|  John
Runningen, a FOCUS Managing Director, has twenty-five
years of entrepreneurial and investment banking experience.
Mr. Runningen has conducted 80 separate investment banking
and M&A transactions for 44 companies with an aggregate
value of $18.6 billion. He has served clients in the IT,
Healthcare, Telecommunications and Manufacturing industries.
Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Runningen had
been the Managing Director of Runningen Associates, LLC,
an M&A firm that handled corporate advisory, strategic
planning, and capital raising for start-ups, and early stage
growth companies nationwide. There he raised $6 million in
venture equity for Alliance Surgery, a surgery center management
company and conducted the $38 million sale of SURGICOE to
United Surgical Partners International.
Mr. Runningen served as a Senior Vice President, Investor
Relations at WebMD (NASDAQ: HLTH) where he managed the company's
Wall Street research and investment banking relationships.
He served as the primary contact for all investors, including
buy and sell-side analysts, portfolio managers, as well as
employee and individual shareholders.
Previously, as a General Partner at Cordova Ventures, a
$250 million venture fund, he raised the largest single investment
in the history of the firm, constituting 20% of Cordova's
Technology Fund. He created strategic alliances with other
venture firms, such as Advent International and Live Oak
Equity Partners, to co-invest in Cordova's health care investments.
Earlier, Mr. Runningen served as Senior Healthcare Analyst
with The Robinson-Humphrey Company (a division of Smith Barney).
He held a similar position with Morgan Keegan & Co. in
Memphis. Mr. Runningen was a founder, CFO and a Director
of QualiCorp, Inc., an owner and operator of medical office
buildings (MOB) and nursing homes. To fund its MOB projects
in the early 1980s, Mr. Runningen originated some of the
first physician partnerships in America. In 1997, QualiCorp's
property portfolio was sold to Omega REIT for $62.5 million.
Mr. Runningen received his BA degree, magna cum laude, from
Luther College. He earned his MBA degree in Finance and Marketing,
magna cum laude, from the Freeman School of Business at Tulane
University.
Contact Information:
John R. Runningen
3353 Peachtree Rd., NE
Suite 1160
Atlanta, GA 30326
Direct: 404-963-8168
Main: 404-504-8620
Cell: 678-429-1247
Fax: 404-504-8629
John.Runningen@focusbankers.com |
