Mr. Guyton’s expertise includes operating model simplification, organizational transformation, capability development, EBITDA expansion, cost reduction, M&A pre-/post-deal, product development, and portfolio management. His clients include corporate executives, private equity investors, and senior leaders responsible for functional teams.

Mr. Guyton’s client experience includes defining strategy for a future-facing R&D organization for a major pharmaceutical company; reorganizing a pharmaceutical client’s clinical operations group to enable rapid capacity expansion; integrating product development organizations of a post-merger pharmaceutical client for a $40 million EBITDA improvement; driving development of a product strategy for a pharmaceutical client’s $1 billion-a-year product franchise; accelerating development processes for drug and vaccine candidates; and defining G&A cost optimization opportunities for a PE-owned medical diagnostics company.

Additionally, Mr. Guyton has designed an innovative operating model for the quality function of a leading medical products company; led the due diligence for a $1 billion take-private medical device carve-out; led a clean-sheet organizational build for a major medical products distributor to identify cost reduction opportunities; identified opportunities to improve commercial pipeline and optimize production asset utilization for a CDMO; identified SG&A improvement opportunities in due diligence of a $2 billion CRO acquisition target.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Guyton was a Managing Director at KPMG Strategy, where he led performance improvement for Healthcare & Life Sciences. Previously, he was a Director at AlixPartners, focusing on private equity. Earlier, he helped grow health sector consulting practices at A.T. Kearney, PwC Advisory and PRTM Management Consultants.

Mr. Guyton earned a bachelor’s degree (Morehead Scholar) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in economics and technology management from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.