unique hands-on blend of operational and health information technology expertise.
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Dr Russell has grown teams to quality, patient centered care, turnaround activities, strategic growth planning, and driving financial engineering to improve the organizations bottom line. He has recruited, hired, and negotiated contracts for physicians and has employed advanced practice providers (mid-levels) to work at the top of their licensure to build team based models of care. He has focused on transforming operational healthcare delivery, for which he has amassed extensive experience.
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Dr Russell is a prominent member of local and international boards in leading healthcare. He provides expert guidance to owners operating and considering selling their businesses, and also advises founders advancing business start-ups. Dr Russell is a servant leader who always leads from his core principles of Collaboration, Innovation, Accountability, and Respect.
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At his core, Dr Russell aims to make a difference in the many lives he is fortunate to engage. By inspiring and empowering our healthcare leaders of today and tomorrow, he will leave a legacy of enhanced quality, patient-centeredness, access to care, and organizational financial strength for long-term sustainability.
Mr Alasdair Nicol
Founder
Alasdair Nicol is a marketing strategist with over 20 years of experience working across most facets of the industry, from communications and copywriting to advertising, media strategy and design. His passion is helping owners and CEOs of small and mid size companies thrive and unlock untapped profit and purpose in their business.
Alasdair is a fitness and holistic wellness advocate who is an accredited Athletics Australia run leader, and currently studying nutrition, fitness and exercise. He believes fundamentally in an holistic approach to health and fitness including a balanced, outcomes-driven nutrition plan, long-range and diverse physical training and prioritisation of mental wellbeing. Having experienced first hand the mental hardship that can be associated with completing major sport and exercise milestones, and overcoming physical injury, he has successfully lost 20kg, and after returning to training, continues to improve his running times in each race he enters
Alasdair has worked in-house and agency-side with clients of all shapes and sizes from small, independent start-ups to multi-national corporations, non-profits, charities and multiple tiers of government. He has built businesses and charities from the ground up, and acquired decades old companies. Leveraging the power of network capital built on close, enduring personal relationships, he has stewarded client businesses to consistently double-digit growth in flat and declining markets, and developed resourceful, innovative methods of growing fledgling brands into bastions of brand equity.
Fundamentally, Alasdair seeks to improve the wellbeing of those he works alongside, by identifying the best ideas, products and services, and passionately doing whatever is possible to connect them to audiences that need them.
