Healthcare Investment Banking

John Carron, MBA

Partner

jcarron@merrittadvisory.com

Education

Yale School of Management
Master of Business Administration

College of Holy Cross
B.A.

Series 7, 62, and 24 licenses

About

John joined Merritt Healthcare Advisors (MHA) as a Partner in 2021, specializing in M&A and capital raising.  John works closely with key stakeholders, including physician entrepreneurs across a range of industry sub-verticals. Prior to joining MHA, he worked in investment banking and investment management at Chase Capital Partners, Morgan Stanley, and as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.  Over the course of his close to 30-year career, John has built teams and businesses, including overseeing a global team managing over $40Bn in AUM as a portfolio manager and has helped numerous companies negotiate and structure billions of dollars worth of capital raises as well as M&A deals as an advisor. He brings extensive transactional and capital structure expertise to his clients.  

John is a former member of Jesuit Volunteer Corps board, a national volunteer program that serves poor and marginalized communities and remains an active ad hoc advisor. One of John’s great passions is long distance running. 

John holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross. He is a registered investment banking agent with Series 7, 63, and 24 licenses.   

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Matt Searles, MBA

Partner

Duke University
Master of Business Administration

University of Virginia
B.A.

Series 79 and 63 Licenses

msearles@merrittadvisory.com

Rich Searles

Partner

Wake Forest University
B.A. in Economics

Series 79 and 63 Licenses

rsearles@merrittadvisory.com

John Carron, MBA

Partner

Yale School of Management
Master of Business Administration

College of Holy Cross
B.A.

Series 7, 62, and 24 licenses

jcarron@merrittadvisory.com

Zak Eisenberg

Vice President

Boston University
B.A. Economics; International Relations

Series 79, 62, and SIE

zeisenberg@merrittadvisory.com

Chris Carlesi

Vice President

Binghamton University
B.A. Pre-Medicine & Biology

Series 79, 62, and SIE Licenses

ccarlesi@merrittadvisory.com

Jay Pruzansky, DPM, MBA

Managing Director – Business Development

Brooklyn College
Bachelor of Arts in Health Science

Temple University
Doctor of Podiatric Medicine in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery

Santa Clara University
Master of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance

jay@merrittadvisory.com

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