Jim Ward

Jim is Managing Director at Graham Healthcare Capital and has been with the company since inception.
He has twenty years of experience as an investor, investment banker, and financial advisor.
At Graham, he is responsible for overseeing the deal process from sourcing to close and for post-transaction portfolio support.
His experience also includes membership at 2nd Generation Capital, LLC, where he spent much of his time advising small enterprises on financial strategy, helping clients raise debt or equity capital, and developing relationships with private equity, mezzanine, and debt capital providers throughout the country.
Jim also founded Southeast Acquisition Capital, a company designed to facilitate business ownership transition in the Southeast.
Previously, Jim worked for Mars in its Financial Management Development Program and at Fannie Mae in a data analytics role during the housing market downturn and government conservatorship.
He is currently Treasurer of the Association of Corporate Growth (ACG) Tennessee.
Jim graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received his M.B.A.
from the Owen Graduate School of Management, where he was Beta Gamma Sigma with concentrations in Finance, Accounting, and Strategy.