> MBA | University of Chicago Booth School of Business
> BBA | University of Michigan Ross School of Business
> Series 7
> Series 63
> Series 79
> President | University of Michigan Ross Club of Chicago
> Member | Economic Club of Chicago
Anand Christopher is the Managing Partner and Founder of Claremont Hudson, a Chicago-based investment bank specializing in middle-market healthcare transactions. With over 20 years of experience in investment banking and consulting, Anand leads the firm in providing tailored M&A, capital raising and strategic advisory services to clients in behavioral health, dialysis, dental, pediatric therapy, clinical training, surgery centers and healthcare technology (HCIT).
At Claremont Hudson, Anand’s leadership is central to driving the firm’s commitment to collaboration and delivering creative solutions and actionable strategies. With established relationships among leading healthcare private equity funds, family offices, alternative lenders and strategic investors, the firm is uniquely positioned to help clients achieve transformative outcomes. Anand’s experience spans advising on platform and tuck-in acquisitions, commercial due diligence, new market entry, competitive positioning and growth strategy. His experience also includes business valuation, corporate restructuring and consumer insights, among other areas of strategic advisory.
Anand is the current President of the University of Michigan Ross Club of Chicago, a member of The Economic Club of Chicago and a member of the University Club of Chicago.
He is a Registered Representative of Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC.
Federico Baradello is Founder and CEO of Finalis, the leading platform enabling securities brokerages to operate legally and compliantly. The firm delivers regulatory affiliation and compliance back-office solutions that supports a wide range of dealmaking including: M&A, capital raising, private placements, direct participation programs, fintech marketplaces and alternative investment sponsors.
Federico has an extensive background in M&A and private placements. As an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Federico managed M&A deals for blue-chip private equity firms and strategics from term sheet negotiations and auction bids to closings, and previously, worked as an associate at a London-based private equity firm, supporting cross-border deals in Europe and Australia.
Securities are offered through Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA/SIPC. Claremont Hudson LLC and Finalis Securities LLC are separate, unaffiliated entities.
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Anand Christopher is the Managing Partner and Founder of Claremont Hudson. With over 20 years of experience leading growth strategy projects, he brings a results-oriented focus to all client engagements. He has led successful projects in areas including strategic planning, new market entry, acquisition strategy / commercial due diligence, product & pricing strategy, and capital raising for clients ranging from middle market to Fortune 500 companies. He has delivered tangible value to clients in a broad range of industries and has developed a deep expertise in healthcare, technology, and private equity. Previous engagements include commercializing a voice-enabled electronic health record (EHR) platform for a leading critical care health system, developing an acquisition roadmap for a Fortune 20 healthcare company, spearheading diligence on a telemedicine target for a leading healthcare supplier, conducting a commercial diligence study to support acquisition of a multi-billion dollar health insurance carrier, and establishing a telebehavioral health partnership for a primary care focused telehealth platform.
Anand holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, as well as Series 7, Series 79, and Series 63 FINRA licenses. Anand currently serves as President of the University of Michigan Ross Club of Chicago and is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago.
Anand Christopher is a Registered Representative of Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC.
Mitchell Kentor, M.D. is a board-certified emergency physician who is passionate about the intersection between business and medicine. He believes in working to improve the healthcare system from the bedside and beyond which has led him to hold a multitude of roles.
Clinically, he has worked in diverse settings from level 1 trauma centers to urgent care. He also has experience in hospital operations including serving on numerous hospital committees such as process improvement, disaster medicine, ethics, and COVID response teams. Additionally, he has worked in venture capital and consulting as the president and founder of MK Business Consultants. Mitch is also involved in organized medicine with the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians and is on the editorial advisory board of ACEP NOW.
Mitch earned his BBA with High Distinction from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, his M.D. from the Wayne State University School of Medicine, and he completed his emergency medicine residency at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Currently he is an accelerated evening and weekend MBA candidate at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.
Lynn Compton Seay is an experienced consultant focusing on operations transformation and corporate strategy within the healthcare industry. As a former clinician and operating executive, she possesses a deep understanding of front line care delivery and enterprise management. Lynn began her career as a registered nurse and provided direct patient care across the full spectrum of provider environments, from a large, nationally ranked academic medical center to a small, faith-based community hospital. She has experience in a broad array of clinical contexts, from acute inpatient medical-surgical and critical care to outpatient in-home care. Most recently, Lynn served as Vice President and General Manager of Nursing Programs at Kaplan North America, where she led and grew a division that creates and delivers digital products for the institutional & retail nursing education markets. This role included P&L ownership, budget management and forecasting.
Lynn began her management consulting career at McKinsey & Company, where she worked broadly across functions (operations, strategy and org) and developed depth in large-scale enterprise transformations.
Lynn holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and bachelor degrees in Nursing and Fine Art from Mount Saint Mary’s College and New York University respectively.
Todd Ruddick leverages over a decade of experience across large corporations and early stage businesses to finding solutions that benefit clients. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies on implementing large scale pricing strategies that have returned over $50 million in additional revenue and led to improvements in their sales channel approach. On the other end of the spectrum, he has worked with start-ups in defining initial pricing and how that fits into their overall launch strategy. He has also worked extensively on revenue management and using dynamic pricing as an approach to better manage variable demand when supply is relatively fixed.
Todd holds a BSE in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, an SM in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA with a focus on Operations Strategy from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
