Bio

Max is a Partner at Elan Growth Partners and brings more than 7 years of private equity, corporate development and investment banking experience. He is responsible for identifying, evaluating and executing investment opportunities, as well as supporting portfolio company investments. Prior to Elan, Max worked with Craig at Solis Capital Partners where he sourced and evaluated investment opportunities, performed due diligence, coordinated critical elements of the investment execution process, raised debt and co-investment equity capital, structured management equity incentive participation, and supported other strategic initiatives within the portfolio. Prior to working in private equity, Max was the Vice President of Investments at The Ensign Group (NASDAQ: ENSG)—a billion-dollar strategic acquirer of healthcare businesses—where he led the underwriting process on more than $350 million of accretive acquisitions. Before joining The Ensign Group, Max was an Investment Banking Analyst at William Blair & Company in San Francisco, where he worked on M&A transactions in the consumer and retail space. He began his career at Ernst & Young in Silicon Valley providing assurance services to Google, Palantir Technologies and Intuitive Surgical. Max earned a Master of Accountancy degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. He is an active member of the Orange County Chapter of ACG, is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of California (inactive) and is a volunteer leader in the youth organization of his church.