Craig Antico

Craig Antico worked for 30-years as a financial industry leader in collections, debt buying, and outsourcing after completing his MBA at Pace University. His career includes employment and consulting assignments with IBM, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, and numerous collections agencies.

In the 90s and 2000s Craig ran the East Coast operations of the distressed debt exchange (DDE) company, eDebt. In 2012, he advised and managed the back-office debt purchasing, data scrubbing, and the mailing of debt abolishing letters for The Rolling Jubilee Fund, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that works to liberate people from debt. Through his efforts and expertise, $50 million in medical debt, student loans and payday loans were abolished. 

Jerry Ashton

Jerry Ashton has more than 40-years’ experience in the credit and collections industry. In 1995, after almost 20 years in the industry, and dissatisfied with the way he saw debtors treated, he founded CFO Advisors, Inc., in New York City. At one point his specially trained teams, from all over the U.S., serviced more than a half-billion dollars annually in receivables.

His clients included Johnson & Johnson, Hearst, Gannett, RR Donnelley, Snelling and Snelling, and Biosense Webster. Jerry is also the co-author of “The Patient, The Doctor, and the Bill Collector: A Medical Debt Survival Guide” which reveals the hidden truths behind the crushing medical debt affecting more than 64 million Americans. 

Robert Goff

With more than 40 years of experience in the health care industry, Robert E. Goff is a recognized expert in care delivery, organization and financing. His career spans a wide range of leadership positions as a hospital administrator, managed care executive, consultant, regulator, and association executive. He’s held an academic posting as an adjunct professor in Managed Care and Healthcare Strategic Planning at the New School University, NY. He’s a frequent lecturer to physicians and community organizations. As an entrepreneur, Goff has been responsible for the development of numerous health care businesses, including one of the first for-profit HMOs in New York State, one of the earliest physician practice management companies, a chain of urgent care centers, the first network model Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans in a secondary market, plus provider-based health care business initiatives. Goff recently retired from service as Executive Director and CEO of University Physicians Network, LLC (UPN) in New York City. 

William von Mueffling

William von Mueffling is president of Cantillon Capital Management, an investment firm with more than $13 billion under management. Mr. von Mueffling was previously a managing director at Lazard Asset Management, where he was responsible for hedge funds.

Prior to joining Lazard, he was with Deutsche Bank in Germany and France. He earned a BA from Columbia College and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Mr. von Mueffling is a member of Columbia Business School’s Board of Overseers, as well as chair of the advisory board for the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing. He also sits on Columbia College’s Board of Visitors and founded whoisontheballot.org, a non-partisan civic engagement program of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

A board member of RIP Medical Debt, Mr. von Mueffling has served on numerous non-profit boards and chaired the Buckley School Board of Trustees until 2016. Currently, he chairs the investment committee for the American Academy of Berlin and serves on the advisory committee for Europe and Central Asia and the investment committee for Human Rights Watch. Mr. von Mueffling received the honor of Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government and served on President George W. Bush’s Working Group on Financial Markets. In 2017, he received the John Jay Award for professional achievement from Columbia College.

Michele Masucci

Michele Masucci serves as general and special counsel to private equity firms and other investors looking to make investments in health care. Michele helps companies address evolving concepts and capitalize on opportunities emerging from the accelerating convergence of health care and technology. She served as chair of the firm’s Health Care Group from 2010 to 2016.

Michele focuses her practice almost exclusively on representing for-profit health care entities in private equity and other corporate transactions. She currently represents health care focused middle-market private equity firms through their initial acquisitions and various add-ons of portfolio companies. As a former in-house counsel at a hospital, her uniquely holistic perspective helps her guide health care clients juggling day-to-day operational issues and new business ventures. With the Accountable Care movement in full effect, Michele advises clients from the initial analysis of their existing models through the formation and implementation of new operational models, such as value-based contracting, ACOs, bundled payments and medical homes.

Ted Sann

Former chairman and chief creative officer of BBDO New York and BBDO North America toiled as an elevator operator, a social worker and a teacher before figuring out he could parlay his MFA from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa into a copywriting job. Sann Spent several decades at BBDO three decades ago (his first ad: a Schafer beer spot direct by Ridley Scott), helping to build the stodgy agency into a creatively minded powerhouse.

Jose N. Penabad

Jose embodies the foresight that keeps HCG at the vanguard of Digital Finance Investing. His demonstrated ability to see how trends will evolve into investment opportunities and his rigorous, highly disciplined approach to portfolio management are key drivers behind HCG’s programs.

For the past 17 years, Jose has been an investor in both private and public markets, working in investment roles at JPMorgan Partners and SAB Capital Management. Jose has spent the majority of his career focused on financials and debt strategies. His first major career assignment at Morgan Stanley in 2002: working on the debt restructuring of the largest Argentine corporate default.

He has a B.A. in International Finance and Marketing and a B.A. in Computer Information Systems from the University of Miami.