Manager Team
Jennifer Brunkow | ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF, Manager
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Jennifer Brunkow is a Manager in the Professional Service Agreements division at VMG Health. She specializes in valuing a wide variety of professional service agreements including clinical compensation, medical directorships, subsidies, co-management arrangements, quality initiatives, management arrangements and billing services. Prior to joining the Professional Service Agreements division, Ms. Brunkow provided valuation services in VMG Health’s Business Valuation division. In this capacity, Ms. Brunkow valued hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, radiation therapy centers, ambulatory surgical centers, diagnostic imaging centers, single and multi-specialty physician practices and dialysis centers.
Ms. Brunkow holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Science in accounting from the University of Colorado. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). Lastly, she is recognized as an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) by the American Society of Appraisers.
Clinton Flume | Manager
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Clinton Flume is a Manager at VMG Health in the Dallas office. His focus has been on developing client relationships and providing valuation, transaction advisory and operational consulting services in the healthcare services industry. He has significant experience with the physician practice, inpatient rehabilitation, cancer treatment, ambulatory surgery center and diagnostic imaging segments. Mr. Flume’s clients include for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ancillary services providers, development companies across several healthcare industry sub-specialties and other publicly owned and privately held healthcare entities. Mr. Flume’s recent related experience includes the valuation of (2) 150+ physician not-for-profit medical foundations in Northern and Southern California within the last six months.
Mr. Flume received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the Texas Christian University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He is actively pursuing the Accredited Valuation Analyst designation from the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts and Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute. Mr. Flume has also attended multiple business valuation courses offered by the American Society of Appraisers.
Chris Gauvin | Manager, CPA
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Chris Gauvin is a Manager at VMG Health and is based in the Dallas office. Mr. Gauvin specializes in providing valuation, transaction advisory services and financial reporting assistance to the healthcare industry. Mr. Gauvin has a broad range of national expertise pertaining to healthcare entities such as physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers and various other types of entities. Clients include large public health systems, development companies across several healthcare industry sub-specialties and other privately held entities.
Mr. Gauvin earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from Carleton University and a Master in Professional Accounting (MPA) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining VMG Health, Mr. Gauvin spent five years with Deloitte. During this time he provided financial advisory service services to Fortune 500 and other multinational firms on various pre and post deal valuation issues including purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment testing, fixed income/preferred stock valuation, stock option valuation, and valuation pertaining to various other financial instruments and corporate entities. Mr. Gauvin is licensed by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy as a CPA and is currently pursuing an ASA designation.
Sarina Hickey | Manager
Sarina Hickey is a Manager at VMG Health in the Dallas office. Her focus has been on providing valuation and transaction advisory services in the healthcare services industry. She has substantial experience with ambulatory surgery centers and diagnostic imaging segments, as well as physician practices and acute care and specialty hospitals. In addition, she has consulted on numerous per-click lithotripsy agreements, bariatric fee arrangements, litigation and shareholder disputes and medical device company valuations. Her clients include for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ancillary services providers and development companies across several healthcare industry sub-specialties and other publicly owned and privately held healthcare entities.
Ms. Hickey started her career in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch in New York City, NY before moving to Dallas to work for VMG Health. Ms. Hickey received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Honors and Finance from the McCombs School of Business and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Spanish Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.
Colin Park | Manager
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Colin Park is a Manager at VMG Health in the Dallas office. He specializes in providing financial, valuation and transaction advisory services to the firm’s healthcare clients. His clients include health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals, oncology centers, diagnostic imaging centers, dialysis centers, physicians groups and numerous other ancillary healthcare service businesses.
Mr. Park is also a research associate and collaborator in the development and publication of the Intellimarker Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study published annually by VMG Health. The Intellimarker presents hundreds of operating and financial benchmarking statistics using data from approximately 200 ambulatory surgery centers from around the country.
Prior to joining VMG Health, Mr. Park worked as a Senior Associate in the Planning and Financial Group at Greystone Communities, Inc. and as an analyst in the Tangible Asset Group in Financial Advisory Services at Houlihan Lokey.
Mr. Park received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, a Certificate in International Business and a Masters of Real Estate Finance from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. Additionally, Mr. Park is currently pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation and an Accredited Senior Appraiser designation from the American Society of Appraisers (ASA).
Stephen Schulte | Manager
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Stephen Schulte is a Manager at VMG Health and is based in the Nashville office. His focus has been on developing client relationships and providing valuation, transaction advisory and consulting services in the healthcare services industry. Mr. Schulte has broad experience working with physician practices, physical therapy centers, ambulatory surgery centers, inpatient rehabilitation centers, specialty/surgical hospitals and diagnostic imaging segments. Mr. Schulte also has significant understanding of clinical compensation arrangements. His clients include for-profit and not-for-profit health systems and other publicly owned and privately held healthcare entities.
Prior to joining VMG Health, he worked in the banking industry and became Series 6 and Series 63 licensed. Mr. Schulte received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the Iowa State University College of Business. He has also completed the business valuation courses offered by the American Society of Appraisers and is pursuing the Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) designation and the Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) designation from the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts.
Chance Sherer | Manager, CVA
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Chance Sherer is a Manager at VMG Health and is based in the Dallas office. He specializes in providing financial, valuation and transaction advisory services to the firm’s healthcare clients. His clients include health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals, oncology centers, diagnostic imaging centers, dialysis centers, physicians groups, and numerous other ancillary healthcare service businesses. In addition to extensive valuation experience for transaction planning and financial reporting purposes, he has consulted on numerous development, feasibility and recapitalization analyses for joint venture, restructuring and denovo business development purposes.
Mr. Sherer is also a research associate and collaborator in the development and publication of the Intellimarker Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study published annually by VMG Health. The Intellimarker presents hundreds of operating and financial benchmarking statistics using data from approximately 200 ambulatory surgery centers from around the country.
Mr. Sherer received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) with the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analyst (NACVA). He is currently pursuing a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute and an Accredited Senior Appraiser designation from the American Society of Appraisers (ASA). Mr. Sherer is currently a member of the CFA Institute, National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts and the American Society of Appraisers.
Matthew Strother | Manager
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Matthew Strother is a Manager at VMG Health based out of the Dallas Office. He assists clients with a variety of business valuation and financial consulting services including minority & controlling equity valuations, financial feasibility analysis, transaction consulting services, pro-forma cash flow modeling and ASC 805 Business Combinations purchase price allocation analysis (formerly SFAS 141R). Mr. Strother works with healthcare clients across a variety of sub-industries including ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, radiation therapy centers, urgent care clinics, general acute care hospitals, long term acute care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, surgical hospitals, dialysis centers, chemo infusion clinics and physician practices. Mr. Strother holds a degree in Finance from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
Bridget Triepke | Manager, CPA
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Bridget Triepke, CPA is a Manager with VMG Health and is based in the Dallas office. She has six years of experience performing valuation and financial advisory engagements for the purposes of financial reporting compliance, tax planning and merger and acquisition planning.
Mrs. Triepke is a part of VMG Health’s accounting related valuation services team. She has performed numerous purchase price allocations related to ASC 805, Business Combinations (formerly SFAS 141R) where she has valued the following intangible assets: trade names and trademarks, customer relationships, non-compete agreements, patented and unpatented technology, contracts and trained workforce. Additionally, Mrs. Triepke has performed numerous valuations to assist clients with their annual impairment testing as required by ASC 350, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other.
Prior to joining VMG Health, Mrs. Triepke was a manager in KPMG’s Economic & Valuation Services practice. While at KPMG, she participated in numerous U.S. and international valuation and advisory engagements while performing valuations of control and minority interests in both public and privately held entities, oil and gas reserves and intangible assets. Mrs. Triepke also spent one year at a hedge fund assisting in the management of a $2.0 billion energy portfolio under a long/short strategy. She was the primary analyst covering 15 mid- and large-cap oil and gas service companies.
Mrs. Triepke is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the state of Texas and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Science in Finance from Texas A&M University. Mrs. Triepke is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Jonathan Tyroch | Manager
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Jonathan Tyroch is a Manager at VMG Health and has provided valuation, transaction advisory and operational consulting services to clients across multiple healthcare segments. He has experience with ambulatory surgery centers, physician practice, physical therapy, specialty, long term and acute care hospital, radiation oncology and diagnostic imaging segments. Mr. Tyroch also has experience in joint venture development and sell-side transaction advisory. His clients include for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ancillary services providers, development and other publicly owned and privately held healthcare entities.
Mr. Tyroch is a research associate and collaborator in the development and publication of the Intellimarker Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study published annually by VMG Health. The Intellimarker presents hundreds of operating and financial benchmarking statistics using data from approximately 200 ambulatory surgery centers from around the country.
Mr. Tyroch received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, and is currently pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute.
Ben Ulrich | Manager, CVA