Experienced Professionals
Our experienced professionals are dedicated to helping clients unlock inherent value and create new value.
Our handpicked, executives are experienced in a variety of skill sets and backgrounds, enabling them to deal with numerous types of business problems from finance to operations. In addition, we maintain a network of strategic alliances which enable ALDA to provide experienced consultants with comprehensive human resource, employee benefits, information technology, intellectual property and regulatory affairs answers. Our network includes alliances with:
- Durant Resources Group
- Internet Technology Group, Inc.
- Target Health, Inc.
- Opus Group Financial
“OUR EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS CAN SHOW YOU ALL THE RIGHT STEPS”
David H. Fater [ View Bio ]
Chief Executive Officer
Strategy, Capital Markets, Restructuring, and Mergers and Acquisitions experience. As a senior corporate financial executive with three public companies, he gained experience in IPOs, follow-on offerings and debt financing, having raised over $700 million in senior, subordinated and convertible debt and preferred and common equity. He has served as an international business advisor to senior management and boards of directors as a senior international partner during a 24-year career with Ernst & Young. He is a skilled negotiator, adept at mergers and acquisitions and restructuring.
Richard M. Cohen, Chief Operating Officer [ View Bio ]
Chief Operating Officer
Healthcare operations and worldwide sourcing experience. He is skilled in healthcare and life science operations as well as in issues dealing with importing, exporting and manufacturing operations in South America, Far East and Europe. Strong management experience in strategy and operations in companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 including medical device manufacturers as well as healthcare and biotechnology and drug discovery companies.
Marilyn Durant, M.S., SPHR [ View Bio ]
Organization Consultant
Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources Management providing human resources related strategies and customized solutions to improve people, processes and profitability in the workplace. Capabilities include recruitment, training and development, performance management, guidance in benefits administration and compensation; executive coaching, career transition, talent and retention strategy, HR Start ups, policy development and legal compliance, strategy and integration of people and processes in mergers and acquisitions.
Daniel N. Weiss, M.D., F.A.C.C. [ View Bio ]
Senior Medical Clinician and Investigator
Medical devices and healthcare practice experience engaged in a private medical electrophysiology practice where he performs numerous invasive cardiac procedures and has served as a consultant for several Fortune 500 Medical Device Companies including Guidant, St. Jude and Medtronics. He has been a clinical investigator for both the MADIT II (MultiCenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial) and SCDHeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death Heart Failure Trial). As both a medical doctor and an electrical engineer with a computer science background, he brings a unique perspective to medical device and life sciences companies.
David Bott [ View Bio ]
Sr. Information Technology Executive
Network support solutions experience specializing in networking support solutions from one to 10,000 nodes. He has specialized expertise in process analysis, providing reviews and status reports with recommendations to increase productivity. Skilled at negotiating hardware, software and licensing purchases, Dave specializes in Windows NT and Windows 2000 wired or wireless networked computers.
Bob Gregory [ View Bio ]
Senior Business Development Specialist
Marketing and client relations experience. Experienced in positioning, brand enhancement, targeting, account planning, client relations management and marketing communications. He is a skilled meeting and research facilitator with a background in international coordination/liaising and special project management. He brings a perspective across many industries through his association with Ernst & Young International, Prodigy, PepsiCo International, Foote-Cone & Belding, and Bristol-Myers-Squibb.
Thomas J. Bohannon [ View Bio ]
Senior Financial Executive
Accomplished, creative CPA experience provides outstanding analytical and technical abilities. Has experience for over 40 years in public accounting and private industry including not-for-profits, retail, manufacturing, import/export and natural resources. Well versed in SEC reporting, financial accounting systems and technical accounting issues.
Jeffrey E. Topfer, JD, MPH [ View Bio ]
Senior Operations Executive
Healthcare operations and technology experience provides business development and mergers and acquisitions services, merger integration implementation, legal transaction advice, due diligence assistance, strategic planning, development of innovative business concepts and operational processes, and forging of strategic alliances and corporate finance functions. Mr. Topfer also brings a variety of experiences through his association with numerous healthcare companies as a former special assistant to Daniel Moynihan.
Aaron J. Venable [ View Bio ]
Senior Analyst
A knowledgeable executive who is highly skilled at Entrepreneurship, Business Planning and Sales Forecasting, Marketing, Lead Conversion, Lead Generation, Funnel Management, Business Finance, CRM, Sales force Automation, Telecommunications Integration and Information Systems - Mr. Venable has extensive experience improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business sales and marketing operations, processes, strategies, tactics, and the underlying technologies impacting the business’s growth.
David E. Huizenga, Ph.D., JD [ View Bio ]
Senior Technology Executive
Patent portfolio management, licensing, and competitive intelligence. Provides translation of a company’s science strategy to the patent and business strategy, able to focus on the structure/function relationships of small molecules and functional nucleic acids, such as aptamers, and the integration of rational and irrational discovery paradigms to identify molecules having new and desired function. experienced in all aspects of biotechnology patent prosecution and intellectual property counseling as well as litigation.
Santiago Guzman [ View Bio ]
International Business Development Executive
Experienced in new project development for companies in a variety of industries from start-up to Fortune 500. Client relations management, fluent in English and Spanish. Skilled facilitator for introductions with influential leaders in South America including those in the health care industry. Projects based in South America have included export management for apparel companies, agricultural commodities exports and establishing research projects for US medical equipment companies with estab;ished and well- respected universities and medical centers in South America.
Jerry M. Anchin, Ph.D [ View Bio ]
Senior Biotechnology Executive
Extensive experience in biotechnology research and business ventures having been actively involved in the fields of immunology, molecular biology, drug discovery, and protein chemistry since 1978 and has experience as the Head of Assay Development and Manufacturing and Group leader of Drug Discovery. Recipient of seven patents including the design of a novel immunoassay for the detection of creatine-kinase isoenzymes released during acute myocardial infarction as well as the discovery of a novel small molecule for the prevention of asthma. Also experienced in medical devices and diagnostics with two patents involving the measurement of heart rate variability and other biological signals for the identification of patients at elevated risk of future pathological events such as imminent death, cardiac mortality and diabetic autonomic neuropathy.
Areas of Focus [ More Info ]
- Health Care
- Biotechnology
- Health Care Services
- Life Sciences
- Medical Devices
- Physician Management
- Other:
- Manufacturing
- International
