Emphasis on Relationships
Choosing an investment banking firm begins with a conversation about options. These are conversations we have every day with clients and potential clients. With potential clients, it is usually the start of a relationship. With current clients, it is a continual conversation that leads to the collaborative development and execution of individualized strategies. By choosing Wyatt Matas & Associates, firms have these conversations directly with our senior bankers throughout their relationship.
Focus on Advisory
At Wyatt Matas & Associates, we believe investment banking should be about advising clients. From our first meeting we help clients think through strategic challenges that might impact their companies. We work to develop strategies and tactics for growth-oriented healthcare service clients. Our primary objective is to capitalize on our team's deep industry experience as well as our extensive network of operators, financiers, consultants and other expert professionals to help our clients achieve their goals. We deliver customized, practical and actionable solutions to provide our clients with a clear understanding of the steps required to create significant value.
Chip Measells
Joseph Ragland
Caroline Knight
Chip Measells
Partner
Chip Measells has been with Wyatt Matas & Associates for over seven years and has been primarily responsible for overseeing the firm's mergers and acquisition and capital raising engagements. His concentration in health care has brought his clients access to deep relationships in areas such as, acute care, home healthcare, hospice, disease management, physician practice management, infusion services and ancillary hospital services.
Before joining Wyatt Matas & Associates, Chip was the Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Fry Consultants, a global merchant bank in Atlanta, Georgia. However, he has often stated that his ability to relate with his clients came from his experience as an operator when he was the president of a senior healthcare company where he managed the company through 11 successful acquisitions while keeping it profitable. The company was later sold to a national healthcare company, where Chip served on the board of director for several years after the acquisition.
After graduating with a degree in economics from Mississippi State University, Chip went on to complete his MBA at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Chip and his wife, Karen, serve on various committees and boards, including the Board of Governors for a not-for-profit micro-financing institution in Chicago. They are also immensely entertained by their two young daughters, Molly and Morgan.
Joseph Ragland
Analyst
Joseph Ragland joined Wyatt Matas & Associates in September of 2009. Prior to joining Wyatt Matas and Associates, Joe worked on the corporate debt restructuring of Six Flags Entertainment Corp. following their filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Joe received his BS in political science at Towson University where he played Division I NCAA tennis. Joe continues his graduate studies in economics and finance at Johns Hopkins University.
Caroline Knight
Analyst
Caroline Knight joined Wyatt Matas and Associates in July of 2010. Caroline graduated in May, 2010 from the University of Virginia with a BA in economics and foreign affairs.