About Us
Summary | Management Profiles
Raymond J. Brooks – President (rjbrooks@pchcapital.net)
Ray has over 15 years of experience in healthcare debt, risk management, capital markets and asset management. Throughout his career, he has structured and executed billions of dollars in healthcare loans and interest rate risk-related transactions as an institutional investor and trader. Ray has advised the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the impact of rural health policy on the capital markets and served as the healthcare advisor to the conservator and receiver appointed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on certain publicly issued debt.
Prior to Pine Creek, Ray was a member of Price Waterhouse’s privatization and enterprise restructuring group, where he advised foreign governments on the financing of government-owned businesses. Ray began his career structuring, trading and managing fixed income investments and interest rate risk management products for Lehman Bros., The Gelderman Group and Aubrey G. Lanston / Industrial Bank of Japan. He is a former member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the International Monetary Market. Ray received a Master of Business Administration in finance from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in economics and business administration from St. John’s University.
Joseph K. Hampe – Chief Credit Officer (jhampe@pchcapital.net)
Joe has over 25 years of experience in healthcare finance, operations, reimbursement and auditing. He has served within the industry in the capacities of chief financial officer and controller. His experience includes the turnaround of a financially troubled, small rural hospital and in a large, nonprofit Catholic healthcare system. Joe has developed numerous financial models for healthcare financial analysis and for the enhancement of operational efficiencies. Recent clients include nonprofit healthcare organizations ranging from academic medical centers to rural community providers and Critical Access Hospitals, where he has evaluated the credit strength of the facilities and developed customized plans of finance.
Prior to Pine Creek, Joe was the chief financial officer for a rural, acute care healthcare facility. Joe began his career in healthcare operations as an operating room technician for seven years. His healthcare finance experience began with KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP in the healthcare audit division. Joe received a Master of Business Administration from Webster University in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Illinois State University, and is a certified public accountant. He is a registered securities representative and a municipal securities principal.
Jerry Hoover – Vice President (jhoover@pchcapital.net)
Prior to joining Pine Creek, Jerry spent four-and-a-half years at D.A. Davidson & Co’s, Health Care Finance Group as vice president of product development. He was responsible for expanding their healthcare facility client base in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Before venturing into the private sector, Jerry spent over 15 years as the executive director of the Montana Health Facility Authority where he closed over 100 health facility loans in excess of $800 million. He expanded the Authority's financing programs from two to six which made capital financing available to nearly every hospital in Montana.
Jerry is a member of the Montana Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and has served on the board of directors as its membership chairman. He was a director of the National Council of Health Facilities Financing Authorities serving one term as its president. He also participated on the Governor’s Capital Advisory Council in Montana for 15 years. As a native Montanan, Jerry pursued and received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Montana State University and University of Montana, respectively.
Terry Leffew – Vice President (tleffew@pchcapital.net)
Prior to joining Pine Creek, Terry was the director of finance for American Suburban Utilities, Inc., a privately owned, for-profit water and waste water utility company. As director of finance, he provided financial advice on all aspects of the utility company. Prior to the American Suburban Utilities company, Terry was a financial advisor with Crowe Chizek and Company in Indianapolis. He provided financial advice to governmental entities, including county-owned hospitals, cities, towns, counties and school libraries in the issuance of municipal debt.
Terry also served as a director for Banc One Capital Markets where he was a municipal bond and note underwriter and secondary market trader. In this position, he managed a $10 million municipal bond secondary market trading portfolio and was very active in the competitive new issue municipal bond market, resulting in consistent annual profits. In addition, he was the lead underwriting manager in the negotiated new issue market for loans as large as $385 million. Terry has a Bachelor of Science in finance and marketing from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He is an active member, and former president, of the Indianapolis Stock and Bond Club.
Kristin S. Morton – Marketing Coordinator (ksmorton@pchcapital.net)
Kiki has spent over 10 years in marketing, sales and event planning. Her experience includes event planning and building and coordinating marketing and sales teams in both nonprofit and for profit sectors.
Prior to joining Pine Creek, Kiki worked in marketing for Project Reflect. Kiki’s career began at Maritz, Inc. as an on-site operations director of worldwide programs. Kiki received a bachelor’s degree in human ecology from the University of Tennessee.
Pine Creek Healthcare Capital Advisors
Ruben J. King-Shaw, Jr. – Advisor (rkingshaw@parmallc.com)
Ruben Jose King-Shaw, Jr. is active in the healthcare industry where he is an advocate, a shareholder, a board member and an advisor to some of the sector's most innovative companies. Ruben is an advisor to Pine Creek and serves on the board of directors of the following corporations: WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG) of Tampa, Florida; Quality of Life Health Care, Inc. of Fairfield, Iowa; Athenahealth, Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts; and The Scripps Florida Funding Corporation of Palm Beach, Florida. In addition, Ruben is trustee of The Florida Education Foundation of Tallahassee, Florida and is vice chairman and senior policy advisor at the Solutions Institute of Bethesda, Maryland. Ruben has an extensive expertise in health policy, economics and finance.
After 15 years in building and operating health insurance companies in Florida, Ruben served Florida Governor Jeb Bush as secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Ruben then served in the George W. Bush Administration from 2001 to 2003 where he was the chief operating officer and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and senior advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Ruben is a graduate of Cornell University’s prestigious ILR School and holds a Master of International Business from Florida International University and the Instituto de Empresas in Madrid, Spain. He also holds a Master of Health Services Administration from Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
Steve Scoville – Design and Construction Advisor (steve@scovilleandassociates.com)
Steve has 36 years of nationwide experience in the healthcare industry through the management of design and construction of over 250 healthcare projects. Completed projects range from small rural hospital renovations to replacement of large urban facilities.
His career began in 1972 as a laborer for a general contractor and has included work as design and construction manager of the Eastern Group for Hospital Corporation of America, with responsibility for concurrent projects totaling $250 million. He holds an unlimited commercial/industrial/residential general contractor’s license in the state of Tennessee. Steve has contacts throughout the country in areas of healthcare design, equipment planning, facilities operations and construction.
Wes Watkins – Advisor (wes@weswatkins.com)
With over 40 years of public service, Watkins has spent his career representing the people of Oklahoma. Watkins served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 20 years from Oklahoma’s Third Congressional District, a largely southern and eastern Oklahoma region known for its economic challenges.
After serving in the U.S. Congress from 1977 to 1990, Watkins ran for governor of Oklahoma and later became president of World Export Services, Inc, an investment and consulting company. After Representative Bill Brewster announced his retirement from the Third District seat in 1995, Watkins was elected to his former seat in November 1996, and served in the U.S. House until 2002.
From 1980 to 1990, Watkins served on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee and became a founding member of the Congressional Trade Caucus and president of the House Rural Caucus. Watkins was the only member of Congress in U.S. history to have served on all three major Congressional economic committees: Appropriations, Budget, and Ways and Means. He began his public career in 1975 when he was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate.
William R. McGhee, MD – Physician Advisor
Dr. William McGhee has been practicing internal medicine for over 30 years. After owning his own private practice for 18 years, Dr. McGhee joined Muhlenberg Medical Center in 1996, where he still practices internal medicine. Dr. McGhee completed his medical internship and internal medicine internship at St. Joseph’s Infirmary in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as an internal medicine internship at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, in Lexington. Dr. McGhee received his Doctor of Medicine and Bachelor of Science from the University of Kentucky.
Gary D. Givens, MD – Physician Advisor
Dr. Gary Givens is a staff physician at Muhlenberg Medical Center in Powderly, Kentucky. Prior to joining Muhlenberg Medical Center in 1996, Dr. Givens owned his own private practice for 28 years. Dr. Givens completed his medical internship at Baptist Hospital, in Nashville, Tennessee, and served two years in the military as a hospital staff physician in Dugway, Utah. Dr. Givens received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Tennessee and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Louisville.