PYA is pleased to announce the addition of well-known Nashville business executive Jeff Pate as its Chief Business Development Officer.
Jeff Pate, a well-known Nashville business executive, has joined PYA as Chief Business Development Officer for the corporation and its affiliated companies.
“Jeff brings a tremendous background, both in healthcare and other business sectors, to the PYA Enterprise,” said Marty Brown, PYA President. The 32-year-old Knoxville-based firm is ranked as the ninth largest privately held healthcare consulting company in the country. PYA has healthcare clients in all 50 states, but also offers tax, accounting, assurance, real estate, claims auditing, medical billing and collections, investment management, and advanced data analytics services.
In his new role, Pate will focus on helping to further grow PYA’s core healthcare business.
“Nashville is a perfect base to launch this enhanced business development strategy for the PYA Enterprise,” Brown said. PYA expanded its office in Brentwood in January 2015 and is in the process of doubling that space to accommodate newly recruited talent.
“We have always served clients in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, but offered many of those services through staff located in Atlanta or Knoxville,” Brown explained. “However, the demand for talent in the Nashville market, both in healthcare and other sectors, has motivated our owners to make an even stronger commitment to this community.”
Pate, who is a native of Nashville, most recently served as Executive Vice President of Business Development for Aegis Health Group. Before that, he was Executive Vice President at W Squared.
“We have been very impressed with Jeff’s professional style, character, and numerous contacts,” Brown said. “He represents the type and level of talent that we are adding to the PYA family as we expand our market share, grow our business, and look for opportunities to offer new advisory services.”
PYA was founded in December 1983. At the time, there were three employees. Today, the PYA enterprise totals about 375 individuals, with roughly two-thirds of them supporting the healthcare consulting, tax, accounting, or assurance service lines. The remaining one-third is based in one of several affiliated companies including Realty Trust Group, PYA Analytics, Ascendant Advisory Group, Management Resource Group, and PYA Waltman Capital.
“I have always heard so many great things about PYA,” Pate said. “I am excited by the Firm’s commitment to Nashville as a major base of operations and the opportunity to help grow the company and its affiliates even more.”
PYA’s Nashville office Managing Principal is Shannon Sumner, a former PYA consultant who returned to the Firm in 2014 after serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer for CHAN HEALTHCARE. Another of the recent additions to PYA’s Nashville team is Larry Felts, a Principal in Audit and Business Advisory Services who spent much of his career with “Big Four” accounting firms.
PYA recently signed on as a key sponsor of the Jumpstart Foundry’s Health:Further Quarterly (H:FQ) series of workshops.
“We believe the alignment with Vic Gatto’s innovative H:FQ programming further reflects our commitment to Nashville and, more importantly, our serving as a thought leader in healthcare innovation,” Brown said.
