Melissa Butterworth is the Co-Founder and President of Advanced Strategic Partners. Advanced Strategic Partners is an M&A firm focused in laboratory Diagnostics. Ms. Butterworth has 27 years of experience specific to the laboratory industry. The last fifteen years have been spent in the Merger and Acquisition sector having completed over $1.8B in clinical, anatomical, molecular and hospital outreach laboratory transactions. Melissa is the author of a book titled “The End Game” The Laboratory Owners Exit Strategy, located on amazon. She recently published CLUES. She graduated with honors from the University of North Florida with dual degrees in Marketing and Management.