Keith Knutsson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

• Founder and CEO of PDG
• Directs overall strategy, investment decisions and daily management
• Responsible for acquisitions, business development, practice integration, and growth and investor relations
• Previously served at an executive level in both the family office and private equity settings in the real estate investment industry in the US and Europe with transactions in excess of $3.2B
• Bachelor’s degree in Business with honors from Emory University
• MBA from Columbia University and INSEAD with honors

Travis Borden
Chief Financial Officer

• Responsible for strategy, M&A, finance and accounting functions at PDG
• Previously an investment banker at UBS, Moelis & Company, and Keene Advisors
• Advised healthcare clients including CVS, Dentsply, Dr. Reddy’s, and Digital Innovation, among others, on a broad range of strategic and financial matters
• Executed 150+ engagements for clients including over $40 billion of M&A, capital raising and restructuring transactions
• Previously on the Board of Directors of Wawa, a $10 billion private company
• Named Boston Business Journal 40-under-40 in 2016
• BS in Finance with honors from Boston College

Matt Waring
Chief Information Officer

• Responsible for identifying and delivering technology solutions that enable our practitioners and staff while improving patient outcomes
• Previously Co-Founder and President of Adcap Network Systems, building it into one of the Top 500 Largest IT Technology Partners in the country
• Earned national recognition for revenue growth and advanced technology delivery capabilities by Inc Magazine, VAR Business Magazine, CRN Magazine, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution and The Atlanta Business Chronical
• Negotiated the sale of Adcap in a successful 8-figure exit
• BS in Finance and Economics from Auburn University
• MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University

Brian Howard
Best Practices Officer and Business Development Director

• Best Practices Officer and Business Development Director for PDG
• Responsible for assessment of individual practice groups acquired by PDG
• E20 years as a private practice plastic surgeon in the Atlanta area
• Serves on the Emory Goizueta Business School Advisory Board and the RAISE Forum
• Double board certified in medicine, in both Plastic Surgery and Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
• BS in Biology with honors from the University of Missouri-Columbia
• MD with honors from the University of Rochester School of Medicine
• MBA with honors from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University

Barry Etra
Investing | Healthcare Technology

Mr. Etra is President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Keiretsu Forum, the largest and most active Angel Investment Group in the world. Keiretsu was the top Angel Investor in the medical device industry in 2017 and 2018. Mr. Etra directs business development for Kickr Design since August of 2016. Kickr Design is an engineer-led prototyping and Design Group in West Midtown Atlanta. Since 2014, Mr. Etra is the Founder of RAISE Forum which works with Emory University to create local funding for in-revenue companies. Since 2007, Mr. Etra has served as Principal of Etra Advisory Group, a capital access and strategic planning company specializing in nonprofit debt funding. Mr. Etra received his BA from Columbia University in the City of New York and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University – Columbia Business School.

Roderick Gilkey, PhD
Mergers & Acquisitions | Mission & Values

Dr. Rick Gilkey is a leading university professor, published author and sought-after speaker and consultant.  He holds a joint appointment at Emory University serving as Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management Goizueta Business School and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine. Rick Gilkey's articles have appeared several leading professional journals, and he has served as an editorial consultant to The New York Times and Fortune Magazine. Rick is co-author of a book on post-merger management entitled "Joining Forces: Creating and Managing Successful Mergers and Acquisitions", (Prentice-Hall), among many others. He is a graduate of Western Michigan University, Harvard University (Master of Divinity Psychology and Religion), and The University of Michigan (Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology).

Reid Maclellan, MD
Healthcare Technology | Telemedicine

Dr. Reid Maclellan, M.D. is the Founder and CEO of Cortina Health, Inc, an artificial intelligence company with a mission to restore the care in healthcare and improve quality of life for both patients and physicians. Dr. Maclellan also is an Instructor of Surgery at both Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital where he practices and teaches translational medical research. As a key opinion leader in the fields of healthcare technology, artificial intelligence, vascular anomalies, and lymphedema, Dr. Maclellan frequently is invited to lecture both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Maclellan completed a general surgery internship at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga. He then completed plastic surgery clinical and research fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Maclellan graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his M.D. from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He earned a post-doctoral Master in Medical Sciences Degree in translational medical research from Harvard Medical School.

Marwan El Khoury
Strategy | Business Development

Mr. El Khoury is Managing Director of Integrale Advisors, LLC, a private alternative Investment firm focused on global real estate investment, asset management and business development. Marwan oversees the firm’s planning, investments and partner alliances in Europe. Marwan founded FAMA Investissements SA, a Swiss-based investment company in 2012, which manages real estate and other financial assets globally. Marwan has a doctorate degree in international economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a doctorate degree in mathematics from Paris-VI-VII University in France. He also holds an MA in International Affairs from Fletcher University and the Kennedy School at Harvard.

James G. Wetrich
Consulting | Executive Coaching | Recruiting

Mr. Wetrich, FACHE, is the CEO of The Wetrich Group of Companies. Founded in 2001, The Wetrich Group offers a wide variety of health care management advisory services including management consulting, executive coaching, executive search, talent assessment, leadership development and outplacement. Mr. Wetrich currently serves on the boards of Optomeditech, Movi Medical, and Debra of America. He is on the Board of Visitors as well as the School of Nursing’s Dean’s Advisory Board of Emory University, the health care advisory board of the Vistria Fund and Radius Ventures, the advisory board of the USC Price School at the University of Southern California and the USC Marshall School of Business Supply Chain Institute. In addition, Mr. Wetrich was recently named to the Board of Councilors at The Carter Center.

Kurt Weingarten, PhD
Healthcare Technologyy | Entrepreneurship

Dr. Weingarten is a technology entrepreneur in lasers and photonics of both VC-funded and self-funded start-ups. He founded and led Time-Bandwidth Products, a producer of ultrafast laser products, through the acquisition by Lumentum (Nasdaq LITE, previously JDSU) in 2014. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, developing an ultrafast picosecond laser to measure high-speed integrated circuit performance. After Stanford, Dr. Weingarten worked at Lightwave Electronics in Silicon Valley from 1988 to 1993, pioneering one of the first commercial diode-pumped picosecond lasers. He then founded Time-Bandwidth Products in Zurich, Switzerland in the mid-1990's to develop simple, robust ultrafast mode-locked lasers for scientific and industrial applications based on SESAM technology. The company was acquired by JDSU in January 2014 to accelerate the adoption of these products into the growing industrial market for ultrafast lasers. Dr. Weingarten’s experience includes company financing including venture capital, company M&A, technology licensing, team building, production scale-up, go-to-market strategies for high-end photonics products, global customer and supply chain approaches. He currently works out of Zurich, Switzerland, helping to catalyze start-ups in technology and photonics in Europe and worldwide.​