Our Team

Bill McLaughry, President

Bill McLaughry is the founder of SRP and directs the firm’s daily operations. Although his primary responsibility is for client relationships and execution of the firm’s advisory assignments, he also personally designs and negotiates most significant financial arrangements, develops satellite physician relationships, and assumes the lead role in practice re-structuring and physician recruitment for SRP’s clients.

Bill has been instrumental in compiling teams of world-renowned physicians and scientists, and in assisting them in building successful practices at prestigious medical centers. These medical practices are now considered some of the best in the country. He currently serves as a director on the boards of the A.R.T. Institute of New York and New Jersey, Inc., the A.R.T. Institute of Washington, Inc., Reprogenetics, LLC, The Kathy Curtin Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, and 164 East 72nd Street Corporation. He serves on the advisory boards for the Valley Fertility Center in New Jersey and the Greenwich Fertility Center in Connecticut, and Tyho-Galileo Research Laboratories.

Prior to forming SRP, Bill was a commercial and investment banker for national and multi-national firms, including Affirmative Equities, Barclays Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank. While at Affirmative Equities, he originated, structured and syndicated private equity and debt for middle-market real estate transactions, while also providing advisory services to the firm’s clients. He received a B.A. in economics and geography from Middlebury College and participated in the Real Estate Program of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.


Rashmi J. Dalai

Rashmi J. Dalai has extensive experience advising clients on investment opportunities, corporate strategy, and internal operations. As a consultant with Stone Ridge Partners, she specializes in forensic accounting and financial analysis to determine cost-saving and revenue enhancing opportunities.

Previously, she was a research specialist in convertible bonds at Goldman Sachs. She worked in both London and New York identifying trading opportunities for hedge funds and institutional investors. She went on to structure customized synthetic convertible products for high net worth clients at Lehman Brothers. Ms. Dalai received a Masters in Finance and Banking from Columbia University in 1999.


Brian D. Allen

Brian D. Allen, BGS, has over 28 years’ experience in the health insurance industry as a liaison between patients, medical providers, and healthcare payers regarding infertility benefits and Obstetrics and Gynecology financial management. His expertise spans the continuum of billing and coding of infertility, gynecology, obstetrics, maternal fetal medicine, oncology, and urogynecology services. Brian provides advisory services to SRP’s clients in billing, medical A/R process optimization, billing technology, and negotiation of managed care contracts.

Brian is the Founder and President of Allen Consulting, Inc., a medical billing and coding consulting company specializing in Reproductive Medicine and Obstetrics/Gynecology and consults with practices throughout the country. Brian serves as a Financial Analyst for the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the University of Iowa. Brian has authored two patient education booklets as well as co-authored numerous infertility cost-related medical articles.


Katherine Lee

Katherine Lee has broad expertise in analyzing the healthcare industry, including investment opportunities and corporate strategy in the medical device, pharmacy, managed care, hospital/provider, and biotech/pharma markets. As a consultant with SRP, she focuses on operational stream-lining as well as market analysis through assessment of competitive landscape, practice trends, and clinical needs.

Prior to working for Stone Ridge Partners, Katherine worked with the boutique healthcare strategy consultancy Fletcher Spaght, advising early-stage biotech and healthcare companies. She was subsequently a research associate at Standard and Poor’s specializing in the healthcare industry. She holds a Masters in Molecular Biotechnology, a BA in Economics, and a BA in Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania.


John Barry

John Barry brings extensive experience in helping businesses through a full range of services, including accounting, finance, taxation, audit, credit and collections, bookkeeping, and payroll.

John has worked for a diverse continnuum of companies, spanning the healthcare, financial, and staffing/human resources industries. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington.



Scientific Advisors

Jacques Cohen, Ph.D.

Jacques Cohen, Ph.D. is the founder and president of Galileo Research Laboratories, LLC. Dr. Cohen has served as the Scientific Director of Assisted Reproduction at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey since 1995 and is associated with several laboratories involved in IVF and PGD, both in Europe and throughout the US.

Dr. Cohen was trained at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland as a Reproductive Physiologist specializing in in vitro fertilization and cryobiology. His initial studies of human embryology occurred in the late 1970s and he was one of the first embryologists in Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK. Dr. Cohen moved to the US in 1985 after having studied the application of IVF in male factor infertility and the cryopreservation of blastocysts. In Atlanta, Georgia, he and colleagues developed methods for micro-surgically assisting human fertilization, precursor methods to ICSI. The same team was responsible for the development of assisted hatching and co-culture techniques. In 1989, Dr. Cohen became the Laboratory Director for the IVF program at Cornell University Medical College in New York, where aneuploidy and mosaicism diagnosis, as well as fragment removal, were added to the list of technologies in use in assisted reproductive medicine. Dr. Cohen and his team have continued their work on the development of new methods in cryobiology and preimplantation genetics at Saint Barnabas Medical Center and in the various other centers with which they are affiliated.

Dr. Cohen travels extensively and is a frequent lecturer at conferences and seminars on topics in human fertility research worldwide. He has authored more than 200 publications, serves on the editorial boards of numerous peer-reviewed publications and is widely recognized as a leader in the science of reproductive medicine. Dr. Cohen has held faculty appointments at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and at Cornell University Medical College, where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Embryology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Cohen holds a faculty appointment at the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University.