Bryan S. Fisher, Private Consultant
Mr. Fisher was born and raised on a dairy farm in southeastern Idaho. He served a 2-year mission in Bangkok Thailand. He graduated from BYU with a BA in Accounting. He is married with 3 children and five grandchildren. His hobbies and activities include mountain biking, hiking, triathlons, family, church and traveling.
Mr. Fisher has a blended background in finance, operations, executive and board management primarily with entrepreneurial private equity backed companies. His 35 years of financial and operational experience includes 30 years focused on ancillary site healthcare.
Throughout his career Mr. Fisher has been entrepreneurial focused. He co-founded 1 company and was an initial executive management team member for 3 equity-back companies. His small to mid-market private equity partners have included such firms as Welsh Carson Anderson and Stowe; Ferrer Freeman and Co; Charlesbank; JP Morgan Asset Management; Irving Place Capital and Waud Capital Partners.
During his first 25 years he was in finance and accounting. His first five years were in public accounting with KPMG (Peat Marwick). His emphasis was with growth-oriented companies and included such clients as Chili’s, Medical Care International and Scott Cable as well as educational clients that included Southern Methodist University and Dallas College (f/k/a Dallas County Community College). His next 20 years of financial executive level experience included
private equity backed and publicly traded companies. He was instrumental in National Surgery Centers initial and secondary public offerings. He was involved in numerous acquisition and merger transactions ranging up to $200+ million in deal size. He was a key management member involved in the sale or recapitalization negotiations for nearly $2 billion in transactions.
He transitioned from finance and spent 10 years as Chief Operating Officer and has operational experience with 3 different companies including 2 private-equity backed and one publicly traded company. He was a key executive in the negotiations and sale of National Surgical Healthcare for $780 million, the company he co-founded.
His executive experience was combined with nearly 20 years of board membership for private equity-backed and publicly traded healthcare growth companies. Mr. Fisher is currently semi-retired and working as a consultant.
