David Frishman
Real estate investor & operator
Open to assignments
Senior talent on demand, for your next move
Strategic advice & executive talentFor PE, founders, and family firms
Board directors, interim leaders, diligence support, and coaching from former CEOs, CFOs and operators who help you unlock and deliver value.
Who we are
Operators who have done it
Birmingham Advisors is an independent, founder-owned firm of successful business leaders. We are former C-suite executives, operators and founders serving mid-market PE firms, founder-led companies and family businesses going through transactions, transitions and strategic change.
15
Partners
60
Advisors
2,500+
Transactions
10
Industries
$5M–$1B
Target deal size
Why Birmingham
Not bankers. Not brokers. Not headhunters.
We listen, study, and connect you with advisors and operators you can trust. We work on a straightforward, hourly-fee basis. No conflicts, no transaction-based incentives, no upfront charges. Turn us on when you need us, off when you don’t.
What We Do
Strategy & Execution
Strategy
Critical Advisory Roles
Every role, described in full, on the Services page.
Advisors
For Strategy & Execution
A look at this month’s featured Advisors.
Tim Young
Former CFO — public & private companies
Open to assignments
Colleen Van Ham
Former CEO — health plans & benefits
Open to assignments
The BA Network
Skill, depth, experience that change your trajectory
Here’s the kind of experience you get when you tap the senior operators at Birmingham Advisors.
Industry depth
Healthcare & benefits
A former health-plan CEO who led a $1.2B integration. A commercial chief who built and sold benefits businesses. Payer and provider operators, end to end.
PayerProviderValue-based care
Functional depth
The CFO lineup
Public-company and PE-backed CFOs who have scaled revenue from $66M to $850M, run US GAAP conversions and SOX readiness, and closed the books through IPO readiness.
Public-companyPE-backedClose & controls
Industry depth
Life sciences & biopharma
A commercial chief who led global strategic marketing for a ~$4B gene therapy, and C-suite leaders who have launched therapies from rare disease to $1B primary-care franchises.
BiopharmaLaunchCommercial
Functional depth
Human capital & M&A
Advisors on 2,500+ transactions — including senior operating executives from marquee private equity firms who ran human capital across hundreds of portfolio companies.
DiligenceIntegrationPE
Owner’s seat
Founders & family businesses
Operators who have built, owned, and run founder-led businesses — and guided family firms through transitions where the company and the family are the same thing.
Founder-ledFamily-ownedTransitions
Global reach
Where they’ve operated
Operators who have built and run businesses across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas — including on-the-ground experience through two Gulf conflicts.
AsiaMiddle EastEurope
Human capital & M&A across 2,500+ deals
Turnarounds and exit readiness
Founder & family transitions
Value creation across the hold
The full roster opens to members
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About
Meet the managing partners
BA is an independent, founder-owned firm. Here’s who runs it.
Jeff Cox
Human capital & M&A
Chicago, ILEmail Jeff
Dan McGuire
Operations, data & AI
Denver, COEmail Dan
Scott Bontempo
Human capital & M&A
Portland, OREmail Scott
Dennis Olis
Finance & CFO
Naples, FLEmail Dennis
John Ryan
General management & growth
Chicago, ILEmail John
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