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LSW Partners brings more than fifty years of experience and wisdom to your current business opportunity.  We have experience in all aspects of business and management having at one time served in every major capacity in both small and large companies.  From startups to turnarounds to growing Fortune 100 companies, we have strategic and tactical expertise in solving a broad array of today’s business challenges.

Our primary focus is in helping companies define their corporate strategy, develop and execute their business plan, build and execute a sales and marketing strategy, and obtain capital to grow.  We primarily work with small to medium sized companies but also have experience in very large organizations as well.

 
Raymond L. Weadock General Partner
 
Ray Weadock is a seasoned CEO with a broad thirty-three year computer industry background. He has a unique combination of experience in both start up and Fortune 100 environments, having managed 8 – 18,000 person organizations that have generated revenues from $5M - $5B. His diverse technical background includes Enterprise software, hardware, networking, security, computer services, mass merchandising and manufacturing environments.

He has led or has been instrumental in building six startup companies. He draws on those experiences to help you jump start your own company. Having learned both formally and from experiencing first hand some of the mistakes that you don't want to make.
 
Ray is a graduate of the University of Arkansas in Finance and Marketing and The Executive Institute at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Having spent most of his career in the Silicon Valley and Boston, today he lives in Florida with his wife, two sons and two dogs.
  
 
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 Scott T. Springer  General Partner
  
 

Scott Springer is an accomplished business leader with broad experience across all aspects of running a business.  His experience includes leading a software / hardware engineering department, running several major cross-discipline projects, directing strategy development and planning, implementing process and cost improvement, heading product management, leading information technology application development, running major operations centers, and ultimately leading a $1B business unit.

 

Scott is an expert in creating high-performing teams, in aligning strategy and execution, and in building successful organizations.  He also understands how to foster effective innovation, which includes how to generate new ideas and just as importantly, how to sort through multiple ideas to ensure the organization makes the right investments.

 

Scott started his career flying jet fighters for the USAF, later worked at Bain Consulting, and then achieved success in various roles in a major textile company executing a successful turnaround situation.   He then spent 15 years at the Nielsen television ratings, culminating in full P&L responsibility for the entire business.

 

Scott is a graduate of Louisiana State University in Management & Administration, summa cum laude, and also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.  He has two grown sons, and lives in Florida with his wife.

 

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Todd Whitney Principal

 

 

Todd Whitney, FSA, MAAA has over twenty five years experience in the insurance industry including over seventeen years in healthcare. Mr. Whitney’s particular strengths include new lines of business start up, managing profitable growth, financial turnaround strategies, network development tactics, and team leadership. Mr. Whitney started his career as an actuarial student with ITT-Hartford in Simsbury, CT and progressed through an actuarial student rotation program and a series of positions in his nine year tenure ending until his completion of the actuarial exams. Upon completion in this program Mr. Whitney chose to pursue the managed health care field. During the next thirteen years Mr. Whitney progressed through a series of management roles at two Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, one in Connecticut and the other in Tennessee. He also worked with HealthSource Inc. an organization with HMOs in 13 states, until their sale to CIGNA. Mr. Whitney was the VP of Finance, Actuarial and Provider Settlements at WellCare and was instrumental in the acquisition by the George Soros Group. Mr. Whitney then worked as a business and actuarial consultant with numerous mostly Florida based HMO startups.

 

Mr. Whitney founded in 2005 and presided over PartnerCare Health Plan, a Florida Medicare Special Needs Health Plan for nursing home and assisted living facility residents. The Company was sold to a group of investors from Puerto Rico in 2007 for $5.9 million.

 

Mr. Whitney is also a licensed actuary with a specialization in Managed Care and has a BA from the University of Connecticut.