Jonathan Wilfong
Partner, Focus, LLC

Jonathan E. Wilfong, a FOCUS Partner, has over thirty years of broad industry experience in mergers and acquisitions, business development, and capital formation. Mr. Wilfong has participated in over 100 transactions, as intermediary or principal. In his capacity as business advisor he participated in numerous capital formation and merger and acquisition activities that aggregated in excess of $500 million.

Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Wilfong was the Senior Managing Director of The March Group, LLC, a private investment banking firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. While at March he completed a number of successful merger and acquisition engagements for middle market companies in the chemical, oilfield and wellhead supply, equipment manufacturing and healthcare industries. Some of the more significant transactions he participated in are Excelsior Medical, Superior Oilfield Supply, Solesbee’s Equipment & Attachments and Gaines Industries.

Mr. Wilfong was a founder and co-founder of two physician practice management companies, OrthAlliance and the Plastic Surgery Company. In founding these companies Mr. Wilfong raised over $5 million in Regulation D offerings and negotiated the acquisition of over 75 medical practices. Both of these companies completed successful initial public offerings with a combined market capitalization in excess of $125 at the IPO date.

In addition, he was a co-founder of Ouch.com; an Internet-based medical supply superstore. During his tenure as president and chief executive officer, he recruited an experienced management team, managed the development of a web site that offered over 65,000 items and initiated and implemented strategic alliances with several significant medical associations including the Orthopaedic Foundation of America.

In 1970, Mr. Wilfong joined Price Waterhouse, LLP and from 1983 through 1995 he served as a Partner with that firm, including 5 years as an office managing partner. During his tenure at Price Waterhouse Mr. Wilfong served as a business advisor to numerous clients, many with global operations, in a wide spectrum of industries including media, transportation, manufacturing and distribution, consumer packaging and products, healthcare and retail.

Mr. Wilfong, a CPA, received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from East Carolina University and participated in the Executive Program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

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