ADVANCED STRATEGIC PARTNERS - Key Persons
Dan Lucky is the Co-Founder, and Director of Advanced Strategic Partners. Mr. Lucky has 50 years of experience in Corporate Relationship Management, Information Technology, and Commercial Business Transactions. The last eleven years have been spent in the Merger and Acquisition activity specific to the Laboratory industry. In 2011 and 2017 Dan was rated by Keller Williams Commercial Company as the top producing agent specific to Laboratory Transactions for the US.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Principal of Take Charge
Gary Huff, the founder and principal of Take Charge, LLC, is a clinical lab Industry veteran with over 30 years of experience. Take Charge has an exclusive affiliation with Advanced Strategic Partners to provide consultative services including strategic planning, board advisory and operational guidance.
He has successfully led large, medium, and small commercial clinical laboratories, Fortune 500, public, private equity-backed, and multi-site companies.
Melissa Butterworth - Founder, Managing Director, President
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Managing Director
- President
Melissa Butterworth is the Co-Founder, Managing Director and President of Advanced Strategic Partners. Ms. Butterworth has 26 years of experience specific to the laboratory industry. The last eleven years have been spent in the Merger and Acquisition sector having completed over $1.2B in clinical, anatomical, molecular and hospital outreach laboratory transactions during her career. In addition to her M & A expertise, she has spent the last decade advising Molecular laboratories on new business development initiatives. Included in these initiatives, Melissa served as the worldwide Sales & Marketing VP for PhenoPath Laboratory overseeing both their clinical laboratory and the CRO Division. All of the Advanced Strategic Partners Executives came from the lab industry or have 10 years experience in the laboratory industry which differentiates their team from anyone else in the M&A lab market.
Melissa Butterworth is also the author of "The End Game" A laboratory Owners Guide to Maximizing Valuation. She graduated with honors from the University of North Florida with dual degrees in Marketing and Management.
Rick Cooper joined Advanced Strategic Partners effective January 1, 2023. Prior to joining Advanced, Rick was a Partner at the Law firm of McDonald Hopkins, a national leader in the representation of laboratories and pathology groups.
Rick served as chair of the Firm's Healthcare Restructuring Practice Group and was the chair/co-chair of the firm's National Healthcare Practice Group from 1992-2021. Rick has been involved in over 45 laboratory M&A and recapitalization transactions and developed a legal practice that represented over 350 laboratories and 500 pathology groups nationwide.