Our Team
Jim Little
Managing Partner and Founder
Jim Little is a founding partner of NCP and has 25 years of hands-on experience managing and investing in entrepreneurial companies. Jim's most notable success was Complete Health Services with which he was involved from its start-up through its sale to UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). Complete Health grew to be the largest independent health plan in the Southeast.
Jim has also invested in, and in many cases been actively involved in, over a dozen companies. These companies have created more than 1,400 jobs and provided significant returns to their shareholders. His entrepreneurial management and investment experience includes a number of successful companies in the healthcare and technology sectors. Jim currently serves on the Boards of Cogent Partners, PCM Capital and Safe Harbour Underwriters. Jim was previously Chairman of the Board of former portfolio company HospiScript which sold to Catalyst Health Solutions (NASDAQ:CHSI)
Jim earned a BS in Engineering from Auburn University.
James Outland
Managing Partner and Founder
James Outland is a founding partner of NCP and has 20 years of private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and business development leadership experience in both entrepreneurial business ventures and well-established corporations. Prior to co-founding New Capital Partners, James served in various key roles in the healthcare industry as an officer of UnitedHealth Group after its acquisition of Complete Health Services.
James currently serves portfolio companies as Chairman of the Board for Senior Whole Health and Prism Pointe Technologies, as well as serving on the Board of Teladoc Medical Services and Styx Capital. James also served as the CEO for Senior Whole Health during its first year of operations in addition to his role as Chairman of the Board. James previously served as a Board Member of former portfolio company Awarix which sold to McKesson (NYSE:MCK). James was recognized as one of Birmingham's "Top 40 Under 40" in 2004 and served as the 2005 President of the Birmingham Venture Club.
James earned a BA in Political Science and a BFA in Advertising from Southern Methodist University.
Will Matthews
Partner
Will Matthews joined NCP in 2009, adding twenty years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing and investment management in privately-owned and publicly-traded companies to the NCP team.
Prior to NCP, Will served as EVP and CFO at Alabama National BanCorporation (and its predecessor companies) from 1991 through the company's sale in 2008 to RBC. During their tenure at Alabama National, the management team completed 18 acquisitions and grew the company from a privately-owned bank with $350 million in assets to a publicly traded entity with total assets of over $8 billion. Employment grew by over 1,500 associates during this time.
In addition to his CFO duties, Will had management responsibility for several operating divisions including the company's wealth management division, its fixed income investment division and its real estate capital markets division. He chaired the management risk oversight committee, the asset-liability committee and served on the boards of several subsidiary companies. In 2008, the management and board led the sale of the company to Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY) for $1.6 billion. Subsequent to the sale, Will served as CFO for the $32 billion RBC Bank (USA) until he joined NCP.
Will earned an AB in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Jack Sayler
Operating Partner
Jack Sayler formally joined NCP as an Operating Partner in 2009 after working with NCP's founders in a variety of roles since 1992. Most recently, Jack served on the senior management team as Vice President of Business Development for HospiScript, a former NCP portfolio company. He and his team were responsible for growing annual revenues from $20 million to $90 million in the three years prior to HospiScript's sale to Catalyst Health Solutions (NASDAQ:CHSI).
Jack's responsibility as Operating Partner is to build and professionalize the sales organizations of portfolio companies. In this pursuit, he draws on his rich experience of leading sales teams in a variety of organizations. Jack began his career at Allnet Communications where he turned around under-performing sales offices at the business-only long distance provider. Jack then joined Complete Health to build and run its sales organization until its sale to UnitedHealth Group in 1994. Jack spent the following 10 years, as founder or co-founder, in four successful startup entrepreneurial efforts. Today these companies generate over $500 million in combined annual revenues.
Jack earned a BS in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia.
Jarred Brown
Business Development Team
Jarred Brown joined NCP after beginning his career at Sellers, Richardson, Watson, Haley & Logan, LLP as a Senior Associate where he managed tax compliance for privately held businesses and high net worth individuals. At NCP, Jarred has worked with a number of Fund I portfolio companies including serving as interim Controller for Awarix. He managed the day-to-day financial requirements and the financial due diligence during the company's sale to McKesson Corporation.
Jarred is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a BS in Accounting from Birmingham-Southern College.
Adam Cranford
Business Development Team
Adam Cranford joined NCP after completing his MBA at the University of Chicago. Before graduate school, Adam worked for Dollar General Corporation. During his time at the Fortune 500 retailer, Adam served as an Executive Group Analyst for the company's executive team and managed a national store restructuring project. In Adam's final year at DG, he supported the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts buyout of Dollar General as a Senior Manager.
Adam earned a BS in Management and MS in International Affairs from Georgia Tech. Additionally, Adam holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Bryan Wetta
Business Development Team
Bryan Wetta joined NCP after completing his MBA at the University of Chicago. Before graduate school, Bryan was a Managing Consultant in IBM's Global Business Services division for six years. Bryan worked closely with venture-backed software companies to develop, sell and implement innovative new products at the largest commercial banks in the United States.
Bryan earned a BBA in MIS and Finance at the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Cassie Ratliff
Business Development Team
Cassie Ratliff joined NCP after graduating from Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining NCP fulltime, Cassie interned with NCP and contributed in a variety of equity and structured finance transactions across a range of industries. Cassie also conducted primary research and analyzed healthcare industry trends to both influence strategy at NCP portfolio companies and inform NCP's investment focus in a number of industry sub-segments.
Cassie earned a BA with a double major in Economics and Psychology from Vanderbilt University.
Seton Marshall
Transaction Team
Seton Marshall joined NCP after completing his MBA at the Darden Graduate School of Business. Prior to Darden, Seton was Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Eos Airlines. While with Eos, Seton ran the financial planning group and raised a private secondary offering for the airline. Prior to Eos, Seton was an Associate in the Restructuring Group of Lazard Ltd. During his time at Lazard, Seton worked on a range of complex restructuring and corporate finance transactions in both the New York and London offices.
Seton earned a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University and an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Travis Meyer
Transaction Team
Travis Meyer joined NCP after working for three years in commercial real estate development in the Southeast. Prior to NCP, he was an investment manager and a development associate for Hawthorn Real Estate in Birmingham. While at Hawthorn, Travis was responsible for determining exit and refinancing strategies for properties, analyzing the performance of current holdings, underwriting new developments and investments, managing real estate transactions, and conducting property and market due diligence. Prior to Hawthorn, Travis worked in New Orleans for Property-One as a development associate.
Travis earned a BS in Finance from Tulane University.
Lee Ashford Broughton
Transaction Team
Lee Ashford Broughton joined NCP after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining NCP fulltime, Lee Ashford was an intern at NCP and contributed to a variety of equity and structured finance transactions across a range of industries. Before NCP, she worked in numerous private wealth management and commercial banking roles.
Lee Ashford earned a BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Pless
Finance Team
Paul Pless joined NCP after working in the auditing practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for three years. As a Senior Accountant, Paul primarily served the Oil and Gas Industry, but also worked with Insurance, Investment Management, and Real Estate clients in PwC's Birmingham office. He was responsible for creating audit plans, managing staff accountants and engagement specialists, and performing tests of control and substantive auditing procedures.
Paul is a Certified Public Accountant and earned both a BA and Masters of Accountancy from the University of Mississippi.
Courtney Sodhi
Office Management
Courtney Sodhi joined NCP after three years as a commercial credit analyst with The Loan Depot in Chattanooga, TN. Her responsibilities were underwriting commercial loans using conventional, 504, SBA, construction and conduit loans.
Courtney earned a BS in Finance from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.