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Coastline Health Partners was founded to support health care business owners achieve their key company objectives. Whether the decision is to grow and develop organically or implement an M&A strategy, Coastline Health Partners can provide leadership and support to realize successful results. Our objective is to consistently meet or exceed the expectations of our clients.
Bill Bucher, Founder and CEO
Bill Bucher is the founder and CEO of Coastline Health Partners, LLC, a boutique management advisory firm specializing in M&A and executive-level support services. Mr. Bucher is an operations-focused financial executive with over 30 years of progressive experience leading complex and high-growth organizations. He has nearly 20 years of CFO/COO experience and has been the CFO for 7 companies, mostly private equity backed. Additionally, Mr. Bucher has served as the COO of a large national health care organization.
He has experience with companies in all stages of growth, including start-up, high-growth, maturity, decline, turnaround, and bankruptcy dissolution. In addition to his roles as CFO/COO, he has eight years of health care consulting experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a practice leader, Ernst & Young as a consulting manager, and as an equity partner with Tatum, a CFO services firm. As a corporate executive and consultant, Mr. Bucher has been involved in over 25 M&A transactions with combined revenues exceeding $3 billion.
Immediately prior to founding Coastline Health Partners, he was Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategic Operations with Avant Healthcare Professionals, a leading international nurse staffing company providing international nurses to hundreds of health care systems across the US. As a member of the executive team, Mr. Bucher supported the operational teams in executing a high-growth business strategy and directly managed a team of over 30 finance and accounting staff and business analysts. In a two-year period, the company achieved revenue growth exceeding 40% annually and employed over 1,700 full-time associates.
Prior to Avant, he was the CFO of Kroger Specialty Pharmacy (KSP), a large national specialty pharmacy, infusion, and pharmacy benefits management company headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida. He started with KSP’s legacy company, Axium Health Care Pharmacy, in early 2008 as EVP and CFO. After a five-year period of growing organically at 40% annually, he and his executive team were successful in merging the private equity-backed company with The Kroger Company at the end of 2012. In addition to the CFO role, Mr. Bucher served as the company’s COO from 2010 to 2013. During his tenure, annual revenue grew from less than $50 million to nearly $3 billion, and the number of employees expanded from 80 to over 1,100.
Mr. Bucher earned his MBA with an emphasis in Finance from Old Dominion University, and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business from the University of Wyoming.
He served on the Board of Directors as a past president of the Association for Corporate Growth Orlando Chapter and the Board of the Orlando Economic Partnership.
In addition to being licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (active Virginia license), he is also a Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor (Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors). He is a former Certified Management Accountant (Institute of Management Accountants) and Chartered Global Management Accountant (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants).
Bill has been married for 36 years, has two grown daughters, and lives in the Orlando metro area. Contact Bill at [email protected].
Bill Bucher, Founder and CEO
Bill Bucher is the founder and CEO of Coastline Health Partners, LLC, a boutique management advisory firm specializing in M&A and executive-level support services. Mr. Bucher is an operations-focused financial executive with over 30 years of progressive experience leading complex and high-growth organizations. He has nearly 20 years of CFO/COO experience and has been the CFO for 7 companies, mostly private equity backed. Additionally, Mr. Bucher has served as the COO of a large national health care organization.
He has experience with companies in all stages of growth, including start-up, high-growth, maturity, decline, turnaround, and bankruptcy dissolution. In addition to his roles as CFO/COO, he has eight years of health care consulting experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a practice leader, Ernst & Young as a consulting manager, and as an equity partner with Tatum, a CFO services firm. As a corporate executive and consultant, Mr. Bucher has been involved in over 25 M&A transactions with combined revenues exceeding $3 billion.
Immediately prior to founding Coastline Health Partners, he was Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategic Operations with Avant Healthcare Professionals, a leading international nurse staffing company providing international nurses to hundreds of health care systems across the US. As a member of the executive team, Mr. Bucher supported the operational teams in executing a high-growth business strategy and directly managed a team of over 30 finance and accounting staff and business analysts. In a two-year period, the company achieved revenue growth exceeding 40% annually and employed over 1,700 full-time associates.
Prior to Avant, he was the CFO of Kroger Specialty Pharmacy (KSP), a large national specialty pharmacy, infusion, and pharmacy benefits management company headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida. He started with KSP’s legacy company, Axium Health Care Pharmacy, in early 2008 as EVP and CFO. After a five-year period of growing organically at 40% annually, he and his executive team were successful in merging the private equity-backed company with The Kroger Company at the end of 2012. In addition to the CFO role, Mr. Bucher served as the company’s COO from 2010 to 2013. During his tenure, annual revenue grew from less than $50 million to nearly $3 billion, and the number of employees expanded from 80 to over 1,100.
Mr. Bucher earned his MBA with an emphasis in Finance from Old Dominion University, and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business from the University of Wyoming.
He served on the Board of Directors as a past president of the Association for Corporate Growth Orlando Chapter and the Board of the Orlando Economic Partnership.
In addition to being licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (active Virginia license), he is also a Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor (Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors). He is a former Certified Management Accountant (Institute of Management Accountants) and Chartered Global Management Accountant (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants).
Bill has been married for 36 years, has two grown daughters, and lives in the Orlando metro area. Contact Bill at [email protected].
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