Lorry Nelson

Background

About Lorry Nelson

I assist business owners through one of their most important lifetime decisions - exiting their business. At O'Keeffe & O'Malley we help sellers and buyers of businesses achieve peace of mind. My qualifications - Thirty years of entrepreneurial and corporate success in healthcare and financial services including the start-up, growth,and successful divestiture of a nationwide medical company to Bain Capital. Early in my career I founded UltraCare, a nationwide medical distribution business catering to pharmacies, physicians, and long-term care. I negotiated agreements with group purchasing organizations and implemented progressive marketing campaigns that led to exponential growth, prompting industry leader Medical Specialties Distributors (owned by Bain) to pursue and ultimately acquire UltraCare. This was the first acquisition of a roll-up strategy to take the firm public. Following the sale, I continued to manage UltraCare and assisted Bain in sourcing and evaluating additional firms for acquisition. Subsequently, I served as COO for an emerging tele-medicine firm that was acquired by a publicly traded company, invested in and directed a medical device start-up, worked as an advisor for Merrill Lynch, and founded healthcare consulting firm AmeriCare, which, provided revenue cycle management solutions to health systems. I exited this to enter the M&A business. Through personal experiences of owning, managing, and exiting companies, I share knowledge with business owners to enhance their business to maximize valuation, properly time their exit, and engage multiple buyers through a confidential marketing process to obtain optimal price and terms. I graduated from Avila College in Kansas City, MO, with a degree in Business Management and along with raising my children have volunteered time for years coaching youth sports and serving on a number of committees and Boards for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.