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Alicia has more than 15 years of private equity and finance experience. She joined RS2 Healthcare Partners as a Principal in 2024.

Prior to RS2 Healthcare Partners, Alicia was an investment professional at Audax Private Equity where she focused on investments across a range of industries. Before Audax, she worked as an investment professional at Webster Equity Partners and LaSalle Capital Group. Alicia previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Consumer and Retail investment banking division.

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Thom Busby is Partner with Mirus Capital Advisors, a premier middle market investment bank. He has more than a decade of dedicated life science and healthcare investment banking experience and a twenty-year history of successfully raising capital. As an investment banker, he has advised dozens of senior management teams on corporate transactions spanning M&A, divestments, majority/minority recapitalizations, private equity/debt, platform/tuck-in acquisitions, venture capital, strategic build-to-buy investments, partnerships, and bankruptcies.

Thom is sought after by clients for his strategic and creative approach to transacting, deep industry knowledge across medical device, biopharma, diagnostics, instrumentation, and digital health/HCIT, and extensive experience in life science service verticals, including CROs, CDMOs, consultancies, laboratories, and other pharma and medtech partners. A noted expert in his field, Thom is a regular panelist, moderator, writer, and podcast guest discussing middle-market life science transaction activity and trends. Thom is an Executive in Residence at Yale Ventures, a Board member with HealthTech Build, and an Advisory Board Member of the UMASS Chan Bridge Fund. 

Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, I moved to Boston to play Division I hockey at Bentley University and then Merrimack College, graduating in 2007. I live in Peabody, MA with my wife, two children, and our dog, Rudy. I stay active in the community through youth sports coaching and board service with the Northshore Education Consortium and the New England Chapter of the Alliance of Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors.

My career has spanned commercial lending, underwriting, risk management, field examinations, and relationship management. I have held leadership and credit-focused roles at bank and non-bank lenders in the New England area.  I now work at KeyBank, where I am a Vice President – Relationship Manager providing financing solutions to middle-market and sponsor-backed companies throughout the country, but with a specific focus to grow the bank portfolio within the Boston market.   

During his 30-year career, Joe Volman has become known as a go-to lawyer in the middle-market community, particularly with respect to mid-market mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”). Through his creative, results-driven approach, Joe partners with his clients as a strategic adviser, and leverages his vast network to help clients source deals and raise capital in order to effectively drive growth and maximize returns on their investments.

He is particularly skilled in negotiating in a constructive and collaborative fashion, made evident by an illustrious career grown through referrals of past clients and industry-leading companies seeking his proficiency with buy- and sell-side transactions. On the sell-side, Joe helps clients prepare for the sale process, including tax and other structuring. He assists strategic and financial acquirors with tax, structuring, and negotiating transaction documents.

Joe is a deal maker and is known to take a highly commercial approach to move transactions over the finish line. He constantly strives to be the lawyer clients call to solve their problems, operating as if he is in the office next door and available to help when needed. His sell-side clients know that he treats their business as if it were his family business—he cares very deeply about them, their family, and their business. They know he has their back and that he’s going to help them achieve their wealth and liquidity goals. On the buy-side, private equity (“PE”) firms trust him to help them make the best choices, acquire the right companies, to achieve success for their limited partners. As a firm leader, he is also able to command the best resources for their transactions.

In addition to his M&A work, Joe represents entrepreneurs and investors, startups and emerging companies, and PE / venture capital funds through all phases of the fundraising and investment process. Joe also has significant experience representing small and mid-cap public companies and investment banking firms that work in the small and mid-cap markets. He helps early-stage companies with formation and financing, and guides venture funds with the structure and negotiation of venture capital financings. For small and mid-cap public companies, he helps them comply with securities laws, attain public and private financings, and execute M&A transactions.

Joe has a deep understanding of several dynamic sectors, including technology (particularly software as a service (“SaaS”) and FinTech companies), business services, professional services, consumer businesses, life sciences, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, sports, food & beverage, and hospitality.