James V. Buzzitta, M.D.

Founder and Managing Partner

James Buzzitta completed his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan, graduating with honors. He is also a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Buzzitta completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Butterworth Hospital, where he won numerous awards, including the Resident of the Year Award. In 1983, Dr. Buzzitta began building his private practice after he joined a local Internal Medicine group. Then, in 1989, he developed Michigan Medical, P.C. (MMPC), a large physician-owned and governed medical corporation located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he served as chief executive officer. In 2007, Dr. Buzzitta retired from MMPC and shifted his focus to on Hughes Management, L.C., a private, family-owned real estate development company that had an emphasis on healthcare facilities. 2015 brought an additional evolution to the family office when Dr. Buzzitta began his involvement in private equity and angel investments. In 2018, Hughes Management Group was formed to encapsulate the Buzzitta family’s real estate, private equity, and angel investments. Dr. Buzzitta, who serves as president and chairman of Hughes Management Group, frequently speaks on many healthcare topics including physician integration, healthcare reform, and economics. He also serves on several boards and committees on local, regional and national levels.

Gregory J. Corona

Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer

Greg is the Chairman and Founder of Lakewood & Company, the successor entity to Lakewood Capital which he founded in 2005. Greg has more than 30 years of operating and investment experience as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director in the areas of manufacturing, technology, financial services, private equity and venture capital. He has been the lead principal or a participant in more than 50 institutional investments and transactions across various industries in the United States, Europe and China. Greg was also an Executive Advisor to DE Shaw where he provided operational and strategic assistance to numerous investments in the Industrials and Special Situations sectors. He was one of the original partners of Paladin Capital Group, a multi-stage private equity firm with over $1 billion under management and currently serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of certain Lakewood investments.

Greg received a Bachelors Degree in Finance from Michigan State University and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Detroit. He has completed Executive Education Programs at the Harvard Business School and the National Association of Corporate Directors where he received the Certificate of Director Education.

Daniel Grevengoed

Chief Finance Officer

Daniel Grevengoed, CPA, CMPE serves as the Chief Finance Officer at Lakewood Hughes. Dan is a top-performing and highly accomplished Business Development Executive with extensive experience in all aspects of acquisitions, provider recruitment, key accounts, due diligence, financial management/analysis, implementations, and relationship management. He has a proven aptitude for generating growth opportunities, building key relationships, and overseeing high-profile projects and initiatives. Dan is involved in finance and accounting for Lakewood Hughes along with providing financial insight and industry knowledge into the evaluation of potential investments as part of the due diligence process.

Prior to joining Lakewood Hughes, Dan was the Vice President of Business Development for Spectrum Health where he spearheaded the business development and planning processes for the Spectrum Health Medical Group. Dan led the business planning team, with strategy and business plan development to support regional and service line expansions. Dan led the business planning team with the development of recruitment staffing and facility plans to support the growth of the Spectrum Health Medical Group allowing it to grow from 50 providers to over 1,500 providers. Prior to working with Spectrum Health, Dan was the Chief Financial Officer of Michigan Medical PC, the largest independent physician group in West Michigan where he directed all accounting, purchasing, billing, contracting, and information system functions for organization. Prior to MMPC, Dan served as the Management Consulting Services Partner, and Chair, Medical Services Team, for Beene, Garter, LLP. CPAs.

Dan is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Medical Practice Executive. Dan received his BS in Accounting from Western Michigan University.

Michael Jacob

Vice President of Investor Relations

Michael Jacob is the Vice President of Investor Relations at Lakewood Hughes. He accountable for creating and presenting a consistently applied investment message to the investment community on behalf of a company, and for monitoring and presenting to management the opinions of the investment community regarding the company's performance.

Prior to joining Lakewood Hughes, Mike served the position of Director of New Business for Hughes Management Group where he split time between the real estate portfolio and the private equity and venture capital investments. He was integral in both new and existing partners to develop and expand opportunities. Michael also had many years of experience in secondary education as a high school administrator. As the Dean of Students at Catholic Central high School (Grand Rapids, MI). Michael provided proactive leadership to engage all stakeholders in the delivery of programs and services to support the students’ academic achievement, personal and social development. Prior to administration, Michael was a professional educator teaching the subjects of economics and history.

Michael received his B.S. from Grand Valley State University and M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame.

Kelly Bussey

Senior Vice President Finance

Kelly Bussey brings Lakewood Hughes 30 years of accounting experience including all aspects of financial set up, preparation and review with a focus on accuracy and detail. Kelly’s extensive experience in Real Estate and Family Office companies along with her ability to streamline processes and consult has been transformative for Lakewood Hughes.

Kelly received her BS in Accounting from Oakland University, MS in Administration from Central Michigan University and holds her State of Michigan Real Estate Brokers License.

Tesha Gould

Executive Assistant

Tesha was recruited from Hughes Management Group to contribute over 25 years of accounting experience to Lakewood Hughes. Working closely with the controller, Tesha has extensive experience as an Accounting Assistant in addition to executive assistant responsibilities. Prior to Hughes, Tesha worked as an accountant for a large labor union. She was responsible for administering payroll, human resources, budget forecasts, accounts payable/receivable and financial reporting not only to the International Union but to the Department of Labor.

Tesha holds a bachelor’s degree in business management with a minor in accounting from Ferris State University.

Dan Shuart

Strategic Advisor

Dan is a Strategic Advisor for Lakewood Hughes. Dan is responsible for supporting select acquisition due diligence and portfolio company monitoring.

Dan is a Managing Principal at and co-owner at Eagle Point Capital, a value-driven registered investment advisor in public equity markets. Prior to Eagle Point Capital, Dan was a member of the investment team at Blackford Capital, a lower middle-market private equity investment firm based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Mr. Shuart holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Nick Haveman

Analyst

Nick Haveman is an Analyst for Lakewood Hughes. Nick is involved in finance and accounting for Lakewood Hughes in addition to supporting the due diligence process for potential investments and acquisitions. Prior to joining Lakewood Hughes, Nick spent five years in the audit practice at Crowe LLP serving middle-market clients across a variety of industries.

Nick received his BS in Accounting with a minor in Economics from Calvin College, graduating with honors, and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

Jim Aviles

Operating Partner - Financial Services

Jim has over 29 years as a senior executive in the electronic payments and financial services industries. He has served as an executive in the Merchant Services Division of Bank of America and subsequently as Senior Vice President of Product, Technology and Marketing for BA Merchant Services, Inc., where he led the IPO and contributed to the creation of more than $1 billion of market value. In 1999, he became a founder of Merchant e-Solutions, Inc. (“MeS”), an electronic payments technology company, which was sold to Cielo S.A. in 2012 for $670 million. Since the sale of MeS, Jim has maintained his engagement in the electronic payments and financial services industries and is active as a member of several Board of Directors. He is also an investor and advisor to several early and middle stage companies in financial services including businesses in both Brazil and the United Kingdom.

Jim graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Chetan Venkatesh

Strategic Advisor – Software and Infrastructure

Chetan is CEO and President of Macrometa Corp. and a repeat entrepreneur and executive focused on building enterprise data center, cloud infrastructure and software products & companies. He brings a strong competency in helping early stage teams identify and exploit product-market fit, develop early customer wins, develop strong channel and enterprise direct sales motions for scaling startups from pre-revenue to growth stage and profitability. Chetan is very experienced in building strong and productive teams in sales, product development, product management, stage centric positioning with customers and partners, venture scaling and capital raising.

Prior to founding and managing Macrometa, Chetan was founder, CTO and then CEO of Atlantis Computing – a pioneering software defined storage company that won international acclaim for its use of smart data virtualization to accelerate and deliver data tor mission critical applications to the Fortune 1000.

Linda Chamberlain, Ph.D.

Strategic Advisor - Technology Commercialization and Venture Capital

Linda Chamberlain, Ph.D. currently has leadership roles in two industries: venture investing with Hughes Management, a private family office investment portfolio, and in academics, through the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Technology Commercialization Office, where Linda works with faculty, staff and students in advancing their research and innovations. This work highly leverages Dr. Chamberlain’s 25+ year career in innovation, new product development and commercialization. Dr. Chamberlain has led strategic business and product development at Fortune 200, mid-sized and start-up companies, including Shell Chemical, Honeywell, and Johnson Controls. Linda developed a keen sense of venture capital investing through her role as Director with the Michigan Accelerator Fund, and as CEO of NanoRETE, a grant and venture funded start-up delivering new diagnostic technology for tuberculosis. Prior to this, she led global strategy and new product commercialization for Global Forex Trading, which was acquired in 2012 for >$100M. The 7 years prior, Linda was Executive Director of the West Michigan Science and Technology Initiative, a business accelerator focused on commercialization of life science products and technologies, as well as led the relaunch of GVSU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and has been recognized for her academic abilities serving for 4 years as Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at GVSU’s Frederik Meijer Honors College. Linda is owner and principal of InnoValuation®, a company that focuses on insuring companies have the processes and performance to extract the full value from their innovations.

Dr. Chamberlain received both her BS and PhD in Chemistry from Purdue University, and has 19 patents issued for catalyst, polymer, and product/process development. Currently, Dr. Chamberlain is serving on the boards of Paragon Die & Engineering, Lilypad Labs, Incredible Foods, The Patient Company, and Frederik Meijer Gardens.

Dr. Paul A. Conley

Strategic Advisor

Dr. Conley is a Managing Director at Paladin Capital Group, where he leads new investments and serves as an active Director on many of Paladin’s portfolio company Boards. He joined Paladin after more than 15 years of previous R&D and entrepreneurial experience. As founding CEO of BrightScale, Dr. Conley led the commercialization of a patented multi-core microprocessor technology in the HDTV market. As founding CEO of Appfluent Technology, he led the commercialization of patented in-memory distributed database technologies in the enterprise IT market. Prior to taking the entrepreneurial route, he spent nearly a decade in multidisciplinary R&D roles in the areas of high-performance computing, applied physics and biomedical engineering, including postdoctoral positions at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Dr. Conley earned a Ph.D. in Computational Physics and an M.S. in Bioengineering from UC San Diego, as well as an M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Bradley R. Corona

Strategic Advisor

Brad is a Partner at Vertical Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based VC firm, where he focuses on the execution of early-stage venture capital investments in enterprise technology companies. He has more than 13 years of investment and corporate advisory experience with institutions and family offices, including roles as an investment banker, entrepreneur and investment professional. Prior to working with VVP and Lakewood, Brad worked with multiple family offices on the execution of early-stage investments in the areas of technology and healthcare. Previously, he was the CEO of an e-commerce business based in New York. He began his career as an investment banker at Jefferies in the New York office, where he spent six years in the Financial Sponsors and Healthcare groups on capital raising, advisory and M&A engagements.

Brad received his BA in Business Economics from Brown University.

Ish Dugal

Software

Ish S. Dugal is an experienced VC/PE investor and advisor to companies in the areas of technology, energy and healthcare. He currently serves as a senior investment manager in the Silicon Valley office of Rusnano USA, Inc., a $10b global private equity fund.

While pursuing his M.B.A. from Wharton, Mr. Dugal was a principal with Tanager Holdings, a firm with an emphasis on emerging markets. Previously, he held positions as an investment professional in the Washington D.C. office of Paladin Capital Group, a $1b multi-stage global private equity firm, and as an investment analyst at RedShift Ventures, an early-stage technology venture capital firm.

Mr. Dugal has been involved as a board director or observer with more than 12 companies, where he has been active in advising the C-Suite and fellow board members on issues related to strategy, finance and operations.

A few of the successful companies where he has served as an investor include Unitrends, Initiate Systems (acq. by IBM), Crossbow (acq. by Moog), Cloudshield (acq. by SAIC) and QuantaLife (acq. by Bio-Rad). Mr. Dugal has taken part in investing in several companies that have successfully returned between 2-5x invested capital, and one that is valued at greater than 20x invested capital.

Mr. Dugal holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School where he was a Wharton Fellows candidate, and a B.S., Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Maryland – College Park (UMCP).

Christopher J. Hagan

Outside Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP

Christopher Hagan is a Partner at Perkins Coie, LLP and serves as outside legal counsel and advisor to Lakewood. Mr. Hagan focuses his practice in the areas of private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments and general corporate law, with a specialty in representing portfolio companies of private equity funds. Chris has more than 25 years of experience representing private equity investment funds, hedge funds, family offices, fundless sponsors, mezzanine investors and institutional investors. He works with fund clients embarking on leveraged buyouts and buildups, industry consolidations and related formation documents, debt and equity financings, management equity arrangements, venture financings and divestitures. Mr. Hagan has worked on more than 350 mergers and acquisitions and has represented more 75 portfolio companies of private equity funds in his career.

Mr. Hagan earned a JD from Duke University and a B.A. in Economics and Management from Albion College.

Steven Katz

Strategic Advisor – Healthcare

Mr. Katz has been President of Steven Katz & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm, for 35 years. As a result of his extensive experience, he provides a broad range of life science/healthcare-related advisory services, strategic guidance, assists in the development of strategic alliances and licensing transactions, and raises capital. He has also performed thirteen corporate turnaround assignments in the life science/healthcare space as CEO/COO, including U.S. and foreign companies, both public and privately-held. Mr. Katz has completed in excess of 60 strategic alliance and licensing transactions, has been a director of several public and privately-held companies and also participated in three proxy contests. His prior C-suite experience includes Citigroup, National Patent Development Corporation, Revlon, in addition to prior experience at PWC.

Mr. Katz graduated from the City College of New York with a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Accounting.

Anil Menawat

Strategic Advisor – Industrials & Software

Anil S. Menawat is President and COO of Menawat & Co., a provider of People Centric Industry 4.0 software and business advisory services to improve performance and profitability. He has 35 years of experience in manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical, software and consulting industries. Anil was an Assistant Professor at Tulane University with joint appointments in Chemical Engineering and Molecular & Cellular Biology, a Senior Manager, Advanced Manufacturing Technology and New Business Development at Aeroquip Corp., where he successfully applied the ProFIT-MAP™ concepts that played a key role in creating new businesses and a new division for Advanced Computer Technologies.

Anil received a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Systems Theory. He has co-authored two and has published over 25 articles in scientific and trade journals. He was profiled by Business Week magazine for his pioneering work on nonlinear systems theory and is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. Anil has chaired several national and international symposiums and conferences and has served on National Science Foundation technology panel.

Brandon Stafford

Strategic Advisor – Financial Systems & Capital Markets

Brandon Stafford is a seasoned finance executive known for driving operational efficiencies and creating shareholder value. He brings a diverse industry perspective from holding senior finance positions in both public and private companies as well as a variety of industries including manufacturing, hospitality and human capital management. Brandon’s portfolio of companies include Callaway Golf Company, Marriott International, American Capital and Eastridge Workforce Solutions.

Brandon received a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Management with a focus on International Finance from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Sanjeev Varma

Strategic Advisor – Automotive and Industrials

Sanjeev Varma is a professional Investment Banker and currently a Senior Advisor to the Chicago-based Investment Bank Lincoln International. Previously he was a Managing Director with Teneo Capital in New York, a Senior Advisor with Duff & Phelps in Detroit and Senior Advisor to Chanin Capital Partners in Los Angeles. He has 35 years of experience; 20 years in Corporate and 15 years in Consulting and Investment Banking. Sanjeev has provided analysis/evaluation of companies to Bond Holders, Private Equity and Hedge Funds and consulting services to numerous industrial companies. During his two decades in the auto industry he has worked in senior positions at Magna Corporation, New Venture Gear and Chrysler Corp and visited more than 300 Engineering Design and Manufacturing facilities worldwide. He started his professional working career with Chrysler Corporation in 1984.

Sanjeev has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in India, and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University. He has completed Executive Education Programs in Finance & Marketing at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.