Managing Partners
Brian brings over 25 years of expertise in healthcare and finance, specializing in financial consulting and turnaround services for healthcare firms, alongside advisory roles for commercial lenders. His comprehensive skill set spans due diligence, restructuring, viability assessments, healthcare receivables management, crisis intervention, interim financial oversight, liquidation, ....
Brian Young
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Amy is a seasoned senior financial executive with over 35 years of diverse industry experience, spanning service, finance, healthcare, contracting, government contracting, and non-profit sectors. Her extensive skill set includes providing part-time and interim CFO services, turnaround management, strategic planning, and analyzing financial ....
Amy Breslin
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Partners
Evan joined BY&S in 2010 and has been with the company for 14 years. He became a partner in January 2019, assuming responsibility for overseeing the Quality of Earnings product and leading training initiatives at the firm's Charlotte, NC office. Prior to this, Evan played an integral role in improving and standardizing BY&S’ work product and worked to create efficiencies related to ....
Evan Schaller
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John joined BY&S in June 2009, bringing with him over five years of experience in auditing and due diligence. John is responsible for BY&S’ ever-evolving work product and is an integral part of our review team. Prior to his current role, John served as a Healthcare Due Diligence Auditor, initially at Merrill Lynch Capital and continuing with GE Capital following GE's acquisition ....
John Nicholas
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Evan joined BY&S in January 2015 following 5 years in public accounting, specializing in tax preparation/planning and monthly financial statement compilation. At BY&S, Evan has worked extensively on healthcare and non-healthcare asset-based lending, as well as quality of earnings reports. He also serves as a relationship manager for several key clients. Evan was promoted to ....
Evan Watts
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Anthony, who joined BY&S as its first employee in September 2008, brings over 25 years of expertise in asset-based lending, with a specialized focus on healthcare spanning two decades. Currently, he oversees a significant portion of the BY&S field examination team and is the BY&S partner overseeing the traditional asset-based lending division. Before joining BY&S, Anthony ....
Anthony Hope
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Duke is one of the founding partners of BY&S and brings more than 35 years of experience in healthcare, manufacturing and service industries. His expertise includes collateral management, mergers and acquisitions due diligence, public offerings, debt and equity structuring and operational management. Prior to joining BY&S in 2009, Duke spent 15 years in various roles in the healthcare industry ....
Duke Slaughter
dslaughter@bys-hfc.com
Managing Directors
Jennifer Nipper joined BY&S in June 2014, bringing a wealth of experience from various roles within the healthcare industry. Her career highlights include serving as VP of finance, controller, and business office manager for skilled nursing facilities, notably at a privately owned chain with annual revenue of $110MM. Over the years Jennifer has managed and mentored staff, managed ....
Jennifer Nipper
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Jenn began her journey with BY&S as a consultant in 2008, transitioning to a full-time role in March 2012. Jenn is an integral part of BY&S’ review team, and plays a crucial role in our training, staff development and mentorship programs. In addition, Jenn assists BY&S in marketing and maintaining our LinkedIn presence. Before joining BY&S, she amassed extensive experience in ....
Jennifer Reid
jreid@bys-hfc.com
Directors
Brian joined BY&S in June 2016 following 5 years as a financial analyst at a hospital. Since then, he has amassed extensive experience across all healthcare sectors, overseeing examinations and contributing to the continuous improvement of the company's work product policies.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration – Marketing and Business Management from ....
Brian Zimmermann
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Danielle joined the BY&S team in February 2018, bringing with her four years of traditional asset-based lending examination experience. She plays a pivotal role in BY&S’ mentorship program and marketing initiatives, serves as a client relationship manager, and tackles some of our most challenging projects. Additionally, Danielle has six years of experience in public ....
Danielle Andre
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Derek joined BY&S in June 2018, bringing with him extensive experience in both public accounting and internal accounting roles. He plays a crucial role in the company’s training initiatives at the Charlotte, NC office, manages several field examiners, and is actively involved in numerous Quality of Earnings projects.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from ....
Derek Watts
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Randy has over two decades of experience in the asset-based lending industry and has been hired by BY&S to help lead the Traditional ABL division. Randy has led and managed deals that range from $1MM to $3B. Randy’s experience includes leading large complex exams, leading smaller individual exams, training new examiners, managing client relationships, working in various team ....
Randy Laughner
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David joined BY&S part time in July 2009 and made the transition to full time in January 2013. As Director of Finance, David oversees all financial management of BY&S including financial reporting, financial planning and analysis and human resource management. Prior to BY&S, David gained 19 years of valuable experience in various industries and positions including staff accountant, ....
David Bruff
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Luke officially joined BY&S in July 2014 to begin his full-time career, following several years of interning during his college years. As the Director of Scheduling, Luke plays a crucial role in our operations, facilitating communication with all clients and most of our staff. Previously, he served as an examiner before transitioning to oversee the scheduling aspects of the business.
Luke attended ....
Luke Dempsey
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Wes joined BY&S in June 2016, bringing over 4 years of experience from Tamarac, Inc. where he served as an operations consultant specializing in financial analytics and reporting. Wes began his tenure at BY&S as an examiner to learn the ins and outs of the exam process. He later transitioned into operations, ultimately advancing to his current role as BY&S’ Director of ....
Wesley Mander
wmander@bys-hfc.com