Mr. LeMaster has more than 25 years of investment banking and corporate development experience. His corporate finance track record includes 200+ M&A transactions, strategic options assessments, public equity and debt offerings and private placements totaling more than $5 billion. Since joining Ponder in 2007, Mr. LeMaster has focused on strategic advisory engagements on behalf of not-for-profit and government-owned hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers across the country in a wide array of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority equity investments. and healthcare real estate monetization’s. His experience includes engagements in a wide range of healthcare sub-sectors, including acute care, senior living, behavioral, labs, revenue cycle and others. Mr. LeMaster frequently works with clients on the assessment and evaluation of strategic options, as well as fairness opinions and valuations. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Nashville Health Care Council.
Prior to joining Ponder & Co., he was Vice President of Development for Ardent Health Services, a hospital management company with 12 acute care hospitals and more than 2,100 beds, as well as 20 inpatient behavioral hospitals across the US. At Ardent, he focused on acute care and behavioral acquisitions; worked extensively on the development of a physician joint venture hospital; facilitated the consolidation of two tertiary hospitals and the purchase, sale and development of medical office buildings. Previously, Mr. LeMaster spent eight years in investment banking, most recently as a director with Robert W. Baird & Co., where he focused on M&A transactions, public equity and debt offerings and private placements.
Mr. LeMaster holds an M.B.A. and bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
