Colin McDermott is a Managing Director with VMG Health and is based in the Dallas office. McDermott leads a team of professionals performing fair market value studies, fairness opinions, and fair value analyses used for financial reporting, financial advisory services, and management consulting.  McDermott has particular valuation experience with health plans, hospital systems, ambulatory surgery centers, pharmacies, imaging centers, laboratories, home health and hospice agencies, and physician groups.

Additionally, McDermott often serves as a trusted financial advisor to clients and provides strategic advisory services as they contemplate a transaction. In this capacity, his experience includes financial advisory on behalf of buyer or seller, preliminary due diligence and support for evaluating transaction opportunities, merger or acquisition financial integration, divestiture planning, and feasibility or research studies.

McDermott frequently presents at industry conferences and publishes on healthcare and valuation-specific issues. He is also a contributor to VMG Health’s blog and healthcare valuation insights. McDermott serves on the planning committee for the AICPA Healthcare Industry Conference.

Prior to joining VMG Health, McDermott was Director in the Forensic and Litigation Consulting Group of FTI Consulting, Inc. and was an associate in KPMG’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting Group. In those roles, McDermott provided valuation and advisory services to firms in various industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications.

McDermott received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Science in Finance from Texas A&M University. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the state of Texas and holds both the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) designations.