Dolliver-Religare

Kemp Dolliver, Avondale Partners' gun-slingin' hospital-services analyst, is now working for Religare Capital, in Singa-freakin-pore. More here.

Jackson leaves Avondale for teaching, coaching

Following a long-standing passion, Sean Jackson, who won many laurels during his nine years at Avondale Partners as a senior analyst in healthcare technology and other equities, has joined the faculty and coaching staff at Montgomery Bell Academy, where he'll teach mathematics and coach basketball. He was a stand-out Princeton roundball player -- at graduation in '92, he was Princeton's leading 3-point hitter with 235 treys (.469). Prior to joining Avondale in 2001, he was director and analyst with SunTrust Equitable and a decade ago (2000) he published the securities industries' first comprehensive research piece on Internet security. He several times won The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Street award, and was repeatedly highly ranked among software-sector analysts. Before SunTrust Equitable, Sean worked for Thornthwaite, the actuarial consultant. He earned his MBA at Kellogg, Northwestern; and, an engineering degree at Princeton, where he was team captain and Ivy League Player of the Year (after transferring from Ohio). In a nearly decade-old interview on a Princeton Tigers fan website, he was asked why he transferred from Ohio to Princeton. He explained he had asked himself, “I wonder what it would be like to be involved in a setting that prioritized academics.”

Emdeon now covered by Avondale

Avondale's Sean Jackson has initiated coverage of Emdeon, with a $19 share price. NashvillePost.com has it.

Avondale scouts PureSafety M&A

PureSafety, the provider of online support for workplace-safety and health education and training, announced it's hired Nashville-based Avondale Partners to shop for acquisition targets.

Warren 'CFO of Year'

Denise Wilder Warren, the SVP-CFO of Capella Healthcare Inc., was recently honored as Chief Financial Officer of the Year, through a competition sponsored by VACO and conducted by Nashville Business Journal. Warren has previously been with Avondale Partners, Merrill Lynch, Gaylord Entertainment, Ernst & Young, E.F. Hutton, Ford Capital, LTD and CS First Boston. She earned her MBA at Harvard University and her bachelor's in economics at Southern Methodist University. The other categories and nominees honored Oct. 30 are listed here.

Research firm thriving

Thompson Research Group, a standalone equities and sectors research firm populated mainly by former Avondale execs, is thriving, according to today's report from NashvillePost.com. Construction equipment, engineering, materials and residential-building suppliers are the new company's focal-points. Cofounders: Kathryn Thompson, Chris White, John Fink.

Avondale Partners expands research staff

Investment banker, wealth manager and research house Avondale Partners now has 14 research analysts covering about 150 companies, thanks to recently announced additions to its research staff.

Avondale adds former Stanford execs

They must be good. Avondale Partners announced it has added a couple former execs from the beleaguered Stanford firm to head its new private-client wealth-management group. The release is here.

Leaders: Bovender, Kisber, Williams, Frank

VNC's brace of stories this morning includes: Matt Kisber, Bredesen economic-development chief, is not only speaking at venues dotting the state, but talking to VC bigwigs and Tennessee's role in emerging industries. Story here. ...Jack Bovender, visiting New York City with a Chamber Trade Mission this week, will preside over a breakfast for about 100 healthcare-industry executives at the Apple's Harvard Club, story here. ...Avondale Partners' appointment of a health services analyst leaves the Health technology portfolio, if there is one, orphaned. Story here. ...Scott Frank (at left), AT&T president-CEO for its intellectual property business, has agreed to address a local tech-driven economic development group, in April. Here's the story.

Avondale Partners adds hospitals analyst

Avondale Partners today announced the addition of Brian Williams, formerly of Credit Suisse, to their analyst ranks. Release is here (pdf). He'll initially cover the hospital sector, but not, we're told, companies such as HealthStream, at this time.